[Fwd: Happy Holidays]

[Alex J. Lubet <lubet001...>]

Looking for something interesting to do on the 31st?  $$ goes to a good
cause and lots of interesting performance and film, including yours
truly.  Hope to see you there.




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> New Year¹s Eve Party
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> You your friends are Invited to a New Year¹s Eve Fundraiser for ³Love
> & Relatives,² a new dramatic feature movie about two Hmong Americans
> falling in love and getting married in a traditional Hmong wedding.
> See below for more information.
> Don¹t spend New Year¹s Eve at home watching TV, or pay a lot to go to
> a huge party where you don¹t know anybody. Come to our party! Eat
> Asian foods & get a taste of the arts in the Hmong community. Listen
> to live music, poetry, spoken word performances, and karoake. And yes,
> there is dancing.
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> $12 donation. Feel free to donate more to help the production of this
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> 995 University Ave. West (2 blocks East of Lexington) in St. Paul, in
> the basement of Sunrise Market. Entrance and parking in back.
> Door opens at 8:30 pm. Dinner starts at 9:00 pm. Party until past
> Midnight 2003!  Call (651) 647-6192 for more information.
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>               Program (this program is not yet complete)
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>  Music
>  Monica Thao, singing from her new album
>  Eve Vang, vocal & Phillip Yang, guitar
>  Dance/Performance
>  Bucket of Rice
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>  Short Film
>  ³Lima 2,² Hmong soldiers rescue downed American pilot, directed by
> Foung Heu
> ³Collapsed,² directed by Pete Wong
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>  Poetry/Spoken Word
> Mai Neng Moua accompanied by Alex Lubet, guitar
> Tou Saiko Lee, Naly Yang, May Lee, Peter Yang,
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>  Reading
> Teng Xiong & Sandy Moua
>      ³Hmoob Boy Meets Hmong Girl²
>  Karaoke/Open Mike
> Open to the Audience
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> ³Love & Relatives² is a romantic comedy in the tradition of ³When
> Harry Met Sally,² ³Cyrano de Bergerac,² and ³Monsoon Wedding.² It is
> about Sunny and Buddy, two 30-year old single Hmong American woman and
> man, respectively, who are cynical about commitment and plan never to
> marry, but in the end they fall in love and get married in a
> traditional Hmong wedding.
>  Considered ³old bachelor² and ³old maid² in the traditional Hmong
> culture, Sunny and Buddy are looked down upon by the older generation.
> When Jay, Buddy¹s friend, falls for Sunny, Buddy helps him court
> Sunny. Jay in reality is a jerk who only wants to marry Sunny for her
> money. Because of Buddy¹s help and advice in courtship, Jay wins
> Sunny¹s heart. But eventually Sunny finds out that Jay is not the
> sensitive, caring guy she has fallen in love with. She breaks up with
> Jay and blames Buddy for engineering the the whole affair. But by now
> Buddy has also fallen for Sunny.  Finally, Sunny realizes that it is
> the man behind Jay, Buddy, that she is in love with. Some months later
> they get married in a colorful, traditional Hmong wedding that lasts
> for two days with hundreds of relatives. The wedding involves a
> negotiation of a ³price² for the bride. It also involves rigorous
> rituals and drinking, during which Buddy gets drunk and passes out. He
> wakes up in bed with Sunny and they make love. After Buddy recovers,
> the wedding continues into the night until the final wedding ritual is
> done and the bride and groom take their leave. What makes this film
> unique is that it is set in the Hmong American community of St. Paul,
> Minnesota. It will reflect a lot of local color associated with that
> community. This movie will began production in Summer 2003. A donation
> of $100 or more will get your name or your company¹s name on the
> screen credit, and you and one other will be invited to an exclusive,
> advance private screening.

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Alex Lubet, Ph. D.
Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Music
Adjunct Professor of American and Jewish Studies
Head, Division Of Composition and Music Theory
University of Minnesota
2106 4th St. S
Minneapolis, MN 55455
612 624-7840 612 624-8001 (fax)