Asian pacific American
Heritage Month
May 2023
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Friday, April 28 - 12 Noon PST - SF Asian Art Museum Virtual Art Lecture: Facing Mecca: Reflections of Islam in Art
Join the API ERG in celebrating Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month through a series of virtual talks by docents from the Asian Art Museum.
Be fascinated by the variety and scope of art inspired by Islam – not just the religion, but also the Muslim culture and secular pursuits.
May 1, 2023 -11am PST- Walking Tour with Early Career ERG
For this inaugural event the ECERG will be partnering with the API ERG to celebrate the first day of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Our goal is to explore the Lab site and its surroundings, come together for social networking, and get to know interesting and helpful things about the Lab & its history.
The Schedule of Events
Meet outside of IGB (Bldg 91) first floor 11-11:10a,
Walk up and around Bldg 90 11:10 - 11:30am,
Gather on the IGB 3rd floor terrace for an overview of the bldg. 11:30-11:50am
Walk down to the banner raising 11:50 - 12pm
May 1, 2023 -12 Noon PST- Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Banner
May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. To kick it off, the API ERG will be raising the APA Heritage Month banner at Building 65. Click the link to view the calendar event.
Tuesday, May 12 - 3pm PST - Movie Screening and Potluck: “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
Location: 50-4-Auditorium
Join API ERG in celebrating API Heritage Month! Come to our movie screening of "Everything Everywhere All at Once" and potluck. Everything Everywhere All at Once is a film about a middle-aged Chinese immigrant who is swept up into an insane adventure in which she alone can save existence by exploring other universes and connecting with the lives she could have led.
The potluck follows after the movie.
Tuesday, May 16 - 12 Noon PST - SF Asian Art Museum Virtual Art Lecture: The Silk Road: Globalization in the Ancient World
Join us as we travel the ancient routes that provided goods, technologies, and ideas to cultures from the Mediterranean to the Pacific.
Tuesday, May 23 - 12:00 - 1:00 pm EDT, 9am - 10am PST - DOE Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Celebration
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This will be a hybrid celebration, with in-person participation in the Forrestal Auditorium and virtual participation via Microsoft Teams. For questions, please contact Bradley Shaff or Karen Lerma.
Tuesday, May 23 - 3:30pm PST - SF Asian Art Museum Virtual Art Lecture: The Language of Flowers in Asian Art
The Language of Flowers in Asian Art delves into the meanings of flowers and trees as reflected in the art of countries across Asia.
Wednesday, May 31 - 3:00pm PST - Virtual Book Club Discussion of “Fairest” by Meredith Talusan
“Fairest,” said author and artist Meredith Talusan (she/they), is a memoir that “allows me to look at the entirety of my life and understand how I moved through the world in this body over the years.”
Join the Asian Pacific Islander ERG and the Lambda Alliance for a joint book club discussion of Talusan’s story and her journey from being a “sun child” in the Philippines to a transgender, white-passing, Harvard-educated immigrant and journalist. The book is available in multiple formats at bookstores and at public libraries. The book club discussion precedes the June 9 conversation with Meredith Talusan as part of the IDEA Speaker Series.
Order Meredith’s book Fairest from Pegasus Books in Berkeley
Friday, June 9 - 1:00pm PST - A Conversation with Meredith Talusan
Join the IDEA Office, the Asian Pacific Islander ERG and the Lambda Alliance for an IDEA Speaker Series event. Meredith will give a virtual talk about her journey and her perspective on diversity and inclusion.
Meredith Talusan (she/they) is an artist who works at the intersection of writing, visual art, science, and performance. Her work has spanned multiple mediums and genres, though they are best-known to the public as a book author and journalist.
She received a Creative Capital Award, MacDowell Fellowship, and Pushcart Prize nomination for fiction in 2023; her stories appear or are forthcoming in Guernica, Kenyon Review, Boston Review, Epoch,The Rumpus, Grand, Catapult, and BLR. Her debut memoir, Fairest, was a 2020 Lambda Literary Award finalist and named a best book of the year by multiple venues. She has contributed to ten other books and written articles for The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, and WIRED among many outlets. She has received journalism awards from GLAAD, The Society of Professional Journalists, and the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. She is also the founding executive editor and current contributing editor at them., Condé Nast’s LGBTQ+ digital platform.
May 2022
May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month - a letter from Inder Monga, API ERG Executive Sponsor
"May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, a month to celebrate the diversity and contributions of Asian Pacific Americans to our nation, and to reflect on the issues and challenges faced by the Asian and Pacific Islander communities today." Read Inder's full letter >>
May 2, 2022 - Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Banner
May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. To kick it off, the API ERG raised the APA Heritage Month banner at Building 65.
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Contributors: Massie Ballon, Angelica Chan
API ERG Book Club Meeting
Date: May 23
Time: 3:00-3:50 pm
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The Asian Pacific Islander (API) Employee Resource Group Media Subcommittee is pleased to announce that we will be hosting a book club on Monday, May 23, at 3 PM . We will be discussing Crying in H Mart, a 2021 memoir by Michelle Zauner, a Korean American who grew up in Oregon and when she was a young adult, used Korean cooking as a way to cope with the grief of losing her mother to cancer.
Crying in H Mart, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, is available from local libraries, online outlets, and voice text format on YouTube. We have received five complimentary copies of the book from the publisher. If you are interested in borrowing one of these copies to read prior to the book club, please fill out this Google Form. The recipients of books will be randomly selected. After reading, the books can be returned to the IDEA Office Library in Building 50A or shared with a friend to read as well.
Zauner grew up in Eugene, Oregon, and was one of a few Asian American students at her school. She struggled with her mother's expectations of her while also treasuring time they spent together at her grandmother's apartment in Seoul. When she moved to the East Coast for college, began working in the restaurant industry, performing with her new band, and met her future husband, her Korean identity receded. However, when faced in her mid-20s with her mother's terminal illness, Zauner reclaimed aspects of culture that were imparted by her mother.
Penguin Random House video, Inside the Book: Michelle Zauner (Crying in H Mart) - https://youtu.be/2NMmrsLk2Q0
Please contact Massie (mlballon@lbl.gov) or Lida (lkgifford@lbl.gov) with any questions.