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Our SD Film Festival this year will be from October 15th to 29th, and we are expecting over 25,000 attendees.

One of the films will be showing, which you might be interested in is a Chinese language film Forever Enthralled ( 梅兰芳).
http://sdaff.bside.com/2009/films/foreverenthralled_sdaff2009.

Zhang Ziyi 章子仪(most notable for her breakout role in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) plays an admiring fellow opera singer. Leon Lai (黎明) and other well-known actors are in the film。

If we can have 10 or more people interested, we can have a group discount rate of $7.00 per ticket (as opposed to $9.50 at the door). Please RSVP as soon as you can as event will be cancelled if less than 10 people are interested.

I post this behalf Jimmy, Community Outreach Coordinator for the San Diego Asian Film Festival. Please spead out word to your friends and get involve to Asian film festival.

Feel free to email me if you have questions or other film you would like to watch.

Chinese and other Asian movies. Movies start in the morning or afternoon and run all evening. Take your pick of titles.

http://sdaff.bside.com/2009/schedule/week

Note: All 4pm and some other movies are free, just need to pick up a ticket at the theatre window. See website.

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Here is info from the website. I will have my kids and we might do ping pong and badminton too.

tasteofasiasd website

http://www.tasteofasiasd.com/

San Diego, CA - The Taste of Asia 2009 event is back in Balboa Park on Saturday, September 26th from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. This annual event, emceed by NBC 7/39's Tony Shin, is hosted by a variety of local Asian community organizations as a collaborative effort to raise money and awareness for organizations dedicated to improving living conditions in poor countries. This is a completely volunteer-based charity event and 100% of the proceeds are donated to charities.

Attendees are welcome to try foods from a variety of countries all the way from China to India. Participating restaurants to date include: Ashoka the Great Cuisine of India, Bali Thai, Cristy Bakery and Restaurant, Golden City, Happy Sushi, La Basil Thai, Phuong Trang, Point Point, Saigon on Fifth and Spice Thai.

This year, the beneficiaries of Taste of Asia include the Lotus Outreach and the International Humanity Foundation (IHF). Lotus Outreach was originally established to support refugee education in India, but now also helps with the rehabilitation of survivors of human trafficking and refugee exploitation throughout Asia. The IHF seeks to educate the poor and educate the world about the poor. With locations in Indonesia, Kenya and Thailand, IHF strives to educate the youth in these countries through their orphanages and education centers.

Various museums are supporting the event by offering $2 off discounts to attendees, including the Museum of Man, Natural History Museum, Automotive Museum, Air and Space Museum, San Diego Museum of Art, Museum of Photographic Arts, Veterans Museum , Hall of Champions, and San Diego Chinese Historical Museum.

There will be fun cultural activities that everyone in the family can participate in, from Chinese Calligraphy to Thai fruit carving to lantern making. Ethnic entertainment will be a highlight of the event as you are astounded by performances from local cultural groups. Tickets are $15 for adults and $7 for children.

UCSD offers Chinese language classes through the extension that anyone can take. These are University level courses with homework, tests, etc. They are not for the casual learner, but you can choose the "No Grade" option if you wish.

After taking just the level 1 class you will feel comfortable in small groups, etc. if you have done all the homework . You will be able to inquire what people like do do, discuss going to restaurants, talk about family, etc.

Here is a link to the information page.

http://extension.ucsd.edu/studyarea/index.cfm?cmp=EMC-FOREIGNLANG&vAction=singleCourse&vCourse=LACH-40000&vsacategoryid=20&vStudyAreaID=11

麦特

After all the excitement of your Saturday night activities, you wake up bright and early at 11:00am, watch some bad tv for a little bit, and then you start to get hungry...... There is only one thing that will satisfy your Sunday mid-morning cravings......DIM SUM!!!

Granted, I've been to dim sum a bunch of times with Chinese Language meetup group, and not much Chinese gets spoken at the table. However, it's still a traditional southern-Chinese meal with good company, great food, and Pearl does dim sum well (even if they don't have tripe with brown sauce).

So let's get up on Sunday 5/17 and have some dim sum!!!

By the way, now it's only one day away.....so no more "maybes". I need to have a head-count for when I get to the restaurant so I can tell them "a table for ---------- people."