International youth reporter Kevin Tain reports live from the 11th annual Sakura-Con, the Northwest's premiere Japanese Animation and Cultural Festival, this weekend from the Washington State Convention and Trade Center.

Today at 3pm, talk to the high school junior live on his online talk radio show.



To listen to Kevin's Sakura Con podcasts, select what you want to hear on the above menu and click the play button.





Friday Photos: Sakura-Con Attendees CosPlay Costumes.





Resources

gia: The Original Weeabitch is LiveBlogging from workshops and the show floor.
Anime Pulse is posting podcasts of workshops and show recaps

Labels: event, Japanese, youth

Bellevue Community College has launched a "I Love BCC" video contest on YouTube. An Apple iPhone is the first place prize.

Entries approved by a screening committee will be posted on YouTube.com for public judging, with public voting for the winners taking place on BCC's website November 13 - 30.

"Our President, B. Jean Floten, asked my department to get us a presence on YouTube," stated Trina Ballard, Director, Outreach and Recruitment Bellevue Community College, in an on-line interview. "After considering asking our students to produce videos for class projects, I came up with the contest idea instead to get a wider range of submissions."

There will be only one winner, but up to ten finalists. The winning video will be posted on the BBC website and DVDs burned for distribution.

Complete contest rules and an entry form are also available on-line at www.bellevuecollege.edu/outreach/ or via email at outreach@bcc.ctc.edu.

Labels: contest, Education, youth

Nhien Nguyen, editor International Examiner, talks to Samantha Chin, 2007 Miss Chinese Seattle about her new role in the community. Chin, who is the grandchild of former University of Washington Regent Ark Chin, will receive $5,000 in scholarship funds. Part 1 of 2.

Labels: Culture, interview, youth

Angela Pang, Feb 02, 2007
AsianWeek

Dressed in a red, white and blue USA jersey and jeans, pint-sized Jordan Eugenio, 9, pumps up the crowd and asks the students of Garnet J. Robertson Intermediate School in Daly City if they are ready for his next song.

Lil’ Jordan, who is Filipino, Korean and Chinese, turns his Oakland A’s hat backwards so the audience can see his face. He tells the crowd that the next song, "Puppy Luv," is about his first crush, which has girls, "oohing and ahhing." Slow hip-hop beats start to blare from the speakers of the gym. (Read More)

Labels: Entertainment, youth

Matt Chernicoff and Emi Meyer talk to Massive Monkeys, a Seattle based breakdancing group, at the 2007 Mayor's Arts Awards.

Labels: Entertainment, interview, youth

Boa Kwon is a South Korean singer, commonly known by her stage name BoA, and the letters of her first name have been backronymed to Beat of Angel. She has been active in both South Korea and Japan. Aside from Korean, she also speaks Japanese and conversational English.

At the age of thirteen, after two years of training, BoA released her debut album ID; Peace B on August 25, 2000. The album received positive reviews and climbed into the top ten chart, going on to sell 218,114 copies. Meanwhile, her Korean record label SM Entertainment made arrangements with Japanese company Avex Trax to launch her music career in Japan. Source: WIKI


BoA the live 20th birthday - Aint No Sunshine (English)

Labels: Entertainment, youth

Emi Meyer, Singer-Songwriter, talks about her new CD, "Curious Creature." The college junior is the winner of the 2007 Seattle-Kobe Female Jazz Vocalist Competition and will be studing Ethnomusicology this year in Kyoto, Japan. Emi was also KGRL Flower-Powered Artist in May.

Labels: Entertainment, interview, Japanese, youth

The International Examiner staff talk about their Asian American Experience.

Labels: Culture, interview, youth

Nhien Nguyen, editor International Examiner, interviews WILD members Montica Vorgn and Rina Thi at the Seattle's Chinatown-International District Night Market.

Seattle’s Chinatown-International District Night Market is brought to you by a partnership of local community organizations: Chinatown-International District Business Improvement Area, International District Housing Alliance, International Examiner, Seattle Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Wing Luke Asian Museum, and also through the support of the City of Seattle Office of Economic Development, Department of Neighborhoods, and Department of Parks and Recreation.



The Night Market joins a series of Summer Events in Hing Hay Park through August. Weekly Saturday outdoor movies in the park include: "Fearless" starring Jet Li (August 4); "In the Mood for Love" (August 11); "Monsoon Wedding" (August 18); and "Steamboy" (August 25).

Labels: event, id, youth

Nhien Nguyen, editor International Examiner, interviews WILD members Kevin Tain and Yuk Liang at the Seattle’s Chinatown-International District Night Market.

Established in 1997, the International District Housing Alliance Wilderness Inner-city Leadership Development (WILD) project is a youth program that operates under the framework of environmental health and justice in Seattle, WA. Many of the youth in the WILD program are not native English speakers, but speak a number of languages and dialects. With common language and culture, WILD youth are well suited to assist the elders on issues concerning environmental justice, and at the same time gain a better sense of identity, community, and civic responsibility. - Seattle Neighborhood Indicator Project

Labels: id, youth