Practice Happiness: 7 Habits of Joyful Living at APAFEST

"May is national Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and the City of San Gabriel is thrilled to celebrate it with APAFest, a week-long series of events at our beautiful and historic Mission Playhouse," said Mayor Jason Pu. "Please join us as we bring the community together and highlight some of the many contributions of our Asian Pacific American community in the arts, entertainment and culture. Many thanks to our Community Services Department and our partnering organizations, United Charity Foundation and East West Players, for helping to bring APAFest to the City of San Gabriel."

The event also features appearances by noted fashion designers Kevan and Debbie Hall with fashion pieces inspired by Asian Pacific American culture. A free concert with singers Cheryl K and Katherine Ho of "Crazy Rich Asians", youth opera performances, Richard Seymour, Elayne Zhou, a performance of "Scrimmage" presented by the performing arts group East West Players, and an original play by Elite Performing Arts Group USA "The French Hospital Reimagined". Two stories presented by Charming China TV featuring Director Tuen-Ping Yang, two-time recipient of the Golden Horse Award, and fashion designers Kevan and Debbie Hall. Debut "Take five Assemble" by composer/singer Angela Sheng and authors Becky Lei, Ivy Sun, Rosa Zee and Vivian Chan.

Guests will also have the opportunity to win raffle prizes including an iPad and gift cards at the Signature Event - "Stories Into Performances" on Sunday, May 26,2019 start at 4 PM.

Each of these programs will feature a connection to the Asian Pacific American community through the use of storytelling, discussion and art.APAFEST is a collaboration between the San Gabriel Mission Playhouse's community engagement program Engage!, the United Charity Foundation and Executive Producer Vivian Chan. For more information about APAFEST, please visit APAFEST.org.

Wednesday, May 22, 2019 Asian Pacific American Festival at Mission Playhouse host a symposium on about living joyfully with discussions on emotional intelligence, family, parenting and volunteerism.
Follow the journey of four first-generation Asian-American pioneers in the area of Emotional Intelligence (EQ), family and parenting, and volunteerism in Joyful Living, Happy Life.
Their path to success as new immigrants included many struggles with schooling, marriage, and raising children until finally integrating into American mainstream society. Starting with volunteerism; they cultivated friendships, studied hard, acquired a sense of identity and belonging, and assumed important responsibilities as community leaders.
In this process they never stopped learning, and used their own upbringings as tools to becoming speakers and authors. Together they founded the workshop Joyful Living, Happy Life and jointly authored a bilingual book, "Practice Happiness: 7 Habits of Joyful Living"

Today program feature the 4 authors Becky Lei, Ivy Sun, Rosa Zee and Vivian Chan in a roundtable discussion moderated by reporter Julie Chan Lin. Participants will learn about the importance of attitude and how to learn new habits and find joyful living.

Reception at 5:30 pm

Program start at 6:00 pm