“Wrapped Shards: “Egg Woman I” (2003), made of rice-paper and pigment on canvas, is one of the paintings from SoHyun Bae’s “Wrapped Shards” series, which is on exhibit at the Skoto Gallery.
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FEB. 18-20 PHILADELPHIA
The East Coast Asian American Student Union Conference (ECAASU) comes to the University of Pennsylvania. The pan-Asian conference expects around 800 to 1,000 students from over 100 colleges to attend. ECAASU is the nation’s oldest and largest APA student conference. It will have over 40 workshops and feature speakers like former Washington state Gov. Gary Locke and Rep. Mike Honda, as well as John Cho, SuChin Pak, author Helie Lee and Adrian Hong from Liberation in North Korea.
More information can be found at the Web site www.ecaasuatpenn.org, or contact ECAASU’s executive co-chair, Karen Kim, at karenkim@sas.upenn.edu with questions.
FEB. 26 CERRITOS, CALIF.
Christian rock band IX Saves will be performing for the first time in two years as part of a benefit concert at the Cerritos Mission Church to raise money for tsunami victims in Southeast Asia.
The concert is at 6 p.m., and the church is located at 12413 E. 195th St., Cerritos, CA 90703. There is no admission fee, but donations will be accepted. All proceeds will go to World Vision. For more information, please contact Phil Roh at feb.26.2005@gmail.com.
THROUGH FEB. 27 LOS ANGELES
East West Players, the nation’s premier Asian American theatre organization, will present the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Proof.” Written by David Auburn and directed by Heidi Helen Davis, “Proof” will be played for the first time by an all-Asian American cast.
All performances will be in the David Henry Hwang Theater at the Union Center for the Arts, located at 120 Judge John Aiso Street. Performances are Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., and Saturdays and Sundays at 2 p.m. General ticket prices are $38 in the orchestra and $33 in the balcony. Senior, student and group discounts are available. To purchase tickets, call (213) 625-7000 or visit www.eastwestplayers.org.
Through March 9 LOS ANGELES
“A Wink Is Half a Blink,” Saelee Oh’s first solo art exhibition will be on display at GR2, the second store and gallery opened by the publishers of Giant Robot. Combining fantasy, femininity and whimsy, Oh’s latest work incorporates a diverse array of media to explore a slumbering world with symbolic animals.
Located at 2062 Sawtelle Blvd. The hours are Monday to Saturday, 11:30 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Sunday from 12 to 6 p.m. For more information, call (310) 445-9276.
