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Page 12 n THE ASIAN REPORTER Arts Culture & Entertainment December 4, 2017 inspiration for the 12 heads from those originally located at Yuanming Yuan (Old Summer Palace). For info, call (541) 346-3027 or visit <jsma.uoregon.edu>. NINE FREE DAYS UPCOMING EVENTS Chang(e) Dec 7-10, 7:30pm, The Headwaters (55 NE Farragut St, Suite 9, Portland). Watch Soomi Kim and Suzi Takahashi’s Chang(e), a docu- drama about Philadelphia-based performance artist and activist Kathy Change (formerly Kathleen Chang), who fought for global social transformation and aimed to save the world from disaster. Change’s story is brought to life through a blend of dance, verbatim text, projections, and an original sound score. The December 7 performance is a preview show and the December 8 through 10 events include post-show discussions. For info, or to buy tickets, call 1-866-811-4111 or visit <www.boom arts.org>. ONGOING EVENTS The LEGO NINJAGO® Movie Now showing, theaters in metropolitan Portland. Watch The LEGO NINJAGO® Movie, an animated film about young Master Builder Lloyd (a.k.a. the Green Ninja), who with the help of his secret ninja-warrior friends and led by the wise-cracking Master Wu, wage battle against the evil warlord Garmadon — who happens to be Lloyd’s dad. The film features the voice talents of Jackie Chan, Olivia Munn, Kumail Nanjiani, Fred Armisen, and others. For info and showtimes, call 1-800-326-3264 or visit <www.fandango.com>. “Glory of Christmas” Geostorm Dec 8 & 10, 7:30pm (Fri), 4pm (Sun), First United Methodist Church (1838 SW Jefferson St, Portland). Attend “Glory of Christmas,” a holiday concert featuring the Oregon Repertory Singers. The choir of more than 100 voices perform works by Britten, Tormis, Thompson, Lauridsen, and others. Guest harpist Denise Fujikawa also joins the choir for a cantata. For info, call (503) 230-0652 or visit <www. orsingers.org>. To buy tickets, call 1-800-838- 3006 or visit <www.brownpapertickets.com>. Now showing, Century 16 Eastport Plaza (4040 SE 82nd Ave, Portland) & Regal Division Street Stadium 13 (16603 SE Division St, Portland). Watch Geostorm, a sci-fi thriller about a network of satellites designed to control the global climate. When the satellite network starts to attack the earth, it’s a race against the clock to uncover the real threat before a worldwide geostorm wipes out everything and everyone. The film stars Daniel Wu, Andy Garcia, and others. (USA, 2017, Dean Devlin, 109 mins.) For info and showtimes, call 1-800- 326-3264 or visit <www.fandango.com>. To learn more, visit <www.geostorm.movie>. “Naman Natwara” Dec 9, 4pm, Intel Jones Farm Campus, Auditorium (2111 NE 25th Ave, Hillsboro, Ore.). Attend “Naman Natwara,” the journey of Marathi Natyasangeet performed by Seattle’s Indian Performing Arts Project. The show is presented by Oregon Marathi Mandal. For info, call (503) 308-1050 or visit <www.kalakendra. org>. To buy tickets, visit <www.oregon mm.org>. “Pure Amusements” Currently on view, 10am-5pm (Mon, Wed & Fri-Sun), 10am-9pm (Thu), Seattle Art Museum, Third Floor Galleries (1300 First Ave, Seattle). View “Pure Amusements: Chinese Scholar Culture and Emulators,” an installation of Chinese works ranging from prints to sculpture and furnishings to ceramics. The pieces are drawn from the museum’s collection and focus on objects created for, and enjoyed during, the intentional practice of leisure. For info, call (206) 654-3210 or visit <www.seattleartmuseum.org>. “Pacific Currents” & “Billabong Dreams” Currently on view, 10am-5pm (Wed & Fri-Sun), 10am-9pm (Thu), Seattle Art Museum, Third Floor Galleries (1300 First Ave, Seattle). View “Pacific Currents” & “Billabong Dreams,” two adjacent installations featuring the theme of water. The “Pacific Currents” exhibit honors the creatures, spirits, and people who inhabit the waterways of the Pacific from New Guinea to Puget Sound, while in “Billabong Dreams” Australian aboriginal artists demon- strate that water can guide life and show the depths of rockholes and billabongs, the tidal ebb and flow, the rough and calm, as an analogue for ancestral knowledge. For info, call (206) 654- 3210 or visit <www.seattleartmuseum.org>. “Mirrors of the Mind: The Noh Masks of Otsuki Koukun” Through Dec 11, noon-4pm (Mon), 10am-4pm (Tue-Sun), Portland Japanese Garden (611 SW Kingston Ave, Portland). View “Mirrors of the Mind: The Noh Masks of Otsuki Koukun,” an exhibit featuring dozens of hand-carved masks by Otsuki Koukun, as well as several elegant brocade costumes from the traditional silk looms of Orinasu-kan in Kyoto. For info, call (503) 223-1321 or visit <www. japanesegarden.com>. Jinie Park Through Dec 23 (Tue-Sat), 10:30am-5:30pm, “Slant Live” Dec 9, 6pm (doors), 7pm (show), Mississippi Studios (3939 N Mississippi Ave, Portland). Attend “Slant Live,” a queer storytelling show featuring Irene Tu, Ami Patel, Eduardo Sotelo, Laurence Jones, Zachary Thornhill, and others. For info, call (503) 288-3895 or visit <www. slantstories.com>. December 9 through 17 10:00am to 4:00pm Lan Su Chinese Garden, 239 N.W. Everett Street, Portland Ikiru Dec 9, 6:30pm, Portland Art Museum, Northwest Film Center, Whitsell Auditorium (1219 SW Park Ave, Portland). Watch Ikiru, filmmaker Akira Kurosawa’s film about a lowly, stuck, middle-aged bureaucrat who falls ill with cancer and finds out he has less than a year to live. (Japan, 1952, Akira Kurosawa, 143 mins.) For info, or to buy tickets, call (503) 221-1156 or visit <www.nwfilm.org>. Prepare for the incoming Year of the Dog with a visit to the Lan Su Chinese Garden during “Nine Free Days.” Free admission is available to all visitors who bring a canned or nonperishable food item, with donations benefitting the Oregon Food Bank. Visitors can enjoy the beauty of the garden, escape the cold with tea in the teahouse, learn about the rich cultural history of China, purchase Lunar New Year essentials in the garden shop, and visit the holiday pop-up shop. For more information, call (503) 228-8131 or visit <www.lansugarden.org>. (AR Photo) Elizabeth Leach Gallery (417 NW Ninth Ave, Portland). View “Little House,” a display of paintings by artist Jinie Park. The new series features luminous, abstract pieces. For info, call (503) 224-0521 or visit <www.elizabethleach. com>. “Scraps: Elevating Everyday Objects” Through Jan 19 (Mon-Fri), 1-5pm, Pacific University, Scott Hall, Kathrin Cawein Gallery of Art (2043 College Way, Forest Grove, Ore.). View “Scraps: Elevating Everyday Objects,” an exhibit by Yoonhee Choi and Sarah Fagan. The display features objects such as flattened take-out containers, bread clips, and scraps of adhesive tape turned into fine art. The pieces take a look at material culture by transforming items that typically reflect overabundance in our society into intimate and minimalistic “Masked and Revealed” landscapes. For info, call (503) 352-2870 or visit <www.pacificu.edu/events/cawein>. Humaira Abid Through Mar 25 (Wed-Sun), 11am-5pm, Bellevue Arts Museum (510 Bellevue Way NE, Bellevue, Wash.). View “Searching for Home,” the first solo museum exhibit of artist Humaira Abid. The Seattle-based, Pakistan-born Abid is known for her bold, symbolically rich, and meticulously realized wood sculptures and miniature paintings. The display premieres never-before-seen works that were created following months of research and interviews with refugee women who have been resettled in both the Pacific Northwest and Pakistan from nations including Somalia, Syria, and Afghanistan. For info, call (425) 519-0770 or visit <www.bellevuearts.org>. “Circle of Animals/ Zodiac Heads” Dec 9-Jan 14, noon-4pm (Mon), 10am-4pm (Tue-Sun), Portland Japanese Garden (611 SW Kingston Ave, Portland). View “Masked and Revealed: The World of Bidou Yamaguchi,” an exhibit of masks from the private collection of Kelly and Steve McLeod. Yamaguchi’s masks apply the techniques, transformative spirit, form, and mysteriousness of noh masks to iconic female portraits from European art history. For info, call (503) 223-1321 or visit <www.japanese garden.com>. Oregon Koto-kai holiday concert Dec 17, 2pm, Portland Japanese Garden (611 SW Kingston Ave, Portland). Attend a koto performance by Oregon Koto-kai. The concert features a heartwarming Japanese story as well as peaceful and cheerful music for the holiday season. For info, call (541) 513-6417 or e-mail <kotomelodies@gmail.com>. To buy tickets, visit <www.japanesegarden.com>. “Comfort and Joy” Through June 24, 11am-5pm (Tue, Thu-Sun), 11am-8pm (Wed), University of Oregon (UO), Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, North Courtyard (1430 Johnson Lane, Eugene, Ore.). View “Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads,” an exhibit of a dozen sculptures by Ai Weiwei representing the animal symbols from the traditional Chinese zodiac. The artist drew Dec 17, 7:30pm, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall (1037 SW Broadway, Portland). Enjoy “Comfort and Joy,” an Oregon Symphony concert featuring classical and holiday favorites. Audience members are encouraged to sing along with the full orchestra. For info, or to buy tickets, call (503) 228-1353 or visit <www. orsymphony.org>. 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. DecideToDrive.org ***