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			<title>An Interview with Thy Tran, Asian Culinary Educator</title>
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			<description>We briefly caught up with culinary writer &amp; instructor, Thy Tran, and chatted about her...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[We briefly caught up with culinary writer &amp; instructor, Thy Tran, and chatted about her upcoming series of cooking classes in OACC’s kitchen. As someone who’s worked in the food industry for the last 18 years, including restaurants, cookbook publishing and culinary academies--Thy has a special philosophy about learning in the kitchen that shapes her teaching style. 
<img src="uploads/RTEmagicC_OACC_headshot.jpg.jpg" width="171" height="225" alt="" /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">What’s your favorite part about teaching home cooks?</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Definitely seeing that “a-ha!” moment in students. At its best, it’s a full-body experience involving all the senses, when they understand not only the rationale behind a new technique but also appreciate the flavor and texture and transformation of food. When get their hands literally around a new ingredient or connect meaningfully with others in the kitchen or at the table later. Sometimes, it’s simply making a dish that they’ve eaten but never cooked. One of my favorite times was watching a woman finally forming, after several tries, a dumpling that her father had made when she was little but had never taught her. Even through her frustration with mastering the rolling and shaping, there was this excitement in her eyes as the cooking connected with the memories.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">How did you decide on these topics? Like flatbreads--that isn’t something we usually associate with Asian food.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">I think it’s important to remind people about the incredible diversity of Asian cuisines and the forces that shaped them, like the difference between Southern Chinese and Northern Chinese food based on history and climate and culture. I also believe there are fundamental techniques to learn that can be applied across a multitude of flavor profiles. The ingredients in basic dishes, especially the science involved, help people incorporate new techniques into their day-to-day cooking. Something as simple as understanding the behavior of wheat flour under different types of liquid and heat helps cooks appreciate a wide variety of dishes.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">You also don’t seem to focus on one cuisine. Each class combines the food of different countries. Is there a specific reason you decided to arrange the menus that way?</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Well, I could make a political argument that most of these foods predate national boundaries. But a more practical reason is just that I think it’s much more important to show the commonalities between how people cook and eat than divide their culture into distinct categories or columns. Like we could ever really say, without ignoring the rich and complex history of our foods, that this dish is Chinese and that one Japanese and that other one Korean.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">If you could take only one kitchen tool with you to a desert island, what would that be?</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Oh, that’s a hard one. It’d be a toss-up between my meat cleaver and my cast-iron skillet. I’d probably try to sneak in both.</span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">--End of interview</span>.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Thy Tran will be conducting her Asian culinary workshop series - Cooking with the Senses: Fundamentals of Asian Cooking - from May 5 to June 16, 2012. Register for one or more workshops, or the entire series today!</span><br /><link http://cookingwithsenses.eventbrite.com/ _blank><span style="font-weight: bold;">http://cookingwithsenses.eventbrite.com/</span></link><br /> ]]></content:encoded>
			
			
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			<title>May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at OACC!</title>
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Celebrate  Asian Pacific American Heritage Month with Oakland Asian Cultural  Center at one or...</description>
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<span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif"><b>Celebrate  Asian Pacific American Heritage Month with Oakland Asian Cultural  Center at one or more of our amazing events, workshops and productions!</b><br /> 							<br /> 							Artists and organization partners include Patrick Landeza and the  Ho'olupa Hawaiian Culture Foundation, Jay Loyola and the American  Center of Philippine Arts, Aimee Suzara, WaSung Community Service Club,  Thy Tran of Wandering Spoon, AYPAL and MORE!<br /> 							<br /> 							<link http://www.oacc.cc/programs/festivals-events/apa-heritage-month.html _blank><b>Visit the APA Heritage Month page for OACC's complete list of events.</b></link></span></span>]]></content:encoded>
			
			
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			<title>Thank you to the generous supporters of our Lunar New Year Festival 2012 campaign!</title>
			<link>http://www.oacc.cc/about/news/news-article/archive/2012/01/article/thank-you-to-the-generous-supporters-of-our-lunar-new-year-festival-2012-campaign-128.html</link>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Hey everyone!<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Thank from you from the bottom of our hearts to the generous companies, organizations, individuals, and others who have contributed to OACC’s <link 215>Lunar New Year Festival 2012 fundraising campaign</link> thus far.</span> Much thanks also to those who have helped us spread the word about the campaign and the festival. <br /><br />We are pleased to announce that <span style="font-weight: bold;">these donations and sponsorships have helped us raise approximately $4,000 toward our goal of $10,000 to support OACC’s teachers, artists, students, and weekly classes.</span><br /><br />Thank you to the following sponsors and donors of the campaign (as of 1/5/2012):<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Community Sponsors:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Diamond Dragon:</span> <link http://www.apapa.org/>Asian Pacific Islander American Public Affairs Association</link>, <link http://sparcsf.org/>SPARC - San Francisco Patient and Resource Center</link><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Platinum Dragon: </span>Dr. Lawrence Ng,<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><link http://www.fambridges.org/>Family Bridges, Inc.,</link> <link http://www.oaklandchinatownchamber.org/>Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce</link>, <link http://www.oaklandchamber.com/>Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce,<br /> <br /></link><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Silver Dragon:</span> Anonymous (1), Stewart Chen*, <link http://www.anphc.com/>Asian Network Pacific Home Care &amp; Hospice<br /></link><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bronze Dragon:</span> Barbara Tilley<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ally:</span> Kristine Gee<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Supporter:</span> QinYi He, Teresita Bautista<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Government, Foundation and Corporate Supporters: </span><br /><br />The City of Oakland, National Endowment for the Arts, California Arts Council, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and U.S. Bank<br /><br />Finally, OACC would also like to thank our dedicated and hard working <link 45>Board of Directors</link> for their fundraising efforts.<br /><br />*OACC Board Member<br /><br /><br />]]></content:encoded>
			
			
			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:41:00 -0800</pubDate>
			
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			<title>Help us raise $2,500 via Kickstarter to support our Lunar New Year Festival 2012!</title>
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			<description>Hey everyone! On Tuesday, we launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise $2,500 of our $10,000...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Hey everyone! On Tuesday, we launched a <link http://kck.st/tixe4o>Kickstarter campaign</link> to raise $2,500 of our $10,000 fundraising goal for our <link 215>Lunar New Year Festival 2012</link>. <br /><br />We have until Saturday, January 28, 2012 to make our Kickstarter fundraising goal. Please consider donating to the <link http://kck.st/tixe4o>Kickstarter campaign</link> to help us reach our goal. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Donations of any amount are appreciated and will support the Festival, OACC's weekly classes, our students, teachers, artists, and our partnering organizations<br /></span><br />Please contact OACC's Executive Director Mona Shah or Development Manager Jennifer Chu at (510) 637 - 0455 if you are interested in supporting the Festival or have any questions. <br /><br />Check out this video for a brief snapshot of our students and classes.<br />  <br />   <link http://youtu.be/6jPkRjgSyQo>http://youtu.be/6jPkRjgSyQo</link><br />]]></content:encoded>
			
			
			<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:10:00 -0800</pubDate>
			
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			<title>Happy Holidays! Help OACC raise $30,000 before Dec. 31st!</title>
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			<description>December 2011Dearest Friend and Supporter of OACC: Happy Holidays! Thank you for supporting OACC...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[December 2011<br /><br />Dearest Friend and Supporter of OACC: <br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Happy Holidays! Thank you for supporting OACC and participating in our programs over the last year.</span> Thanks to your support and commitment to the Oakland Asian Cultural Center, we have continued providing a home and space for <span style="font-weight: bold;">hundreds of local groups, artists and communities that otherwise would not have a place and the resources to celebrate their traditional and contemporary pan-Asian and Pacific Islander American arts and culture.</span> Though we have had our ups and downs this year due to the current economic situation, our staff, board, artists, participants and the communities have come together to ensure that OACC's doors remain open and that we can continue offering programs to the community.&nbsp; &nbsp;<br /><br />Thanks in part to the incredible popularity and demand for our programs and services, our facility in the heart of Oakland's Chinatown in Pacific Renaissance Plaza (our home since 1996), has absorbed a lot of use and wear and tear. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Now, after almost 16 years of dedicated use by the community, our space is starting to show its age and wrinkles.</span> Though we have done our best to address many of these expenses while continuing to maintain our programs and services, due to cuts from foundation, government, and corporate supporters, our financial resources have been unable to cover the many items including the replacement and maintenance of our air conditioning / heating unit, refinishing the floors in our beautiful Edward W. &amp; Yuri H. Chin Auditorium, and the refinishing of our stage. <br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">As 2011 draws to an end our goal is to raise $30,000 to help cover the costs of repairing and maintaining key components of our facility.</span><br /><br />Ultimately these funds will ensure that OACC's facility can be maintained and continued to be used by you and the thousands of other community members who participate in our programs each year. If you haven't donated already, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to OACC before December 31st.&nbsp; With your support, we can continue preserving and celebrating APIA arts and heritage for current participants and future generations of artists, community leaders and alike!<br /><br />Use the enclosed response envelope or donate safely &amp; securely via <link https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=EQSGZ63QUATNU>Paypal</link> to invest in APIA arts and culture before December 31st.&nbsp; Donations can also be mailed to OACC at 388 Ninth Street, Suite 290, Oakland, CA 94607. <br /><br />In community spirit, &nbsp;<br /><br />Mona Shah&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<br />Executive Director&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<br /><br />]]></content:encoded>
			
			
			<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:47:00 -0800</pubDate>
			
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			<title>OACC will be closed this Thanksgiving weekend!</title>
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			<description>There will be no classes from Thursday, November 24 - Sunday, November 27, 2011 due to the...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Classes will resume to it's normal schedule starting on Wednesday, November 30, 2011.
From the Oakland Asian Cultural Center family to yours...have a wonderful and safe Thanksgiving weekend! ]]></content:encoded>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 00:28:00 -0800</pubDate>
			
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			<title>Help OACC raise $10,000 by January 2012 to support our Lunar New Year Festival 2012!</title>
			<link>http://www.oacc.cc/about/news/news-article/archive/2011/11/article/help-oacc-raise-10000-by-january-2012-to-support-our-lunar-new-year-festival-2012-124.html</link>
			<description>It  is our pleasure to invite you to sponsor the Oakland Asian Cultural  Center’s (OACC) upcoming...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">It  is our pleasure to invite you to sponsor the Oakland Asian Cultural  Center’s (OACC) upcoming Lunar New Year celebration for the Year of the  Dragon on Saturday, February 4, 2012.</span> This event is free and open  to the public to reach a broader audience and continue our mission to  build vibrant communities through Asian &amp; Pacific Islander American  (APIA) arts and culture programs. <span style="font-weight: bold;"><link ../?id=214>Last year's Festival</link></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> had over 1,000 attendees and we expect to have even more people attend!</span> We hope you will support this exciting, colorful celebration of diverse APIA cultures and communities.</span><br /> 
<h5 style="  font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 18; font-style: italic;">Our  Lunar New Year Festival will highlight Chinese, Filipino, Japanese,  Indian, Okinawan, Mongolian, and Korean cultures, with performances by  OACC’s amazing partner organizations, teaching artists and artists in  residence. There will also be a variety of Asian and Pacific Islander  arts and craft activities for youth!</span></h5>
<span style="font-weight: normal;">This Festival promises to be a  unique opportunity for you. We estimate that you or your company’s  sponsorship will be seen by over 10,000 people in Oakland and the  greater San Francisco Bay Area through various benefits including ad  space on our lobby’s large multimedia display, marketing and outreach  table during the event, ad space in our program booklet, logo placement  on posters and flyers, and other marketing and outreach materials.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Our goal is to raise $10,000 by January 2012 and sponsorships of $100 or more will help us reach this goal!</span>  Your contribution will ensure that the diverse arts and cultural  traditions of APIA communities are available to the broader community  and preserved for generations to come.<br /><br />Please visit the <link 215>LNY Festival 2012 fundraising page</link> for a list of the sponsorship levels and  benefits. For more information about sponsorship opportunities and the  Lunar New Year Festival, please contact Mona Shah, Executive Director at  (510) 637–0455.&nbsp; <br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">You can also donate safely and securely online via our <link https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=W8KQVM5XA2ZTA - - Paypal>Paypal account.</link></span>
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">We look forward to seeing you at the event!</span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span>]]></content:encoded>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
			
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			<title>NEW! Movie Nights at OACC!</title>
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			<description>introducing movie nights in oacc's lobby!</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Oakland Asian Cultural Center (OACC) has teamed up with curator and community organizer Jackie Im of <link http://www.macarthurbarthur.com/>MacArthur B Arthur</link> to bring you monthly movie nights in OACC's front lobby!
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Movie night will kick-off on Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 7:00pm with a screening of Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (&#3621;&#3640;&#3591;&#3610;&#3640;&#3597;&#3617;&#3637;&#3619;&#3632;&#3621;&#3638;&#3585;&#3594;&#3634;&#3605;&#3636;) by Thai  filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul.</span> Winner of the Palme d’Or at the  2010 Cannes Film Festival, the film centers on the last days of the life  of the titular Uncle Boonmee. With his loved ones - including the ghost  of his dead wife and his lost son who has returned in non-human form -  Boonm<span class="text_exposed_show">ee explores his past lives as he  contemplates the reasons for his illness. A.O. Scott of the New York  Times stated in his review: <br /> <br /> &quot;Those who insist on a linear  narrative or an easily identifiable set of themes may find themselves  puzzled, perhaps to the point of frustration. But it hard to see how  this movie, with its contemplative mood and genial, curious spirit,  could make anybody angry. On the contrary: encountered in an  appropriately exploratory frame of mind, it can produce something close  to bliss.&quot;<br /> <br /> The film will be introduced by Dena Beard,  Curatorial Assistant at the University of California, Berkeley Art  Museum and Pacific Film Archive. She managed the MATRIX projects of  Desirée Holman and Silke Otto-Knapp and has worked on exhibitions with  Tomas Saraceno, Trevor Paglen, Martha Colburn, Tris Vonna-Michelll,  Ahmet Ogut, Omer Fast, and Emily Roysdon, and others. Independently, she  curates projects such as the Lending Library exhibition series and  Taking Up Room on the Floor for Bay Area galleries and alternative  spaces. Prior to joining BAM/PFA, she was curatorial associate at the  Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum.<br /> <br /> Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives<br /> 2010<br /> 114 minutes<br /> <br /> 7pm Tuesday<br /> November 15, 2011<br /> <br />  $5 suggested donation, no one is turned away due to lack of funds. <br /> <br /> Oakland Asian Cultural Center<br /> 388 Ninth Street, Suite 290 (btwn. Franklin and Webster Street)<br /> Oakland, CA 94607<br /> <br /> Movie Night at the OACC is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. For more information about the OACC, please visit <a href="http://www.oacc.cc/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow nofollow">www.oacc.cc</a>. <br /> <br /> Movie Night at the OACC is a monthly screening night organized by Jackie Im. For more information visit http://oaccmovienight.tumb</span><span class="word_break"></span>lr.com/]]></content:encoded>
			
			
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			<title>2011-2012 Artist in Resident</title>
			<link>http://www.oacc.cc/about/news/news-article/archive/2011/10/article/2011-2012-artist-in-resident-121.html</link>
			<description>Introducing OACC's newest Artist in Resident, Judith Kajiwara!</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[We'd like to welcome Judith Kajiwara, Japanese Butoh Dance Artist as Oakland Asian Cultural Center's 2011-2012 Artist in Resident.
Judith will be introducing various Japanese Butoh workshops as well as ongoing classes starting in Winter 2011, and Spring 2012. 
Her upcoming performances will include:
 KNEEL TO YOU LIKE A SIGH: A COLLABORATIVE DANCE &amp; POETRY PERFORMANCE, featuring Judith as well as other artists - Steve Nakano, Roy &amp; PJ Hirabayashi of San Jose Taiko, and Yoshie Akiba;
OACC's YEAR OF THE DRAGON LUNAR NEW YEAR FESTIVAL scheduled for February 4, 2012; and<br />
on May 19, 2012, a performance in celebration of ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH.
You can already visit Judith every Wednesday at OACC from 6pm-7pm in Studio 6 conducting the Hip-Hop Dance Workout Class. Drop-ins are welcome! Contact OACC for details at (510) 637-0455.<br />]]></content:encoded>
			
			
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			<title>We met the $3,400 Challenge Grant!</title>
			<link>http://www.oacc.cc/about/news/news-article/archive/2011/08/article/thank-you-tagabanua-120.html</link>
			<description>Thanks to your support, we raised $3,400 to support a new dance project by Jay Loyola!</description>
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<h5><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 10px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span></h5>
<h5><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 10px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It is official, we have raised $3,400 in individual donations and have successfully matched the<link http://www.ebcf.org/grantmaking/97-east-bay-fund-for-artists> East Bay Fund for Artists at the East Bay Community Foundation&nbsp;</link> challenge grant to commission Jay Loyola to create and premier &quot;<link 224>TAGABANUA</link>&quot; at OACC next May. Thank you to everyone who has supported, contributed to, and helped us spread the word about this campaign and project.</span></h5>
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