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 so should you! 🙂 5:00 PM –…
DetailsEach 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 cabinent. These comics ran in issues of…
DetailsThis 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 an exciting point in time in which…
DetailsNegar 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 American, and Israeli American student organizations are…
DetailsVietnamese 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 Fund (TGIF), and the Statewide Sustainable Transportation…
DetailsFor all of you in the Los Angeles area – Kappa Psi Epsilon of UCLA are having their 6th annual open mic night on May 12th. The event is free for all and everyone is invited to perform! Here’s some more info: This open mic night is an outlet for performers, artists, and regular people…
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