May 20 – June 15 LOS ANGELES
In the exhibit "Korea Mexico," the video and photography works by five Korean American and three Mexican American artists — Susan Choi, Young Chung, Kate Hers, Yongsoon Min, David Won, Ken Gonzales-Day, Jorge Nava Cuevas and Ruben Ortiz Torres — will be on display at the Korean Cultural Center, which collaborated with the Mexican Cultural Institute to organize this exhibit. An opening reception takes place on May 20, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Located at 5505 Wilshire Blvd. in the Miracle Mile neighborhood. Visit www.kacla.org or call (323) 936-7141 for more information.

May 21 & 22 NEW YORK CITY
Contemporary dance troupe Dana Tai Soon Burgess & Co. performs "Tracings," a 2003 piece inspired by the centennial of Korean immigration to Hawaii and Burgess’s own family history at the Asia Society. Burgess and his company, which recently was awarded Washington, D.C.’s prestigious Mayor’s Arts Award for Excellence, has been creating dances that synthesize Eastern and Western aesthetics.
The Asia Society is located at 725 Park Avenue. Tickets are $15; $10 for Asia Society members. For ticket information, call the Asia Society box office at (212) 517-2742 or visit www.AsiaSociety.org. For more information on the company, visit www.dtsbco.com.

Through May 21 NEW YORK CITY
Artist David Choe was arrested for punching out an undercover detective in Tokyo in December 2004. Then he spent four months in solitary confinement in a Japanese prison. Deprived of his usual drawing and painting tools, David improvised materials out of whatever he could scrape together in his tiny cell, including soy sauce and his own urine. His prison stay resulted in the works on display at the powerHouse Gallery in "Tokyo Prison Art," presented by Vice Magazine.
The powerHouse Gallery is open Monday to Friday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Saturday, noon to 6 p.m., and is located at 68 Charlton St. (between Hudson and Varick). For more information, visit www.powerhousebooks.com/gallery05/tokyoprisonart.html.

May 22 SAN FRANCISCO
Commemorate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month by going to the first annual Asian Heritage Street Celebration, the largest Asian-themed event in the Bay Area, presented by the AsianWeek Foundation. Lots of booths, live entertainment, arts and crafts, cooking demonstrations and a wide variety of food will take over the Japan Center at Laguna and Fillmore streets in Japantown.
From 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. For more information, visit www.asianfairsf.com.

June 6 CHICAGO
Kick off your summer by learning to cook some of your favorite Korean dishes at "Taste of Korea," a cooking demonstration and tasting fundraiser presented by Korean American Women In Need (KAN-WIN). Prepare bulgogi, dubu jeon, hobak jeon and o-i namul with an expert cook, then enjoy the tasting session afterward.
From 7 to 9 p.m. at Chopping Block in Lincoln Square (located at 4747 N. Lincoln Ave.). The $35 fee will go toward the work of KAN-WIN to serve victims of domestic violence. To register for this event, call (773) 583-1392.