Events
Next ASIA Event:
Rhymes in Rhythm 3 - May 13, 2005Rhymes in Rhythm 3 is ASIA's 3rd annual evening of local women of color performing spoken word, prose or poetry.
Proceeds support ASIA's all-women dragon boat team and ASIA's community events.
Join us for a fun evening of great poetry/prose, good company, food & drinks, and fabulous raffle prizes.
Featuring:
Mi Ok Bruining * Shiuan Butler * Trina Jackson * Sung Yun Lee *
Melissa Li * Angela Carla Makabali * Donna C(harles) Owens * Christine Vaughan * Kit Yan * Ami Zota
Cambridge Center for Adult Education
56 Brattle St.
Harvard Square, Cambridge
Fri, 7-9pm.
$5 suggested donation includes reception
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Upcoming Events
Bookgroup Potluck - The Book of Salt - May 15, 2005 Join bookgroup members at 11am for a potluck at Nancy's place as we discuss Monique Truong's The Book of Salt. A mesmerizing narrative voice, an insider's view of a fabled literary household and the slow revelation of heartbreaking secrets contribute to the visceral impact of this first novel. From a few lines in The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book, Truong reimagines the Vietnamese cook who was hired by the famous residents at 27 rue de Fleurus. Binh, as he calls himself, is an exile from his homeland, where he was denounced because of a homosexual relationship and banished by his brutal father. After three years at sea, Binh ends up in Paris, where he answers Toklas's ad and enters the household of Gertrude Stein. The story begins in 1934 when the women he calls "my Mesdames" are about to tour America, and Binh fears he'll be cast adrift once again. Flashbacks reveal his loneliness and guilt, his doomed love affairs and his sadness at having abandoned his mother and his native land. The tone throughout is poignant, lightened by Binh's subversive wit; for all his bitterness and resentment, he is a captivating narrator, as adept at describing Stein's literary salon as the contents of Toklas's kitchen. Truong's supple prose is permeated with sensual detail, reminiscent of A Debt to Pleasure in its evocation of the erotic possibilities of food. But it is her intuitive understanding of the condition of exile-"the pure, sea salt sadness of the outcast"-that infuses her novel with richness and beauty. To join the bookgroup, request a reading list, or to get directions to the potluck, contact the Bookgroup.
Dragon Boat Festival - June 12, 2005 Join ASIA's team as we race on the Charles River. No experience necessary - just enthusiasm and commitment to make 3 practices. To join ASIA's team or find out more info, contact ASIA. See ASIA's past teams. Come cheer us on this year and visit our blue canopy with ASIA's banner set up on the Boston side of the Charles River. Find out more about the Festival. ASIA's team is sponsored by East Manor Restaurant , located on Rte. 1 in Saugus.
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