Annual Benefit Banquet

Asian Arts Initiative
Thanks Our Supporters
for an Amazing
Benefit Banquet and Silent Auction

On Friday, April 30, 2010, an energetic crowd of more than 300 guests attended our 2010 Benefit Banquet and Silent Auction, honoring Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation, our City and State partners, and the vision for our new facility, and raising funds to support our programs and operations.  During the amazing evening, we were pleased to welcome Mayor Michael Nutter, State Senator Lawrence Farnese, State Representative Mike O’Brien, State Senator Anthony Williams, and Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown.  We thank all of our supporters for a wonderful event!

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As of May 15, 2010

Host Committee
Nina Ahmad and Ahsan Nasratullah | Denise M. Brown | John Chin | Belle Fernandez | Edward Garcia | Jane Golden | Anuj and Prema Katari Gupta | Tanya Hall | Glenn Hing | Joe Kim | Hyun S. Kim and Jo-Yu Chen | Eric Law | Sophia Lee and Michael O' Halloran | Michelle Liao and John Struble | Sally Munemitsu, William and Miya Han | Sumie and Hiro Nishikawa | Jeremy Nowak | Arun Prabhakaran and Carrie Young | Eva Ray | Rorng Sorn | Hao-Li Tai Loh and Evan Loh | Buech-Leng Tang | Pat and Andy Toy | Thu B. Tran and Thuy T. Tran | Bia Vieira | Heidi T. Warren | Patricia Washington | Suzanne J. Young and David T. Rammler | Jason Yu

Sustaining Sponsor
PECO

Contributing Sponsor
State Farm Insurance Companies

Table Sponsors
Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation | Nina Ahmad and Ahsan Nasratullah | Hing Cheng P.C. | Gayle Isa | The Loh Family | Jeremy Nowak, President and CEO, The Reinvestment Fund | The Philadelphia Foundation | Philadelphia Multicultural Affairs Congress | Geraldine Wang

Program Book Sponsors
APABA-PA | The Art Institute of Philadelphia | Constellar Corp | Dilworth Paxson LLP | Darryl J. Ford and Stephanie D. Judson | Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation | The Honickman Foundation | HSBC Bank | The Leeway Foundation | Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP | Philadelphia Corporation for Aging | State Representative Mike O’Brien | Julian Sur, CPA

Seat Sponsors
Bonnie Chong and Edward Chang | Harrah’s Chester | Hazel Isa | Marcia and Edward Kung | David Lin | Moira and Ferdinand Ma | Art Momjian | Drake Nakaishi | NetIP Philadelphia | David Oh | Penn Asian Senior Services | Lounh Phoeuk | Urban Partners | Ignatius Wang | Heidi T. Warren

Additional Banquet Donors
Edward Adams | Joe Anderson | Tomie Arai | Doris and Masae Arimizu | Brad Baldia | Lis and Stu Bass | Lynda Black | Penny Ettinger | Erik Shveima and Ana Romina Mia Cariño | Mang Chang | Linna Chea | Vincent Chin | Wutha Chin | Im Ja Choi | Sailesh R. Chowdhury | City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program | Gretjen Clausing | Carol Clymer | Congreso | Toni Dang | Caroline and Joseph Dellapenna | Sharon Dietrich | Mike Donnelly | Lei-Lynne Doo-Horvick | Sara Zia Ebrahimi | Beth Freeman | Everett Gillison | Cynthia Gouw | Barbara S. Govatos | Anuj and Prema Katari Gupta | Toshi Abe and Nancy E. L. Hall | Colleen Hansen | Josh Harris | Jean R. Haskell | Nadia Hewka | Lee Horne and Bruce Pearson | Mary Faustino | Martha Fujimoto and Russell Hirai | Huong Hoang | Scott R. Hoerl | Gene Hong | James Hostetter | Natalie Hsueh | Jun Huangpu | Elizabeth Isa | Melanie Johnson | Valerie M. Jones | Donald H. Kajioka | Madelyn and James Kawano | Jessica Kawamura | Richard Keiser | Sean Kelley | Rocky Kev | Keystone Mercy Health Plan | Farzin Khan | Joseph Kim | Stephen Kim | Lawrence Krasner | Ann C. Kuehlman | Amie LaCourt | Krishna Lahiri | Brook Zitek and Joan Lau | Mimi Lee | Christina Leung | Jennifer Lin | Kevin Lowber | Pat Ma | Sonya Martin | Gayl Mercado | R. David Miller | Joseph C. Miller and Renu Rajpal | Juli Miller | Peter Missimer | Pauline Myers | Jean Hunt and Masaru Ed Nakawatase | Katharine L. Nelson | Carmina Ocampo-Brown | Bridget and Gerard O’Malley | June O’Neill | Lehla Olson | Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival | Kristi Poling | Tiz Powers | Republic First Bank | Amy Retsinas | Andrew Romero | Anne Romine | Avik and Maitreyi Roy | Evelyn Salcedo | Daniel Schettler | Barney Seng | Bryan Shieh | Miae Shinn | Kathryn Sipp and Nicholas Alpers | Tom Andrzejewski & Jane C. Sung | Shauna Swartz | Miki Takamori | Laurence Tom | Lauren Townsend | Stella M. Tsai | Angela Varrichio | Phil Vu | Jane T. Warren | Linda White | George C. Whitfield | Allan Wong | Katherine Wong | Donald and Pam Yih

Auction Donors
12th Street Gym | Academy of Vocal Arts | Arden Theatre | Art of Wellness | Art Sanctuary | Asian Arts Initiative | Astral Artistic Services | Balance Health Center | Banana Leaf Restaurant | Barnes Foundation | Bartram's Garden | Beehive Hair Salon | Bistro 7 | BJ's | Lynda Black | Blacklava | Carrie Borgenicht | Brandywine River Museum | Cafe de Laos | China Art Co. Inc | Bonnie Chong | City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program | The Clay Studio | Laura Cohen | Community Education Center/CEC | The Contemporary Museum (Honolulu, HI) | Dr. Joan May T. Cordova | Jeff Cylkowski | Dahlak Restaurant | Dance Affiliates | Distrito | Earth Alkemie | East West Players | Eastern State Penitentiary | Penny Ettinger | Fabric Workshop and Museum | Fair Food, a program of White Dog Community Enterprises | Filipino American National Historical Society | Fleisher Art Memorial | Fork Restaurant | Four Points Sheraton Inn | Franklin Institute | Colette Fu | Fusion | The Galleries At Moore College of Art & Design | Gas & Electric Arts | Giovanni's Room | Graham Hancock | Helium Comedy Clubs | Hilton Garden Inn | Imperial Inn Restaurant | Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania | InterAct Theater | Gayle Isa | Sophia Hoffer-Perkins | Keswick Theatre | Khaya Cookie Company | Kimmel Center | Kong Restaurant | Dan Kwong | Kyo Daiko/ Matt Palmer | La Terrasse | Lai Har Cheung | Lamberti's | Landmark Theatres | Khanh Le | Loews Hotel | Longwood Gardens | Lucky Strike Bowling Alley | Ma-Yi Theater Company | Mann Center for the Performing Arts | Marigold Kitchen | Max Brenner: Chocolate by the Bald Man | Melanie Stewart Dance Theatre | Alec Meltzer | Mia-lia Kiernan and Jen May Pastores | Morris Arboretum | Sally Munemitsu and William Han | Michelle Myers and Tyrone McCloud | National Asian American Theatre Company | New Harmony Vegetarian Restaurant | Ocean City Restaurant | Opera Company of Philadelphia | Michelle Ortiz | Joan Osato | Painted Bride Art Center | Pan Asian Rep | Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts | People's Light & Theater Company | Peter Nero and the Philly Pops | Philadelphia Chocolate Tours | Philadelphia Dental Associates | Philadelphia Live Arts Festival + Philly Fringe | Philadelphia Museum of Art | Philadelphia Theatre Company | Platoon Fitness | Please Touch Museum | Promotions Group Corp. | Eva Ray | Reading Terminal Market | Reiki School | Rescue Spa | Rising Tide | Robin's Book Store/Moonstone Arts Center | Roy's Hawaiian Fusion Cuisine | San Jose Taiko | Sang Kee Peking Duck House | Scribe Video Center | Alex Shaw | Sigg USA | Rana Sindhikara | Rorng Sorn | Starbucks @ 12th + Market | Kimberly Stemler | Sean Stoops | Studio 34 | Su Xing House Chinese Vegetarian Restaurant | TAIKOPROJECT | Cathi Tillman | Pat Toy | University City Arts League | University of Maryland, Asian American Studies Program | Vientiane Café | Vietnam Café | Vietnam Restaurant | Catzie Vilayphonh | Whipped Bakeshop | White Dog Café & Black Cat Gift Shop | Whole Foods | Windsor Suites | Woodmere Art Museum | Yakitori Boy | Yellow Rage | Suzanne Young

Performers
Pallabi Chakravorty and Diditi Mitra of Courtyard Dancers | Wayne Hsu with Dave Buckery | Kyo Daiko | Philadelphia Suns Lion Dance Team

Volunteers
Teena Bounpraseuth | Steve Calvarese | Kaitlin Dugan | Aghigh Ebrahimi | Ty Givens  | Megumi Kanada | David Kruth | Uyen Le | Han Lin | Ling Lin | Loc Nguyen | Tremayne Nichelson | Carmina Ocampo-Brown | Chon Phoeuk | Charles Ramirez | Gary San Angel | Annie Seng | Mary Seng | Shannon Squirrel | CeeSanna Srey | Sean Stoops | Jamie Tat | Jenny Tat | Nancy Tat | Linh Tran | Kelly Truong
 
Special Thanks
Marc Bainbridge, m3 Printing | Creative Characters | Alec Meltzer Design | The staff at Ocean City Restaurant | The Reading Viaduct Association

Board of Directors
Eva Ray, Chair | Bonnie Chong | Edward Garcia | Gerry Givnish | Gayle Isa | Sophia Lee | Patricia Ma | Robert Minton | Sally Munemitsu | Avik Roy | Hiro Nishikawa, Advisor | Chaitra Gokul, Legal Advisor | P. Thao Le, Legal Advisor