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Ange Hwang

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Come Share Our Wonders

Join us for a 2-day Winter Wonders at December 18 and 19, 2013

A showcase filled with youth talent from all over the Twin Cities, Asian Media Access will be holding a Winter Wonders showcase housed at Concordia Universitys Pearson Theater (275 Syndicate Street North, St. Paul, MN 55104-5494). This showcase will feature many things from short films created by the Youth Media Force (YMF), to the rock band Scratch, to Asian styled dances from Iny Asian Dance Theater, and a fashion show that will put the spotlight on traditional Hmong clothing. Talk about a plate full of variety! Save the date for December 18^th and 19^th, 2013, both shows start at 7pm.

The Winter Wonder Series is built on Asian Media Access successful ArtsCollaborative Lab. This is an intensive mentorship that Asian American and Pacific Islander Artists and youth from across disciplines, such as dance, music, and media, work together to sharpen their skills, develop collaborative projects, and engage the AAPI community through the arts.

The ArtsColaborative Lab is the expansion of AMAs regular programs. Its goals is to provide additional intensive daily mentorship and resources in the three art areas of dance, music and multimedia since January 2013, along with a 9-week summer intensive training and mentorship. Our hope is to have young artists to engage in creating, collaborating, and presenting the arts with resources while working alongside with resident artists. With a 9-week summer intensive session, this program has provided mentorship and a participatory learning environment to encourage artists to experiment. The expansion from AMAs regular program is dedicated to inspiring young artists to deepen their artistic skills and to create original pieces based on inspiration and collaboration.

Our current resident artists include Iny Xiong as our dance choreographer, Chaochi Ly as our music composer, Mong Vang, Kang Vang, Bill Kubota, Steve Ozone, and Andy Berndt as our multimedia team. The projects goals are: 1) To increase access to cross-disciplinary arts; 2) To increase access to create original/collaborative art pieces; and 3) To utilize these bi-cultural art pieces to engage AAPI community with better appreciation to access to the arts.

The selected youth have produced amazing body of original works, which include:

• 1 Short film- The Moment
• 1 Documentary film trailer- The Registry
• 1 Featured length film trailer - Zaub Tsuag (Boiled Vegetables)
• 3 Original songs in both English and in Hmong
• 5 Short videos
• 9 Original Composition Sound Tracks for dances
• 12 Original youth choreographed dances

Please join us at Dec. 18 and 19^th 7pm at the Concordia College for these visually taste wonderful works done by our youth. Please follow this series for more stories behind the scene. For more information, please check on www.amamedia.org or www.inyasiandancetheater.org. This unique project is sponsored by the MN State Arts Board and Asian Pacific Councils Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund (which was created by a vote from the people of Minnesota on Nov., 2008.)

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Asian Media Access (AMA)s mission is to connect the disconnected. Since its inception in 1992, AMA has accomplished and continues to accomplish its mission in the areas of media arts education/production and film exhibition/ distribution by educating, creating as well as presenting programs in media arts that educate, enlighten and entertain the community. AMA serves as an incubator for Asian American & Pacific Islander (AAPI) artists by providing training, technical expertise and access to sophisticated digital production/editing equipment to help develop artists skills. For the past 20 years, AMA has successfully supported the immigrant and refugee community in learning media arts/information technology for social betterment. AMAs media arts education activities have now evolved into year-round digital multimedia arts training including radio/video production, digital photography, and web design. These regular programs have given students of color essential art experience, which ultimately benefits the community as a while as they work to redefine the image of people of color in the mainstream media.