Bryn Mawr College Asian Students Association

Swarthmore’s SAO has reached out to BMC ASA about High School Conversations. This event is a great opportunity (esp. for education minors!) to reach out to local high school students through mentorship. SAO members in the past have had positive experiences speaking with local high schoo students about their experiences from many angles (life, college and identity). SAO plans on having another college day this Saturday, Nov. 21st (tentative). If anyone wants to participate, please do not hesitate to contact Arthur Chyan asap (achyan1@swarthmore.edu). Thank you!

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I want to introduce you to High School Conversations.

High School Conversations is an attempt to involve Swarthmore students with the broader community - specifically local Asian, Pacific Islander, Asian American, Pacific Islander American (API/A) high school students. Through facilitating interactions between these two populations, we hope to achieve two goals: 1) give college students an opportunity to learn about other perspectives on life and identity from a diverse group of local high school students and give back to the community beyond the college campus and 2) provide local API/A high school students with role models who look like them and also offer them with supportive environments to learn about college and identity.

We thought that our pilot program last year, which included a Saturday to get to know the high school students + offer them information about college options was a great success.  This year, we hope to recreate that day, and we recently successfully applied for funding!

At this time, we hope to open up the event to include Tri-Co participants too! It’s a chance for you to interact with the local community and pass on knowledge to an underserved population (many of these students come from single parent households below the poverty line and they don’t have sufficient college counseling).  If you are interested in meeting local students, acting as a mentor and/or want to work on a community project, please contact achyan1@swarthmore.edu ASAP.

We are aiming for this college day to take place on Saturday, November 21st, but it’s still tentative.  ALSO, there will be events next semester where you can work with these students too!  They’re really great people, and I hope you can join us in interacting with them!!

Best,
Arthur
achyan1@swarthmore.edu

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Amnesty International will be showing “The Visitor” in the Multicultural Center this Friday at 7.30pm. This Academy Award nominated film promises to be both deeply moving and highly entertaining. “The Visitor” highlights the issues surrounding immigrant rights in the US. This is definitely not a film to miss!

WHEN: Friday, Nov. 20th — 7:30-9:30pm
WHERE: Haverford MCC

Come out for ASA’s first Student-Faculty Tea of the year! Mingle with APIA professors, ask about experiences or upcoming courses, enjoy delicious refreshments and chill with ASA!

UPenn will be hosting a night of dinner and discussion with Lieutenant Daniel Choi
Thursday, November 19th in Houston Hall’s Hall of Flags!

Lieutenant Dan Choi was a Korean American infantry officer who translated Arabic for the Army. He graduated from West Point, served twice in Iraq, and then joined the New York National Guard. In March 2009, he told the world he was gay on national television and 140,000 supporters signed a letter to President Obama and Congress asking them not to fire him. Unfortunately, the government did nothing and Lt. Choi has been dishonorably discharged in accordance with Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. Lt. Choi has become the face of the campaign to repeal Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. UPenn is bringing him to campus to share his experiences as a gay Korean American man in the military, and then leading a discussion on the intersection between the LGBT and Asian American communities and how it relates to our campus and our peers.

Organized by UPenn’s Asian Pacific Student Coalition, Queer People of Color, Sangam, and the LGBT Center with generous support from the Intercultural Fund, SPEC Connaissance, and Tangible Change.

WHAT: An Evening with Lt. Daniel Choi at UPenn
WHERE: Houston Hall, Hall of Flags
WHEN: Thursday, Nov. 19th, 5-8pm

For more information, please visit the Facebook Event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=168382991234&ref=nf

Hong Kong’s very own romantic fantasy web series LUMINA makes the jump from the little screen to the big screen! This past weekend, over 3,500 festival attendees got the chance to catch the first webisode of LUMINA on the big screen at the Clockenflap Music & Multi-Media Arts Festival held at Cyberport, Hong Kong.

Please find attached the full press release as well as the new LUMINA poster (high resolution and low resolution). The whole nine webisode first season season is now available to view on www.luminaseries.com and on our American web TV distribution partner, www.koldcast.tv; reviews of the first season are welcome!

Interviews with cast and the writer/director Jen Thym are available upon request. Thank you very much!

Best regards,
Jen Thym