KQED Asian Pacific American Heritage Month 2015

CELEBRATES

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month MAY 2015

Standing on Sacred Ground With ancient wisdom and modern courage, threatened cultures around the world protect their sacred lands for future generations.

Sunday, May 10, at noon on KQED Plus

Local Heroes KQED and Rowbotham International are honored to celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, recognizing the everyday heroes in our local neighborhoods.

Jeff Chang has written extensively on culture, politics, the arts and music. His first book, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation, garnered many honors, including the American Book Award and the Asian American Literary Award.

His newest book, Who We Be: The Colorization of America, was published in October 2014. He currently serves as the executive director of the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University.

Dr. Joan Jeung is a pediatrician working at Oakland’s Asian Health Services, a community health center serving mostly Asian immigrants and refugees. In 2012, she received a Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children grant to create parent education and support groups for immigrant and refugee families with children ages 0-2 years.

Dr. Nilima Singh Sabharwal practiced pathology at Kaiser Permanente for 23 years and recently retired to fully concentrate on her efforts with Home and Hope Inc., which she founded in 1999. The nonprofit funding organization provides opportunities that empower disadvantaged youth around the world to become selfsustaining adults of tomorrow.

Rowbotham International proudly celebrates the richness and diversity of our community by supporting KQED programming and events focused on Asian Pacific American themes and issues.

Sunday, May 10 Beginning at noon on KQED Plus Around the world, indigenous people stand up for their traditional sacred lands in defense of cultural survival, human rights and the environment.

View or download the schedule of Asian Pacific American Heritage programs airing on KQED 9, KQED Plus, KQED Life and KQED World. kqed.org/heritage

Pacific Heartbeat

Wednesdays, May 6, 20 & 27, 1:30pm on KQED 9

Our American Family: The Furutas

Sunday, May 10 6:30pm on KQED 9

Soul of a Banquet

Saturday, May 23 6pm on KQED 9

Lucky Chow

Sunday, May 24 11:30am on KQED 9

This anthology series draws viewers into the heart, mind and soul of Pacific Island culture. New episodes follow a Maori acting company on their journey to bring a native language adaptation of Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida to the Globe Theatre in London (pictured, airing May 20) and take an intimate musical journey with legendary Hawaiian musician Jerry Santos.

The Furutas, a Japanese American family in Wintersburg, CA, established a successful goldfish farm, only to have their business devastated and family separated in the wake of World War II. After years in an Arizona relocation camp, their indomitable spirit prevails as they return home and band together to pursue the American dream a second time.

Director Wayne Wang takes us into the world of Cecilia Chiang (pictured), the woman who introduced America to authentic Chinese food. Chiang opened her internationally renowned restaurant the Mandarin in 1961 in San Francisco and went on to change the course of cuisine in America.

This new series travels across America through the lens of Asian food and drink to explore how Asian cuisine has impacted our food culture. The first episode, “Ramen Mania,” features the team behind the acclaimed Ramen Shop in Oakland.

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Photos: (cover) The Bosmun ceremonial canoe launch, downstream from the Ramu Mine, on the Ramu River. Bosmun, Papua New Guinea, courtesy Jennifer Huang; (page 3 top to bottom) Dean Yibarbuk (Kunwinjku) with rock paintings on reclaimed indigenous land. Kabulwarnamyo, Warddeken Indigenous Protected Area, Arnhem Land, Australia, courtesy Christopher McLeod;courtesy Creative New Zealand; courtesy the Furuta family; courtesy Soul of a Banquet; courtesy Lucky Chow.

Standing on Sacred Ground

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month 2015

KQED Public Television Highlights

KQED Public Radio Crossing East: First Contacts

KQED Public Radio is available on frequencies 88.5 FM in San Francisco, 89.3 FM in Sacramento (KQEI), 88.3 FM in Santa Rosa and 88.1 FM in Martinez. It is also available on XFINITY digital cable 960 and live online at kqed.org.

Saturday, May 2, 2pm

Chinese Translator and Poet Jonathan Stalling Saturday, May 30, 3:30pm

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This program, hosted by actor George Takei, tells stories about the Asian sailors, traders and adventurers who were early pioneers to America, some before it was even a country.

Jonathan Stalling discusses how he began to seriously study the Chinese language at age 13.

Born in Arkansas to artistic “back to the land” parents who were interested in Zen buddhism, he is now a translator of Chinese poets and the editor-in-chief of Chinese Literature Today at the University of Oklahoma, where he also teaches.

KQED Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Event Off Script — Shifting the Narrative Performances by storytellers and musicians and a conversation with author Jeff Chang.

The recent introduction of the show Fresh Off the Boat to primetime network television is just one example of how Asian American writers, actors and artists are taking greater control of their storytelling and representations of their communities in mainstream media.

This evening’s event will focus on what this means for the community — the progress that has been made, the stories we choose to tell and the work that is still left to do.

Asian Art Museum 200 Larkin St. San Francisco Monday, May 18 7-8:30pm / Free Doors open at 6:30pm Please RSVP offscript.eventbrite.com

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