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Ten Percent – TV Listing. October 5 – November 8 2015

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Ten Percent – TV Listing. October 2015

Ten Percent — LGBT-TV for Northern California

Mondays – Fridays, 11:30am & 10:30pm and Saturdays & Sundays at 10:30pm on Comcast Hometown Network Channel 104 in Northern California.

www.comcasthometown.com

Episode # 290
Monday — Friday, October 5 – 9, 11:30am & 10:30pm
Saturday & Sunday, October 10 – 11, 10:30pm

David Perry speaks with Charles Roddy about the nonprofit fundraising landscape for LGBT charities.. David Perry also welcomes Dennis Richards of the San Francisco Planning Commission, discussing business and residential growth in the Bay Area.

Episode # 291
Monday — Friday, October 12 – 16, 11:30am & 10:30pm
Saturday & Sunday, October 17 – 18 10:30pm

David Perry chats with Dave Ford about his path from journalist to yoga instructor. David Perry also interviews cultural Kevin Thomas, discussing the fall theatre scene.

Episode # 292
Monday — Friday, October 19 – 23, 11:30am & 10:30pm
Saturday & Sunday, October 24 – 25, 10:30pm

David Perry chats with Theresa Sparks about the transgender community’s issues in the “Post Caitlin Jenner” era. David Perry interviews Frederick Hertz from the Organization for Refuge, Asylum & Migration (ORAM) about the growing refugee crisis and the state of LGBT asylum seekers.

Episode # 293
Monday — Friday, October 26 – 30, 11:30 am & 10:30pm
Saturday & Sunday, October 31 – November 1, 10:30pm

David Perry speaks with Linton Johnson, managing partner and co-founder of mPower, a new online consulting business. David Perry chats with openly gay member of the United States Marine Corps, Garth Langley.

Episode # 294
Monday — Friday, November 2 – 6, 11:30 am & 10:30pm
Saturday & Sunday, November 7 – 8, 10:30pm

David Perry chats with Kate Kendell, Executive Director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, about the “post Marriage Equality” era. David Perry speaks with Kathy Amendola, owner of Cruisin’ the Castro Walking Tours.

Ten Percent is also available 24/7 through the “On Demand” Feature through your Comcast Cable Network. Choose “Get Local” and “Comcast Hometown” to access Ten Percent. Past shows may also be viewed online at www.comcasthometown.com.

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About 10 Percent

Comcast Hometown Network (CHN), Comcast’s regional cable network covering Northern and Central California, continues its commitment to quality original programming with Ten Percent, a weekly interview series that focuses on lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender (LGBT) issues. The half-hour show, created and hosted by long-time San Francisco media professional David Perry, airs on Channel 104, Mondays – Thursdays at 11:30am & 8pm and is available to all Comcast digital cable customers throughout Northern and Central California. Each episode will then be available online at www.comcasthometown.com as well as on Comcast’s popular ON DEMAND platform, which is free to Comcast digital customers. To view Ten Percent ON DEMAND, Comcast Digital Cable customers can tune to Channel 1 on their Digital Cable lineup or press the ON DEMAND button on their remote control, then click on the “Get Local” section, then click on “Comcast Hometown.”

“I jokingly call the show ‘Charlie Rose for the LGBT world,” said David Perry, Producer/Host of Ten Percent. “We may be only ten percent of the general population, in round numbers, but our issues are one hundred percent front-and-center in today’s world. Whether it’s the fight for marriage equality or debates about gay clergy or the right to serve openly in uniform, our issues are reflective of the world at large.”

“David has a well-known and unique voice that bridges many communities,” said Jason Holmes, Executive Producer at Comcast Hometown Network. “David’s talents and the launch of Ten Percent further enhance Comcast’s commitment to our communities and Comcast Hometown Network’s compelling, community-based regional programming,”

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< P style = "text-align: center;" > < img class = "Client-TH" alt = "Chinese Historical Society of America" src = "images / Stories / newslogos / CHSA-logo.png" /> < h2 > Beyond Chinatown < h3 > < br > September 19 “Beyond Chinatown” banquet will commend Miss Jiang Sunyun < br >
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“Above & Beyond Chinatown” Party Honors Cecilia Chiang – Coverage request

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Chinese Historical Society of America

ONSITE COVERAGE REQUEST: SAT. 9/19 — 4PM – 8PM

WHAT:
“Above & Beyond Chinatown” Party Honors Cecilia Chiang
San Francisco’s Chinese Historical Society of America Pays Tribute
to 96-Year-Old Culinary Legend with event at Julia Morgan designed Museum

WHEN:
Saturday, September 19: 4pm – 8pm
6pm – Cecilia Chiang receives award from David Chiu and Julie Christensen

WHERE:
Chinese Historical Society of America
(965 Clay Street, between Powell & Stockton)

www.chsa.org

Media Contact: DP&A, Inc. / David Perry (415) 693-0583 / news@davidperry.com

100 years ago, San Francisco’s Pan Pacific International Exposition was celebrating progress, innovation and the completion of the Panama Canal. It was also, cementing an attitude of anti-Chinese racism that would linger for generations. Four years later, a woman who would combat such prejudice through courage, conviction and culinary prowess was born: Cecilia Chiang. On Saturday, September 19 (4pm – 8pm) — coinciding with Chiang’s 96th birthday — the ups-and-downs embodied by her extraordinary life will be on display when she is honored by San Francisco’s Chinese Historical Society of America (www.chsa.org) at their annual fundraising party onsite at the Museum (965 Clay Street, between Powell & Stockton) this year themed “Above & Beyond Chinatown.” Tickets are $ 150 to the event that will feature live music, a silent and live auction, wines courtesy of ZAP (Zinfandel Advocates & Producers) and an eclectic array of food from some of San Francisco’s best-known and restaurants: 25 Lusk AsiaSF, B. Patisserie, Butterfly, Chino, Crystal Jade, M.Y. China, Original Joe’s, Palio d’Asti, Tacolicious and Yank Sing. The fundraising event is hosted by San Francisco’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning journalist, Liam Mayclem, known as the “Foodie Chap” on KCBS Radio and CBS-5 TV.

“Almost the entire 20th century’s experience for the Chinese-American diaspora is captured in Cecilia’s extraordinary life, ” said the Society’s Executive Director Sue Lee, a friend of Chiang’s.

Born near Shanghai to an aristocratic family, Cecilia escaped with a sister from the Japanese occupation of China in 1942 by walking for nearly six months to Chongqing where they settled with a relative. Details of Chiang’s escape and subsequent journey to San Francisco were chronicled earlier this year in the nationally-broadcast PBS TV documentary Soul of the Banquet. Chiang and her son, Philip – co-founder of the wildly popular P.F Chang chain of restaurants – are featured in the critically acclaimed new film The Search of General Tso which chronicles the rise of Chinese cuisine in the United States. In 1960, Chiang came to San Francisco to visit a sister, Sophie, whose husband William Hoy, had died. Walking through the streets of San Francisco’s Chinatown she met two friends from Tokyo who were planning to open a restaurant, and agreed to help negotiate their lease. She impulsively wrote a deposit check for $10,000 to secure their rent, which the landlord refused to return after her friends backed out of the venture. Unable to terminate the lease she decided to run the restaurant on her own, although she had never before run a business. The result: the world famous Mandarin that soon began to attract an international and celebrity clientele as the first restaurant of its kind in America.

The Chinese Historical Society of America is the oldest and largest organization in the country dedicated to the documentation, study, and presentation of Chinese American history. Founded in 1963, CHSA has been located since 2001 in the landmark Julia Morgan-designed Chinatown YWCA building at 965 Clay Street, San Francisco, 94108. Museum hours are Tuesday-Friday 12pm-5pm, and Saturdays 11am–4pm. (Closed Sunday, Monday, and Holidays.) Further information is available by calling (415) 391-1188 x101, or at www.chsa.org

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September 19th “Above & Beyond Chinatown” Party Honors Cecilia Chiang

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September 19th “Above & Beyond Chinatown” Party Honors Cecilia Chiang

San Francisco’s Chinese Historical Society of America Pays Tribute to 96-Year-Old Culinary Legend with event at Julia Morgan designed Museum

www.chsa.org

Media Contact: DP&A, Inc. / David Perry (415) 693-0583 / news@davidperry.com

11 September 2015 – San Francisco, CA: 100 years ago, San Francisco’s Pan Pacific International Exposition was celebrating progress, innovation and the completion of the Panama Canal. It was also, cementing an attitude of anti-Chinese racism that would linger for generations. Four years later, a woman who would combat such prejudice through courage, conviction and culinary prowess was born: Cecilia Chiang. On Saturday, September 19 (4pm – 8pm) — coinciding with Chiang’s 96th birthday — the ups-and-downs embodied by her extraordinary life will be on display when she is honored by San Francisco’s Chinese Historical Society of America (www.chsa.org) at their annual fundraising party onsite at the Museum (965 Clay Street, between Powell & Stockton) this year themed “Above & Beyond Chinatown.” Tickets are $ 150 to the event that will feature live music, a silent and live auction, wines courtesy of ZAP (Zinfandel Advocates & Producers) and an eclectic array of food from some of San Francisco’s best-known and restaurants: 25 Lusk AsiaSF, B. Patisserie, Butterfly, Chino, Crystal Jade, M.Y. China, Original Joe’s, Palio d’Asti, Tacolicious and Yank Sing. The fundraising event is hosted by San Francisco’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning journalist, Liam Mayclem, known as the “Foodie Chap” on KCBS Radio and CBS-5 TV.

“Almost the entire 20th century’s experience for the Chinese-American diaspora is captured in Cecilia’s extraordinary life, ” said the Society’s Executive Director Sue Lee, a friend of Chiang’s. “She truly has gone above and beyond Chinatown, and way beyond the expectations of what a Chinese person – woman – could accomplish in an age of prejudice and fear.”

Born near Shanghai to an aristocratic family, Cecilia escaped with a sister from the Japanese occupation of China in 1942 by walking for nearly six months to Chongqing where they settled with a relative. Soon thereafter, Cecilia met and married a successful businessman, Chiang Liang. The couple had two children, May and Philip. She and her husband escaped from China on the last flight from Shanghai during the Chinese Communist Revolution of 1949. With only three tickets for a family of four they had to leave Philip behind with her sister (the family was reunited more than a year later). Her parents and siblings who remained in China were treated poorly by the Communists. Her parents died poor. A brother died in a labor camp and one sister committed suicide. Others were killed by communist soldiers.

Details of Chiang’s escape and subsequent journey to San Francisco were chronicled earlier this year in the nationally-broadcast PBS TV documentary Soul of the Banquet. Chiang and her son, Philip – co-founder of the wildly popular P.F Chang chain of restaurants – are featured in the critically acclaimed new film The Search of General Tso which chronicles the rise of Chinese cuisine in the United States.

“The phrase ‘living legend’ is bandied about quite a bit, but in Cecilia’s case is more than deserved, ” said the Lee.

In 1960, Chiang came to San Francisco to visit a sister, Sophie, whose husband William Hoy, had died. Walking through the streets of San Francisco’s Chinatown she met two friends from Tokyo who were planning to open a restaurant, and agreed to help negotiate their lease. She impulsively wrote a deposit check for $10,000 to secure their rent, which the landlord refused to return after her friends backed out of the venture. Unable to terminate the lease she decided to run the restaurant on her own, although she had never before run a business. The result: the world famous Mandarin that soon began to attract an international and celebrity clientele as the first restaurant of its kind in America.

Chiang is often credited with introducing San Francisco, and the United States, to a more authentic version of Mandarin cuisine. Over time the restaurant began to attract loyal customers. Journalist C. Y. Lee, who had just written the Broadway show Flower Drum Song, about San Francisco’s Forbidden City Nightclub, became a regular and brought many friends. One day, Vic Bergeron (founder of Trader Vic’s) came to the restaurant with Herb Caen, who immediately began to popularize the restaurant in his newspaper column. Over the years, Chiang befriended and trained a host of now iconic chefs including Alice Waters and Jeremiah Tower. Chiang sold the Mandarin in 1991 and it closed in 2006. In 2013, Chiang won a James Beard Foundation Award for lifetime achievement.

The Chinese Historical Society of America is the oldest and largest organization in the country dedicated to the documentation, study, and presentation of Chinese American history. Founded in 1963, CHSA has been located since 2001 in the landmark Julia Morgan-designed Chinatown YWCA building at 965 Clay Street, San Francisco, 94108. Museum hours are Tuesday-Friday 12pm-5pm, and Saturdays 11am–4pm. (Closed Sunday, Monday, and Holidays.) Further information is available by calling (415) 391-1188 x101, or at www.chsa.org [widgetkit id=25]

The 20th Annual Kaiser Permanente San Francisco International Dragon Boat Festival

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The 20th Annual Kaiser Permanente San Francisco International Dragon Boat Festival

Treasure Island, San Francisco

Saturday & Sunday, September 19 & 20: Racing: 8am – 5pm; Festival: 10am – 5pm


www.sfdragonboat.com

Media Contact: David Perry & Associates, Inc. / (415) 693-0583 / news@davidperry.com

8 September 2015– San Francisco, CA: What a difference two decades make. When the 20th Annual Kaiser Permanente San Francisco International Dragon Boat Festival (www.sfdragonboat.com) paddles its way into the record books on Saturday & Sunday, September 19 & 20 in the waters around San Francisco’s Treasure Island in the middle of the Bay, the massive family-friendly festival can safely say: “We made history.”

“This event brought dragon boating to a much broader audience,” says Linda Cheu, Director of the California Dragon Boat Festival that sponsors the event. “Before this event, only a small group of paddler enthusiasts had ever heard of – much less experienced – what we call the ultimate team sport. Now, we are the largest dragon boat festival in the United States. We’ll have over 130 teams competing this September.”

Cheu, who has been a key promoter of dragon boating for both of the Festival’s landmark decades, points to the sport’s accessibility and diversity as a reason for its increasing popularity.

“The Festival includes paddlers that are high school students, seniors, cancer survivors, competitive and former Olympic athletes, and teams from corporations, hospitals, museums, and community groups,” says Cheu. “All are attracted to this over 2,000 year old Chinese cultural tradition. The Festival has become one of the largest, free, family friendly events in Northern California. Last year we had around 40,000 attendees and we expect to meet or exceed that this year.”

This year’s Festival features several an unprecedented number of novice teams, representing a wide range of corporations from Premier Sponsors Lucky Supermarkets and Sutter Health; new tech teams from LinkedIn, Rdio, and Google; in addition to other companies such as Wells Fargo, PG&E, McKesson, and Visa. The Festival includes most of the Bay Area’s major healthcare providers, including Kaiser Permanente, the title sponsor, St. Mary’s Medical Center and Chinese Hospital, and an array of community serving organizations including schools, labor unions, and other non-profits. There will also be dozens of visiting teams from around the United States and Canada.

San Francisco City officials will help kick-off the event on Saturday including the novice team competition, including the “Golden Serpents,” which is comprised of representatives from the Mayor’s Office, Board of Supervisors, San Francisco Police Department and ChinaSF, the Mayor’s China business initiative. Entrance to the Festival is free and open to the public, as is viewing of the races. The festival provides an exciting array of activities off the water as well, from food trucks to entertainment to children’s activities and is a very family friendly event.

“The corporate support is vital,” said Cheu, noting that the funds provided by the business community support the Festival’s youth program. “It provides a free, high quality, year-round, competitive dragon boating program for nearly 1,000 youth in San Francisco and around the Bay Area, focusing on immigrant youth who do not traditionally participate in mainstream school sports. The high school dragon boat program not only promotes fitness and a healthy lifestyle, but also teaches values of teamwork, leadership, perseverance, and hard work.”

Besides the thrill of cheering on a fleet of colorful 40-foot dragon boats as they race to the beat of Chinese drums, the two-day, admission-free festival features family-friendly live entertainment, cultural performers, fabulous food, and fun merchandise. Kids of all ages can enjoy free games with prizes, arts and crafts in the Flax Creative Arts Area, carnival rides, a three-story obstacle course, face painting, airbrush tattoos, animal balloons, roving dragon characters and more at the ever-popular Dragon Land. Parking and admission is free, and complimentary shuttles run both days between the festival and locations in San Francisco.

Cheu notes that dragon boating has continued to grow in popularity throughout the country – and world — citing as evidence the growing number of international competitors.

“The California Dragon Boat Association again expects record attendance in all divisions this year,” said Jessica Li, President of the California Dragon Boat Association and also a longtime dragon boat paddler. “It’s going to be another great weekend of good, hard racing, excellent entertainment and food, and great times on and off the water!”

In 1996 a handful of paddlers came together with the vision to build an organization to foster the growth and development of dragon boating in the San Francisco Bay Area. Each had little experience in starting up a non-profit organization most were relatively new to the sport themselves. With only commitment and their faith in dragon boating becoming a great activity for the community they moved forward to promote a sport people knew little about in an area already saturated with team sports.

So, what exactly is Dragon Boating?

For those unfamiliar with the sport, dragon boating simply put, is a boat of 20 paddlers, a drummer and a steers person paddling to cross the finish faster than their competition. It’s a team sport in its purest form that encompasses the elements of power, speed, synchronization and endurance.

With its beginnings in Southern China, dragon boating today is the fastest growing international team water sport. Each year, race festivals are held around the world in Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe and the United States, one of the largest festivals in the North America is held right here in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The appeal to dragon boating is mainly contributed to the sport’s ability to accommodate a wide spectrum of skill levels ranging from novice to competitive, Chen explains. At the novice and recreational level, teams often form as a means of social outlet, team building and an alternative means of exercise. For the spectator, the true display of the sport’s intensity and skill is witnessed in the competitive ranks.

Dragon boat racing is one of the earliest known forms of aquatic competition and is celebrated at festivals and races throughout the world. This mythical celebration is a symbol of Chinese culture and spirit and is one of the three largest festivals in that country, with its roots going back over 2,000 years.

Legend has it that Qu Yuan, a scholar and advisor to the emperor of the Chu Kingdom, jumped into the Mei Lo (Mi Luo) River in despair and protest against government corruption. Local fishermen raced out in their boats to save him. They beat drums and pounded their paddles on the river’s waters and threw rice dumplings wrapped in silk into the river to distract the water dragons and keep them from eating from Qu Yuan’s body. Dragon boating evolved from the re-enactment of this legend at annual festivals.

After two decades, the California Dragon Boat Association is now the largest dragon boating organization in the Bay Area and organizes one of the largest competitive dragon boat festivals in the United States. In addition, the Association oversees the largest high school and college dragon boat program in the nation.

“No one who has discovered dragon boating – either on the water or as an on land volunteer leaves unchanged,” says Li. “We are proud of the role we have played in growing the number of people who are able to experience the magic team and community building aspects of this ancient sport.” [widgetkit id=24]