Q-waveメーリングリストから以下コピペ

Friday, September 21, 2007
TIME: 7:00-9:00 pm
WHERE: CUNY Graduate Center, Room C205 (take the elevator down to C level)
365 5th Avenue (between 34th and 35th Streets, northeast corner)

Appropriately born in Tokyo's infamous Shinjuku Nicho-me gay district, pop artist/performer and manga-ka Rica Takashima is an accomplished visual artist who has had exhibitions and shows in museums and galleries internationally (Paris, Moscow, and Hong Kong) as well as all across Japan. She is the founder of the avant-garde street art show studio “Aozora Art” http://www.aozoraart.com/index_e.htm and the writer and artist of the semi-autobiographical manga Rica 'tte Kanji!? http://www.amazon.com/Ricatte-Kanji-Rica-Takashima/dp/0975916017, which initially ran in Anise, Japan's premier lesbian magazine at the time, before being compiled and released as a graphic novel. She currently has an ongoing 4-panel manga strip Susume! NY-do in the free weekly Japanese language paper NY Japion and is in the process of permanently moving to the Big Apple.

Please join us as Rica covers everything from coming out to her work with Aozora Art, why she started drawing Rica 'tte Kanji!? to her thoughts on queerness, and her experiences within the Tokyo queer community to her vision for the future! And then, following the meeting, come to dinner with Rica at a local eatery!!

DIRECTIONS: (via subway):
- B, D, F, V, N, R, Q, W to 34th Street/Broadway
- 6 to 33rd Street/Park Avenue and walk 2 blocks west
- 1, 2, 3, 9 to 34th Street/7th Avenue (Madison Square Garden) and walk 2-3 blocks east
- A, C, E to 34th Street/8th Avenue and walk 3-4 blocks east

Note: This meeting is open only to queer Asian and Pacific Islander women, transgender and gender variant people only. Please respect our space.

Q-Wave is dedicated to strengthening the voices of lesbian/bisexual/queer women and transgender/gender variant people of Asian descent. We strive to build a supportive, progressive community by promoting visibility and empowerment through social, political, and educational organizing.