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Portland Thorns FC
May 21 & 24, 7pm, Providence Park (SW 18th Ave & SW Mor-
rison St, Portland). Watch Portland Thorns FC take on the Wes-
tern New York Flash (May 21) and Sky Blue FC (May 24) in the
National Women’s Soccer League. The Thorns FC squad features
Mana Shim, Angie Kerr-Woznuk, Christine Sinclair, Alex Mor-
gan, and others. The Western New York Flash roster includes
Samantha Kerr, Abby Wambach, Carli Lloyd, and others, and
Sky Blue FC has Nanase Kiryu, Kendall Johnson, and others on
its squad. See related story, “NWSL kicks off second season” (AR,
April 7, 2014), at <www.asianreporter.com>. For info, or to buy
tickets, call (503) 553-5555 or visit <www.portlandthorns.com>.
Northwest Folklife Festival
May 23-26, 11am-10pm (Fri-Sun), 11am-9pm (Mon), Seattle
Center (305 Harrison St, Seattle). Enjoy four days of traditional
music, dance, crafts, demonstrations, workshops, exhibits,
family-friendly activities, and food from cultures around the
world at the Northwest Folklife Festival. The event features
ethnic, folk, and traditional artists who make their home in the
Pacific Northwest as well as international special guests. Among
the thousands of participants and performers are the Huong Viet
Performing Arts Group, Sunshine from Polynesia, Minyou
Japanese Folk Dancers, Kalahi Dance Company, Filipiniana
Dance Co., Rhythms of India Dance School, and others. For info,
or to obtain a complete schedule of events, call (206) 684-7200 or
visit <www.nwfolklife.org/festival>.
“Taiwanese Traditional Game Fair”
May 24, 11am-3pm, Portland State University, Smith Center
(1825 SW Broadway, Portland). Attend the “Taiwanese
Traditional Game Fair,” an event featuring a cultural exchange,
Taiwanese cuisine, puppet shows, a bamboo dance, diabolo
performances, games from Taiwanese night markets, and more.
For info, call Jerome at (573) 808-3839 or Meng at (503) 853-0708,
or visit <www.tagp.org>.
Found
May 24, 12:30pm, Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing
(3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton, Ore.). Listen to Found, by
Salina Yoon, during Kids’ Storytime at Powell’s Books at Cedar
Hills Crossing. For info, call (503) 643-3131 or visit <www.
powells.com>.
Portland Timbers
May 24, 4pm, ROOT Sports. Watch the Portland Timbers play
the New York Red Bulls in the only meeting between the two
squads during the 2014 Major League Soccer regular season.
New York’s roster includes Kosuke Kimura, Luis Robles, and
others. For info, call (503) 553-5555 or visit <www.timbers.com>.
A.C.E. / SPORTS
May 19, 2014
Ji-sung Park announces retirement
SUWON, South Korea
(AP) — Ji-sung Park has
called time on a trailblaz-
ing career that was
launched in South Korea’s
unlikely run to the World
Cup semifinals and really
took off during his seven
seasons with one of the
world’s biggest clubs.
The long-time Manches-
ter United midfielder told a
news conference at a
stadium named in his
honor that he has retired
from top-flight football. In
his immediate plans are
two friendly matches this
month and a wedding date
in July.
The 33-year-old Park
played his last season on
loan with PSV Eindhoven
in the Dutch league. He
retired from international
football in 2011, after
representing South Korea
at three World Cups, and
rejected calls for a return to
help the squad at Brazil
2014.
A high-energy, hard-
working midfielder, Park
followed manager Guus
Hiddink from the national
team to Eindhoven after
the 2002 World Cup, then
became the first South
Korean to make an impact
in the Premier League
after signing with Man-
chester United, where he
won the 2008 Champions
League and four Premier
League titles.
At the time of negotia-
tions for his last contract at
Manchester United in
2011,
manager
Alex
Ferguson said the Korean’s
“career at United has been
nothing but excellent, a
tremendous professional.”
Park left Old Trafford in
2012 after seven seasons to
make an ill-fated move to
the Queens Park Rangers.
After the team’s relegation
from the English Premier
League, Park was loaned to
PSV Eindhoven, where his
European journey had
begun in 2003.
“I’ve been mulling retire-
ment since February, and
I’ve concluded that my
knee won’t hold up for
another
season,”
the
domestic Yonhap news
agency quoted Park as
saying. “I have no regrets
“Na Loea: The Masters”
May 27, 11pm-midnight; repeats May 29, 4-5am, Oregon
Public Broadcasting (OPB). Watch “Na Loea: The Masters,” an
episode of Pacific Heartbeat about people who are considered
masters in Hawaiian culture: Keone Nunes, a kumu hula
(teacher of hula) and master of traditional kakau (tattooing), and
Ed Wendt, a pioneer in the taro restoration movement. See story
by Pamela Ellgen, “Pacific Heartbeat film anthology honors
heritage of Pacific Islanders” (AR, May 5, 2014), at <www.
asianreporter.com>. To verify showtimes, call (503) 293-1982 or
visit <www.opb.org>.
Anna May Wong: In Her Own Words
CAN THEY REALLY
CANCEL OUR POLICY
IF WE MAKE A CLAIM?
May 28, 11pm-mighnight; repeats May 30, 4-5am; Oregon
Public Broadcasting (OPB). Watch Anna May Wong: In Her Own
Words, a documentary highlighting the life and career of Anna
May Wong — the first Chinese-American movie star — who was
both an architect and a victim of her times. See story by Josephine
Bridges, “Breaking ground: Anna May Wong: In Her Own
Words,” (AR, May 6, 2013) at <www.asianreporter.com>. To
verify showtimes, call (503) 293-1982 or visit <www.opb.org>.
When You Can’t Breathe,
Nothing Else Matters
Reverberations from Fukushima
www.lungusa.org
May 30, 7pm, Tabor Space (5441 SE Belmont St, Portland).
Enjoy poetry and music at the book launch of Reverberations from
Fukushima: 50 Japanese Poets Speak Out, an anthology offering
a deeper understanding of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in
Japan from a humanistic rather than technological or political
perspective. The event features anthology editor Leah Stenson
and shakuhachi (bamboo flute) player Larry Tyrrell. For info, call
(503) 238-3904 or visit <www.inkwater.com>.
Help us find a cure.
1-800-LUNG-USA
Breaking the Silence
May 31, 2:30pm, Gerding Theater at the Armory, Ellyn Bye
Studio (128 NW 11th Ave, Portland). Watch a free staged reading
of Breaking the Silence, a play about three generations of
Japanese Americans by Nikki Nojima Louis. The 70-minute
reading, which is directed by Dmae Roberts of MediaRites
Productions, features music and performances by Michelle Fujii
and Toru Watanabe of Portland Taiko and actors Chisao Hata,
Heath Hyun Houghton, Wynee Hu, Samson Syharath, and Larry
Toda. Playwright Louis is in attendance for the play as well as a
talkback session following the performance. For info, call (503)
445-3700 or visit <www.pcs.org>. See related story on page six.
Sarah Jio
June 2, 7pm, Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing (3415 SW
Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton, Ore.). Join Sarah Jio as she
presents Goodnight June, a book that follows June Andersen as
she is called to settle her great-aunt’s estate and stumbles upon
letters between her great aunt and Margaret Wise Brown. For
info, call (503) 643-3131 or visit <www.powells.com>.
Have an insurance problem or complaint? A state insurance
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Drama! Dance! Drums!
June 4, 7pm, Portland State University, Lincoln Performance
Hall, Room 75 (1620 SW Park Ave, Portland). Attend Drama!
Dance! Drums!, a live performing arts program highlighting the
Japanese art forms of taiko drumming, nihon buyo (traditional
dance), and noh and kyogen theater. For info, call (503) 725-8577
or visit <www.pdx.edu/cjs>.
STORIED CAREER. South
Korea’s Ji-sung Park heads the
ball during a World Cup round of
16 soccer match between Uruguay
and South Korea at Nelson
Mandela Bay Stadium in Port
Elizabeth, South Africa on June
26, 2010. Park has called time
on a trailblazing career that was
launched in South Korea’s unlikely
run to the 2002 World Cup semifi-
nals. (AP Photo/Roberto Candia,
File)
about my career. I do think
about what might have
been if I hadn’t been in-
jured, but I have no feelings
of
disappointment
or
sorrow as I leave the sport.”
Park had operations on
his right knee in 2003 and
in 2007. He was sidelined
for eight months after the
second surgery and had
occasional trouble with the
knee in recent seasons.
He recently said he’d
accomplished more in
football than he’d imagined
possible.
He sent many bench-
marks for Asian foot-
ballers, including being the
first to score goals at three
World Cups.
When
his
country
co-hosted the World Cup
with Japan in 2002, Park
netted the winner in an
upset 1-0 victory over
Portugal in the last group
match to get South Korea
into the knockout stage for
the first time. The South
Koreans were the first from
Asia to reach the World
Cup semifinals.
In 2006, he scored the
equalizer to hold eventual
finalist France to a 1-1
draw and, in 2010, he
scored in the 2-0 win over
Greece that helped South
Korea reach the Round of
16 for the first time on
foreign soil.
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