June 2010

AAIFF'10 LAUNCH PARTY
Thursday, June 17, 7:30pm - 12:00am
Gaslight Lounge
(400 West 14 St. 9th Ave)

ACV invites you to celebrate the launching of our 33rd Asian American International Film Festival.

Come mingle with the staff and volunteers of AAIFF'10 and hear more exciting news about this year's lineup and special events. Bring friends and families for a night of awesome drinks, music and the best company and be the first to buy tickets to your favorite films!

** $5 Drink specials from 8pm- 9pm **
 

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, held each year during the month of May, celebrates Asian Pacific American cultures and heritage and recognizes the many contributions Asian Pacific Americans have made to this nation.
An Wang

An Wang (1920-1990), a Chinese-born American computer scientist, is best known for founding Wang Laboratories and holding over thirty-five patents including patent #2,708,722 for a magnetic pulse transfer controlling device which related to computer memory and was crucial to the development of digital information technology. Wang Laboratories was founded in 1951 and by 1989 employed 30,000 people and had $3 billion a year in sales, with such developments as desktop calculators and the first word processors. An Wang was inducted into the National Inventor's Hall of Fame in 1988.
Enrique Ostrea

Posting from the "Colorblind" Blog:

Jeff was publisher of A. Magazine, one of the most popular and influential Asian American magazines during its run from 1989-2002. Since then, Jeff has published several books including co-editing Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology and is widely recognized and respected as an expert on Asian and Asian American pop culture. I have admired Jeff’s work for a long time but only finally got the chance to meet him at Syracuse.