Lunar New Year / Spring Banquet 2010

Legendary Palace Restaurant, Oakland
Saturday, April 3rd, 5pm - 11pm

Time | Location | Tickets | Menu | Additional Info | Contact | Bio

Look out!!! The tiger is just right around the corner. It's the Year of the TIGER !!!  :)

Our paper invitations went out on Monday, March 1! If you would like to be on the mailing list, please email koko@apiqwtc.org. Thanks.

4/3/2010:  Yeah, this is the day!! Our PayPal registration is now closed. If you are still interested in joining 250 of us, just come and pay at the door. :-)

This year's entertainment is loaded with LOTS of FUN !!

Phoenix Award Honoree: Madeleine Lim

Originally from Singapore, Madeleine Lim is a long-time community organizer and an award-winning filmmaker with 20 years of experience. Her own films couple poignant visuals with contemporary themes: lesbians of color, survivors of domestic violence, and immigrants living in America. Her films have been featured at sold-out theaters at international film festivals around the world, museums, universities and broadcast on PBS. She won the 1997 Award of Excellence from the San Jose Film & Video Commission's Joey Awards and the 1998 National Educational Media Network Bronze Apple Award. From 2000 to 2003, she was California Arts Council Artist-in-Residence. In 2004 and 2005, the SF Board of Supervisors awarded Madeleine a Certificate of Honor in public recognition of distinction and merit for outstanding service to the people of San Francisco. In 2005, Madeleine received the LGBT Local Hero Award from KQED-TV in recognition of her leadership of QWOCMAP and her dedicated service to queer women of color. She was the featured filmmaker at the 2006 APAture Asian American Arts Festival and was twice-awarded the highly competitive SFAC Individual Artist Commission for her new film.

More on Madeleine's Bio, please click here.

Fabulous Community Performance: 

Kit Yan  -Read Bio-   Tina Takemoto  -Read Bio-

Mahjong Game Gone Bad, Gaysian-Style -Read Bio-     Speed Dating Silent Auction Raffle Prize Drawings And More!!

Free commemorative mugs - one per each guest.  A must-add to your APIQWTC mug collection!!!  (This year's design is top secret! Come and find out.)   -Back to Top-

Time:  

Location:

Parking on the street and parking garages nearby. Easy accessible by BART - four blocks from City Center / 12th Street BART Station.

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Since space is limited, reservation is guaranteed by a check or a PayPal transaction.  Please send in your RSVP form or reserve online by March 22, the banquet usually sells out. All payments are non-refundable after March 26.

SPONSOR -- This year, consider being a Silver, Gold, or Platinum Sponsor!  Gold and Platinum Sponsors will be recognized for their generous support in the banquet program under the “Thank You Sponsors” section. Of course if you chose to be an anonymous sponsor, we would gladly honor your wish.

PAYMENT:

Due to the tremendous success of online registration last year, we are excited to offer it again. So, if you hardly ever write checks these days and can't find your checkbook or if you'd like to rack up some frequent flier points on your credit card, try out our new online registration and PayPal payment method. Note that there is a 4% handling fee to cover the added costs for these services.

To summarize, there are three ways to register for the banquet:  -Back to Top-

OPTION 1:  Fill out a blank registration form by hand and mail in with your check (there is no handling fee for this service).

Just download and fill out the RSVP form, make your check payable to "API Banquet", and mail to:

API Banquet
2xx xxxxxxx Avenue
Axxxxxxa, CA 94501

OPTION 2:  Fill out a registration form online and mail your check (there is a 4% handling fee for this service) to the address above.  This option is CLOSED!!

OPTION 3:  Fill out a registration form online and pay by PayPal (there is a 4% handling fee for this service.)  This option is CLOSED!!

Menu:   -Back to Top-

Veggie egg roll & seaweed salad
Veggie soup
Honey walnut shrimp
Peking spareribs
Roasted chicken
Flounder with XO sauce
Tofu w/ bok choy
Ying yang vegetables
Veggie fried rice
Sesame balls
Coconut custard

Beverages
Open Bar

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- We will make all efforts to accommodate special requests.
- Partial or whole scholarships are available, if you volunteer!!!

Contact:  

For general inquiries and confirmation, please email us at banquet@apiqwtc.org with subject 'API Banquet'.

Volunteers are welcome. To volunteer for the banquet, please contact Ginny Eng at ginny@apiqwtc.org with subject 'API Banquet'. A limited number of scholarships are available for our volunteers. 

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   for Honoree and Performer

Madeleine Lim

At the age of 23, Madeleine Lim escaped persecution by the Singaporean government for her organizing work as a young lesbian artist-activist. Ten years later, she created Sambal Belacan in San Francisco, a film that is still banned in Singapore for its exploration of race, sexuality and nationality.

As one of a small number of queer women of color filmmakers on the international film festival circuit, she saw that only queer women of color would tell their own authentic stories. In 2000, she created Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project (QWOCMAP) with the belief that a community of artist-activist leaders could change the face of filmmaking and the social justice movement. As founding Executive/Artistic Director, Madeleine Lim leads organizational vision and provides artistic direction for all QWOCMAP programs.

Lim is an award-winning filmmaker with more than 20 years of experience as a producer, director, editor, and cinematographer. Her films have screened at sold-out theaters at international film festivals around the world, including the Vancouver International Film Festival, Mill Valley Film Festival, and Amsterdam Amnesty International Film Festival. Her work has also been featured at museums and universities, and broadcast on PBS to over 2.5 million viewers. She holds a B.A. in Cinema from San Francisco State University, where she was awarded Outstanding Cinema Student of the Year.

Lim’s films have received awards from the prestigious and highly competitive Paul Robeson Independent Media Fund, as well as the Frameline Film Completion Fund. She received the 1997 Award of Excellence from the San Jose Film & Video Commission’s Joey Awards and won the 1998 National Educational Media Network Bronze Apple Award. From 2000 to 2003, she was a California Arts Council Artist-in-Residence. Under Lim’s leadership, QWOCMAP’s Filmmaker Training Program was awarded 2003 Best Video Program by San Francisco Community Media. In 2005, Lim received the LGBT Local Hero Award from KQED-TV in recognition of her leadership of QWOCMAP and her dedicated service to the queer women of color community. The Featured Filmmaker at the 2006 APAture Asian American Arts Festival, Lim has twice been awarded the San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist Commission for her new film about her mother and other girls adopted from China. She has won the 2007 DreamSpeaker Award from Purple Moon Dance Project, and the 2010 Phoenix Award from Asian Pacific Islander Women & Transgender Community (APIQWTC).

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Mahjong Game Gone Bad, Gaysian-Style

There's a cheater at the high-roller MJ table, but who is the thief? Every Gaysian player is suspect and must use their martial arts prowess to find the missing MJ tile. Will the game continue or will the players have to spar till the bitter end?

Queer Asian martial artists representing tae kwon do, kajukenbo, karate, and gongfu styles will kick and punch for your viewing pleasure in this mini-drama. We range in experience from 1 year to 12 years and train in various Bay Area schools.
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Kit Yan

Kit Yan is a badasss Asian American tranny boy, his spoken word tackles race and gender with candor, eloquence, and humor. Hailed by the press as "a slam force to be reckoned with," Yan's resolute delivery packs a mighty punch, leaving his audience completely transfixed.  

Originally from Hawaii, but now calling New York home, he has been performing poetry for 7 years and has competed with Boston’s Lizard Lounge team at NPS as its youngest member, competed in IWPS, and has won numerous slams from the Nuyorican to the world’s largest slam in Honolulu; this year he took third at the national queer slam in Washington dc and he is part of the Good Asian Drivers an internationally touring spoken word and music group, you can find out more about him at www.goodasiandrivers.com

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Tina Takemoto

Tina Takemoto is an artist and writer whose work explores issues of gender, race, illness and queer identity. She has received grants from Art Matters, the James Irvine Foundation and the Painted Bride Art Center. She is associate professor of visual studies at the California College of the Arts and a board member of the Queer Cultural Center. Occasionally, Takemoto makes guerilla appearances as Michael Jackson and Bjork-Geisha. www.ttakemoto.com.   

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Last Update on March 29, 2010