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NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS Museum of Chinese in America Opening on September 22  Take a Tour of MOCA with Maya Lin Grand Opening Week: FIVE FREE DAYS AT MOCA, September 22 - September 26 EXHIBITIONS With a Single Step: Stories in the Making of America Here & Now: Chinese Artists in New York Chinatown Film Project PROGRAMS  Core Exhibit Film Series: The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam, September 25 A Brief Flight...Hazel Ying Lee and the Women who Flew Pursuit, October 2 Chinatown Film Project: CFP at Tribeca Cinemas, September 28 Meet the Filmmaker at Apple Store, SoHo, September 29-October 1  For Children & Families: Grand Opening Family Festival, September 26 Four Seasons of Sizhu: Silk and Bamboo Music, October 4-December 13
NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS Museum of Chinese in America Opening on September 22  The Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) will open its new location at 215 Centre Street on Tuesday, September 22, 2009 with a series of events designed to highlight the Museum's role as the leading museum dedicated to preserving and presenting the history and culture of people of Chinese descent in the United States. Also on September 22, the Museum will unveil its core exhibition, "With a Single Step: Stories in the Making of America," a history of the Chinese American experience, along with an art exhibition, "Here & Now: Chinese Artists in New York," featuring contemporary artists of Chinese descent living in New York. View more>>   Take a Tour of MOCA with Maya Lin   MOCA Grand Opening Week, September 22 - September 26 FIVE FREE DAYS of admission to MOCA! MOCA will have special hours during opening week: Tuesday, September 22: 1:30 pm – 4:00 pm Wednesday, September 23: 11:00 am – 5:00 pm Thursday, September 24: 11:00 am – 5:00 pm  Friday, September 25: 11:00 am – 5:00 pm Saturday, September 26: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Click here for ticketing information during grand opening week...
EXHIBITIONS With a Single Step: Stories in the Making of America With a Single Step: Stories in the Making of America, MOCA's new core exhibit, will bring to life the Museum's unique historical content and birth a compelling art work by fusing itself with the architectural heart of its new home designed by Maya Lin on Centre Street.  Metaphorically and literally, this "heart" will ground visitors, and be the focal point of the "new MOCA experience."  This presentation is an innovative approach to museum and exhibition design.  It will facilitate a new way of interacting with content: through the evocative use of space that stirs visitors' emotions and breaks down barriers to deeper learning and understanding. View more>>
Here and Now: Chinese Artists in New York Here & Now is MOCA's first group show of contemporary artists, and features prominent Chinese artists who live and work in New York. For the past two decades, artists in the Chinese Diaspora have drawn increasing attention in an art world that is becoming ever more trans-cultural and international. View more>>
Chinatown Film Project: How Do You See Chinatown? The Chinatown Film Project (CFP), MOCA's inaugural film exhibition features ten original short films by ten of New York's most exciting filmmakers: The Guy with the Cigarette directed by Miguel Arteta; Church Basement Bomb Shelter directed by Patty Chang; New York Night Scene directed by Jem Cohen; Kiwi Lotion directed by Cary Fukunaga; I Can't Wait directed by So Yong Kim & Bradley Rust Gray; Fortune Cookie directed by Amir Naderi; Chinatown: In Their Own Words directed by Sam Pollard; Five Lessons and Nine Questions directed by Shelly Silver; Sunday at 6 directed by Rose Troche; Tuesday directed by Wayne Wang & Richard Wong with Lonely Alone, a special opening trailer directed by Richard Wong.  The Chinatown Film Project (CFP) tackles Chinatown's elusiveness and its stereotyped representations by constructing new images for the viewer.View more>>
PROGRAMS Core Exhibit Series: During our grand opening celebration, we bring you the first two in a series of individual stories on the Chinese American experience.   Film Screening & Reading: The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam Friday, September 25, 6:30 pm Born in Shandong, China in 1885, Long Tack Sam ran away from home to join the circus. In the 1920s and 30s, he became a world-renowned magician, acrobat and according to comic George Burns, "the greatest act in the history of vaudeville." Please join us for an evening of film and reading on The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam with Ann Marie Fleming, filmmaker, author and Long Tack Sam's great granddaughter. View more>> Free and open to the public. Limited seating, please rsvp at education@mocanyc.org or call 212.619.4785 x4142. Film Screening: A Brief Flight...Hazel Ying Lee and the Women who Flew Pursuit Friday, October 2, 6:30 pm A Brief Flight, directed by Alan Rosenberg, is a new, one-hour documentary that tells the inspiring true story of Hazel Ying Lee, Chinese-American aviator of the 1930's and 40's. A pioneer in women's aviation in both the United States and China, Hazel went on to become one pilot among an elite group of women who flew fighter planes for the United States Army. View more>>  Screening followed by Q&A with Frances Tong, Hazel Ying Lee's sister.  Free and open to the public. Limited seating, please rsvp at education@mocanyc.org or call 212.619.4785 x4142.
Chinatown Film Project Series: Chinatown Film Project is making its appearance in the community this month! CFP @ Tribeca Cinemas Monday, September 29 at 7 pm  Tribeca All Access and MOCA invite you to a special screening of Chinatown Film Project, followed by a conversation with filmmakers, Sam Pollard and Shelly Silver.  Tribeca Cinemas, 54 Varick Street, NYC. Limited seating, please rsvp: rsvptaa1@tribecafilminstitute.org CFP @ Apple Store, SoHo From Tuesday, September 30 through Thursday October 1, 7 pm, come Meet the CFP Filmmakers at Apple Store, SoHo.
For Children & Families: Grand Opening Family Festival Saturday, September 26, 10 am - 5 pm Celebrate MOCA's opening weekend with a free day-long Family Festival on Saturday, featuring kid-friendly gallery and walking tours, hands-on activities, educational workshops, and arts and crafts. Children and adults are invited to a fun and interactive educational journey with MOCA. View more>> Four Seasons of Sizhu: Silk and Bamboo Music Sundays, October 4 & 11, November 1, 8, 15 & 22, December 6 & 13m 2 - 3:30 pm MOCA and the Center for Traditional Music and Dance present a series of eight educational music performances for children and families by New York's finest Chinese musical ensembles: Melody of Dragon; Min Xiao-Fen & Her Blue Pipa Trip; EastRiver Ensemble; Music from China. View more>> All ages welcome. Free with Museum admission. RSVP: education@mocanyc.org or 212.619.4785.
The Museum of Chinese in America's (MOCA) programs and general operations are supported by our members, individual donors, and by funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts; New York State Council on the Arts - Museum, Special Arts Services, Electronic Media and Film, and Visual Arts Programs; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; New York City Department of Education; and New York City Department of Youth & Community Development.                                            Additional support is provided by the Asian Women's Giving Circle; AT&T Foundations; J.T. Tai & Co. Foundation; The Lily Auchincloss Foundation; Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; MetLife Foundation; New York City Department of Education; New York City Department of Youth & Community Development; and Verizon Foundation. Special lead funding for the Museum of Chinese in America's MOCA on the Move: Building a National Museum Campaign is provided by: the New York City Mayor's Office, the New York City Council, and the Manhattan Borough President's Office through the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; The September 11th Fund; Lower Manhattan Development Corporation; Bloomberg LP; and Carnegie Corporation of New York.