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Community Events and Opportunities
Upcoming Events:Co-presented by Moonstone Arts Center & Asian Arts Initiative:
Fiction Reading: Author Phong Nguyen reads from Memory Sickness and Other Stories
Thursday July 14, 7pm
Robin's Books & Moonstone Arts Center
110A South 13th Street / Phila, PA 19107
FREE
The son of a Vietnamese-American immigrant scholar and a daughter of the revolution, Phong Nguyen grew up outside of Princeton, New Jersey, where he was a confirmed member of the infamously under-achieving generation X. After discovering Proust's The Remembrance of Things Past, he didn't put the book down for nearly a year and committed his life to writing after he finished the book. Now an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Central Missouri, where he teaches fiction-writing and edits the literary journal Pleiades. Don't miss Phong Nguyen reading from his memorable debut collection Memory Sickness and Other Stories (Elixir Press, June 2011)!
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Launch Party to Celebrate the Publication of
Asian American Plays for a New Generation
Monday July 25, 7pm
InterAct Theatre
2030 Sansom Street / Phila, PA 19103
FREE
You're invited to the Philadelphia launch party for Asian American Plays for a New Generation, an exciting new collection of plays edited by Josephine Lee, Don Eitel, and R. A. (Rick) Shiomi. The event will include a reception followed by speakers Rick Shiomi, editor and artistic Director of Mu Performing Arts, and playwright Lauren Yee, author of Ching Chong Chinaman, as well as selected readings of excerpts from the plays included in the anthology.
The plays included in this anthology are: Indian Cowboy by Zaraawar Mistry, Walleye Kid, The Musical by Kurt Miyashiro, Sundraya Kase & R.A. Shiomi, Asiamnesia by Sun Mee Chomet, Bahala Na by Clarence Coo, Sia(b) by May Lee Yang, Happy Valley by Aurorae Khoo and Ching Chong Chinaman by Lauren Yee.
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