Asian Arts Week is an annual interdisciplinary arts
festival with events clustered around the last week of March. A
percussion orchestra, visiting poet, shadow puppet performance,
visiting photographer, dance event, academic lectures, visual art
exhibition, a movie screening and an ethnographic film project combine
in 2008 to celebrate the arts of Southeast Asia from ancient to
contemporary.
Asian Arts Week is made possible in part by a generous grant
from the USC Arts Institute and is co-sponsored by The Center
for Asian Studies, The Walker Institute of International and Area
Studies, The Institute for Families in Society, and the Film Studies,
English, Anthropology, Art, and Theater & Dance departments
and the College of Arts and Sciences of the University of South
Carolina. In partnership with the Southern Exposure New Music
Series, The Columbia Museum of Art, The Amaya-Lacson TB PhotoVoice
Project, The Columbia Marionette Theater and The Nickelodeon Theatre. |
