The 2010 KAAN Conference will be held in Harrisburg, PA from July 23-25, 2010.  Our theme is The Road Ahead. This theme is relevant as Korea looks at closing international adoption, as racial discussions and perspectives continue to evolve in the United States, and as North Korea’s situation changes every day with questions of war, reunification, and human rights on the forefront. What wisdom can KAAN presenters and participants bring to these discussions? How can we listen and respond to each other and the world around us? How can we as a community support adoptees and adoptive parents of all ages?

We are currently selecting workshops from the proposals submitted.    We will begin adding workshops to the website at they are selected and speakers are notified.    Check back often for updates at www.kaanconference.com   We expect to be open for registration in February.

- Two reality TV shows stir up anger and publicity
- Transracial Adoption Then and Now
- Research on Language Acquistion
- Foreign adoptions by Americans hit 13-year low
- Adoptees dress up to raise awareness
- Love knows no color: Adopted children find hope in multiethnic families

- Outside the Paint: When Basketball Ruled at the Chinese Playground
- "Born to Serve or Born to Lead?"

- Win a Ticket to Seoul
- Roots Unknown
- Adopted The Comic
- New Songdo - The Dubai of Korea

- CALL FOR PAPERS Journal of Korean Adoption Studies
- Call For Papers For Special Issue On Race And Health
- Call for Paper Proposals
- Adopted 2nd Edition Now Available
- Adoption Research
- World Ties Shop

- Antique Locks - New York, NY - Through January 2010
- Adult Adoptee Only Movie Group - Portland, OR - January 12, 2010
- Transracial Adoption Issues - Pennington, NJ - January 24, 2010
- Book Discussion - Harrisburg, PA - January 27, 2010
- Talismans of Protection - New York, NY - Through January 29, 2010
- Talking About Adoption - Portland, OR - January 30, 2010
- Every Child Has A Story - Portland, OR - January 30, 2010
- Lunar New Year Celebration - McLean, VA - February 6, 2010
- SolNal - New Cumberland, PA - February 13, 2010
- Developmental Disabilities - Perkasie, PA - March 1, 2010
- AAC Conference - Sacramento, CA - March 18 - 21, 2010
- Adoption Conference - Bellingham, MA - April 17, 2010
- Ahn Trio in Concert - Kennett Square, PA - May 15, 2010
- Folklife Festival - Washington, D.C. - June 23-July 5, 2010

If a reality television show is not generating outrage these days, it seems not to be doing its job.  Read More: http://www.telegram.com

It was before e-mail was widely available, in an era prior to the common use of FAX machines and computers.  Read More: http://riverbloodandcorn.blogspot.com

Research Links Early Exposure to Language in Babies to Easier Acquisition of the Language as Adults   Read More: http://newswire.ascribe.org

The number of foreign children adopted by Americans plunged more than a quarter in the past year, reaching the lowest level since 1996 and leading adoption advocates to urge Congress to help reverse the trend.  Read More: http://news.yahoo.com

What sort of mission would a chicken have in Seoul Station?  Read More: http://www.koreaherald.co.kr

To Drew Won Howe, the color of love is pink. At least today.  Read More: http://www.voice-tribune.com

Outside the Paint: When Basketball Ruled at the Chinese Playground (Temple University Press, 2009)
by Kathleen S. Yep

Outside the Paint takes readers back to the Chinese Playground of San Francisco in the 1930s and 1940s, the only public outdoor space in Chinatown. It was a place where young Chinese American men and women developed a new approach to the game of basketball—with fast breaks, intricate passing and aggressive defense—that was ahead of its time.

Drawing on interviews with players and coaches, Kathleen S. Yep recounts some surprising stories. From the success of the Hong Wah Kues, a professional barnstorming men's basketball team and the Mei Wahs, a championship women’s amateur team, to Woo Wong, the first Chinese athlete to play in Madison Square Garden, and his extraordinarily talented sister Helen Wong, who is compared to Babe Didrikson.

Outside the Paint chronicles the efforts of these highly accomplished athletes who developed a unique playing style that capitalized on their physical attributes, challenged the prevailing racial hierarchy, and enabled them, for a time, to leave the confines of their segregated world. As they learned to dribble, shoot, and steal, they made basketball a source of individual achievement and Chinese American community pride.

"Prodigiously researched and vividly realized, Outside the Paint tells a story previously all but unknown. Kathleen Yep has made an important contribution to the scholarship of the city game."
—Jeremy Schaap, New York Times best-selling author of Cinderella Man: James J. Braddock, Max Baer and the Greatest Upset in Boxing History and Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics

"Yep's sports research helps fill a scholarly void in Asian American studies and serves as an inspiration to scholars."
—Nichi Bei Times

"This readable volume provides compelling information about the experiences of Chinese American basketball players in San Francisco in the 1930s-40s.... Providing historical information that may be difficult to find in the broader literature on the history of US sports, this book will interest not only students of sports bus also those pursuing work in Asian American studies, ethnic studies, and US immigration history. Though accessible to beginners, it also offers information of interest to scholars."
—Choice

Kathleen S. Yep is Associate Professor of Asian American Studies at Pitzer College and the chair of the Intercollegiate Department of Asian American Studies at the Claremont Colleges.

Outside The Paint: When Basketball Ruled At The Chinese Playground(Temple University Press)
Author: Kathleen S. Yep
ISBN: 1592139426

Order online at http://www.temple.edu

Editorial Contact: Russell Leong, rleong@ucla.edu
Review copies: Ming Tu 310.825.2968

"Born to Serve or Born to Lead?"
UCLA's Amerasia Journal Releases New Research
on Asian American Feminism and Gender

UCLA Asian American Studies Center--Amerasia Journal 35:2, 2009
releases its latest edition: "Through Class, Race, and Sex" with a
special focus on the way contemporary Asian American women think,
feel, and act upon their status as women in society.

Jennifer Yee, a professor of Asian American Studies at California
State University, Fullerton, has "opened up" a new conversation about
the "assumptions, values and beliefs that serve as the foundation for
personal lives, family and community health," in her article. Upon
observing both her female and male students, she has observed a
"shifting of consciousness" and the struggle by Asian American women
in particular to define, and to defy, traditional expectations.
Today's Asian American women, Yee asserts, must answer for themselves
such questions as: "Born to Serve or Born to Lead?" (Many Asian
parents have different expectations for their first-born daughters or
sons). Another choice Asian women make is whether to adhere to
becoming a "good girl" and "ideal female".

Yee states that: "As teens, they hear they should do well in school
so that they will succeed, go to the best schools, get prestigious
jobs and make lots of money, and bring honor to take care of their
parents. They should be heterosexual, avoid sex before marriage and
above all, avoid pregnancy until after they are married."

Yee's fascinating study shows that the conflicts which Asian American
women and students go through--and their backgrounds are as varied as
China, Korea, Taiwan, Okinawa, Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines,
Cambodia, Laos--with multiracial and multi-generational families
included--often become internalized struggles that affect mental and
physical health. The study concludes with ways for Asian American
students--both female and male--to recognize the social and cultural
forces that surround them at home, at school, and at play--and to
fashion independent choices.

Other articles in this special edition look at Asian American women
activists Grace Lee Boggs and Kazu Iijima, involved respectively in
the Black Power and Asian American Movements. Scholars May C. Fu,
and Karen L. Ishizuka have
separately provided an in-depth look at the context of these two
women's lives from the 1960s and through subsequent decades.
Stephanie D. Santos, former assistant editor of Amerasia, provides a
look at feminist organizing among Filipina Migrant Workers and the
role of the State in both neglecting and condoning violence against
these workers.

Section two of Amerasia contains an interview with the late scholar
Ron Takaki, conducted by Te-Hsing Shan . UCLA Professor Valerie J.
Matsumoto introduces new research by her students which cover:
Indo-Fijians in America (Faris Alikhan); Indonesian Dutch Americans
(Breann Schram); and Filipino Guamanian Americans (Lindsey Babas).

Section three addresses the ways in which ethnic groups in America
are depicted in the media, in museums, and within institutions of
higher education. Erin Khue Ninh examines how Vietnamese refugees,
long settled in the U.S., maintain and establish memory and nostalgia
through internet videos. Cari Costanzo Kapur looks at how the
history of Japanese plantation workers is written and exhibited in
relation to native Hawaiian peoples at the the Japanese Cultural
Center of Hawai'i. Finally, Ptricia E. Literte, drawing from her
fieldwork at institutions of higher education, looks at the ways in
which students of mixed ancestry ("hapas") organize on campus and
define themselves socially and politically in relation to other Asian
Americans.

This special 228 page issue of Amerasia Journal costs $15.00 plus
$5.00 for shipping and handling and 9.25 percent sales tax for
California residents ($21.39). Make checks payable to "Regents of
U.C." VISA, MASTERCARD, and DISCOVER are also accepted; include
expiration date and phone number on correspondence. The mailing
address is: UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press, 3230 Campbell
Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1546.

Annual subscriptions for Amerasia Journal are $99.99 for individuals
and $445.00 for libraries and other institutions. The institutional
price includes access to the Amerasia online database, which has
full-text versions of all Amerasia Journals published since 1971.
Amerasia Journal is published three times a year: Winter, Spring,
and Fall.

Learn more about Korean Culture by playing a fun quiz game with the chance to win a ticket to Seoul.  http://english.seoul.go.kr

Trailer for DVD on adoption issues http://www.youtube.com

By two Vietnamese transracial adoptees.   They say, "many of our comics will have that point of view. But this comic is for everyone adopted or not, the comic is for anyone that wants a little insight into the adoptee world through.  Our comics are primarily for teens & adults with strong themes surrounding adoption, transracial adoption, family, culture, race, etc. so you might want to review the comic first before showing it to a person 13yrs or younger."  http://www.adoptedthecomic.com

New Songdo City is a planned international business center being developed on 1,500 acres (6 km²) of reclaimed land along Incheon's waterfront, 40 miles (65 km) west of Seoul, South Korea. The new city opened in August 2009. It sports a huge convention center, hotels, and the Northeast Asia Trade Tower (NEATT) as of now. When completed in 2015, it is projected to be a self-sustaining new city with hotels, hospitals, office buildings, international schools and universities and a large residential section.  Take a look http://www.youtube.com

Number 3: Community

Guest edited by Jennifer Kwon Dobbs

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS:

1 APRIL 2010
 

This is a
call for papers for the third issue of the Journal
of Korean Adoption Studies.
This issue focuses on community as a significant project that Korean adoptees have been engaged in building since the early 1980s. This issue facilitates opportunities to examine struggles for community by documenting previous models on which adoptees have relied to imagine possible directions toward developing collective unity.

Journal of Korean Adoption Studies is dedicated to all aspects of int’l adoption from Korea. The
peer-reviewed journal welcomes academic essays, testimonies of  adoption, illustrations and reviews of new publications or releases related to Korean adoption studies.  For more detailed info about the CFP and to submit a paper go to http://goal.or.kr

Guest Editor: Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing, St. Olaf College. Journal of Korean Adoption Studies is a bi-annual journal published in English and Korean by
Global Overseas Adoptees’ Link (G.O.A.’L), Seoul, Korea.

To preview or purchase a copy of the very first issue of Journal of Korean Adoption Studies (Vol. 1, No. 1, Summer 2009), visit our website: http://goal.or.kr
Thank you,

Nicole Sheppard
Managing Editor
Journal of Korean Adoption Studies

Review:
Social Science Research on Race

“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.”

With those words, W.E. Du Bois discussed the racial progress in the
United States and foreshadowed the critical part race would continue
to play in understanding inequality, mobility, and quality of life in
American society. This quote serves as a springboard for this special
call of the Du Bois Review (DBR) soliciting abstracts for papers that
describe novel and exciting research directions for studying how race
and ethnicity affect health in the twenty-first century. That is,
what are the next big ideas that can potentially unpack how and why
race is so strongly associated with physical and mental health? What
are the most promising new directions for the study of racial
inequality and health? What are the key unanswered questions that
researchers and policy makers should invest in? What is needed to
make more progress in effectively addressing racial inequalities in
health? The DBR is truly multidisciplinary, spanning economics,
political science, psychology, sociology, history, public health, and
more. If you are not already familiar with the journal, we encourage
you to go to the Cambridge University Press website and examine
previous issues:
http://journals.cambridge.org

Guest editors for this special issue are David R. Williams (Harvard
University) and David T. Takeuchi (University of Washington).

Submission Process

Two-page proposals for papers are due January 25, 2010. Two types of
papers will be accepted for this special call: (a) state of the
discipline presents lead essays that synthetically critique broad
areas of research regarding race and health ; and (b) state of the
art, is dedicated to observations and analyses of empirical research.
Proposals should state a tentative title, the type of paper to be
written, listing of authors, contact information, and a synopsis of
the paper idea. We will select papers that hold the most promise for
advancing the field and that best combine, as a collection of papers,
into a synergistic whole appropriate for this special call. We expect
to make our final selection of proposals by February 15, 2010. Final
papers will be due July 31, 2010 with publication of the special issue
expected for early 2011. DBR is a blind peer-reviewed journal and
publishes only original, previously unpublished whether hard copy or
electronic work. Submitted manuscripts may not be under review for
publication elsewhere while under consideration at DBR.
Please send an electronic version of proposals for papers to both
David Williams DWILLIAM@hsph.harvard.edu and David Takeuchi dt5@uw.edu
.

About DBR

DBR is an innovative journal that presents and analyzes the best
cutting-edge research on race from the social sciences. It provides a
forum for discussion and increased understanding of race and society
from a range of disciplines, including but not limited to economics,
political science, sociology, anthropology, law, communications,
public policy, psychology, linguistics, and history. The editors of
this peer-reviewed journal are Professor Lawrence D. Bobo (Harvard
University) and Professor Michael C. Dawson (University of Chicago).
Published by Cambridge University Press, and sponsored by the W. E. B.
Du Bois Institute at Harvard University, each issue of the DBR
contains between 200 and 225 pages.

For further information about DBR please go to:
http://www.journals.cambridge.org

“Mixed Race in the Age of Obama”
March 5, 2010
Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture
University of Chicago

The Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago invites paper proposals for a daylong conference to be held on campus on March 5, 2010. “Mixed Race in the Age of Obama” seeks to intervene in the discursive, material, and ideological debates involving mixed-race people nationally and internationally, examining historical, sociological, literary, legal, and other (inter)disciplinary representations of the lived experience of mixed-race people.

While often the interrogation into mixed race assumes a Black-White dichotomy in the U.S., as in the case of our first mixed-race President, looking beyond the veil yields much more provocative and historically significant intersections of race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, sexuality, nationalism, and empire, amongst other formations. For example, how has President Obama’s African, Indonesian, Hawai’ian and Kansan upbringing informed his identity, his “brand,” and perhaps, his politics? Given the recent New York Times query into First Lady Michelle Obama’s mixed-race roots, are we, as a 21st-century society, finally coming to grips with a subject that authors like Charles Chesnutt, Mark Twain, Nella Larsen, and Jean Toomer explored in the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries? Certainly American imperial wars have borne the intended consequences of miscegenation, from the number of mixed-race children either left behind and
neglected in war zones, like Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and the Philippines, or taken by soldier-fathers to the U.S. (à la Miss Saigon’s hackneyed Asian woman’s bodily sacrifice for the well-being of the normative white couple and the health of the national body). Absorption of mixed-race people into American culture and society did not gain significant purchase among eugenicists of the U.S. imperial period in the way that “half-castes” in the British Colonies were envisioned. Why? Why not? Even the “little brown brother” in the Philippines knew enough that Hispanicized, mixed-race élites should collude with American counterparts to keep control of the “inferior,” indigenous, “full-blooded,” and darker peoples of the new U.S. colony. The Tagalog term mestiso shares its cognate in Spanish (mestizo) for an historical, strategic, and ultimately hegemonic reason: the Spanish Empire’s voyages into Asia and Latin America were not
simply exercises in navigational curiosity.

This conference will therefore explore new genealogies and approaches to the study of mixed-race people, multiracialism, and the mythology of the purity of any putatively monolithic “race.” What historical events and movements have affected the positionality and discourse of mixed-race peoples? Is it important or unimportant to acknowledge the role institutions, like universities, census bureaus, the courts, and Madison Avenue agencies, play in the understanding, representation, and reception of mixed-race peoples? What is significant about President Obama’s claim to Blackness despite his much heralded mixed-race background and upbringing? Do the stakes in the debates surrounding mixed-race categories and peoples, and related problematic representations of people of color in general, shift as the people themselves ascend to the highest echelons of power, knowledge production, and entertainment culture?

Conference paper proposals are welcome on the following themes but are not limited to: identity politics and the politics of mixed-race peoples, nationally and globally; post-racial discourses and ideologies; intersecting “zones” of multiracialism, gender, and multisexuality; mixed-race narratives or histories involving the “one-drop rule” or blood “quantum”; new studies, genealogies, and/or historiographies of mixed-race peoples; the politics of transgressions or non-normative politics; on-the-ground racial politics surrounding mixed-race peoples and “authenticity” within certain racialized groups.
Papers presented at the conference will be considered for publication in an academic journal. All expenses – transport and housing – will be provided for persons chosen to present.

Paper proposals should not be more than two single-spaced pages and must be accompanied by a short, two-page résumé. A copy of these materials should be sent electronically by January 25, 2010 to each of the following: Ramón A. Gutiérrez (rgutierrez@uchicago.edu), Matthew M. Briones (brio@uchicago.edu).

For additional information on the conference or the Center, please contact Prof. Ramón A. Gutiérrez, Director, Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, University of Chicago, at 773-702-8063 or rgutierrez@uchicago.edu.

******************
Matthew Manuel Briones
Assistant Professor of American History and the College
The University of Chicago
Department of History
1126 E. 59th St., Box 63
Chicago, IL 60637
brio@uchicago.edu

Learn more and watch a preview at http://www.adoptedthemovie.com

Are you a White adoptive parent of an Asian child or children? Your help is needed for a research study about adoptive families!

You can provide researchers with valuable information that will help advance understanding regarding transracial adoptive families.

- One-time survey
- Completed online in about 20 minutes
- Confidential responses
- Only one parent from each family may participate.

We want to learn more about your experiences raising a child from a country of origin and race that are different from your own. Although you will receive no direct benefits, your participation will help researchers understand more about international adoptive families. This research has been approved by the University of Maryland, College Park IRB for research involving human participants.

Please visit the following link to view a description of the study and an informed consent form before you decide if you would like to participate.

http://www.surveymonkey.com

Contact Information:

Maria Berbery, Doctoral Student
University of Maryland Department of Psychology
1147 Biology-Psychology Building
College Park, MD 20742
mberbery@psyc.umd.edu

Dr. Karen O'Brien, Professor
University of Maryland Department of Psychology
1147 Biology-Psychology Building
College Park, MD 20782
kobrien@psyc.umd.edu
301-405-5812

Becca Piper
Founder/Director
The Ties Program--Adoptive Family Homeland Journeys
10520 W. Bluemound Rd.
Wauwatosa, WI  53226
www.AdoptiveFamilyTravel.com
1 800 398-3676 travel office

For more than 15 years in twelve countries, the Hallmark of The Ties Program: has been our ability to create an experience that allows you to travel with a community of adoptive families and trained professionals, and at the same time, have your individual family dreams and needs met.

Thanks for the privilege.

The World Ties Shoppe is open and now ANYTHING you buy on Amazon helps children in your child's (or your) country of birth, as long as you use the link on our site. Go to www.AdoptiveFamilyTravel.com and click on Aid/World Ties.

Talismans of Protection from Choson Korea: Antique Locks, Latches and Key Charms Shown for the first time in the United States, the collection features a rare collection of locks, latches and key charms, from the Choson Dynasty (1392-1910), beautifully designed metal and wood objects executed in myriad shapes.

October 8, 2009-January 29, 2010

Gallery Hours: Monday through Friday: 10:00 AM-5:00 PM

Opening Reception: Thursday, October 8, 2009, 6:00 PM-8:30 PM

The Korea Society Gallery
950 Third Avenue @ 57th Street, 8th Floor
(Building entrance on SW corner of Third Avenue and 57th Street)

Free and open to the public

When:             January 12

Time:               6 pm to 9 pm

Where:            SE Uplift - 3534 SE Main St., Portland, OR 97214

Cost:                 Sliding scale fee $4 to $10

Facilitator:      Astrid Dabbeni

 

*Please bring a snack to share.  

In 1966, Deann Borshay Liem was adopted by an American family and was sent from Korea to her new home. Growing up in California, the memory of her birth family was nearly obliterated until recurring dreams lead Borshay Liem to discover the truth: her Korean mother was very much alive. Bravely uniting her biological and adoptive families, Borshay Liem’s heartfelt journey makes First Person Plural a poignant essay on family, loss, and the reconciling of two identities.

 

*Email info@adoptionmosaic.org to RSVP for this event*

Transracial Adoptive Family Issues

Date:  Sunday, January 24, 2010

Time: Noon to 3 p.m.
Place: IACCenter, 2 Tree Farm Road, Suite A200, Pennington N.J., 08534

This workshop is for prospective adoptive parents, adoptive parents, teens and adults who were adopted into transracial families, and professionals.  Parents will have the opportunity to consider what this feels like for their child and to examine their own feelings related to being part of a transracial family.  Teens and young adults will have a chance to learn from adults who share similar issues. NASW CE credits for 3 hours available upon request.

Moderator: Jane Cramer, an IAC Center Counselor who works with adoptive parents and children pre and post adoption, which helps her to understand adoption issues from the perspective of both the children and the parents.

Speakers: A Panel of adopted adults who were adopted into transracial families will share their personal experiences at different stages in their lives and help you to think about how you can help your children with issues related to race and to adoption.

You will learn about:

• Identity, Ethnicity and Culture - How being adopted from another culture affects their life journey.
• How these adult adoptees dealt with the complex issues of race and identity as children and as teens.  What were their experiences of being of a different race in their family and community?
• What happens when the time comes for these adoptees to interact with non-adoptees from the same ethnic culture and race?
• Their experiences with dating and relationships and how culture, race and family origin affects this.
• Racial and gender stereotyping and different ways to deal with these issues
• Experiences with search and reunion OR returning to the country of their birth. 
• Effective strategies for families seeking to optimize self-esteem and sense of positive identity in their children. 

Considering what it feels like for your child and examining how it is for you to be part of a transracial family is a process. This workshop would best be seen as a point in that journey.

To register http://iaccenter.com

Ta-ri Book Discussion-Harrisburg-January 27, 2010

International House Hardwood Lounge

320 Chestnut St, Harrisburg, PA 17101

6:00-7:30PM

Free admission and appetizers

Directions <http://www.ihousehbg.org>  or call (717) 724-2846

 

Join us at International House in Harrisburg for a discussion of Helie Lee's
Still Life with Rice: A Young American Woman Discovers the Life and Legacy
of Her Korean Grandmother.  Contact us at info@ta-ri.org if you are
interested in hearing more and/or contributing some light refreshments.

 

About the book ...

This powerful book evolved out of a young Korean-American woman's desire to
connect with her Korean roots. On a trip to South Korea, the author is
surprised to learn about a different side of her grandmother, HongYong Baek,
and ends up pursuing and then writing her strong-willed grandmother's life
story. The book weaves together cultural and historical details in a way
that comes to life for the reader, covering the Japanese occupation, civil
war, and other significant events. Above it all, however, rises the
indomitable spirit and perseverance of HongYong Baek. This book is a
must-read for anyone wanting to better understand Korean culture and
history.

Talismans of Protection from Choson Korea: Antique Locks, Latches and Key Charms

Shown for the first time in the United States, the collection features a rare collection of locks, latches and key charms, from the Choson Dynasty (1392-1910), beautifully designed metal and wood objects executed in myriad shapes.

Gallery Hours: Monday through Friday: 10:00 AM-5:00 PM

The Korea Society Gallery
950 Third Avenue @ 57th Street, 8th Floor
(Building entrance on SW corner of Third Avenue and 57th Street)

Free and open to the public

“How much did I cost?”
“Why didn’t my birthmother keep me?”
“Will I every get to meet my birthfamily?”
“Did my birthmother love me?”
“Why did you adopt me?”

Have you thought about how you will respond when your child asks such questions? Because adopted children will hang on every word you say in response to these very delicate questions, it is important for adoptive parents to be prepared. A child’s ability to confidently handle questions about adoption will depend on your responses to his or her questions. How you talk with your children about adoption is critical to their forming healthy attitudes.

This workshop will give you the tools to:

• Share your child’s adoption story with them.
• Make the information age appropriate.
• Learn what tools are available, including lifestory books, movies, and books.

This workshop is appropriate for adoptive parents, waiting parents, and professionals.

Details
Instructor(s): Astrid Dabbeni
When: January 30th 2010
Where: TBA in Portland, Oregon
Cost: $60 per person, $90 per couple
To register go to: http://www.adoptionmosaic.org

Pictures along with age appropriate journaling provide an important connection for children to their unique history of the way they joined their adoptive family. Regardless of the type or amount of background information you have about your child before he or she came to you, it will be essential to create an appropriate record.

Learn about:

• The importance of having these tools
• Where to start
• Dos and don’ts
• How to make the information age-appropriate
• Much more

This training offers assistance to people who want to either begin creating such a tool or who want to more fully develop an existing one.

Comments from past participants:

• This class really helped clarify the difference between a scrapbook and a life book, and what is involved in creating a book that is helpful, supportive and meaningful to our child.
• It was especially valuable to have the class taught by an adoptee who could emphasize personal experience and how that relates to life history.
• This class gave me more tools for talking to my daughter about her life story.

Details
Instructor(s): Astrid Dabbeni
When:  January 30th 2010
Where: Portland, Oregon
Sponsored by Northwest Adoptive Families Association (NAFA). For more information and to register, contact Andrea at akfeltham@comcast.net.

Ring in the Year of the Tiger at the annual Korean Focus - KUMCGW Lunar New Year Celebration!  Check back for more information, but be sure to save the date! 

Date & Time:  Saturday, January 31st, 1 - 3 PM

Location:  Korean United Methodist Church of Greater Washington, 1219 Swinks Mill Road, McLean, Virginia 

Come and enjoy Korean crafts and games for kids and adults, Korean cooking lessons, performances of traditional and modern Korean music, shopping at the KF craft sale, plus lots of time to catch up with old friends and to make new ones.  See you there!

 

Ta-ri SolNal (Lunar New Year) Party-New Cumberland-February 13

Saturday, February 13

2:00-4:00PM

Foundation Hall, New Cumberland Public Library

1 Benjamin Plaza, New Cumberland, PA 17070

Library directions: 717.774-7820 (call for navigation help only)

Free admission ... donations accepted.

 

Join us to celebrate the Lunar New Year, central-Pennsylvania Korean-style!

This year's program includes:

2:00       Food, conversation, and games

2:30       Announcements

                Talent show **

3:30       More conversation and games (yutnori, storytelling, favorite
Board games ...)

4:00       Departure

 

** Our family-friendly talent show has become a tradition all its own. Last
year's performers included singers, violinist, and tae kwon do student.
Children and adults are invited to share a talent. Please sign up by
February 1 if possible.

 

All are encouraged to bring favorite snacks and Board games to share before
and after the talent show.

If you would like to volunteer for this event, please let us know!

 

RSVP and sign up for the talent show by February 13 at info@ta-ri.org or
(717) 574-3629.

We will email all registrants should wintry weather affect plans. 

Mar. 1, 2010, 7 to 9 p.m.
This lecture will focus on the historical perspective of meeting the needs of developmentally disabled children, as well as the impact of The Child Who Never Grew, written by Pearl Buck based on her personal experience.

To register go to http://www.psbi.org

AMERICAN ADOPTION CONGRESS

In Conjunction with PACER (Post Adoption Center for Education and
Research) OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

Present:

The 2010 SPRING CONFERENCE: MARCH 18 through MARCH 21, 2010

VOICES OF ADOPTION

SPEAKING OUR TRUTH, RESTORING OUR RIGHTS

Where:
SHERATON GRAND SACRAMENTO
1230 J Street
Sacramento, California, 95814
(916) 447-1700

Conference Chair: Donnie Davis - pdj27@aol.com

**If you are interested in presenting/conducting a workshop at the
Spring Conference, please email Donnie a request no later than October
31, 2009.**

Keep checking our website at www.AmericanAdoptionCongress.org
  for conference updates and registration details.
Hope to see you all there!

The 37th Annual New England Adoption Conference presented by Adoption
Community of New England, Inc. (ACONE) will be held on Saturday, April 17,
2009 in Bellingham, MA.

www.AdoptionCommunityofNE.org

Longwood Gardens

PO Box 501 Kennett Square, PA 19348

www.longwoodgardens.org

Tickets $40 from www.ticketphiladelphia.org or (215) 893-1999

 

Born in Seoul, Korea, and educated at Juilliard in NYC, the members of the Ahn Trio are redefining the art and architecture of chamber music, breathing new life into the standard piano trio literature with commissioned works from visionary composers. The trio’s latest CD reached #8 on the Billboard charts. Possessing an enviable combination of talent and style, they have gone on to frequent fashion pages of Vogue and GQ and in 2003 were named three of People Magazine’s 50 Most Beautiful People.

We are very excited that the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage has chosen to highlight Asian Pacific Americans as one of the three themes for the 2010 Folklife Festival. The Festival, which will be held from June 23 through July 5, 2010, will be the 44th time that the Smithsonian has held this annual event on the National Mall. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for us to showcase APAs from the metropolitan DC area as a microcosm of the more than 12 million APAs in the United States.

The Folklife Festival is considered the premiere annual event in Washington and is attended by many lawmakers, opinion leaders, business leaders, and their families. Each year, about 1.5 million people attend the Festival, 6 million visit the website, and 40 million hear of it through national and international media coverage.

 

Contact: Curator of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival's 2010 Program on Asian Pacific Americans, Phil Nash, at p.nash@nashinteractive.com or 301.263.0217.

KAAN's MISSION is: To Support Networking And Build Understanding Among Adoptees, Adoptive Families, Koreans  And Korean Americans. Visit KAAN's website at http://www.kaanet.com/ .

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