This weekend Saturday, January 28, 2012 and Sunday, January 29, 2012 will be the 113th Golden Dragon Parade: Sat, Jan 28th 1pm-4pm (commencing at Hill and Ord Streets and concluding at Broadway and Cesar Chavez). Grand Marshals are Disney’s Mulan and Mushu and international bestselling author Lisa See. Honorary Grand Marshals include David Lee, Collin Lai and James B. Wong. For Parade information, contact the Chinese Chamber of Commerce at (213) 617-0396.

Chinese New Year Festival
Central Plaza & West Plaza
943-951 N. Broadway
Saturday, Jan 28: 12pm-8pm
Sunday, Jan 29: 12pm-5pm
(213) 680-0243
FREE to the public

STREET CLOSURES
Saturday, January 28th, starting 11am to 12:00 noon
• Ord Street from North Broadway to Hill Street
• Cesar Chavez Avenue from North Broadway to Main Street
• North Broadway from Bernard Street to Cesar Chavez Street
• Bernard Street from North Broadway to Hill Street
• Hill Street from Bernard Street to Temple Street
• Spring Street from Cesar Chavez to Temple Street

Celebrate the weekend’s festivities with us by taking METROLINK! METROLINK is offering a $10 special weekend pass. Bring your pass to the Information booth at the festival site and receive a special something from us for supporting public transportation and METROLINK.

“Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.”

Me at the festival in 2010 with Maya Sotero-Ng and Kip Fulbeck

I could not pass up the opportunity to get my book signed by my favorite author, Kip Fulbeck.  I was also lucky enough to get to meet Maya Sotero-Ng, during a reading of her upcoming children’s book, Ladder to the Moon.  I consider both of these educators and authors two of my personal inspirations for a lot of projects that I get involved in.

The Festival is a fiscally sponsored project of the New York Foundation for the Arts, a non-profit organization, celebrating stories of the Mixed experience. Each year the Festival brings together film and book lovers, innovative and emerging artists, and multiracial families and individuals for two days of workshops, readings, film screenings and live performance including music, comedy and spoken word.

Festival co-founders

Festival Co-Founders Heidi Durrow and Fanshen Cox met in New York a decade ago at an audition for a show about multi-racial people.  Both were sure that the other would ‘steal’ the role from the only other ‘blue-eyed, curly haired light-skinned’ girl.  When both were cast, they began a long and fruitful friendship, supporting each other as artists and through the various challenges they faced surrounding their search for identity on their own terms.

Don’t miss it this year. For more info www.mixedroots.org

This just in from FB Aloha Warehouse update, “We will also have the Aloha for Japan T shirts from Hawaii for sale, again all proceeds will go directly to the devasted areas of Japan. Special thanks to the folks that made this happen: Lanai Tabura, Lt. Governor’s office of Hawaii, lemomi Hall of Hawaiian Airlines, Kurt Osaki – Hukilau Restaurant, Daryl Higashi of the HCCNC, and Edgar Dang of Aloha Warehouse”.

The ALOHA FOR JAPAN campaign is a statewide initiative to help the people of Japan devastated by the recent massive earthquakes and tsunami. This coordinated effort involves a host of island businesses, community groups, public officials and individuals living in Hawaii. Visit www.alohaforjapan.com to do your part to send aloha to Japan. They have t-shirts, hats and bumper stickers.

- An opportunity of a lifetime to be in this film and get this special package. There will be 50+ cameras, helicopter overhead filming this event… it is major! If I weren’t involved behind the scenes, I would totally do this!
- It’s a costume contest so dress up Harajuku style & submit a photo or video of yourself to me at info@happysix.com. I will forward it to the powers that be.
- This is an *OFFICIAL* EDC production! The producer himself called me, so this is for real, kids.
- 12 girls will be selected. Selections will be made by this Thursday 6/24, so hurry up & send your pic/vid to me!
- What you will get if you are selected: cash prize, plus you will receive the royal treatment beginning with high tea at the super cute Royal/T Cafe, then special transportation to Exposition Park & the LA Coliseum, free ticket in, free meals, transportation back to Royal/T Cafe at the end of the night, & a DVD of the film to prove that you weren’t, um, “imagining” it all. *wink*
- Don’t worry if you have no experience on camera. They are not looking for actors. It’s just gonna be a day and night of complete FUN… with cameras around you.
- I am not one of the judges, so bribing me won’t work. But I am obligated to forward ALL submissions, so you can be certain that if you send it to me, it will be seen by the judges.
- I will most likely be there for at least part of the filming, if that helps you feel like you’ve got someone you know with you.
- They want you to dress yourself, be yourself & have fun. It will be a BLAST!!! But I can give you some tips as to what they’re looking for:

They want Alice in Wonderland, Want Goth,  Want Fantastic, Want “darker” & more streetwise rather than “infantile”, DON’T want the typical raver look of colorful bracelets & pacifiers
- My suggestion: EVOLVE. Fashion is ever-changing. No one wants old & stale. We want to move forward. Newness and originality always get attention. I hope that helps. Good luck, everyone! And please help me find more people by reposting and sharing this note. Or post a link to me in your own status updates on this. I only have 2 days left to find people!!! Thanks, guys! Hope to see some of you there! And check back here for updates!

UPDATE #1: Oh, forgot to tell you guys to write a short blurb about yourself too in the email you send me.

http://www.electricdaisycarnival.com/

xo
Sophie Snow

Email Sophie at info@happysix.com

The program EEO program so allows me to help out with other EEO programs and I think being exposed and helping plan other special emphasis groups programs give me so many more perspectives I would never otherwise be exposed to.  I am looking forward to the LGBT EEO program at my job. My good friend and I are helping the chairperson with the program. It should be educational and quite the celebration since it will be the first ever of it’s kind.

I had a few friends who made the cross country trip but I decided to watch from the comfort and warmth of my couch in my fuzzy slippers and pink bathrobe.

What a day in history to celebrate but as our new President said in his speech…”its time to pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off and start going to work to remake America”

So in that spirit..think about what you want to do as a citizen to make America stronger, better and ready to take on all the challenges we have yet to face as a Nation.

God Bless President Obama, our First Family and his whole Administration.