EXHIBIT (MAY 1 - MAY 31) | Downtown Library Lobby
Joyful Tiger Harvesting Happiness: Lunar New Year Prints from Taiwan
This exhibit features risograph, mixed media, and relief prints from eight Taiwanese artists on the theme of "Joyful Tiger Harvesting Happiness." For the past 37 years, the Taiwan Ministry of Culture has invited artists to create prints in celebration of the Lunar New Year season. This exhibit features two commissioned prints and six first-prize winners chosen by judges under the auspices of the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts.
These prints are a generous gift of the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, facilitated by the Michigan Taiwan American Organization and the Taipei Cultural Center in New York. Two copies of each print will enter AADL's circulating art print collection this summer.
The artists featured are: Paul Chiang, Liu Hsi-chuan, Chin Hsuan-Chen, Chiang Chi-Hsuan, Lin Shu-Feng, Ke Chiao-Hui, Yang Wen-Yu, and Lu Yen-Hui.
EVENTS
Sunday (May 1) 1-4pm | Downtown Library
Lion Dance, Yo-Yos, and Tiger Prints with MI-TAI
Kick off Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month with a celebration with the Michigan Taiwanese American Organization. This family-friendly event will feature a Lion Dance with Michigan Lion Dance, a yo-yo performance and demonstration, and papercrafts all themed for the Year of the Tiger! MI-TAI will also present AADL with eight Year of the Tiger-themed art prints from the National Museum of Fine Arts of Taiwan that will become available as part of our Art Prints collection. On the day of the event participants will be asked to sign in, one sign-in per group: Event Sign-In.
Tuesday (May 3) 6-7:30pm | Downtown Library
Film Screening: Who Killed Vincent Chin
On a hot summer night in Detroit, Ronald Ebens, an autoworker, killed a young Chinese-American engineer with a baseball bat. Although he confessed, he never spent a day in jail. This gripping Academy Award-nominated film relentlessly probes the implications of the murder in the streets of Detroit, for the families of those involved, and for the American justice system.
Saturday (May 7) 3-4:30pm | AADL.TV
Film Screening: Who Killed Vincent Chin
On a hot summer night in Detroit, Ronald Ebens, an autoworker, killed a young Chinese-American engineer with a baseball bat. Although he confessed, he never spent a day in jail. This gripping Academy Award-nominated film relentlessly probes the implications of the murder in the streets of Detroit, for the families of those involved, and for the American justice system.
Saturday (May 7) 5-6pm | AADL.TV
Film Discussion: Who Killed Vincent Chin
Author and community member Frances Kai-Hwa Wang joins AADL staff to discuss the documentary 1989 Who Killed Vincent Chin? She will provide background information about this anti-Asian American hate crime that happened in Detroit in 1981 and connect it to violence against Asian American people today.
Wednesday (May 11) 5-6pm | AADL.TV
Book Discussion: Katie Yamasaki
Muralist and picture book creator Katie Yamasaki has created lavishly illustrated tales on the themes of diversity, resilience, and the impact of mass incarceration on communities. Frances Kai-Hwa Wang and AADL staff discuss three of her works for children: Fish for Jimmy, When the Cousins Came, and Everything Naomi Loved.
Tuesday (May 24) 3-4:30pm | AADL.TV
Frances Kai-Hwa Wang: You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair Is in Braids
Longtime Ann Arbor writer and educator Frances Kai-Hwa Wang reads from her new book, You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair Is in Braids. With many stories set on the streets and in the cafes of Ann Arbor, this is a mischievous and fierce collection of lyric essays and prose poems deftly navigating the space between cultures, punctuated by wise children, bossy aunties, unreliable suitors, and an uncertain political landscape that is Asian America. With artwork and stories behind the stories, we will discuss the challenges of writing in these political and pandemic times. This event was recorded on April 26, 2022.
Wednesday (May 25) 6:30-7:30pm | Downtown Library
Year of the Tiger: Stories and Motifs in New Year Prints from Taiwan
Professors Tom Suchan and Guey-Meei Yang of Eastern Michigan University will discuss stories and motifs found in the eight prints in the Joyful Tiger Harvesting Happiness exhibit, on display at the downtown library May 1st-31st. These prints by Taiwanese artists are a generous gift of the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts and were presented to AADL by the Michigan Taiwanese-American Organization and the Taipei Cultural Center in New York. This summer, two sets of the prints will enter AADL's circulating art print collection.
Thursday (May 26) 6-7:30pm | Downtown Library
Film Screening | Far East, Deep South
Join AADL for a film screening of Far East, Deep South, the award-winning documentary feature film that follows the Chiu family on a surprising journey through Mississippi in search of their lost family history. Along the way, they meet a diverse group of local residents and historians, who shed light on the racially complex history of the early Chinese in the segregated South. Their emotional journey also leads them to discover how exclusionary immigration laws like the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 impacted their family and they learn how deep their roots run in America. This 1-hour and 16-minute film is not rated.