Jaishri Abichandani
Video installation documenting the history of SAWCC (an organization dedicated to the advancement, visibility and development of emerging South Asian women artists and cultural producers) through performed listserv dialogues.

Konrad Aderer
For Enemy Alien, an hour-long documentary on the two-year struggle to free a Palestinian-born human rights activist (Farouk Abdel-Muhti) detained in a post-9/11 sweep of Muslim immigrants.

Tomie Arai
Site-specific installation based on "The Crane Maiden," a popular Japanese folk tale about a crane that is transformed into a young girl who weaves magical cloth. The story will be retold as a contemporary folk tale about the garment industry and global consumerism.

J.P. Chan
Production/post-production of the ten-minute short I Don't Sleep, I Dream (IDSID), the third and final chapter in a trilogy of surrealistic shorts featuring a multi-ethnic cast, which explore moral and ethnical dilemmas in contemporary society.

Mridu Chandra
Mind Control, a short video about Ram Chandra, an elderly Indian American living in Virginia, who was forced to migrate his family from Pakistan to India during the 1947 Partition of the two countries. He lives alone in a low-income housing project and does meditation exercises to manage his memories. Mind Control integrates verite footage with archival and animated sequences.

Ngawang Choephel
Tibet in Song is a film about the Chinese destruction of Tibetan music in Tibet, and the propagation of Chinese ideology through music. The theme is explored through interviews with musicians and experts, through the lens of the filmmaker's story as a victim of cultural genocide in Tibet.

Catherine Chow
Project Growth will create large-scale metal sculptures from huge metal rings in different patterns. In the past Ms. Chow has created sculptures which connect multiples of the same object together by hand, beginning with hand fabricated chain mail. Project Growth takes the materials and work to a new scale in size.

Parijat Desai
Songs to Live For is a dance theater work set to thumri, a classical vocal style that came out of India's Muslim ruler's courts. These rulers often allowed great religious freedom and encouraged the merging of Hindu and Muslim forms – a fact not often discussed today. The lyrics combine the accessibility of love songs with the humanity of prayer.

Alvin Eng
Showcase production of the memoir-monologue The Last Emperor of Flushing. The monologue explores the irony/tragedy of assimilation during the end of the 20th century. It follows a child who struggled mightily to adjust to "Father Knows Best" Americana Flushing, only to find that struggle irrelevant in 21st Century pan-cultural Flushing (NYC's second Chinatown).

Sarah Gambito
For a new collection of immigration poems call The Balikbayan Project. Balikbayan in Tagalog literally means "one who comes back." Through the project Ms. Gambito seeks to tell the story her family cannot tell, through traveling back to the places that they once knew. The goal of the project is to create a sequence of twenty-five poems or more.

Rich Kiamco
Unresolved, a 60-minute solo show with multiple characters interacting in a hilarious and insightful autobiography. In the opening scene, at Thanksgiving Dinner in suburban Illinois, a queer Filipino artist clashes with his immigrant family as he scolds his mother for praising his young cousin for having grown "big beautiful eyes that are no longer so slitty."

Henry Kim
The video/film Project Henry Kim is a series of personal testimonies expeincing redemption, humility, identity, and victory. It spans into a collection of vibrant animations, documentaries, and short films.

Fay Ku
For new drawings that will form the foundation for either large woodblock or silkscreen prints. The prints will serve as construction materials for a small village of 3-dimensional paper houses which will somehow "burn." This project is inspired by the Chinese practice of ancestor worship, which commonly manifests as the burning of paper money, paper houses, and other representations of material goods.

Susane Lee
"The Disappearing Doctor" is a chapter in a book-length memoir project inspired by the writer's parents. Her father was born in North Korea and studied in Seoul – after Korea was divided, he escaped north to re-join his family, only to risk his life by escaping to the south again.

Tan Anthony Lin
A photographic novel that blurs the line between fiction and non-fiction. The artist finds interesting newspaper stories and re-tells them as though they happened to him; inserting flea market photographs to "prove" that they happened to him. The work explores feelings of displacement, and the construction of identity and kinship, as experienced by first and second generation immigrants.

Rudresh K. Mahanthappa
Developing the multi-movement suite "Parakram," for solo saxophone and electronics. The electronic component of Parakram will manifest is both pre-composed material and live audio processing. The piece furthers the conception of music composition as a form of contemporary social expression that addresses the current world of diversity and multiculturalism in its true essence.

Shivani Manghnani
For completion of the short story collection "The Paying Guest," expanding the title story into a novella and further developing two other pieces in the collection: "The Protagonist," a story depicting how differently two South Asian artists respond to post-9/11 racism; and "Stereotype," a piece about an Indian woman who struggles to convince herself that her romantic relationship is not abusive.

Lisselle Mei
Rubies is a Cantonese/English language film, the first in a series of three set in Chinatown. In Rubies, a Chinese acupuncturist has a car accident and falls into a coma. His dutiful middle aged wife, Jiu, discovers his secret, a long term affair with a young salon girl. Rubies maps Jiu's transformation as she confronts her life.

Prema Murthy
deStructures is an investigation into the interpenetration of data and bodies. It creates a series of web animations based on statistics gathered about ethnic consumers on the web, and applying them to wireframe structures of the human body. They are they stretched or shrunken, and morph to become something between abstract and figurative renderings of the human body.

Derek Nguyen
Past Lives is a feature-length "dramedy" about a gay man in crisis – he falls in love with a woman. Past Lives examines the prejudices of bisexuality by both the heterosexual and the homosexual communities. It explores the fluidity of sexual identity and makes a strong case for gay marriage.

Stephen Nguyen
His work attempts to invert the roles of the relationship between the audience and the object. The paintings and drawings reveal only fractions of imags, insisting the viewer fill in the blanks. The works insist on a distance that leaves the recognition of the subject matter only as urban, only as night, and only ambiguou

Aya Ogawa
Ophelia3 is a new play examining themes emerging from the character in Shakespear's Hamlet in a contemporary and international context. Three facets of Ophelia are explored through interweaving narratives of disjoint and disconnection, set in different places and times.

Bino Realuyo
New work by Bino A. Realuyo, a Filipino-American novelist, poet, community organizer and adult educator. He was raised in Manila and in New York City. The writer's novel The Umbrella Country was included in Booklist's Top Ten First Novels of 1999.

Kate Rigg
Americansiana takes a look at motifs of all-american life through the prism of spoken word group Slanty Eyed Mama. It centers around the Asian American Dream, creating a more multidimensional experience with a theatrical arc, using slide images and video installation from sources including old kung fu movies and home movies of Asian families living in America.

Samita Sinha
The Naked Nayika is a development of the ancient theme of the nayika set in a modern urban context. The romantic nayika or heroine is central to Indian art. Her many moods of love and her perfect beauty have been depicted since the 5th century B.C., and over time she has evolved as a complex metaphor for the human soul in search of the divine or transcendent love.

Alexander Tarampi
The Imaginary Interactive Web Project will use comic book storytelling methods and Web design conventions to create a structured, interactive story on the Web. The story begins on a crystalline planet discovered by an expedition from earth, from which a sample crystal opens a Pandora's box of possibilities.

Kelly Tsai
The Grieving Room combines spoken word, hip hop theater, neo-folkloric movement, and audience interactive Theater of the Oppressed techniques to explore the productive uses of grief for young people of color in America.

Katie Yamasaki
Postcards from New York is an exhibit of paintings focusing on a postcard exchange between a group of 50 NYC youth, grades 5-7, and their Cuban counterparts, students of the artist Juan Antonio Magdariaga in Santiago. The 32 large-scale acrylic paintings will trace the imagery evoked by the students' narratives.

Jennifer Yee
A creative non-fiction collection of short stories based on the life of the writer's paternal grandmother: her escape from the Maoist regime in China, her journey to a land of foreign tongues to join her husband, "adopted" by a Catholic family and converted, and her arrival in New York, where she gave birth to sons, named for each of the apostles and destined for lives peppered with immigrant triumphs and tragic disappointments.

2006 SOAR Regrant Recipients

Organization	Award Grant	Purpose
Chinese Theatre Works, Inc.	$3,000	Creation and production of a new original work, Songs from the Yellow Earth.
Coalition of Asian Pacific Americans (CAPA)	$3,000	Performance showcase of the Asian Pacific American Heritage Festival.
Crossing Jamaica Avenue	$3,000	Noh Fusion, a presentation of a minimally staged reading of four-six Noh plays in translation, each interpreted with a different art medium: Butoh dance, flute composition, and projection art.
Desipina Productions, Inc.	$3,000	Fifth anniversary year of Seven.11, which weaves together seven eleven-minute plays (all set in a convenience store) by different writers.
Fluid Motion Theater & Film, Inc.	$2,000	To support an audience development campaign which commissions, develops, and produces multi-ethnic adaptations of classic global texts.
Gamelan Dharma Swara	$3,000	Concert of Balinese music of the Bebarongan repertoire, which centers around a dramatic protector spirit.
Indo-American Arts Council Inc.	$3,000	To support publicity costs for the sixth annual IAAC festival of Indian Independent and Diaspora Films.
Kundiman, Inc.	$3,000	Retreat providing emerging writers with workshops and one-on-one mentorship with renowned poets.
Kunqu Society	$3,000	A full stage production at Symphony Space featuring highlights from four classic works: First Encounyer, Taken Alive, Entrust the Son and Palace of Eternity.
NAATCO (National Asian American Theatre Co.)	$3,000	Production of Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba during the first ever National Asian American Theatre Festival.
Sachiyo Ito & Company	$3,000	Concert celebrating the 50th anniversary of the debut of Sachiyo Ito, featuring Japanese classical, contemporary, and Okinawan dance.
Second Generation Productions	$3,000	In the Works reading series, providing early-stage support to talented emerging writers.
ThaiLinks	$3,000	The third biannual Thai Takes: Contemporary Thai Film Festival.
Topaz Arts	$2,000	Marketing and promotion of the full-evening work “The Soundless Music by Yoko Ono, Choreographed by Paz Tanjuaquio.”

2005 SOAR Regrant Recipients

Organization	Award Grant	Purpose
Chinese Theatre Works, Inc.	$3,000	Book of Songs, a theatrical interpretation of China's literary history.
Coalition of Asian Pacific Americans (CAPA)	$2,200	Performance showcase for Asian Pacific American Heritage Festival.
Crossing Jamaica Avenue	$3,000	Thousand Years Waiting, combining live theater and Otome Bunraku puppetry.
Dance Project Sequence	$1,000	New Art Cure dance center in Queens.
Dance Theatre of Nepal	$3,000	Shared Journeys, a concert collaboration with other world music & dance artists.
Desipina Productions	$3,000	Fourth year of Seven.11 plays by South Asian, East Asian, and multi-ethnic writers.
Fluid Motion Theater & Film	$3,000	Nora Chau's Once More , Now, With Feeling, an adaptation of Sun Tzu's Art of War.
Four Seas Players	$3,000	Fundamentals of Theater workshops for Chinatown community members.
Indo-American Arts Council (IAAC)	$1,000	Publicity for the 5th annual IAAC festival of Indian Independent and Diaspora films.
In Mixed Company	$2,800	Jet Stream, a playful and profound live theater/multimedia performance of the Asian Diaspora.
Kundiman	$3,000	Retreat providing mentorship, workshops, and rejuvenation to NYC poets.
National Asian American Theatre Co. (NAATCO)	$3,000	World premiere of Michael Golamco's Cowboy v. Samurai.
Sachiyo Ito & Company	$3,000	Salon Series of educational demos on Japanese and Okinawan art forms.
The Kunqu Society	$3,000	Public performance & demonstration to showcase the art of Kunqu.
Trinayan Collective	$3,000	Sakshi/Witness, an interpretation of the classical Indian dance form of Odissi.

2004 JPMorgan Chase Regrant Recipients

Organization	Award Grant	Purpose
Asian Cinevision	$2,500	National Festival Tour
BINARI	$3,000	Develop print and online promotional materials
Chinese Theatre Works, Inc.	$3,000	Audience outreach for Day Jobs/Opera Dreams production
Dance Theatre of Nepal	$2,500	Increase audiences during performance for Tihar-Festival of Light
Dansology, Inc.	$1,500	Self Producing Force, a project to develop their in-house producing capability
Desipina Productions	$3,000	Community outreach around the production of Barriers & Broke
Hawaii Cultural Foundation	$3,000	Outreach and collaboration for Pacifika: New York Hawaiian Film Festival
Kathak Ensemble & Friends/CARAVAN	$2,500	Earth School Residency Project
Kunqu Society	$3,000	Lecture demonstrations and performances to introduce art of Kunqu to new audiences
Pandaville & Ulster County Arts Council	$1,500	Annual Chinese Dragon Parade & Community Celebration of Chinese New Year
Sachiyo Ito	$2,500	Introduce new audiences to Okinawan folk arts and culture
Soh Daiko	$2,000	Archival Project

2003 JPMorgan Chase Regrant Recipients

Organization	Award Grant	Purpose
Asian American Arts Centre	$3,000	Ceramic tile wall designed by children and elders in Chinatown
Balinese American Dance Theatre	$3,000	Design and implementation of website
Chinese Theatre Works	$3,000	Workshop production of Journey to the West
Creative Music Coalition	$1,015	Convergences concert series
Dance Theater of Nepal	$1,500	Fall benefit concert
Danmari./Yass Hakoshima Movement Theatre/New Jersey Center for Mime	$1,500	Breaking Barriers, performance, workshop/residency
Hawaii Cultural Foundation	$3,000	New York Hawai'i Film Series
Japanese Folk Dance Institute of New York	$2,985	3rd Annual Japan Day Festival
National Asian American Theater Company	$3,000	Production of Arthur Miller¼s All My Sons
Rebudal Dance Group	$2,000	Spring performance season at Joyce Soho
Topaz Arts	$2,000	Artist subsidies for Space Rental program
White Wave Rising/Young Soon Kim Dance Company	$2,000	Annual D.U.M.B.O. Dance Festival

2003 T.A.O. Recipients

Organization	Award Grant	Purpose
Asian American Writers¼ Workshop	$8,000	General operating expenses
Asian Cinevision	$8,000	General operating expenses
H.T. Chen Dance Company	$8,000	General operating expenses
Lotus Fine Arts	$8,000	General operating expenses
Museum of Chinese in the Americas	$8,000	General operating expenses
New York Chinese Cultural Center	$8,000	General operating expenses
Pan Asian Repertory Theater	$8,000	General operating expenses
Ping Chong & Company	$8,000	General operating expenses
Second Generation	$8,000	General operating expenses

2002 JPMorgan Chase Regrant Recipients

Organization	Award Grant	Purpose
Asian Cinevision	$3,000	Organizational brochure, membership mailer, membership survey
Crossing Jamaica Avenue Theatre Company	$3,000	Promotional video and brochure, upgrade website
East Winds	$2,220	Upgrade website
Japanese Folk Dance Institute of New York	$2,800	Photo portfolio and archive publicity shots
Muae Publishing	$3,000	Hire publicists to create a promotional book tour
Ramos Dance	$2,500	New company image, and promotion through website
Sachiyo Ito & Company	$3,000	Create professional photographic portfolio
Soh Daiko	$2,500	Audio/video equipment for streaming video on website and professional photos
South Asian Women¼s Creative Collective	$3,000	Art archive and artist media registry
Topaz Arts	$3,000	Organizational brochure and website

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