Mark your calendars (September 15 @Torrance Library and September 29 @ Japanese American National Museum) to attend two events MANAA is sponsoring for award-winning author/poet Frances Kakugawa (who’s written past books on caregiving for those with Alzheimer’s) and her humorous and sobering book Kapoho: Memoirs of a Modern Pompeii about growing up in the small town in Hawaii (later covered by lava) while battling wartime prejudice against Japanese Americans and the limitations of her pidgin English culture.

The monthly general meeting is on the second floor meeting room of the Chinatown Public Safety Association. It's your chance to share your input and thoughts on pressing issues regarding the portrayal of Asian Americans in print, radio, television and movies.

Please join us in discussing how to improve media depictions of Asian Americans.

Agenda items include:

• Warner Brothers’ upcoming film Cloud Atlas featuring yellowface, whiteface, and blackface!
• MANAA’s involvement in educating the La Jolla Playhouse on their white-washed production of The Nightingale.
• Asian Pacific American Media Coalition’s Quarterly meeting with NBC.
• Upcoming remake of Red Dawn with North Korea invading Washington state.

Please join us in discussing how to improve media depictions of Asian Americans.

Agenda items include:

• MANAA’s involvement in criticizing the La Jolla Playhouse’s white-washed production of “The Nightingale.
• MANAA’s talk with New York radio station WYSL’s station manager over their playing “Sukiyaki” while criticizing Nate Shinagawa’s campaign for Congress.
• MANAA’s positive reaction to seeing TBS’ new “Sullivan and Son” sitcom (see attached pic of one of the two groups that attended the taping).