Events This Week: Breaking the Bow in LA

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• Festival kick off Party for Breaking the Bow – The festival kick-off Party for Breaking the Bow (see below) will feature Improv troupe Cold Tofu and R&B artist Dawen. (October 22, 2009 from 5pm to 6pm, Santa Monica, CA)

• BREAKING THE BOW: The 1st Annual Independent Asian Pacific Islander Performing Artists and Writers Festival – Shattering the disparity between up-and-coming artists and writers and their established professional counterparts, smashing the chasm between Hollywood movers and non-traditional and independent-minded talent, demolishing the divergence between the young, hip, Youtube artists and those who paved earlier inroads, the festival is an artistic explosion of positive images not normally seen in mainstream media. Never before has such a coalescence of diverse groups ocurred with an ultimate goal of education, outreach building and strengthening the community through the arts. (October 22, 2009 at 6:30pm to October 25, 2009 at 11pm, Santa Monica, CA)

• AARGH!!, the Asian Pacific Islander cabaret – AARGH!! comes to Southern California as part of BREAKING THE BOW: The 1st Annual Independent Asian Pacific Islander Performing Artists and Writers Festival. The showcase includes a wide variety of internationally recognized artists as well as up-and-coming performers. Headlining the show is pioneering theater artist Jude Narita, best known for her award-winning one-woman play, COMING INTO PASSION/SONG FOR A SANSEI. She is the recipient of the Los Angeles Drama Critics’ Circle Award; three Drama-Logue Awards; and a James Wong Howe “JIMMIE” from the Association of Asian Pacific American Artists (AAPAA). (October 23, 2009 at 8pm to October 24, 2009 at 8pm, Santa Monica, CA)