Page 12 n THE ASIAN REPORTER Arts Culture & Entertainment March 6, 2017 Mary at , or visit . FRANCESCO LECCE-CHONG Chinese tai chi fan dance workshop Mar 15, 22 & 29; 1:30-3pm, Woodstock Library (6008 SE 49th Ave, Portland). Enjoy a Chinese tai chi fan dance workshop conducted in Mandarin. Tai chi fan dance is an elegant style of martial-arts fitness, combining tai chi and other martial arts with dance movements. For info, or to register (required), call (503) 988-5123 or visit . ONGOING EVENTS “Progression: 25 Years of Functional Form” Oregon Symphony Through Mar 25 (Wed-Sat), 11am-5pm; Mar 23, 5-7pm (reception); Butters Gallery (157 NE Grand Ave, Portland). View “Progression: 25 Years of Functional Form,” an exhibit of functional ceramic works by 23 potters from Ohio University, including Hiroe Hanazono, Kyla Strid, and others. The exhibit is held in conjunction with “Future Flux,” the 51st annual conference of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, scheduled to take place March 22 to 25 at the Oregon Convention Center. For info, call (503) 248-9378 or visit . Mar 16, 7:30pm, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall (1037 SW Broadway, Portland). Enjoy a concert by the Indigo Girls accompanied by the Oregon Symphony under the direction of Nor- man Huynh. For info, or to buy tickets, call (503) 228-1353 or visit . Carmen Mar 16-18, 7:30pm, Newmark Theatre (1111 SW Broadway, Portland). Watch Carmen — opera’s most revered tale of love, seduction, secrecy, betrayal, and murder — updated and transformed into “story ballet” and set in a stylized world centering around a women’s hair salon and a men’s barber shop. Featured dancers include Ching Ching Wong and others. For info, or to buy tickets, call (503) 421-7434 or visit . “Cranes, Dragons, and Teddy Bears” Through Mar 26, 10am-5pm (Tue-Wed & Sat-Sun), 10am-8pm (Thu-Fri), Portland Art Museum (1219 SW Park Ave, Portland). View “Cranes, Dragons, and Teddy Bears,” an exhibit featuring 20 Japanese children’s kimono. The garments, which span from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century, include kasuri, in which the threads are tie-dyed before being strung on the loom; tsutsugaki, a resist technique where designs are drawn on the cloth with rice paste; miyamairi, which have hand-painted designs made for a toddler’s first visit to a Shinto shrine; and omoshirogara, “novelty designs” that were popular between 1910 and 1930. For info, call (503) 226-2811 or visit . Una Kim Through Mar 27, 9am-9pm (Mon-Thu), 9am-5pm (Fri), Walters Cultural Arts Center, Upstairs Gallery (527 E Main St, Hillsboro, Ore.). View “Not Spoken,” a solo exhibit by Korean-American artist Una Kim featuring intimate and impressionistic portraits of faces whose eyes and mouths are occluded or shut, looking inward or suppressed, in a quiet dance of interiority and silence. For info, call (503) 615-3485 or visit . Sumi-e Through Mar 31, 11am-5pm, Lawrence Gallery Sheridan (19700 SW Highway 18, McMinnville, Ore.). View a display of sumi-e paintings by Janine Bainter, who has practiced the art for nearly 40 years. For info, call (503) 843-3633 or visit . March 16, 8:00pm Hult Center for the Performing Arts One Eugene Center at Seventh Avenue & Willamette Street, Eugene, Oregon Bollywood family dance party of his electrifying originals for ukulele and orchestra. For info, or to buy tickets, call (503) 228-1353 or visit . To learn more, visit . “Identities & Futures” Mar 7, 7pm (doors open), 7:30pm-1am (show), Holocene (1001 SE Morrison St, Portland). Attend “Identities & Futures: Women and Non-Binary Folks Speak Out,” an event featuring performances by DJ KM Fizzy, Melika Belhaj, Lillie Craw, Jene Ethridge, and others, as well as animation by artists A’misa Chiu, Daria Tessler, and Tara Booth. Part of the event proceeds benefits the Sankofa Collective Northwest. For info, call (503) 239-7639, e-mail , or visit . “Multicultural Night” at PCC Through Apr 29 (Tue-Sat), 11am-5:30pm, ArtXchange (512 First Ave S, Seattle). View “How to Trap a Memory,” a solo exhibit by Lauren Iida featuring intricate paper cutaway works. The pieces create an intimate portrait of the artist utilizing a visual language of metaphorical objects traversing a decade of living between the United States and Cambodia. For info, call (206) 839-0377 or visit . “Kitsuke: The Art of Wearing Kimono” “Music That Blends East and West” Through May 17 (Mon-Fri), 10am-3pm; Apr 8, 2pm (demonstration); World Beat Gallery, Reed Opera House (189 Liberty St SE, Second Floor, Salem, Ore.). View “Kitsuke: The Art of Wearing Kimono,” a display that explores the art and craftsmanship of the iconic Japanese garment and teaches the secrets of kitsuke. A demonstration overviewing the customs and process of dressing in two different styles of kimono, furisode and houmongi, takes place April 8 at 2:00pm. For info, call (503) 581-2004 or visit . Mar 8, 7:30pm, Portland Community College (PCC), Rock Creek Campus, Building 3, Room 114 (17705 NW Springville Rd, Portland). Attend “Music That Blends East and West,” a free concert by Thousand Waves, a chamber ensemble that performs Japanese and western music on koto, flute, and guitar. The event, which is presented by PCC Rock Creek’s Department of Music, includes free parking behind building 9. For info, call (971) 722-7869 or visit . Through Apr 1, 11am-5:30pm (Tue-Fri), 11am-5pm (Sat), Russo Lee Gallery (805 NW 21st Ave, Portland). View “Northwest Per- spectives in Clay,” an exhibit featuring ceramics by artists Patti Warashina, Connie Kiener, Tip Toland, and others. For info, call (503) 226-2754 or visit . “How to Trap a Memory” UPCOMING EVENTS Jake Shimabukuro Mar 6 (tickets available for purchase). Tickets for the Oregon Symphony concert featuring Jake Shimabukuro, the modern virtuoso of the ukulele, go on sale to the public on Monday, March 6. The May 23 concert, which is under the direction of Norman Huynh, features Shimabukuro fan favorites plus some Mar 18, 10am-2pm, Oregon State Capitol (900 Court St NE, Salem, Ore.). Attend “Cherry Blossom Day” at the Oregon State Capitol, a free event presented by the Japanese Cultural Society featuring performances, displays, food, tours, kite flying, activities for children, a tea ceremony, and more. For info, call (503) 552-8811, e-mail , or visit . Attend the “Bartók Piano Concerto” and watch conductor finalist Francesco Lecce-Chong lead the Eugene Symphony. Lecce-Chong is one of three candidates vying for the position of music director and conductor of the organization. The performance, which includes pieces by Liszt, Bartók, Mozart, and R. Strauss, also includes Kuok-Wai Lio on piano. For more information, or to buy tickets, call (541) 682-5000 or visit . (Photo courtesy of the Eugene Symphony) Mar 8, 3:30-8:30pm, Portland Community College (PCC), Southeast Campus, Mt. Tabor Hall (2305 SE 82nd Ave, Portland). Attend “Multicultural Night,” a free educational event highlighting 20 different cultures represented in the PCC community — Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Indian, Thai, Hmong, Nepali, Russian, and others — through storytelling, food, dance, songs, and other cultural activities. The performance stage features a lion dance (4:00pm), the Madison Viet Group (4:25pm), “The Story of Simon Tam and The Slants” (4:30pm), Oregon Korean Performing Arts (6:10pm), a dance by the SE Vietnamese Club (7:05pm), a Hmong dance (7:15pm), a Japanese street dance by Dance Leo (7:25pm), an inter- national fashion show (7:45pm), and more. The event also includes a children’s area and photo booth (3:30-8:00pm) as well as tea ceremonies (3:30-6:30pm). For info, call Kien at (971) 777-5384 or e-mail . Ceramics exhibit “Cherry Blossom Day” “Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Festival” Mar 10, 7:30pm, Hult Center for the Performing Arts, Soreng Theater (One Eugene Center at Seventh Ave & Willamette St, Eugene, Ore.). Attend the annual “Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Festival — Eugene Style.” The evening features artists Bill Keale, LT Smooth, Stephen Inglis, and Bobby Moderow, Jr. For info, call (541) 682-5746 or visit . To buy tickets, call (541) 682-5000. Oregon Symphony Mar 11-13, 7:30pm, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall (1037 SW Broadway, Portland). Attend a performance by the Oregon Symphony featuring the world premiere of “Aspects of an Elephant,” a composition created by Portland native Kenji Bunch and inspired by the fable of the blind man and the elephant, as well as selections by Barber and Dvorak. For info, or to buy tickets, call (503) 228-1353 or visit . Concert of Remembrance Mar 12, 2-3:30pm, Oregon Historical Society Museum (1200 SW Park Ave, Portland). Attend the Concert of Remembrance, a free performance commemorating the 75th anniversary of Executive Order 9066, which uprooted American citizens of Japanese descent all over the western United States and incarcerated them in internment camps during World War II. The event features new musical compositions, photographs by New Mexico photographer and camp documenter Joan Myers, a poetry reading by former Oregon poet laureate Lawson Fusao Inada, and a video created by the Oregon Nikkei Endowment. For info, call (503) 222-1741 or visit . Trio con Brio Copenhagen Mar 13-14, 7:30pm, Portland State Univer- sity, Lincoln Performance Hall (1620 SW Park Ave, Portland). Enjoy a performance of chamber music by the renowned Trio con Brio Copen- hagen — Korean sisters Soo-Jin and Soo-Kyung Hong and Danish pianist Jens Elvekjaer. Mon- day’s concert features works by Shostakovich, Beethoven, and Schubert; Tuesday’s program includes pieces by Schumann, Sandström, and Dvorak. For info, or to buy tickets, call (503) 224-9842 or visit . To learn more, visit . Mar 18, 3-4pm, Northwest Library (2300 NW Thurman St, Portland). Dancers of all skill levels are invited to learn Bollywood dance moves, including the authentic Indian Head Shake, at a Bollywood family dance party. For info, call (503) 988-5123 or visit . Duality: Dance Ballet of India Mar 19, 4pm, Newmark Theatre (1111 SW Broadway, Portland). Watch Jayanthi Raman’s Duality: Dance Ballet of India, a performance featuring an international cast of professional dancers from Delhi, Chennai, and the U.S. performing modern dance, Bharatha Natyam, and Chhau, a martial arts-based dance form. The original music was composed by young mandolin maestro U. Rajesh and the performance features the voice of Bollywood melody king Hariharan and percussionists Selvaganesh and S.V. Ramani. For info, or to buy tickets, call (503) 531-7266 or visit . Smallpressapalooza 2017 Mar 20, 6-10pm, Powell’s City of Books (1005 W Burnside St, Portland). Celebrate Small Press Month with marathon readings by local and national small press stars. The event includes Christine Shan Shan Hou, Constance Ann Fitzgerald, Amy Temple Harper, and others. For info, call (503) 228-4651 or visit . Allied Arts show Mar 25, 7-10pm, Lagunitas, Community Room (237 NE Broadway St, Suite 300, Portland). Attend the Allied Arts show, an event bringing visual and performing artists together who are donating their talents to raise money and spread awareness for nonprofit organiza- tions that support social justice in the Pacific Northwest. For info, call (503) 358-6761 or visit . “Northwest Local” Ali Wong Mar 15 (application deadline). Writers in Washington, Multnomah, and Clackamas counties are invited to apply to be a featured artist at “Northwest Local,” a free author fair. “Northwest Local” takes place May 20 from 11:00am to 2:00pm at the Beaverton City Library (12375 SW Fifth St, Beaverton, Ore.). Authors in all genres — adult, young adult, and children’s literature — are encouraged to apply. For info, or to apply, call (503) 526-2222, e-mail Mar 30-31, 7pm & 9:30pm, Newmark Theatre (1111 SW Broadway, Portland). Attend a performance of stand-up comedy by Asian-American comedian, writer, and actress Ali Wong. When Wong released her Netflix special, “Ali Wong: Baby Cobra,” she became the first comedian to record a stand-up special while seven months pregnant. For info, or to buy tickets, call (503) 248-4335 or visit . Submit your Asian-related calendar listings to: The Asian Reporter, Attn: Events Calendar 922 N Killingsworth Street, Suite 2D, Portland, OR 97217 News Department e-mail: news@asianreporter.com w Fax: (503) 283-4445 Submission Format: List event title, date, time, location with address, 2 to 3 brief sentences describing the event, and a contact phone number (required) that can be published. High-resolution photos, if available, may also be included. Submission Deadline: Monday prior to the next issue date. ***