Greetings!

Welcome to the CAPA e-News! In this day and age, staying in touch with family and friends can be a challenge. We're hoping that the e-News can do just that -- stay in touch with YOU.

CAPA brings together people of Asian descent and others who are interested in learning more about Asian Americans, their culture and heritage. CAPA is also commited to promote well-being of Asian Americans. I'd like to extend a personal invitation to you to join us at our next meeting. All of our meetings are open to anyone who'd like to come. Please check out Calendar of Events for details.

Warmly,
Katherine M. Lee
President

This year's program plans are well-underway, and once again
CAPA's "Splendor of the East" will entertain, educate and inspire you and your guests.

This year theme is based on unity. What we have all witnessed in the days following the tsunami is unity is in it's purest form. When all else is stripped away, what we are left with is one another.

Please join us for Splendor of the East, May 14th 2005 for an incredible show about unity including a candlelight vigil for the victims and survivors of the tsunami in the Indian Ocean.

Click here for tickets to the event.

Click for Splendor of the East 2004's pictures.

You and your organization are most welcome to do what you can and partner with us. Please contact John Sicklesteel at johnsicklesteel@capa-mi.org for more information on sponsorship. This is CAPA's most well-attended and celebrated event of the year -- come and be a part of it and have your company highlighted as a sponsor!

A tentative schedule is as follows:

The event is free and open to the public.

Co-sponsored by State Representative Hoon-Yung Hopgood and CAPA.

CAPA, in partnership with the Ritz-Carlton Dearborn, hosted a Tsunami Relief Fundraiser on February 17, 2005. We raised over $44,000 to be donated to the Red Cross International www.redcross.org and SOS Children's Villages www.sos-childrensvillages.org for their tsunami disaster relief efforts.

It was a successful event and Thank You All for your WAVES of LOVE!

Click to read about SOS Children's Villages' updated newsletter, long-term relief programs after the Tsunami Disaster.

Click for Tsunami Relief Fundraiser's pictures.

Simply the Best - My First CAPA Experience

Click for Simply the Best 2005's pictures.

As I entered Simply the Best on February 19th, 2005, my excitement was building. This was my first CAPA event, and I was extremely thrilled to meet everyone and hopefully get to network. I was also interested to see the diversity among the group. With my pen and paper in hand, I sat down and prepared myself for a day of exploration and learning.

The Simply the Best event, I later found out, is one of CAPA's annual events. With speakers from different walks of life and two workshops to help better the attendees, the program is designed to encourage those present to go out and make the most of their potential, whether it is regarding someone's career or life in general.

At about one 'o clock in the afternoon, the program began with an explanation of the Simply the Best event and a few words from CAPA's president, Katherine Lee. Then, the large group of attendees was split into two, and one group remained in the lobby while another group was sent to a meeting room just behind the main lobby. I was in the second group.

In the meeting room, those in attendance shared ideas of how to identify a goal and the plan to get to that goal. This portion of the day was very interesting. It was eye-opening to see what others considered their main goal in life and how they planned to achieve it. Some of their ideas actually helped me come up with a plan to reach my goal!

The section on how to do a proper interview was very informing. As someone who will graduate in June and will be going job hunting in the near future, I found this to be important. I paid attention to what exactly interviewers look for in an interviewee and how I should present myself. I found this helpful and extremely important.

My favorite part of the day was the networking session that took place after the two groups had seen both presentations. I loved seeing different cultures mesh and the food was great too! Here, I was able to meet those involved with CAPA, and was able to make a few connections regarding my budding career in journalism.

Overall, I enjoyed my first CAPA event. I valued the company of those in attendance and cannot wait to attend Splendor of the East.

Ed Note: Look forward to seeing you at SOE, Timothie!

Looks like we have a potential CAPA leader.

Click here for APA Community Calendar.

B) Frank Wu Invites You... ~~ March 29, 2005

Dean Frank H. Wu of Wayne State University Law School invites you to a Civil Rights lecture by William Taylor, Esq., the distinguished lawyer who has just written his memoir, The Passion of My Times: An Advocate's Fifty Year Journal in the Civil Rights Movement.

C) FAPAM's Dinner and Belly Dance Showcase ~~ April 10, 2005

This is a fundraiser event to benefit Gawad Kalinga 777, a project for the homeless in the Philippines. Click for details.

D) NaFFAA Michigan proudly presents, The PHILIPPINE RONDALLA OF CHICAGO
~~ April 16, 2005

The ensemble will perform Philippine folk songs and popular and classical pieces. The following instruments will be featured: Piccolino, Bandurria, Laud' Octavina, Guitar, and Bajo.

E) Remembering VINCENT CHIN, A Conversation about Civil Rights and Journalism
~~ April 28, 2005

This single horrific act of the murder of Vincent Chin and subsequent lieniancy granted to the admitted murders is seen as one of the most chilling accounts of racism in modern American society.

Sponsored by The Asian American Journalists Association, Michigan chapter.

F) Korean American, Adoptee, Adoptive Family (KAAN) Golf Outing
~~ May 22, 2005

Please join us for a fun day of golfing and support the only conference dedicated to bring together the entire Korean American adoption community. Dinner and prizes are included.

This is the largest fundraiser event to benefit the traveling national KAAN (Korean Adoptee Adoptive Family Network) conference. Past years conferences have been held in New Jersey, Seattle, Washington DC and San Francisco. Michigan is proud to host this year's conference, July 22nd- 24th at the Southfield Westin-Detroit Hotel.

Click www.kaanet.com for more details or to register.

G) Low Cost Healthcare for the Underserved

Please forward this information to anyone you might know who may be in need of this low-cost program.

Check out CAPA Resources page for other useful information.

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