Lia Chang: Restaurants Respond for Relief, Chef Arnold Wong Hosts Special Benefit for Japan Night at E&O Trading Co. in SF on April 10

On Sunday April 10th, Chef Arnold Wong is hosting a Special Benefit for Japan Night at E&O Trading Co. 314 Sutter Street in San Francisco to aid Japan following the country’s devastating natural disaster. This amazing evening brings together San Francisco’s finest restaurants, wineries and mixologists to raise funds for the victims of the Earthquake and Tsunami that hit Japan on March 11th.

Liam Mayclem of Eye on the Bay will preside as emcee from 5-9pm, live entertainment will feature local favorite Chef Joey Altman & The Backburner Blues and burlesque dancers, and the Bon Vivants will be mixing up amazing cocktails during this evening of great food, wines, spirits, live music, entertainment and a silent auction.

Tickets for the event are priced at $75 and 100% of proceeds from the evening will be donated directly to Give2Asia. …Representatives from Give2Asia will be in attendance to speak about their involvement with the Japanese community and outreach underway. Click here to purchase tickets. Tickets will also be available at the door based on capacity!

http://www.give2asia.org/documents/Give2Asia-JapanTsunami-HowToHelp.pdf

Participating Restaurants:
Betelnut
Butterfly
Contigo
Range
Slanted Door
Grand Cafe
StarBelly
Beast & Hare
One Market
Tres
Citizen’s Band
Live Sushi
Le Soleil
Basil Canteen
& More

Desserts:
Cocotutti
Kara’s Cupcakes
Nash Baker’s
Raison d’etre Bakery
Pinky’s Bakery
Namu Restaurant

Beverages:
Southern Wine & Spirits
Honig Winery
Haamonii Smooth Shochu
Southern Wine & Spirits
Cannonball Wines
Illy Cafe
Cocktails & Bartending Skills by Bon Vivant’s

Silent & Live Auction Items:
Ritz Carlton, Half Moon Bay
Columbus Salami
Fairmont
Cosmopolitan
Palio d’Asti
Harris
One Market
McKormick & Kuleto’s
Il Fornaio
Lark Creek Steakhouse
Marlowe/Park Tavern Restaurant
Thirsty Bear
JDV
Campton Place
Straits Restaurant
Live Sushi Bar
Le Soleil
Illy Cafe
Qupe Winery
Sephora
Attic Restaurant
Tommy Toy’s
Yan Can Cook
Sugar Bowl Bakery
Ferry Building Wine Merchant
and much more…

April 10, 2011
5pm-9pm
E&O Trading Company, San Francisco
314 Sutter Street @ Grant Avenue
San Francisco, California 94108
(415) 693-0303

E&O Trading Co. is a Modern Asian oasis in the heart of San Francisco’s vibrant Union Square. Easy off-site parking is available at the Sutter-Stockton garage across the street. The restaurant is open from 11:30am – 10:00pm Monday – Thursday, 11:30am – 11:00pm Friday – Saturday, and 5:00pm – 9:30pm Sunday. www.eotrading.com

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Lia Chang is an actor, performance and fine art botanical photographer, and an award-winning multimedia journalist.

As a photographer and videographer, Lia collaborates with artists, organizations and companies in establishing their documentary photo archive and social media presence. She has been documenting her colleagues and contemporaries in the arts, fashion and journalism since making her stage debut as Liat in the National Tour of South Pacific, with Robert Goulet and Barbara Eden.

Selections of Lia’s archive of Asian Pacific Americans in the arts, fashion, journalism, politics and space are now in the newly created LIA CHANG THEATER PHOTOGRAPHY PORTFOLIO in the ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN PERFORMING ARTS COLLECTION housed in the Library of Congress Asian Division’s Asian American Pacific Islander Collection.

Lia’s portraits and performance photos have appeared in Vanity Fair, Gourmet, German Elle, Women’s Wear Daily, The Paris Review, TV Guide, Daily Variety, Interior Design, American Theatre, Broadwayworld.com, Life & Style, OUT, New York Magazine, InStyle, Timeout.com, Villagevoice.com, Playbill.com, Theatermania.com, thelmagazine.com, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, USA Today, The Boston Globe, New York Times and Washington Post. A former syndicated arts and entertainment columnist for KYODO News, Lia is the New York Bureau Chief for AsianConnections.com. She writes about culture, style and Asian American issues for a variety of publications and this Backstage Pass with Lia Chang blog.

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Shirley Kazuyo Muramoto and Brian Mitsuhuro Wong perform in Hidden Legacy at Old First Concerts

On Sunday, November 9, at Old First Concerts in San Francisco, koto players Shirley Kazuyo Muramoto and her son, Brian Mitsuhiro Wong, along with traditional Japanese dancer Bando Misayasu will present Hidden Legacy: A Tribute to Teachers of Japanese Traditional Arts in the Internment Camps.

Sixty-three years have passed since the end of World War II and the incarceration of approximately 112,000 Japanese national and Japanese Americans in “relocation camps.” Though much has been researched and written about what happened in these camps, the story of the brave artists who practiced and taught Japanese traditional arts remains a “hidden legacy.”

On Sunday, November 9, at Old First Concerts in San Francisco, koto players Shirley Kazuyo Muramoto and her son, Brian Mitsuhiro Wong, along with traditional Japanese dancer Bando Misayasu will present Hidden Legacy: A Tribute to Teachers of Japanese Traditional Arts in the Internment Camps, a concert featuring Japanese traditional music and dance as a tribute to those teachers of Japanese traditional arts who taught in the camps.

Muramoto and Wong are granddaughter and great-grandson respectively of internees who encouraged the study of the koto at the Topaz and Tule Lake internment camps. Bando Misayasu is continuing a legacy of Japanese dance taught by Bando Mitsusa, who taught traditional Japanese odori to over 140 students at Tule Lake. Although she will not perform, Bando Mitsusa will make a special appearance as part of this tribute. Throughout the program, which will also feature historical photographs, information about the artists who taught in camps and how they were able to sustain their arts in such depressed circumstances will be highlighted, as well as the impact these teachers have had on present day artists and future students.

“The reason for organizing this concert,” stated Muramoto, “is that the subject of Japanese traditional music and dance in the camps has been largely overlooked. There appears to be a lingering stigma about this chapter of camp life, possibly due to the fact that practicing Japanese traditional arts in the camps was considered ‘un-American’or disloyal, so former internees continue their silence on the subject.”

Also appearing in this program will be Reiko Iwanaga, who is the daughter-in-law of Rev. Yoshio Iwanaga who brought Obon odori to the United States, Kazuhiro Watanabe (koto instructor, Miyagi School), Kanow Yofu Matsueda (shakuhachi), and dancers Bando Misamie and Bando Misashizu.

 

Hidden Legacy:  A Tribute to Teachers of Japanese Traditional Arts in the Internment Camps

Sunday, November 9, 2008 @ 4pm

Old First Concerts

1751 Sacramento St., at Van Ness

San Francisco

http://www.oldfirstconcerts.org

415-474-1608

Tickets: $15/general, $12/seniors and students w/ID