Kung Fu Fighting: Bruce Lee Night | Japantown

Submitted by the Event Organizer

A day-long, outdoor fair, fun for the whole family—all in the heart of Japantown—during the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival.  Enjoy live musical performances, film screenings and interactive art projects from celebrated Asian American performers and artists.

Event includes a choreographed live performance of a Bruce Lee fight scene at 6pm, live music by the Junior Panthers at 7pm and  followed by an outdoor screening of Enter the Dragon (1973) at 8pm

12:00 – 2010 Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival Preview

FESTIVAL FORUM will offer a preview of the upcoming Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival, scheduled for April 10-11, 17-18, 2010 in San Francisco Japantown. In this early look at the program for this long-standing community event, MC George Yamasaki Jr. will preside over performances by the San Francisco Taiko Dojo, Shimaoka Koto Group and Nishikawa Classic Dance Group, as well as an introduction to the candidates for the annual Cherry Blossom Queen.

2:00 – Prasant Radhakrishnan’s VidyA

With an almost telepathic interplay, VidyA merges the virtuosity of Jazz with the melodic and rhythmic nuance of South Indian classical (Carnatic) music. Featuring Prasant Radhakrishnan on saxophone.

3:00 – THE ROBBIE KWOCK MELECIO MAGDALUYO QUINTET

Hard-hitting post-Bop from this Bay Area quintet.

Featuring:
Robbie Kwock: Trumpet
Melecio Magdaluyo: Saxophones
Ron Belcher: Bass
Murray Low: Piano
Paul Van Wageningen: Drums

4:00 – BWAN & MrREY

BWAN and MrREY are two social activists who happen to create music, merging universal steez of flowing compliments and eclectic, hard-hittin slappers with beats!

Andrew Vai & Joel Dela Merced – Melodic ukelele & vocal duo

San Francisco natives Joel Dela Merced & Drew Vai are two college students who find common ground through music, bringing the jam session live and direct tearing the stage up with an island vibe!

5:00 – POISON APPLE PIE

Torrey Hart, Emmalee John- son-Kao, and Jasmine Stade formed Poison Apple Pie in 2008 after a session of Bay Area Girls Rock Camp. A locally grown production, all three girls attend middle school in Oakland, CA.

6:00 – Mike Lai –  Bruce Lee Fight Scene

Choreographed Bruce Lee fight scene

Performance by winner of SFIAAFF and Locus@ KSW’s DIY Music Video Contest

7:00 – THE JUNIOR PANTHERS

With influences such as the Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine, Primal Scream and the Rolling Stones, the Junior Panthers like to shake it up with their own style of raucous riffs, driving rhythms and addictive melodies.

8:00 – Outdoor Film screening: ENTER THE DRAGON

A special outdoor screening of the legendary kung-fu classic ENTER THE DRAGON, featuring Bruce Lee in his final film. Don’t miss this opportunity to see Lee’s famed “fists of fury” in outdoors in the Japantown Peace Plaza! (Robert Clause, 1973, 99mins) – Preceded by new music video “Bulldozer” by local indie pop band The Invisible Cities.

Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.