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Third ThursdaysThird Thursdays is a monthly dinner series for people in the nonprofit, for-profit, and government sectors interested in Asian American & Pacific Islander (AA&PI) community issues and service opportunities. |
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ArchivesWelcome to the Third Thursdays Archive. We've included information about our past programs and encourage you to include comments about related resources that others may find useful. If you have any questions about our past programs, please email us at ! If you'd like to follow the comments for a specific program, try subscribing to the RSS feeds. Simply copy the "RSS feed for comments on this post" link into your favorite blogging software. October 14, 2006Third Thursdays and South Bay First Thursdays go to Broadway!Our great event host the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California (JCCCNC) is organizing the ASIAN AMERICANS ON BROADWAY: OPENING DOORS concert, so we’re venturing outside of Japantown to see a great show. The show features Broadway’s biggest hits over the years with personal anecdotes from the performers on how these songs have influenced or inspired them on their path to success in theater. For more details about the show, see Asian Americans on Broadway: Opening Doors. We’ve arranged for group tickets, so your ticket price is $25, a discount of $5. We’ll go the Saturday October 14th show at 2pm along with South Bay First Thursdays (this is our first joint event). Afterwards, we may meet up for some kind of beverage. This event is in lieu of October’s monthly dinner discussion event. Third Thursdays and South Bay First Thursdays go to: ASIAN AMERICANS ON BROADWAY: OPENING DOORS
September 21, 2006Race War for Dollars?: Will the API Image in America Survive Survivor?Thursday, September 21, 2006 Its blockbuster success helped usher in the onslaught of reality programming and seared the phrase “voted off the island” into the American vocabulary. You know the drill: 20 contestants, a remote island, plotting, backstabbing, cat fighting, irregular bowel movements, and a million dollars up for grabs. Survivor returns for yet another season, but this time with a new twist that one contestant calls “potentially dangerous” and host Jeff Probst deems a “social experiment on a level we’ve never done before”. Survivor deals out the race card and segregates the contestants along racial lines into four tribes: “African American”, “Asian-American”, “Hispanic”, and “White”. Come join us this month for a fun and lively viewing and discussion of this season’s racially-charged Survivor. With a cast now fully one-fourth Asian American, does CBS’s move mark a positive step forward for APA representation in the media, or is it simply tokenization on a grand scale to revive a dying show? Do you agree that the ethnic tribes should feel a pressure to “represent” their communities? Will the rice diet be an advantage for the Asian American tribe? |
