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EVENTS
Lost Angeles: AAPW's Reading/Speaker Series
We host or co-sponsor readings, panels, and screenings with emerging and accomplished poets, writers, and filmmakers all over the Los Angeles basin-- from Portfolio Coffeehouse in Long Beach to Skylight Books in Los Feliz, and from the ImaginAsian Center in downtown to the two local research universities, UCLA and USC. If we have to, we'll even go to Orange County :)
Upcoming Events
Past Events
May 3, 2008
Association for Iranian American Writers Inaugural Event
AAPW staff writer Parissa Ebrahimzadeh will be a featured panelist at the inaugural meeting of the Association of Iranian American Writers. The event will be a day-long workshop and discussion with other Iranian American poets and writers to discuss issues of diaspora, representation, identity, and literary traditions.
Where: UC Irvine, Humanities Instructional Building , Room 100 (UCI Map Click Here)
When: 9am - 5pm
Admission is free/Parking is $7
This event is hosted by the Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture.
Parissa Ebrahimzadeh received her undergraduate degrees from the University of California, Irvine in Philosophy and Comparative Literature. Recently, she has obtained her MFA in Fiction from Antioch University, Los Angeles. She focused both her undergraduate and graduate theses on the Iranian Diaspora and its influence on modern Iranian literature. She is currently at work on a novel.
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April 22, 2008
 
A Conversation with filmmaker Ham Tran.
Following a screening of Ham Tran's feature film "Journey from the Fall," writer Ky-Phong Tran and Professor Mariam Lam will moderate a discussion on the Viet Wave of filmmakers, film production for emerging filmmakers, how visual and narrative culture influences identity, Little Saigon, and Ham's karaoke prowess.
Where: UC Riverside, University Lecture Hall 1000 (UCR Map Click Here)
When: 7pm - 10pm
Admission is free/Parking after 4pm is $5
This event is hosted by UC Riverside's Asian Pacific Student Programs
Born in Saigon, Ham Tran immigrated to America with his parents through the Orderly Departure Program in 1982. His explorations in playwriting, prose, poetry, music, drawing, painting, film and video became a journey to assemble new and lost history and culture.
Ham graduated from UCLA with a Master of Fine Arts degree in Film and Television, where his short films have won numerous accolades including the title of National Finalist for the Student Academy Awards for 2 years in a row for his short films The Prescription and Pomegranate. Ham's thesis film The Anniversary won over 30 international awards, including the prestigious USA Film Festival award for Best Short Film. In 2004, The Anniversary was a Semi-Finalist for the Academy Awards for Best Live Action Short.
Ham's first feature debut Journey from the Fall world-premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and has garnered over ten awards in worldwide film festivals, including the Tr?ng Ð?ng Award at the Vietnamese International Film Festival (ViFF) 2007. Imaginasian Entertainment released the film theatrically in Spring 2007.
Website: http://www.journeyfromthefall.com
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