Arts

By Yi Chen  Founded in 2003, the DC Shorts Film Festival was created by DC-based filmmaker, Jon Gann. Frustrated that many festivals were focused on money and sponsors and not films and filmmakers, he decided to start his own event, focusing on the form he loves – shorts. “For me, it’s about connections,” said Gann. “I try to program the …

By Jenny Chen When Gene Yang was a child, he would sneak to the local comic book store in Cupertino, Ca. by asking his mother to drop him off at the library, walking 10 minutes to the comic book store, and then hiding his comic books in huge tomes from the library so that his mother would never suspect that …

By Jenny Chen It is the 1970s and Ho Chi Minh city is in shambles. American boots thunder throughout the city; the streets are crawling with the poor and destitute. This is the setting for Signature Theatre’s production of Miss Saigon – a play based on Giacomo Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly, and the eleventh longest running Broadway show in musical …

By Yi Chen Washington, DC – The Korean Cultural Center, also known as KORUS House, is located in the Embassy Row neighborhood along Massachusetts Ave. NW. The brick house is near Sheridan Circle, only a few blocks from the Embassy of South Korea. The building’s Dynamic Hall and Digital Culture Hall on the first floor have been temporarily converted into …

Source: Nouvelles d’Europe        Author:     Release Date: Jan 27th, 2011 [Reported by Xiao Chen, the journalist of Nouvelles d’Europe] Li Hongtao, a Chinese painter living in the United States, saw his art exhibition grandly opened at the Carlos Hall of the Louvre on the morning of Jan 25. The exhibition is hosted by the China International Culture Association, Pierre Cardin France …

Source: Nouvelles d’Europe       Author:      Release Date: Jan 27, 2011 The first large-scale solo exhibition of a Chinese artist in Le Louvre, showcasing the works of multi-awarded artist Li Hongtao, demonstrates the extraordinary level of Chinese artists in the entire world, a top Beijing official said at a press conference announcing the event. The Louvre, located in Paris, is the world’s …