Fannie and Alan Leslie Center for the Humanities at Dartmouth College

Githa Hariharan – In Search of Our Other Selves. Filene Auditorium (Moore Hall). 4.00pm.
A writer who lives in New Delhi and raised in Bombay and Manila, Githa Hariharan is the author of four novels and a collection of stories. Her first novel, The Thousand Faces of Night (1992), won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, while her most recent work, In Times of Siege, published in 2004, was short listed for the same prize. She is a Montgomery Fellow focusing on the heterogeneity of modern Indian literatures and the contemporary politics of India's ancient history.

David Choe – Artist extraordinaire working with Dartmouth students to create an Asian style painting/mural for the 2006 Festival. All students interested in participating should contact Jane Choi for further details.

Related link: David Choe's homepage

Margaret Cho – Comedian with special guest, Lisp. Spaulding Auditorium. 8.00pm
Delivering outrageous jokes that would make Lenny Bruce blush, Margaret Cho is a stunningly fearless comedian whose national tours sell out. Program contains adult language and themes. Not recommended for children.

$24 General Public. Dartmouth students $5.
More Information: Margaret Cho at the Hop.

Hip Hop - Fresh Water Rapscallions – Featuring Far East Movement, Jin and Chan. The Bentley Theatre. 9.00pm - 11.30pm. Free and open to the public.
Related links:

• www.theemcee.com
• www.fareastmovement.com
• www.chanhiphop.com

Three Times – A movie directed by Hou-Hsiao-hsien, TAI, Chin. w/subtitles, 2006, 120 minutes. Loew Theatre, 7.00pm and 9.30pm.
TIMES is one of the most rapturously beautiful and romantic movies of the year, from an acclaimed master whose work has been woefully under seen in the West. Told as a triptych, each starring the same pair of star-crossed lovers, the film glides between eras-a 1966 pool hall, a 1911 brothel and present-day Taipei-exploring the delicate rhythms of love and memory.

$7 General Public. $5 Dart ID or a DFS or Loew Series Pass.Tickets go on sale 30 minutes before show time.
More Information: Schedule of movies at the Hop or call (603) 646-2576.

Delicious Movement Workshop with Eiko & Koma - Straus Dance Studio. 6.00pm.
Dancers and non-dancers develop their creativity using imagery and stillness.

Enrollment fee $10. Enrollment limited to 25.
To register, call the Hop Box Office (603) 646-2422.

Eiko & Koma - Baker Library Lawn 8.30pm. Rain or shine.
Trees have long been symbols of resilience, rebirth and portals through which spirits pass. Japanese-born, New York-based movement masters Eiko & Koma return to Dartmouth to perform an outdoor living installation honoring the iconography of trees and the primal mysteries of landscape and the human body. Winners of the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship for their dance-theater pieces, they've created another intensely poetic, ritualistic work. As the sun goes down, the barely perceptible motion of the two figures begins; as the sky darkens, they are bathed in mystical lighting. With the immediacy of theater and the hypnotic serenity of a meditation, Eiko & Koma dramatize the continuum of time and nature.

Free and open to the public.
More Information: Eiko and Koma at the Hop.

The Body as a Vessel for Communication - A workshop with Slant Performance Group. Collis Fuel Lounge. 6.00pm.
Led by three members of the Slant Performance Group this workshop will focus on the use of the physical body and voice for effective communications. Through the use of fun and exciting improvisation games developed by SLANT, participants will explore through music, movement and voice the potential ways of communicating without language or words. Live music with bamboo flute, hand drums and improvisational voice will be used for much of the workshop.

It is designed for the aspiring actor, performer for the stage but anyone interested in an awareness of body language and how it can be used it to communicate effectively in everyday life can enjoy this workshop.

Attendance is free but will be limited to 30 people so all students interested in participating should contact Jane Choi for further details.

The President's Last Bang - A movie directed by Im Sang-Soo, SK, Kor. w/Subtitles, 2005 102 minutes. Spaulding Auditorium, 7.00pm.
A smash hit at the Telluride Film Festival, BANG is a macabre black comedy that wildly speculates on the events leading up to the 1979 assassination of South Korean President Park Chun-hee. Censored in S. Korea, this comic conspiracy-thriller explores the covert machinations of a rag-tag band of Korean CIA coconspirators in the hours leading up to the killing. They manage to put the fun back into political revolution.

$7 General Public. $5 Dart ID or a DFS or Loew Series Pass. Tickets go on sale 30 minutes before show time.
More Information: Schedule of movies at the Hop or call (603) 646-2576.

Slant Performance Group - Public Performance - Collis Commonground, 8.00 pm.

The SLANT Performance Group will perform "Kaleidoscope" - a multimedia performance piece looking at contemporary interculturalism through the historical movement of three Asian Americans from ancestral islands. Set against the historical and racial landscape America, Kaleidoscope offers a glimpse of Asian American history through the prism of American pop culture. We see into the lives of the Filipino migrant workers of the 1930's in Arizona where a harmonica welding Wayland Quintero sings away anti-mescegenation blues. In a puppetry scene inspired by the WWII internment camps of the Japanese Americans, Richard Ebihara belts out a piano man song in tribute to his great great grand parents who were forcibly removed from their homes due to war hysteria. Perry Yung makes a zen bamboo flute in a children's history and science television show where American immigration policy at the turn of the century is revealed as the flute is made. The audience sees and hears the music of the Chinese immigrants on Angel Island, San Francisco, Kaleidoscope celebrates the Asian Diaspora using music, puppety and satire in personal narratives to reveal both the chaos and the calm of multinational Asian American identities.

Free and open to the public. This production is good for audiences over 13 years of age.
Related link: Slant's homepage

John Lent - Mass Media and Comic Art Critic with emphasis on Asian studies. Carson L01. 4.00 pm.
Dr. John A. Lent, a leader in international comics study, has authored hundred of articles and authored or edited more than sixty books, among them Pulp Demons, Themes and Issues in Asian Cartooning, Animation in Asia and the Pacific and ten volumes on comic art bibliography. He is founding editor of the International Journal of Comic Art and founding chair of both the Asian Popular Culture area of the Popular Culture Asociation and the Comic Art Working Group of the Int Assoc for Mass Communication Research. He is also editor of the journal Asian Cinema and chair of the Asian Cinema Studies Society, and for 26 years was editor of Berita,whcih he started. He also founded and chaired the Malaysia/Singapore/Brunei Studies Group of the Association for Asian Studies. Dr. Lent's teaching career spans 44 years. He was the first Rogers Distinguished Chair at the University of Western Ontario and concurrently is a professor at Temple University and visiting professor at Shanghai University. He has lectured on comics and mass communications all over the world.

Free and open to the public.
Related link: John Lent's home page

Li-Young Lee - Poet. Carson L01 - 4.30 pm.
Winner of the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award from New York University Li-Young Lee is one of the finest young poets today. Not only is he deeply spiritual but also very human and open to his readers.

Free and open to the public.
Related Link: Li-Young Lee at Blue Flower Arts.

Wenda Gu: Campus and Community Hair Drive - Baker Library Lawn (Rain Location: Baker Main Hall) 3.00 - 6.00pm.
Be a part of history by donating a piece of your hair (snipped on site) for a major site-specific installation by world-renowned Chinese artist Wenda Gu. The installation, commissioned by the Hood Museum of Art in partnership with the Dartmouth College Library, will be made completely from the hair of people in the Dartmouth and Upper Valley communities. It will be the latest hair monument in this avant-garde artist's united nations project, begun in 1993. The hair will be shipped to the artist's Shanghai studio in August, and the final work will be on view starting in June 2007 in Baker Main Hall. Come by any time to make your contribution, learn more about the artist, enjoy food and refreshments, and be a part of the art!

Wenda Gu was born in China in 1955 and relocated to New York in 1987. His united nations hair installations have been created in more than fifteen countries throughout the world.

Community members, staff, faculty, students, and their visiting family and friends are all invited to participate!
Related Link:Wenda Gu and his united nations project.

Musafir - A Spectacular Folkoric troupe. Great for Families! BEMA 2.00pm
From India's Thar Desert in northwest Rajasthan comes Musafir ("traveler" in Farsi), a spectacular folkloric troupe that's thrilled festival audiences throughout Europe. Fusing traditions of Islamic, Hindu, Gypsy and nomadic groups whose passion is music, poetry and feats of endurance, the ensemble entrances viewers of all ages. Musafir's spirited music and hypnotic tabla drumming, whirling costumed dancers, turbaned snake charmers and fire-eaters featured in the movie Latcho Drom and evoking ancient civilizations transport you to the distant sands of Rajasthan.

$18 General Public. Dartmouth students $5. 18 and under $14. General admission.
More Information Musafir at the Hop

From Choju Giga to Manga and Beyond: Sequential Art and Asian Culture – Asian Graphic Art Exhibit - Berry Main Street exhibit cases in Baker-Berry Library. July/ August 2006.

Asian Architecture – Karolina Kawiaka - Baker Library September/ October 2006.