LANTERN FESTIVAL

[artsfartsyjanet]

On November 19th, between 4pm-9pm at Saint Louis University, Asian Students In Action will be hosting our first Lantern Festival, which showcases the diversity within Asian and Asian American culture. To encourage intercultural communication, educate, and spread awareness about issues concerning international and domestic students, we will be displaying over 100 lanterns in the Cook Hall Atrium (business school). A couple dozen students will have the opportunity to paint their own lanterns and take it back with them. Chopstick demonstrations, origami demonstrations and contests, sushi demonstrations, 3 poetry readings (in English, Vietnamese, and Korean), and a song sung in Tagalog (a native language of the Phillipines) by the President of the Filipino Students Association, a duet by two guitarists from Washington University, and 2 other guitarists from Webster University and University of Missouri-- St. Louis. It's best to come between 6pm-7pm. More info? Call 314-977-3979 or 314-977-2820.

[SunWuKong]

chopstick demonstration?

[artsfartsyjanet]

Originally posted by SunWuKung@Nov 17 2002, 03:42 AM
chopstick demonstration?
The majority of our audience is white. i'm sure they'd like to learn. we're going to make an eating contest out of it.... *maybe not*

[artsfartsyjanet]

other people will learn how to hold the chopsticks too...I won't be demonstrating. hehe...

[SunWuKong]

Originally posted by artsfartsyjanet@Nov 17 2002, 12:17 PM
Originally posted by SunWuKung@Nov 17 2002, 03:42 AM
chopstick demonstration?
The majority of our audience is white. i'm sure they'd like to learn. we're going to make an eating contest out of it.... *maybe not*
i guess it's just me? because most of the white people i know actually know how to use chopsticks.

[artsfartsyjanet]

Originally posted by SunWuKung@Nov 17 2002, 12:46 PM
Originally posted by artsfartsyjanet@Nov 17 2002, 12:17 PM
Originally posted by SunWuKung@Nov 17 2002, 03:42 AM
chopstick demonstration?
The majority of our audience is white. i'm sure they'd like to learn. we're going to make an eating contest out of it.... *maybe not*
i guess it's just me? because most of the white people i know actually know how to use chopsticks.
yeah it's just you. :) My parents own a restaurant in st.louis, and a lot of people ask me over and over how to use those friggin things. Of course, the people who go to my parents restaurant are not the same people who go to my school, but i'm sure i'm bound to find many people who don't know how to use'm.

[mrazntre]

they might know how to use them, however they're far from "expert class." I like it when I see white people that say they know how to use chopsticks, but when they do "use" it, they look like lil babies. They usually resort to putting the chopsticks together and trying to scoop stuff up, or stabbing the meat...

hehehe....




i need to make a lantern.

[artsfartsyjanet]

We just added a student who is willing to play the violin and another person here to read a poem in Mandarin. The booklets are almost done.... *sweating* to finish. The whole damn school knows about it.... I'm excited but nervous... eek!

[SunWuKong]

hahhah playing the violin at an event that showcases asian cultures? that's funny. and it's funny because it's so true. :lol:


i want to learn the "er hu"

[artsfartsyjanet]

Originally posted by SunWuKung@Nov 18 2002, 11:49 PM
hahhah playing the violin at an event that showcases asian cultures? that's funny. and it's funny because it's so true. :lol:


i want to learn the "er hu"
well the violinist is a doctorate student in philosophy and she's white. =) she will bring her er hu though.... she's awesome!

[artsfartsyjanet]

She's learning how to play the er hu. so she's only showing it off basically. i wonder how she got into asian culture so much.

[SunWuKong]

Originally posted by artsfartsyjanet@Nov 19 2002, 12:21 AM
She's learning how to play the er hu. so she's only showing it off basically. i wonder how she got into asian culture so much.
oh that's cool! do her studies actually have anything to do with asian cultures? or is it just an interest of hers?

[artsfartsyjanet]

Originally posted by SunWuKung@Nov 19 2002, 12:35 AM
Originally posted by artsfartsyjanet@Nov 19 2002, 12:21 AM
She's learning how to play the er hu. so she's only showing it off basically. i wonder how she got into asian culture so much.
oh that's cool! do her studies actually have anything to do with asian cultures? or is it just an interest of hers?
It's just an interest of hers... She joined to learn more about the way we think... perhaps.

Janet

[artsfartsyjanet]

I'm glad to announce that it went really well. =)

*giving myself a pat on the back*

[Fireblade]

Chopsticks. Darn.... I know how to use them, but not the way my parents do. Every one of my family relatives who are from asia tell me I'm holding my chopsticks wrong. ::sigh:: I guess I'm just not down with the culture. Or maybe it's cuz my parents got fed up after the millions try to make me sit down and eat with those darn things. I was a problem kid. :D

[artsfartsyjanet]

Here are a few pictures from the Lantern Festival:

This one is my favorite:
http://pages.slu.edu/student/tangjp/lanterngirl.jpg"

This following is a poetry reading delivered by me ( a bit blurry):
http://pages.slu.edu/student/tangjp/poetryreading.jpg

The final one shows Wayne's chopsticks demo:
http://pages.slu.edu/student/tangjp/waynechopsticks.jpg

[SunWuKong]

that outfit you were wearing... looks gooooood. :D

[artsfartsyjanet]

Thanks. =)

Well here's a more comprehensive look at the Lantern festival:

http://www.slu.edu/organizations/asc/lantern.htm

Enjoy.