Members of the International Secret Agents (ISA) are descending in San Francisco for the sold out concert tomorrow. Looks like they’re all driving up from LA to SF. Expect a lot of surprises and special guests.
Special Message from Wong Fu Productions for International Secret Agents (ISA) concert in San Francisco
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On February 15, 2009, the Angel Island Immigration Station (aka Ellis Island of the West) reopened to the public. (It was definitely in bad shape before the reopening. We remember a big gaping hole in the ceiling.) Now that is has available to the public again. Thousands of Chinese, Japanese, Indian and other immigrants from Asia passed through the Angel Island station from 1910 through the early 1940s. This was not a pleasant experience for many of our great grandparent, grandparent, and parent. They don’t even want to talk about their painful experience at Angel Island. When you visit and see first hand you will see why. Many Paper Sons and Daughters as well as Japanese “picture brides” have passed through the station.
Go learn more about the history of the Angel Island Immigration Station and the Chinese Exclusion Act. Also a cool article A trip into Angel Island’s past.
Angel Island Immigration Station Tour
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For all the peeps in San Francisco, the 2009 San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival kicks off today. channelAPA.com sat down with festival director Chi-hui Yang to learn what’s hot at the film festival.
Watch some film from Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa. His latest film is Tokyo Sonata, which is coming soon to theaters. There’s a double feature at the Castro Theater on Friday, March 13, 2009. (That’s two flicks for the price of one in these hard economic times.)
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What’s better than cheap is FREE!! Saturday, March 14, 2009 is the return of Festival Forum, a day-long fair of in the Japantown Peace Plaza. The Festival Forum will feature a Japanese-American bluegrass guitarist, a Brazilian drum ensemble, rock bands and breakdancers performing live on stage, and more. Here’s some of the people that will be there: Eth-noh-tec: Asian American Kinetic Story Performance, Jane Lui, Toshio Hirano, Sambasia, Goh Nakamura, Cast of Thousands, MUD, Dance Performance by Hung Dynasty. Of course the winners of the 2nd annual DIY Music Video Contest will have there videos shown there. Finally, a Free Outdoor Screening of Hitoshi Matsumoto’s BIG MAN JAPAN (Dainipponjin, Japan, 2007) at 8pm. Can you believe it all this is FREE? Action takes place from 12:00 – 9:30pm.
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Other screenings we recommend are Children of Invention, White on Rice, Dirty Hands, The Forgotten Woman, You Don’t Know Jack: the Jack Soo Story, The Chaser, Is It Worth It? Lemme Work It, Mixtape 4 the MSG Addict. Some are sold out and there’s too many to list. You can learn more and buy tickets here.
It’s Freebie Friday at channelAPA.com. The International Secret Agents are having an Outreach tour in the San Francisco Bay Area next week. Meet the guys from Wong Fu Productions and Far*East Movement. Here’s the tour schedule:
MARCH 2ND- Monday
12:30pm-1:00pm
Independence High School
1776 Educational Park Dr. San Jose
5:30pm-7:00pm
Bar Code
1728 Hostetter Rd, Suite 20, San Jose
8:30-10:30pm
UC Berkeley
Location TBA
MARCH 3RD- Tuesday
11:30am-1:00pm
El Camino High School
1320 Mission Rd. S. San Francisco
1:30pm-3:30pm
Galileo High School
1150 Francisco St. San Francisco
7:00pm-9:00pm
Good Earth Cuisine
1325 9th Ave. San Francisco
MARCH 4TH – Wednesday
9:00am-9:30am
SF University High School
3065 Jackson St. San Francisco
11:45am-1:30pm
Mt. Eden High School
2300 Panama St. Hayward
3:00pm-5:00pm
Cafe Zen
43749 Boscell Rd. Fremont
You can get tickets to ISA SF 2009 here. Whether you are in SF or not, we’ve got FREE stuff you can win from Wong Fu Productions and Far*Est Movement. Here’s some of the things you can win an autographed ISA SF poster by Wong Fu and the Far-east Movement, an Autographed copy of FM’s new album “ANIMAL“, an autographed DVD from Wong Fu Productions, and just added win a pair of tickets to ISA Concert in San Francisco on March 20, 2009. Thanks to the Far East Movement and Wong Fu Productions for making this giveaway possible.
This is how you can win. Email us at webmaster@channelapa.com or twitter us with “I want ISA swag” and let us know how you found us. Contest ends March 12th, 2009. Tell your friends and family.
A dramatic video about International Secret Agents from wong Fu Productions
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For those in the San Francisco Bay Area, the lineup for the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival was announced today. Mark your calendar for March 12 – 22, 2009. Here’s some brief highlights:
opening night film : My Dear Enemy
centerpiece presentation : Fruit Fly
retrospective: Kiyoshi Kurrosawa (Pulse seems to be one of his hot films)
festival converstions: director Ang Lee and screenwriter Alex Tse (Watchmen)
closing night film: Treeless Mountain
Other notable films: Children of Invention and Heaven on Earth
Launch Party for the films festival is this Friday. Typically, the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival kicks off the Asian/Asian American film festival. So if you live outside of the Bay Area, you will see some of these films hitting your local film festival.
2009 San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival Trailer
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This is for the readers in the San Francisco Bay Area. This weekend is the official grand opening of another Yul Kwon Red Mango fro-yo store. This time Red Mango is will be located at Westfield Valley Fair in San Jose, CA. Previously, Yul Kwon opened a Red Mango fro-yo shop in Palo Alto.
On Saturday, January 24th, Yul Kwon’s newest Red Mango store is offering a free small frozen yogurt of any flavor plus one topping and free gift bags to the first 50 customers. Donate a can of food, a toy, or get typed for bone marrow this Saturday at the Red Mango Valley Fair Grand Opening to be entered into a raffle for a free Apple iPod Touch as well as gift cards and other great prizes. Live DJ, free yogurt all day long, gifts, prizes and raffle! What could be better? While you are in San Jose, drop by the Camera 3 Theaters and watch “Owl and the Sparrow“.
Yul Kwon supporting Bone Marrow Drive. That reminds us of Project Michelle.
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