Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra
Gordon Chin's Romance: World premiere of a work for cello and orchestra

The Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra celebrates its 30th anniversary season and conductor Heiichiro Ohyama’s 25th year as music director, in an eclectic program featuring the world premiere of Gordon Chin’s new concerto for cello and chamber ensemble. Dedicated to TUF (Taiwanese United Fund) a Taiwanese American Heritage Foundation, the new work will be performed as part of the 2009 Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and Taiwanese American Heritage Week celebrations. Internationally acclaimed cellist, Felix Fan, will be the soloist. This performance has been made possible by a generous grant from TUF (Taiwanese United Fund) with additional support provided by Muzik3 Foundation and the Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation.

May 21, 2009
Broad Stage
Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center

The Arboretum of Los Angeles County
“Ephemeral Forest” art installation by Workshop LEVITAS at the 2006 LA Garden Show

Workshop LEVITAS is an international design collaboration between structural engineer Bruce Danziger (USA, a long-time Ove Arup team member), and emerging architects Shu-Chi Hsu (Taiwan), and Moritz Freund (Germany). LEVITAS stands for lightness. In contrast to conventional architecture based on gravity, the design team wants to manifest precisely the essence of the physical world, which are light, chaos and ephemera. The collaboration explores innovative structures and spatial design, which makes the heaviest material float and exposes the most solid properties of the weakest.

May 6 & 7, 2006
The Arboretum
301 N. Baldwin Avenue
Arcadia, CA 91007

Pacific Asia Museum
Place/Displace: Three Generations of Taiwanese Art, organized by the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, is one of the first exhibitions in North America to explore issues of cultural identity in the contemporary art of Taiwan. The exhibition features more than 40 works by 24 artists, both native and overseas Taiwanese, and examines the identification and transformation of cultural identity as expressed in their highly diverse works. The works include ink painting, oil painting, sculpture, calligraphy, and video art, and they reflect the uniqueness of Taiwan’s history and culture. Further detail…

November 19, 2005 – February 5, 2006
Pacific Asia Museum
46 North Los Robles Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91101

Karen Lin, Director/Producer, ZuZu Films
PERFECTION

“I’m just trying to make you more perfect.” - Mom

From infancy, an Asian American woman learns the game of perfection. But if your goal is perfection, will the game ever end?

Milton Bradley’s game Perfection is “a race against time” where players must match shapes to a board in 60 seconds. The game mirrors an Asian American woman’s struggle to achieve success and gain her parent’s approval.

Taught the game as an infant, she races into her teens winning competitions and getting straight A’s, only left to wonder whether or not her parents will love her even if she fails. Ultimately she must decide whether to end the game.

Written and Directed by Karen Lin
Starring Ming-Na, Stephanie Hu, Meeghan Henry, Michaela Zee

Genre: Experimental Short
Year: 2004
Running Time: 6 min. 24 sec.
Format: Black & White 35mm

Awards: New Director/New Vision Award, VC Film Fest 2004. Best Short Film, Fall River Festival of the Arts 2004.