Far East Deep South Film Screening,
Panel Discussion & Networking Reception
Standing in Solidarity - Celebrating AAPI Heritage Month
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Event Details
Date: Monday, May 6, 2024
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:30 PM ET
Venue: New Jersey Performing Arts Center, One Center St. Newark, NJ 07102
Admission: Complimentary
Description
In honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, the New Jersey Chapter of Ascend has partnered with the New Jersey Performing Arts Center to co-produce a special evening of NJPAC's long-running social justice conversation series Standing in Solidarity focused on the Asian American experience.
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The event includes a screening of the award-winning documentary Far East Deep South, the PSEG True Diversity Film selection, about a Chinese American family’s search for their roots and the discovery of an immigrant community in the South in the wake of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.
Agenda
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM:
Networking Reception in Parsonnet Room
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM:
Film Screening & Panel Discussion in Chase Room
Speakers
Baldwin Chiu
Producer - Far East Deep South &
Co-Founder - Giant Flashlight Media
Michael Hyun
Vice President
Procurement & Deputy General Counsel
PSEG
Jennifer Rasing
Pan Asian Network (PAN) People & Business Resource Group Lead
Bristol Myers Squibb
Jack Tchen
Clement A. Price Chair of Public History & Humanities Rutgers University - Newark & Director - Clement Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture & the Modern Experience
Rutgers-Newark
Program Partner
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