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[FWD:USA Recruiting for NetKAL VI Fellowship Class!] Korean American Leadership program@ Center for Asian-Pacific Leadership, University of Southern California

Hi, I am a member of NetKAL (Networking for Korean American Leaders) and wanted to share the application opening information, cheers~

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Subject: Recruiting for NetKAL VI Fellowship Class!
From: "Kendra Suh" <kendrasu@usc.edu>
Date: Tue, November 01, 2011 8:32 am
To: <fellows@netkal.org>, <advisors@netkal.org>

Dear Fellows and Advisors:
Please forward this email to your network!

We need assistance in spreading the word about our upcoming NetKAL VI Fellowship Program, which will be held in Los Angeles and San Francisco, from February to July 2012. Also, we have two upcoming Info Sessions next week in the San Francisco area for prospective candidates.

NetKAL Recruiting Events / Information Sessions
·         SAN FRANCISCO: Thursday, Nov 10th @ 6:30pm
Location: PG&E Headquarters. 245 Market Street, San Francisco (Conference Room A - on the ground floor)
Dinner will be served. RSVP by Tuesday, November 8th to kendra.suh@usc.edu. (RSVP required for building access)

·         PALO ALTO: Friday, Nov 11th @ 12:00pm
Location: Reed Smith, LLP. 1510 Page Mill Road. Suite 110. Palo Alto, CA 94304
Lunch will be served. RSVP by Tuesday, November 8th to kendra.suh@usc.edu.

NetKAL VI Applications can be found on our website at www.netkal.org.

Application Deadline:   Dec 1, 2011, Thursday, 5pm PST (by email to netkal@usc.edu)
Application Review and Interviews:   Before January 23, 2012
Notifications sent:   February 3, 2012 (Friday)
Program Start:   February 25, 2012 (Saturday)

2012 Program Dates:
  • Session 1 Feb 25-26 (LA)                   “Unearthing the Foundations”
  • Session 2 March 17-18 (SF)               “Spheres of Influence”
  • Session 3 April 21-22 (LA)                  “Communication and Leadership”
  • Session 4 May 19-20 (SF)                   “Identity & Cross Cultural Competency”
  • Session 5 June 16-17 (LA)                  “Leading Change”
  • Session 6 July 21-22 (SF)                    “Building for the Future: Effective Leadership”

____________________________________________________________________________________________________

Kendra Suh
Associate Director
Center for Asian-Pacific Leadership
University of Southern California

669 W. 34th Street, MRF 215
Mail Code 0411
Los Angeles, CA  90089-0411
Tel:         213-740-3982
Fax:         213-740-0858

Suspension of disbelief

Great short article bt amazing actor Jeffrey Wright ( love him!) .  Thought you'd find interesting~  EKC

Entrepreneurship, like theater, requires a suspension of disbelief, says Hollywood star Jeffrey Wright. Here he explains how his training on the stage prepared him to found a mineral company and non-profit in Sierra Leone.

http://bigthink.com/ideas/38129?utm_source=Big+Think+Weekly+Newsletter+Subscribers&utm_campaign=52f0e596f4-Wednesday_Newsletter_Jeffrey_Wright_May_4_2011&utm_medium=email


Esther K. Chae

TED Fellow/Yale Drama
www.estherchae.com
http:bit.ly/SoTheArrowFlies





2010 deep bow & open arms 2011

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Wishing you a very merry end of year and joyful beginning~

Dear friends and supporters,

As 2010 winds down, I look back at my many travels and the faces and opportunities that were present and would like to share my gratitude highlights with you.

* Successful 2010 tour of So the Arrow Flies in NYC (supported by, in January, Asian Women's Giving Circle and, in May, Ed Bennett Studio, Boyoung Lee and Melinda Chu);  Washington, DC (supported by Sejong Society & Christian Oh, in July) ; Imola, Italy (supported by Silvia Grandi, Ideas in Action &  T.I.L.T., in October) and University of Michigan (supported by OyamO & UM Music, Theater & Dance Dept., also in October).  This would not have been possible without the above mentioned specific enablers and uncredited but numerous supporters who volunteered their time, effort, talent and/or made financial donations. The SAF team thanks you wholeheartedly again!

Now working towards adapting stage play into a film ("The Arrow") using animation + live performance for on line distribution and early stage collaboration with The Lab @ Harvard.  I am looking for many other collaborators (producers, animators, multi media makers and lovers) so holler and drop me a line if you'd like to get involved.

* I never thought I'd travel to Africa twice within 6 months. First, to help build the first film academy in Abuja, Nigeria (March). 

Above photo: Students, teachers & guards at NYFA/Nigeria Film Academy.  It was a difficult time with political upheaval (Jonathan Goodluck steps in due to President's ailment that leads to his death) and religious violence in near by Jos.

Then, to travel to Tanzania, to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro (19,345 feet/5,895 meters) with Roadmonkey expedition (August), where I was proposed to at Uhuru Peak summit at break of dawn by adventure philanthropist Paul von Zielbauer (featured in Dec.'s O magazine). After the climb, our expedition team built a fuel-efficient kitchen for a primary school in rural Tanzania. (Yes, in that order.)

Esther & Paul & diminishing iceburg

* My activism and leadership through the arts and my play So the Arrow Flies are recognized:

Asian American Trail Blazer Award (thank you Ron Kim for nomination)

King/Chavez/Parks Visiting Professorship, University of Michigan (thank you Professor Charles OyamO Gordon for nomination)

* Series regular role on ABC Family pilot (aka it-still-needs-to-get-picked-up-wish-us-lots-o'-luck-oh-boy). If this moves forward, I believe this might be the first Asian American family that is part of main storyline in night time drama (?!)  Hopefully I'll have more details to share soon.

I hope this finds you well and to see you soon, somwhere on this globe in 2011~   Warmly, Esther

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PURPLE PILL/ Esther Chae's response to Yale Fraternity DKE's disrespectful chants on rape

Hi. Hugo, my friend and fellow TED fellow, started this awesome organization called Men Speak Up at Harvard University and asked me to write something about the Yale fraternity DKE incident. The following poem will accompany a previous short MSU interview on my thoughts on men, love and gender equality @ Harvard.  I wanted to share it with you.  Esther*

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PURPLE PILL

Oh come on...
No means yes, yes means…WHAT?!!!!

You…were part of that?
One of the most kind, talented, smart, compassionate, level headed, independent thinking, courageous you?

You used to get so mad for me when I got upset cuz those local dickwads made all those disgusting smacking, hissing, kissing noises at me on the street, remember?

You ran after them, they were too many, so you ended up not getting anyone of them, but man, I was glad cuz if anyone was caught in your hands, he would have gotten pummeled, I was relieved.

You comforted me when I confessed to you that it happened a lot.

You gave me all your used earphones-7 of them- to put in all my bags and purses, telling me ‘just have it in your ears, pretend you’re listening to music and ignore them, they won’t know it’s not connected to nada.’

Then you gave me the biggest bear hug squeeze and told me to be courageous, that it was not my fault that I am kind, talented, smart, compassion, level headed, independent thinking and also added- very cute.

Remember?

The pen is mightier than the sword, and those words, damn, written by your pen do hurt, man, does it hurt, and just broke my bones and my heart.

You didn’t even touch me but it’s totally physical.  Those chanting vibrations, filled with intention and then double loaded with smug laughter and glee just shot right through my whole body. And blood’s oozing out. Everywhere.

I know you would have never done what you did, if you knew it was me, if I could hear your voice, if I knew it was you.  Cuz you knew I knew who you used to be.

We were never going to abide by the ‘stupid man,’ we were not going to support ‘him’, we vowed not to conform, be obvious, be cliché, fulfill other people’s petty and pewny sexist jokes, be peer pressured.

We are way to cool and courageous for that.  Remember?

But…
I guess you forgot. 
And had some bad voluntary amnesia take over you. 
I’m not sure why.

I wish I had a Matrix-like purple pill that could bring you and your memory of your dignified self back to me.
And I wish I had Neo’s glowing hand to heal my bleeding holes.
And we could go back, fly in the air and be totally bad ass again against the ‘stupid man.’

I’ll be waiting.
For you and me to star in our next real time reality check show.
As dignified heroes who don’t need purple pills.

Esther K. Chae


$10,000 PRIZE TO BE GIVEN FOR BEST NEW PLAY ABOUT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

*** UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ANNOUNCES 5th CYCLE OF STAGE INTERNATIONAL SCRIPT COMPETITION - $10,000 PRIZE TO BE GIVEN FOR BEST NEW PLAY ABOUT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

*** THIRD CYCLE WINNER, PHOTOGRAPH 51, BY ANNA ZIEGLER, RECEIVING PRAISE IN ITS CURRENT PRODUCTION AT NEW YORK CITY’S PRESTIGIOUS ENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATRE: 

Each cycle, the winner of the biennial Scientists, Technologists and Artists Generating Exploration (STAGE) Competition will receive a $10,000 USD prize, along with possible opportunities for developing and promoting the winning script. Previous STAGE judges include Pulitzer, Tony, Olivier & Nobel-winning judges David Auburn, John Guare, David Lindsay-Abaire, Dr. David Gross, Dr. Alan Heeger & Sir Anthony Leggett.

Submitted plays must explore scientific and/or technological stories, themes, issues or events. Multi-media theatre pieces, non-traditional plays and new forms are encouraged.

THE DEADLINE FOR 5TH CYCLE ENTRIES IS DECEMBER 1, 2011.  Scripts will be accepted beginning September 15, 2011.  For detailed guidelines, please visit:  www.stage.cnsi.ucsb.edu/competition/guidelines.

STAGE is a partnership between the Professional Artists Lab (www.proartslab.ucsb.edu) & the California NanoSystems Institute (www.cnsi.ucsb.edu) at the University of California.

Download the new STAGE International Script Competition poster at: 

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STAGE @ CNSI
Professional Artists Lab
CNSI - MC 6105
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-6105
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Esther K. Chae




Esther Chae/ Trekking Kilimanjaro /w RoadMonkey

Hi everyone, since our list is so eclectic /w chockfull of information nuggets, I wanted to put the word out of my boyfriend's company called ROADMONKEY.net that leads adventure philanthropy expeditions of a small groups of ppl (max 10).  I am trekking Kilimanjaro this August (leaving actually in 4 days!) and would love our TED community to take part as well in the future.  

Also if you are interested in becoming a expeditions leader (Sat, is this you?) and/or connected with global non-for-profit groups that RoadMonkey could partner with for future volunteer projects, please let us know (the criteria list below) 

1. Roadmonkey mission: We believe in a different kind of travel – one that combines rugged adventure with meaningful volunteer work to give you a deeply gratifying experience abroad. Our expeditions take you off the tourist path, to truly explore a foreign land and culture on your own terms. At some point along the way, we roll up our sleeves and accomplish a hands-on volunteer project  that directly benefits local people and communities in need. 

2. Leads needed for RoadMonkey volunteer project criteria (simple but not easy to fulfill...) : 

a)a project that a group of 6-10 Roadmonkey volunteers can start and finish in 3 or 4 full work days, in cooperation with a non-profit partner and working, too, with local people from the community we're helping. 
b)we raise the money from Roadmonkey clients' social networks, preferably through an online donation page that our non-profit partner would create. 
c)we emphasize sustainable projects that are hands-on and cooperative with local people, so there is an exchange between Roadmonkey and local people. 
d)we typically raise $5,000 to $10,000 in donations for each project, by the way. 

3. Also looking for leaders & co-leaders for future expeditions, plz feel free to contact founder/director Paul directly.

paul von zielbauer  •  www.roadmonkey.net  •  +1-917-319-8070  •  Facemonkey: http://bit.ly/MiWqx

National Geographic names Roadmonkey a 2010 "Tour of a Lifetime" - http://bit.ly/blTim6

Read Roadmonkey's interview on the National Geographic "Intelligent Travel" blog - http://bit.ly/dlZZ54

4. I still need to hit my goal of $1000 for our Tanzania kitchen volunteering project in Tanzania, should you want to donate, I'll go build the stove for you~
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Why it matters: To give you a visual sense of what we are building, and why it is needed for the hundreds of very poor school children at the Babati school, I've attached two photos to this note: the decrepit old kitchen, made of twisted branches and little else, where school lunches are currently prepared by burning corncobs, and an example of the new kitchen we will build, from concrete, wood and new, fuel-efficient stoves that reduce the need for firewood and save hundreds of trees a year in the Babati region alone. This project is a wonderful example of sustainable, replicable, eco-friendly, hands-on adventure philanthropy -- a project that will have a direct & daily impact on the lives of hundreds of young students in Tanzania. It won't happen without your good and immediate fundraising efforts.

Why a new kitchen for a school, with a focus on fuel-efficient stoves? This will be an environmentally friendly kitchen that reduces the amount of wood burned by the school, provides hot water for the students to wash their hands, and provides a more comfortable and cleanly environment for cooking, enabling many of these childrens’ basic needs will be met. This kitchen will act as a model for other schools to copy, to not only reduce their carbon footprint, but also reduce their expenditure on firewood, freeing up funds to be spent on other school necessities. 
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HOW TO DONATE: 5 Easy Steps

1. Go to this Livingstone Tanzania Trust web page, which explains the Roadmonkey volunteer project in Livingstone Tanzania Trust’s own words: www.livingstonetanzaniatrust.com/index.php?page=roadmonkey2010

2. On that page, click the orange donation link (https://omprakash.org/DonationForm?go=DonationForm&p=12) at the bottom of the page. DO NOT click the “donate now” button; it’s for UK donors only.

3. You're now on the Omprakash donation page; Omprakash is a registered 501(c)(3). Fill in the donation amount and billing information. Payments are accepted via credit card and transactions will securely processed through an encrypted connection.

4. At the bottom of the page is an optional "Notes" field -- please insert “Roadmonkey August Project” and Esther Chae in this section.  This will assist Livingstone Tanzania Trust and Roadmonkey in tracking my individual fundraising.

5. That's it! Please email ashley@omprakash.org to receive a receipt for your tax-deductible donation.

Omprakash Foundation is a public, non-profit and tax-exempt organization under Section 501 (c) (3) of the United States tax code.  Donations are tax deductible as allowed by law.

USA for International Filmmakers APPLICATION DEADLINE: July 15th - Feature-film Production Grants
The Global Film Initiative
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

Summer 2010 Feature-film Production Grants

San Francisco, CA - June 30, 2010 - In its continuing effort to promote original filmmaking by individuals from around the world, the Global Film Initiative is pleased to announce a call for the Summer 2010 cycle of its feature-film production grants program. Applications will be accepted until July 15, 2010, and decisions will be announced in September 2010.

Global Film Initiative production grants are awarded twice a year, in winter and summer, to filmmakers whose work exhibits artistic excellence, authentic self-representation and accomplished storytelling. The granting program furthers the Initiative's mission of contributing to the development of local film industries while offering audiences a variety of cultural perspectives on daily life around the world. Monies received through the Initiative's granting program are used to support completion of film production, and to subsidize post-production costs, such as laboratory and sound mixing fees and access to modern editing systems.

This year, the Global Film Initiative will award production grants of up to $10,000 each to select applicants during its summer granting cycle. These funds are made available following the Initiative's evaluation of an applicant's completed screenplay and early film-footage, and may include a pre-sale option for exclusive U.S. distribution of an applicant's film by the Initiative. Individuals may submit more than one film for consideration per granting cycle but please note that only applications from qualifying countries or regions will be considered and that production grants are not available for documentary or short films.*

The Global Film Initiative strongly believes in supporting narrative storytelling traditions from around the world and invites all qualified applicants to submit their work for granting consideration. For Applications & Guidelines, please visit: www.globalfilm.org/granting.htm.

Application deadline: July 15, 2010

*The Global Film Initiative accepts grant applications from countries in the following regions: Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, Asia (excluding Hong Kong, Iran, Japan, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan), and Oceania (excluding Australia and New Zealand).

The Global Film Initiative

The Global Film Initiative is a U.S.-based not-for-profit organization specializing in the support of independent film from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. Founded in 2002 to promote cross-cultural understanding through the language of cinema, the Initiative awards numerous grants to deserving filmmakers from around the world each year, and supports a touring film series entitled Global Lens. For more information about the Global Lens film series and Global Film Initiative programs, please visit: http://www.globalfilm.org.

  
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NYC Film free film event @ historical Apollo Theater in Harlem (June 3 tmmrw)+ America's Leader of Change Fellowship Info

Hi folks this is unrelated to my personal work but thought our TEDsters would be interested.

1. From friend Nicole (TEDxster)

Dear Friends:

 

As you may know I have been increasingly involved in causes that are dedicated to improving our education system, with an emphasis on providing the opportunity of a high-performing charter school education to underprivileged  youth in Harlem and the Bronx.  I would like to invite you to a FREE  private screening we are hosting at the Apollo for “The Lottery” on June 3rd at 6pm.  This is a fantastic film about an important and moving topic ….to learn more about the film please see: www.thelotteryfilm.com .

 

This event is  a great opportunity for you to learn more about our education system’s problems, charter schools, and our charter schools in Harlem and the Bronx.

 

SPACE IS LIMITED. If you would like to attend , you may reserve a seat online here:http://www.scnschools.org/events/lotterymovie3 . You may designate yourself  a friend of a “HSA Board Member”. After you reserve a seat , please let me know so we can meet at the event.

 

The Apollo theatre is located at :

 

253 West 125th Street 
Btwn Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Blvd & Frederick Douglass Blvd.
(also known as 7th Avenue & 8th Avenue)

 

I hope to see you there!

 

Regards,

 

Nicole P. Johnson
-- 
Nicole Patrice Johnson
310-948-3240
www.twitter.com/effigyfarm

2. From USC NetKAL fellow leader

Subject: Americas Leaders of Change

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National Urban Fellows will select 50-75 top public service leaders for the 2010-2011 America's Leaders of Change program, a continuing leadership development program sponsored in partnership with Walmart Stores.

National Urban Fellows mission is to develop accomplished and courageous professionals of all ethnic and racial backgrounds, particularly people of color and women, to be leaders and change agents in the public and non profit sectors, with a strong commitment to social justice and equity.

America's Leaders of Change is an exciting and unique one year opportunity for individuals to achieve breakthrough leadership and to create a new network of highly talented public service leaders. The goal is to enhance your personal leadership capacity and inspire excellence as well as diversity of public service leaders for America.

Please consider this program opportunity for your self and others ready to be leadership for a changing America! Program details and expectations are provided in the America's Leaders of Change application. The due date is Thursday, July 1, 2010.

Thank you for your commitment to the promise of America and social justice as well as opportunity for all.

To apply now click here

Paula Gavin
President

N A T I O N A L  U R B A N  F E L L O W S
Leadership for a Changing America

Esther K. Chae




Esther K. Chae TED fellow NYC show info for this wknd!

Plz come if you are in NYC.  Best to get on line ticket for $10 discount code "arrow"

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Esther K. Chae's
SO THE ARROW FLIES 
Friday, May 14, 2010 through Sunday, May 16, 2010
Location: Bennett Media Studio 723 Washington Street NYC  
with Friends and Family Discount

A North Korean spy.  The Korean-American FBI agent that chases her down. Who will get hit first?

SO THE ARROW FLIES is a solo performance piece about a North Korean spy, the Korean-American FBI agent that takes her down, a grandmother who is a survivor of the Korean War and a young girl who is half Korean-half Caucasian. With only a turn on a chair, Esther K. Chae plays the following four dynamic roles.This show was previously presented at the TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) conference, Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the World Women’s Forum (Seoul).

 Buy Tickets: www.smarttix.com/show.aspx?showcode=SOT2 <http://www.smarttix.com/show.aspx?showcode=SOT2> 
General $30
Discount:$20 with $10 off discount code "arrow" (You can bring this e-mail printout at the door or on phone for discount also.)  

 Website: www.myspace.com/sothearrowflies 
Video: www.estherchae.com/contents/movie/arrow-flies.htm 

 Length: 1 hr 10 mins  Intermission: None  Seating: General Admission You choose your seats when you get to the theater.
There will be an additional 30 minute talkback with the host and creator/performer Esther K. Chae after each performance. 
Door opens at 6:30 and there will be an open bar. 

 May 14 (Fri.) @ 7pm Hosted by Ed Bennett (President of Bennett Media Studios; Former CEO of MTV Networks' VH-1)

 May 15 (Sat.) @ 7pm Hosted by Maria Di Dia (Vice President at Theatre Management Associates; Award winning production company of STOMP) 

 
May 16 (Sun.) @ 3pm Hosted by Jeannie Park (Former Executive Editor, People Magazine; Founding President, Asian American Journalists Association-New York)

 “Chae skillfully absorbs the audience into a world of espionage and deception …fascinatingly gripping” - Edinburgh ThreeWeeks festival e-magazine.

 Esther K. Chae is an international award-winning actor/writer based in Los Angeles and New York. Her artistic work has been seen and heard in the US, Korea, Ireland, Australia, Canada and Russia. Her numerous credits as a performer include TV shows NCIS, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, The West Wing, The Shield, ER;  and theatre stages such as Yale Repertory Theater, La Mama, Mark Taper Forum/ Kirk Douglas Theater, P.S. 122 and Harvard/A.R.T.  Chae’s performances have been lauded as “talented” (Variety), “engaging” (Hollywood Reporter) – and may just “break your heart” (Asia Pacific Arts). Her life in Hollywood has been featured in a Korean Broadcasting Station (KBS) documentary. Her most recent solo performance So the Arrow Flies, about a North Korean spy and the Korean-American FBI Agent who pursues her, was featured at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (“a powerful and compelling script… fascinatingly gripping-ThreeWeeks Magazine), Ars Nova Theater Festival (NY) and the World Women’s Forum (Seoul). In 2009, it was invited to TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) conference of which she is an inaugural fellow, CUNY’s Martin Segal Theater and NYU’s Performance Studies. The play is being adapted into a feature film script. Chae graduated from the Yale School of Drama with an MFA in Acting, the University of Michigan with an MA in Theater Studies, and Korea University. This fall, she is excited to be honored with the Emerging Artist Alumni Award by University of Michigan. She is hot off the airport runway from Abuja, Nigeria where she helped establish the nation’s first film academy and was teaching Acting for Film and Leadership and was just honored the APA Heritage Trail Blazer Award by NYC Governor David Paterson.

Esther K. Chae