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COMMUNITY / A.C.E. Page 16 n THE ASIAN REPORTER January 1, 2024 Events calendar “Boundless: Stories of Asian Art” Currently on view, 10am-5pm (Wed-Sun), Seattle Art Museum (1300 First Ave, Seattle). View “Boundless: Stories of Asian Art,” a display highlighting themes central to arts and societies of Asia, such as worship and celebration, visual arts and literature, and clothing and identity. The museum’s south galleries feature art inspired by spiritual life and the north galleries show art inspired by material life. For info, or to purchase tickets, call (206) 654-3210 or visit <www.seattleartmuseum.org>. “Deities & Demons: Supernatural in Japanese Art” Currently on view, 10am-5pm (Wed-Sun), Seattle Art Museum (1300 First Ave, Seattle). View “Deities & Demons: Supernatural in Japanese Art,” a display of paintings, sculptures, prints, and textiles from the museum’s collection that presents the rich visual culture of the supernatural in Japan. For info, or to purchase tickets, call (206) 654-3210 or visit <www.seattleartmuseum.org>. “Oregon’s Nikkei: An American Story of Resilience” Currently on view, 11am-3pm (Thu-Sun), Japanese American Museum of Oregon at the Naito Center (411 NW Flanders St, Portland). View “Oregon’s Nikkei: An American Story of Resilience,” an exhibit that highlights the discrimination, resilience, and identity of the Japanese-American community in Oregon. The display begins in rural Oregon and the streets of Portland’s Japantown where Japanese immigrants embraced American ideals. What they built was abruptly taken away during World War II when people of Japanese descent were imprisoned in American internment camps. From early immigration through current day, the exhibit explores the Japanese-American experience and includes the rebuilding of communities and the ongoing fight for justice. For info, or to purchase tickets, call (503) 224-1458 or visit <www.jamo.org>. The Boy and the Heron Currently showing, Cinema 21 (616 NW 21st Ave, Portland). Watch The Boy and the Heron, a film about a young boy named Mahito who yearns for his mother while venturing into a world shared by the living and the dead. The Boy and the Heron is director Hayao Miyazaki’s first feature film in 10 years. For info, showtimes, or to purchase tickets, call (503) 223-4515 or visit <www.cinema21.com>. Beaverton Winter Lights Through Jan 4, 4pm-8am, Beaverton City Park (SW 5th St & SW Hall Blvd, Beaverton) & The Round (12655 SW Millikan Way, Beaverton). Stroll along outdoor light displays at Beaverton City Park and The Round nightly from 4:00pm to 8:00am. Participants are encouraged to bring a camera to capture the moment, dress in warm clothing, and pack an umbrella in case of rain. For info, call (503) 526-2222 or visit <www.beavertonoregon.gov/winterlights>. BATTLEGROUNDS. “Battlegrounds,” an exhibit of new work by HARTS artist-in-residence Una Kim, is on view through January 8 in Portland Community College’s North View Gallery on the Sylvania Campus. Pictured is “We Are Here,” by Una Kim, diptych, 2023, mixed media on rice paper, 71” x 76”. (Photo courtesy of the artist) ZooLights viewing and appreciating stones dates back more than 1,500 years. The art originated in China, Japan, and Korea, but has spread during the past century and is now practiced worldwide. “Viewing Stones” are naturally formed stones valued for their shape, color, beauty, pattern, and/or for what they can be seen to represent. For info, or to purchase tickets, call (253) 353-7345 or visit <www.pacificbonsaimuseum.org>. Through Jan 7, 4:30-8pm, Oregon Zoo (4001 SW Canyon Rd, Portland). Say goodbye to the holiday season at the Oregon Zoo’s ZooLights display. The family tradition features more than a million-and-a-half lights illuminating life-size animal silhouettes, trees, buildings, walkways, and the zoo train. Popular returning displays include trumpeting elephants, swinging siamangs, a 35-foot-long Chinese dragon, leaping reindeer, playful penguins, and more. Admission to ZooLights is only $12 per person on January 1, 5, 6, and 7. For info, or to purchase tickets, call (503) 226-1561 or visit <www.oregonzoo.org/zoolights>. Through April 2024, 11am-3pm (Thu-Sun), Portland Chinatown Museum (127 NW Third Ave, Portland). View “Re:Generation — Manifesting at the Peach Blossom Spring,” a display of works by resident artists Lark Pien, Josh Sin, and Yuyang Zhang, who braid together generations of Pacific Northwest Chinese immigrant history with their personal narratives to reveal the complex and nuanced psychological landscape of being ethnic Chinese living in America. For info, or to purchase tickets, call (503) 224-0008 or visit <www.portlandchinatownmuseum.org>. “Fields of Color” Through Jan 20 (Tue-Sat), 11am-5:30pm, ArtXchange (512 First Ave S, Seattle). View “Fields of Color,” a display of works by William Song and Marcío Diaz, who layer paint and color to create textural abstract paintings in their own signature styles. Song uses color and depth to create energetic portals attuned to express connection, contemplation, and freedom, while Díaz’s canvasses are covered in stalagmites of paint and evoke macro and micro patterns found in the natural world. For info, call (206) 839-0377 or visit <www.artxchange.org>. “ Hokusai: Inspiration and Influence, from the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston” Through Jan 21, 10am-5pm (Wed-Sun), Seattle Art Museum (1300 First Ave, Seattle). View “Hokusai: Inspiration and Influence, from the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,” a display highlighting the works of Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), who has become one of the most famous Japanese artists in the world. The exhibit explores the fascinating life and enduring legacy of this trailblazing master by pairing more than 100 of his woodblock prints, paintings, and illustrated books alongside more than 200 works by his teachers, students, rivals, and admirers, including Yoshitomo Nara, Chiho Aoshima, and Helen Frankenthaler. For info, or to purchase tickets, call (206) 654-3210 or visit <www.seattleartmuseum.org>. Hanako O’Leary Through Jan 28, 11am-5pm (Wed-Sun), Frye Art Museum (704 Terry Ave, Seattle). View “Izanami,” the first solo museum presentation of works by Seattle artist Hanako O’Leary. O’Leary’s ceramic objects embrace visual storytelling, interweaving Shinto mythology and contemporary feminist ideologies. Raised by her Japanese mother and American father in the Midwest, she travelled yearly to her maternal home, Japan’s Setonaikai Islands. Influenced by these experiences, as well as folkloric Japanese imagery, the artist bridges her identities and matriarchal lineages to narrate her own “American story.” For info, call (206) 622-9250 or visit <www.fryemuseum.org>. “Nobody Lives Here: The People in the Path of Progress” Through Mar 17, 10am-5pm (Wed-Mon), Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience (719 S King St, Seattle). View “Nobody Lives Here: The People in the Path of Progress,” an exhibit about the high toll of transit infrastructure on vulnerable communities. In the display, artist and historian Tessa Hulls illuminates the businesses, homes, and people who were displaced when the I-5 freeway was built through the Chinatown-International District in the 1960s. Using historic photos, oral histories, and archival research, “Nobody Lives Here” connects this history to broader themes of racist land use policy and the erasure of marginalized communities — nationally and locally, past and present. For info, or to purchase tickets, call (206) 623-5124 or visit <www.wingluke.org>. “Stone Images XIII” Through Mar 31, 10am-4pm (Tue-Sun), Pacific Bonsai Museum (2515 S 336th St, Federal Way, Wash.). View “Stone Images XIII,” the latest in a series of viewing stone exhibits presented annually by the Northwest Viewing Stone Group of the Puget Sound Bonsai Association. The practice of Think you’re an organ and tissue donor? Not if you haven’t told your family. Talk to your family about organ and tissue donation. Talk to your family about donating life. For a free donor card brochure, contact: Donate Life Northwest (503) 494-7888 1-800-452-1369 www.donatelifenw.org “Re:Generation — Manifesting at the Peach Blossom Spring” “Guma’ Gela’: Part Land, Part Sea, All Ancestry” Through May 12, 10am-5pm (Wed-Mon), Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience (719 S King St, Seattle). View “Guma’ Gela’: Part Land, Part Sea, All Ancestry,” an exhibit featuring the work of the Guma’ Gela’, a queer CHamoru art collective comprised of members from the Marianas and in the diaspora. The exhibit explores their motto, “part land, part sea, all ancestry,” through a broad spectrum of media, including sculpture, soundscape, writing, printmaking, weaving, costume design, adornments, and more. For info, or to purchase tickets, call (206) 623-5124 or visit <www.wingluke.org>. “Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee” Through July 2024, 10am-5pm (Wed-Sun), Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience (719 S King St, Seattle). View “Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee,” an interactive exhibit that invites viewers to step into the mind, body, and spirit of Bruce Lee to see how his unquenchable pursuit of knowledge informed his philosophy and life. The display follows Bruce’s path, beginning with his revelations on water, through the wealth of knowledge found in his 2,800-book personal library, to his philosophy of self-understanding and self-expression. For info, or to purchase tickets, call (206) 623-5124 or visit <www.wingluke.org>. “Sound Check! The Music We Make” Through Sep 14, 10am-5pm (Wed-Mon), Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience (719 S King St, Seattle). View “Sound Check! The Music We Make,” an exhibit exploring the role music has played in Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander lives and communities as an element of cultural heritage/identity, a form of personal/creative expression, a commercial industry, a connecting/healing force, and an integral part of thriving communities and culture. The interactive display includes behind-the-scenes photos, framed artworks, podcasts, artifacts, storylines, audio, and video. For info, or to purchase tickets, call (206) 623-5124 or visit <www.wingluke.org>. White House Fellows Program Jan 5, noon (application deadline). Apply for the White House Fellows Class of 2024-2025. The application window closes January 5 at noon. For more info, eligibility requirements, selection criteria, or to ask specific questions, call the program office at (202) 395-4522 or e-mail <whitehousefellows@who.eop.gov>. Camerata PYP Jan 5, 7:30pm, Patricia Reser Center for the Arts (12625 SW Crescent St, Beaverton, Ore.). Celebrate the new year with the Portland Youth Philharmonic’s (PYP) advanced chamber orchestra, Camerata PYP. The concert, “Sound Garden,” features PYP’s co-principal second violinist Derek Choi performing Antonio Vivaldi’s “Winter from The Four Seasons” and PYP’s co-principal cellist Sarah Lee performing Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s “Pezzo Capriccioso.” For info, call (503) 223-5939. To purchase tickets, call (971) 501-7722, or visit <www.portlandyouthphil.org> or <www.thereser.org>. Eleanor Klock Jan 5-Feb 10, 9am-9:30pm (Mon-Thu), 9am-5pm (Fri-Sat); Jan 25, 6-8pm, (reception); Multnomah Arts Center (7688 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland). View an exhibit of drawings, risograph prints, and comicsworks by Filipino-American cartoonist and illustrator Eleanor Klock. Klock’s most recent body of work is entitled “Call Me Home.” In it, she seeks to identify what makes up a home. Utilizing drawings made from childhood photos, inspiration from children’s books, and auto-fiction comics, she discovers that home isn’t a place so much as a feeling. Also exhibiting pieces is Erick Martinez. For info, call (503) 823-ARTS (2787) or visit <www.multnomahartscenter. org>. “Dialogues: An Emerging Artist Showcase” Jan 5-Feb 17, noon-6pm (Wed-Sat) + 90 minutes before all performances; Jan 5, 6-9pm (recep- tion); Patricia Reser Center for the Arts (12625 SW Crescent St, Beaverton, Ore.). View “Dialogues: An Emerging Artist Showcase,” a display of paintings, natural forms, reclaimed objects, photography, sculpture, ceramics, and more by artists Leah Yao, Jamie Dang, Hali Wilmunnson, and others. All gallery events are free and open to the public. For info, call (971) 501-7722, e-mail <gallery@thereser.org>, or visit <www.thereser.org/gallery>. Continued on page 17 For timely information about upcoming events, visit <www.facebook.com/TheAsianReporter>.
