Recent News
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2007
March 30-April 5, 2007 - 2007 Milwaukee Asian Film Festival - UWM World Theatre - Experience a diverse collection of cinema at this year’s Asian Film Festival, a week-long showcase of Asian film and video maker’s talents from a wide range of Asian cultures, including South Korea, Japan, China/Taiwan, Hong Kong, Thailand, and Mongolia. The festival will highlight a number of popular feature films of various genres, including comedy, romance, thriller and gangster drama as well as a visit by a guest filmmaker.
February 2007 - The Milwaukee Area Families with Children from China invites you to celebrate the Chinese New Year. They will observe the year of the Pig on Sunday Feb. 4th 2007 at the Country Springs Hotel. This may be the largerst local celebration of the Chinese New Year with over 700 people attending. MA-FCC has made a genrous offer to invite WOAA-Milwaukee members to join in the celebration. The celebration is normally open to MA-FCC members and their guests only. Please visit the MA-FCC website for details. RSVP correction: e-mail chinagirls @ netwurx.net
January 2007 - The Wisconsin Organization for Asian Americans-Milwaukee (WOAA), has begun a membership drive for 2007. Your membership is very important! Please visit our Membership link for more information.
From the WOAA-Milwaukee archives
This is photo from our Community Picnic at Jackson Park in 1993. Do you know any of the kids in this picture? Some of them have already graduated from college! Use the numbers on the photo below to document the names. Send us an e-mail if you recognize anybody. (Clicking the pictures should enlarge them)
2006
October 12, 2006 - A link to USPAACC has been added in our Links page. USPAACC-WI Chapter is a member of the nationally established Pan Asian Chamber of Commerce with chapters nationwide. It is a great resource for the Asian community in the state of WI and we serve all nationalities in the Asian category.
June 10, 2006 - The Wisconsin Organization for Asian Americans-Milwaukee (WOAA), which annually presents the Asian Moon Festival, is honored to announce that we have been invited by the Racine Rotary and the City of Racine, to take part in the annual Great Midwest Dragon Boat Races, July 7th & 8th at the Racine Lakefront.
http://www.midwestdragonboatfestival.com/index.html
We have been inundated with calls and messages from people all over the Midwest who were dismayed to learn that we decided to forego this year’s festival. Although the reasons that led us to this were valid, it was nonetheless, a difficult decision on our part. Each of us passionately believes that it is important to share the many facets of our various cultures and for the people of southeastern Wisconsin to understand the many ways that Asian arts, sciences and thinking has influenced and enriched our world of today.
Timing will not allow us to stage a full festival but we hope our presence will encourage people to visit the city of Racine, just a short drive south of Milwaukee. Dragon Boat Races are one of the fastest growing competitive sports in the world. Historically the races, which began in China, commemorate Chu-Yuan , a Chinese scholar who spoke out against government corruption in 277 B.C.
Please join us on the 7th & 8th of July and cheer on the teams of racers and then stay around for some savory Asian cuisine as well as a few choice bits of Asian Moon Festival!
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January 2006 - WOAA - Milwaukee's board of directors made the difficult decision to cancel Asian Moon Festival for 2006. This information is posted on the Asian Moon Festival home page:
As planners and volunteers from any of Milwaukee’s ethnic, church and community festivals will tell you, it takes countless hours of planning and work to put on a quality event for our audience. Volunteers literally start planning the next year’s event even before the gates close. To present anything less than our best would be unthinkable.
For 12 years, Asian Moon Festival has been proud to share the cultures of over 14 Asian ethnic groups at the spectacular Maier Festival Park. In 2005 many of our core members retired, moved from the area and in several cases, found new jobs that place heavy demands on their time. By the end of last year we realized that without the participation of these key people, putting on the event that people have come to expect would be difficult if not impossible. At the beginning of 2006 we made the difficult decision to cancel Asian Moon Festival for this summer.
We are hopeful that we can return in 2007 revitalized and fresh. We encourage you to check back with our web site in the near future for announcements regarding our festival. We also hope you will visit the many other festivals represented by United Ethnic Festivals of Milwaukee this summer.
If you are interested in helping chart the future of Asian Moon Festival please drop us a line at woaa@asianmoonfestival.com