This year’s story is a fictional account of life in Hong Kong during the 2003 SARS epidemic. Information provided courtesy of Hong Kong Student Society and the event’s Facebook page. Hong Kong Culture Night 2009 May 11, 2009, 6:00pm-10:00pm Ackerman Grand Ballroom, UCLA “愛.疫：In Love and In Sickness”…
Information provided courtesy of the UCLA Asia Institute website. Theme: The Legend of “Bawang Merah and Bawang Putih” Saturday, May 09, 2009 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM Ackerman Grand Ballroom UCLA Campus Los Angeles, CA 90095 It’s free and open to the public. No tickets required. I’m going and…
Each week, Pacific Ties will be featuring a strip from “Two Item Combo,” a comic strip by Rickmond Wong, who is a Pacific Ties alumni from back in the day 🙂 We dug this up from our archives and they’re too cool to hide away in a filing…
This afternoon four of us at Pacific Ties attended the Imagined Futures Conference at the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo. It was a free one-day conference to inspire and network with Asian Pacific Islander American artists of all disciplines. Nakamura’s presentation was really inspiring. We’re at…
Negar Tehrani’s opinion piece in this past Wednesday’s Daily Bruin addressed a question I’ve wondered about too. Why don’t applications provide a box to check for “Middle Eastern”? Currently Middle Eastern Americans check off “other” or white” for lack of better alternative. At UCLA, the Iranian American, Arabic…
Vietnamese American Dorothy Le, 24, is a 2007 UCLA alumna who majored in Environmental Science and minored in Geography/Environmental Studies. As an undergraduate, she led E3: Ecology, Economy, Equity, an environmental and social justice organization at UCLA and was involved in the UC Divestment Taskforce, The Green Initiative…