DATE: Sunday, December 5, 2010
TIME: 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Hayworth Theater, 2511 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 90057
Free admission
A multi-media presentation about the life of Nobel Peace Laureate Liu Xiaobo
with readings by actors Jack Ong, Joon Lee
Followed by a speakers forum with
Professor Perry Link (Princeton University),
Mr. Song Yongyi (California State University),
Mr. Adam Somers (PEN West)
Mr. James Zimmerman (Amnesty International)
Reservation recommended:
Free Admission to Hayworth Theater. However, seating is limited,
Please reserve seating at Hayworth Theater by email to vag@visual-artists-guild.org or call 310-433-0697, 310-5390234
6:00 p.m. Please join us for Dinner Banquet at a Chinese restaurant to be announced, cost $30
Professor Perry Link -
Song Yongyi – Confirmed to speak
Song Yongyi is the 2006 recipient of Visual Artists Guild’s Champion
for
Freedom of Speech Awardee and the 2005 American Librarian Association
Courage Award recipient. As a youth in
China, he organized an underground reading group. Mr.
Song has published many bibliographies, source books, monographs and
articles. In 1999, he went to China to collect source materials on the
Cultural Revolution. He was detained for six months. He was later released and criminal charges dropped after
China received pressure from scholars around the world and from the
U.S.
government. Mr. Song is currently the
technical services and collection development librarian at the John F.
Kennedy
Memorial Library of California State University, Los Angeles.
Song Yongyi is a friend of
PEN West - Adam Somers
James Zimmerman
Amnesty International China expert. Recipient of Visual Artists Guild 2009 Spirit of Tiananmen Award.