Broadway Playwright Opens Center for Asian Arts and Media's 1998-99 Season; October 2nd Reception Features Tony Award-winner David Henry Hwang

CHICAGO, August 1998 - Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang will be the featured speaker at a reception on Friday, October 2nd to open the Center for Asian Arts and Media's inaugural 1998-99 season.

Best known for his stage sensation M. Butterfly, Hwang's recent Broadway production of Golden Child garnered three 1998 Tony Award nominations. Hwang will share his personal insights on writing for the Broadway stage beginning at 5:30 p.m. at Douglas Dawson Ethnographica, 222 W. Huron in the River North art gallery district.

Tickets are $20 per person and include a free one-year membership to the Center, complimentary pan-Asian delicacies and a wine bar. For reservations, call 312/344-7870 or email asianarts@popmail.colum.edu

Columbia College Chicago's Center for Asian Arts and Media is the first Asian arts center established by a college or university in the United States. Founded by Nancy Tom, a Columbia College Chicago trustee, the Center plans to bring a steady stream of works by and about Asians and Asian Americans to the forefront of Chicago cultural life and provide a consistent venue and context for this work.

All proceeds from this event will support the Center for Asian Arts and Media.

Center Founder Nancy Tom is active in human rights and the arts. An early passion for painting (she studied fine arts at the University of Illinois/Urbana and at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago) developed into collecting, particularly "outsider" art. She is an independent curator and has handled special arts events for the City of Chicago and various Asian American organizations.

WHO: Center for Asian Arts and Media

WHAT: RECEPTION & LECTURE by Broadway playwright DAVID HENRY HWANG

WHEN: Friday, October 2, 1998, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.

WHERE: Douglas Dawson Ethnographica, 222 W. Huron, Chicago

TICKETS:$20.00 - includes one-year membership to the Center for Asian Arts and Media

INFO: Reservations and Info: 312/344-7870 or
email: asianarts@popmail.colum.edu

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