Southern California East Asian
    Calendar of Events and Exhibitions   July  1998

        email: <cdube@isop.ucla.edu>
        fax: (310) 206-3555
 
Please note: Underlined names or phrases indicate links to that organization's website. You may click on such links to visit that site for more information about the event or exhibition. Use your browser's back button to return to the USC-UCLA Joint Center website. Click here to get directions to UCLA. Most UCLA lectures are free and open to the public (on-campus parking costs $5).

        Ongoing (to July 15)

"The Creative Voices of Reason: PhilippinePainters, Poets and Craftsmen''

This Pacific Asia Museum exhibit celebrates the centennial of Philippine independence and features the work of Fernando Amorsolo.

Pacific Asia Museum
46 N. Los Robles Avenue
Pasadena, California
[626] 449-2742

        Ongoing
                "From the Rainbow's Varied Hue:  Textiles of the Southern Philippines"

                UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History
                (Located just west of Royce Hall. Take Sunset Boulevard to Westwood Plaza
                and get a parking permit - $5 - for lot 4 or 5.)
                (310) 825-4361

        July 2

"East Asian Art at LACMA" -- two tours
1:00 China's Splendid Dynasties
3:00 Arts of Japan

Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, California  90036
 
July 11 to August 23
"The Paintings of Chiang Ming Shyan"

This Pacific Asia Museum exhibit features many of Mr. Chiang's recent works which combine traditional Chinese styles with impressionism. Subjects include contemporary urban and rural scenes and studies of temples and landscapes.

Pacific Asia Museum
46 N. Los Robles Avenue
Pasadena, California
[626] 449-2742 




July 16
"Cambodia and the United States: 1998 Elections and Beyond"
Moderator: David Timberman
Panelists: Professors David Chandler and Khatarya Um

This update comes one week prior to the scheduled elections. The panelists will examine Cambodia's past and how it is translated to the present, the role of the international community in peacemaking and peacekeeping, as well as the perspectives of the Cambodian American community on the future of the country. For more information call 213-624-0945.

Sponsored by the Asia Society's California office.
Read an Asia Society publication on the Cambodian elections.

 

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