BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//PYVOBJECT//NONSGML Version 1//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:events.uid.3064@www.discovernikkei.org DTSTART:20110507T000000Z DTEND:20110507T000000Z DESCRIPTION:<span style="font-size: 12pt\; font-family: Calibri\; mso-farea st-font-family: 'Times New Roman'\; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri\; mso-an si-language: EN-US\; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA\; mso-bidi-language: AR-S A\;"><em>A day-long celebration of eight of today’s most accomplished an d exciting Asian American writers\, plus a Japanese poet who splits time b etween Japan and California--and\, for good measure\, her interpreter.<spa n style="mso-spacerun: yes\;">  Hosted by the Japanese American National Museum\, to be held on May 7<sup>th</sup>\, 2011\, from 10 a.m.-5:45 p.m.< span style="mso-spacerun: yes\;">  Free to the public.</em>\n<span style= "font-size: 12pt\; font-family: Calibri\; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'\; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri\; mso-ansi-language: EN-US\; ms o-fareast-language: AR-SA\; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\;">\n<p style="margin : 0in 0in 0pt\;"><span style="font-family: Calibri\; font-variant: small-c aps\;">Featuring<span style="font-family: Calibri\;">:\n\n<p style="margin : 0in 0in 0pt\;"><span style="font-family: Calibri\;">Joy Kogawa • R. Za mora Linmark • Ray Hsu • Viet Nguyen • Brian Ascalon Roley • Reese Okyong Kwon • Kip Fulbeck • Hiromi Itō &amp\; translator Jeffrey Ang les • Rishi Reddi\n\n<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt\;"><span style="font- family: Calibri\; font-variant: small-caps\;">Schedule<span style="font-fa mily: Calibri\;">:\n\n<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt\;"><span style="font-f amily: Calibri\;">Introductory remarks by AALR editors-in-chief Lawrence-M inh Bùi Davis and Gerald Maa\n\n<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt\;"><span st yle="font-family: Calibri\;"> \n\n<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt\;"><span style="font-family: Calibri\;">10 a.m.-11:30 a.m.<span style="mso-tab-coun t: 1\;">     <span style="mso-tab-count: 1\;">            B rian Ascalon Roley &amp\; Viet Nguyen\n\n<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt\;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri\;">11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.<span style="mso-tab -count: 2\;">                 <span style="mso-tab-count: 1\;">  R. Zamora Linmark &amp\; Reese Okyong Kwon\n\n<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt\;"><span style="font-family: Calibri\;">1 p.m.-2:30 p.m.<span style="mso-tab-count: 2\;">                 <span style=" mso-tab-count: 1\;">    Kip Fulbeck &amp\; Ray Hsu\n\n<p style="margin : 0in 0in 0pt\;"><span style="font-family: Calibri\;">2:30 p.m.-4 p.m.<spa n style="mso-tab-count: 2\;">                 <span style ="mso-tab-count: 1\;">    Joy Kogawa &amp\; Rishi Reddi\n\n<p style="m argin: 0in 0in 0pt\;"><span style="font-family: Calibri\;">4 p.m.-4:45 p.m .<span style="mso-tab-count: 2\;">                 <span style="mso-tab-count: 1\;">    Hiromi Itō &amp\; translator Jeffrey A ngles\n\n<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt\;"><span style="font-family: Calibr i\;">4:45 p.m.-5:45 p.m.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1\;">     <span s tyle="mso-tab-count: 1\;">           Book Signing\n\n<p style=" margin: 0in 0in 0pt\;"> \n\n<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt\;"><span style= "font-family: Calibri\; font-variant: small-caps\;">Community &amp\; Media Sponsors<span style="font-family: Calibri\;">:\n\n<p style="margin: 0in 0 in 0pt\;"><span style="font-family: Calibri\;">Japanese American National Museum • International Center for Writing and Translation • USC Asian American Studies Program • UCLA Asian American Studies Center • UCLA E nglish Department and the UCLA Friends of English • Vietnamese American Arts &amp\; Letters Association • Coffee House Press • <em>Hyphen Maga zine</em> • Philippine Expressions Bookshop • Kaya Press • Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network • Giant Robot • Asian American Journalists Association\, Los Angeles Chapter • <em>Audrey Magazine</em> • Asian Arts Initiative • Calypso Press • Asian Pacific American Studies at Lo yola Marymount University • Asian Pacific American Librarians Associatio n • Japan America Society of Southern California\n\n<p style="margin: 0i n 0in 0pt\;"><span style="font-family: Calibri\;"> \n\n<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt\;"><span style="font-size: 10pt\; font-family: Calibri\; mso-b idi-font-family: Tahoma\; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt\;">This event is supp orted by Poets &amp\; Writers\, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.\n\n DTSTAMP:20250120T232503Z SUMMARY:8+1: A Symposium\, Voices from The Asian American Literary Review URL:/en/events/2011/05/07/81-a-symposium-voices-from-the-asian-american-l/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR