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In 2005, new personnel joined theOffice of External Affairs:

n John Lewis, an award-winning journalist and former CNN Asia Bureau Chief, is the media relations specialist.

n Floren Elman-Singh, formerly a non-profit executive director with a background in marketing and public relations, is the public information specialist.

2005 Publications by the News and Information Section:

EWC Annual Report 2004

Coming Up: bi-monthly advisory onconferences, seminars, and new EWCpublications

EWC Observer: quarterly publicationfeaturing EWC news and events,recent publications, and EWCFoundation activities

n Karen Knudsen is the director of the Office of External Affairs.

The Office of External Affairs connectsthe resources and research of the East-West Center with the local, national,and international community throughnews media and public informationservices; briefings for visiting officials;and public affairs, community relations,and public programs. This office alsocomprises the Arts Program, the EWCAlumni Office, and EWC programrepresentatives in the Asia Pacific region.

External Affairs media and outreachactivities were mobilized into high gearon December 26, 2004, with news ofthe devastation caused by the IndianOcean tsunami. At the start of 2005,the Center launched a major fundraisingeffort initiated by the Office of ExternalAffairs, eventually generating more than$500,000 that was distributed over theyear for immediate relief and long-termrecovery efforts (see highlights article onpage 10).

In 2005 External Affairs coordinatedthe outreach efforts of Dan Berman,President Morrison’s SpecialRepresentative to South Asia. With the help of EWC alumni, Bermanestablished new alumni chapters andreinvigorated existing chapters,promoted the Center’s programs toprospective students, and assisted inorganizing the first EWCA South AsiaRegional Conference held in NewDelhi (see highlights article on page 8).

The East-West Center alsoremained active in service to the localcommunity by supporting Aloha UnitedWay and Hawai‘i Public Radio, partici-pating in charitable food and clothingdrives, and providing expert testimonyto the Hawai‘i State Legislature.

NEWS AND INFORMATION

Media coverage of the East-WestCenter continued to expand in 2005,enhancing the Center’s capacity toinform policymakers and the generalpublic on issues of importance to theregion. The Center and its staff werecited in over 1,300 reports by mediaoutlets worldwide with op-edsappearing in newspapers from Jakarta,to Washington, to Honolulu.

The News and Informationsection serves as a liaison between theCenter and journalists throughout theregion by arranging interviews withEWC specialists; organizing mediabriefings, news conferences andeditorial roundtables; writing andediting op-ed pieces for national andinternational publications; issuingnews releases, newsletters and relatedmaterial; and distributing EWCanalysis and commentary on importantregional issues.

EXTERNAL AFFAIRS

Karen Hughes, U.S. undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs(left), engaging EWC students in discussion.

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U.S. ambassador to Japan, J. Thomas Schieffer (3rd from left),

met with (l to r) Terance Bigalke,director of Education; Sheila

Smith, EWC research fellow andJapan security specialist; and Nancy

Davis Lewis, director of research,during a briefing at the EWC.

The Bangladesh ambassador to the United States, His Excellency Syed HasanAmad (2nd from left) and his wife with (l to r) EWC Board Chairman RolandLagareta and EWC President Charles E. Morrison.

East-West Wire: emailed to approxi-mately 2,000 journalists and otherprofessionals worldwide featuringtimely, topical reports covering EWCnews, commentary, analysis, and pub-lications on important regional issues

PUBLIC PROGRAMS

Integral to its educational outreacheffort, the East-West Center organizescommunity forums and special eventsdesigned to increase knowledge aboutissues affecting the Asia Pacific region.Public forums are held in collaborationwith institutions and organizations suchas the Pacific and Asian Affairs Council,Japan-America Society, the Universityof Hawai‘i, Society of ProfessionalJournalists, Pacific Forum, and variousethnic Chambers of Commerce. In2005, the East-West Center cosponsored24 highly visible public programsincluding presentations by the Presidentof Mongolia and U.S. Ambassadors toNepal, Vietnam, and Thailand.

BRIEFINGS

The EWC provided analysis of regionalissues to more than 65 governmentofficials, diplomats, journalists,military officers and the general publicthrough briefings and individualmeetings with Center staff. Briefingswere held for the U.S. undersecretaryof state for public diplomacy & publicaffairs, Karen Hughes; U.S. publicaffairs officers participating in the EastAsia and the Pacific Chiefs of Missionsmeeting in Honolulu; U.S. ambassadorsto Laos, Mongolia, Bangladesh, Japan,Cambodia, Fiji, Singapore, and EastTimor; foreign ambassadors to theUnited States representing the UnitedKingdom, Mongolia, Bangladesh, andSri Lanka; the commander of the

Pacific Command, Admiral Fallon;Hawai‘i State legislators; and severalconsuls general in Hawai‘i.

PROGRAM REPRESENTATIVES

The East-West Center currently hasMemorandums of Understanding withorganizations in 10 countries orgeographic areas in the Asia Pacificregion including Hong Kong, India,Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Nepal,the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, andVietnam. EWC program representativesprovide assistance to EWC staff andstudents with visa applications, makeCenter materials available to prospectivestudents, publicize in-country programs,and arrange meetings and speakingengagements by EWC visiting staff.

His Excellency Enkhbayar Nambar,president of Mongolia, speaking at theEast-West Center.

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FRIENDS OF THE EAST-WEST CENTER

Complementing the Center’s outreach effort is the community-based organization, the Friends of the East-West Center. The Friends is anon-profit volunteer organization thatprovides support for Center activities.It coordinates a host-family programfor EWC students, administers theMary Morgan Hewett JournalismEndowment, provides volunteerassistance for special EWC events, and sponsors a popular communitylecture series. In 2005, the Friendsheld two evening dialogue series in the EWC Gallery in addition tocosponsoring luncheon seminars with the EWC. The Friends also helpthe Alumni Office coordinate thestudent mentoring program, matchingstudents with professionals in thecommunity.

ARTS PROGRAM

The East-West Center Arts Programincreases understanding of culturesand ethnic groups from the AsiaPacific region through exhibitions,performances, lecture-demonstrations,and hands-on workshops. In 2005,more than 12,000 adults and youth on O‘ahu experienced EWC’s artsprograms, and co-sponsorship enabledadditional neighbor island youth tolearn from visiting master artists. Arecent program initiative targeted ‘at-risk’ youth with outreach to schools ineconomically disadvantaged neighbor-hoods and rural communities.

The Center’s growing PermanentCollection has been augmented thisyear by significant gifts, including amuseum-quality collection of 19thcentury Japanese woodblock prints.

n William Feltz is the coordinator of the EWC Arts Program.

n Michael Schuster is the curator of the EWC Gallery.

Performances

EWC Tsunami Relief FundraiserConcert was organized by EWC staffand students within 48 hours of theDecember 2004 Indian Oceantsunami. More than a thousand peoplegathered at the Imin Center to showtheir support. This event launched amajor year-long EWC fundraisingeffort.

Inetnon Dancers from Inarajan,Guam, a 15-member high schoolgroup renowned for their preservationof traditional Chamorro culture,performed at the EWC and schools on the islands of Kaua‘i and O‘ahu.

Indonesian Randai, the University ofHawai‘i production of a traditionalmusical dance-drama, based on martialarts, from the Minangkabau region ofSumatra, toured Moloka‘i island underEWC auspices, reaching 550 youth.

Masters of Persian Music, an Iranianquartet featuring Mohammad RezaShajarian, drew 700 people, plus 400students at Radford High School.These events were co-sponsored by theWorld Music Institute in New YorkCity.

Te Vaka, a Polynesian Ensemble fromNew Zealand, performed at LeewardCommunity College Theatre and formore than 300 O‘ahu high schoolstudents.

Bharata Natyam, a South Indianclassical dance performance-demonstration by Izumi Sato inconnection with EWC’s Arts ofRajasthan exhibition.

Wallis and Futuna Islands Ensembleperforming at Punahou School as part

of an EWC residency in July 2005.

Kaiulani Elementary School students enjoyed an EWC Indonesian mask-danceperformance in appreciation for their “Million Pennies” tsunami fundraiser.

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Bon Dance, led by the HonoluluFukushima Bon Dance Club, introducedthis traditional folk dance to more than200 international participants. Thisevent was presented in connection withthe Japanese Temple Architecture ofHawai‘i EWC exhibition.

Wallis and Futuna Islands Ensemble,an eight-day residency by 24 culturaland educational experts with eightperformances and demonstrations foraudiences numbering over 1,400.

Black Grace, a New Zealand dancetroupe of primarily Maori and otherPacific islands backgrounds, renownedfor its unique combination of tradi-tional and contemporary dance forms,delivered a public performance co-sponsored by UHM-Outreach College.

Shashmaqam, a traditional BukharianJewish ensemble from Central Asia,presented a sold-out concert and threelecture-demonstrations for schools, inconnection with the Enduring ThreadsEWC exhibition. This was the firsttime music from Uzbekistan wasperformed in the Hawaiian Islands.

Exhibitions

Neither East nor West: Hong KongContemporary Art featured works byseven artists depicting impressions ofurban life in Hong Kong. Five of theartists participated in Arts Forums. Allevents were co-sponsored by the HongKong Curatorial and Research Unit. TheEWC together with the Hong KongArts Development Council co-sponsoredthe related conference East MeetsWest: Other Pacific Perspectives, heldat Lingnan University in Hong Kong.

Gods and Demons, Monkeys, andMen: Masks of Southeast Asia, illus-trated the mask theatre of the region.Guest curator Kathy Foley of theUniversity of California at Santa Cruzdelivered lecture-demonstrations assistedby dancers, Irawati Durban fromBandung and Bulan Djelantik fromBali. A video program on the topic,produced by Steve Meyer, was distrib-uted to performing arts educators.

The Palace and the People: Arts ofRajasthan, displayed sculptures,costumes, folk paintings, photographs,and puppets; depicting the inter-relationship between the arts of villageand nomadic people and the merchantsand nobility of Rajasthan. The artist-in-residence, Kiran Soni Gupta, provideddemonstrations throughout O‘ahu.

Hope for Renewal: Photographs fromIndonesia after the Tsunami, featuredan exhibition of photographs taken inAceh, Indonesia, by Marco Garcia, in theweeks following the devastating earth-quake and tsunami in the Indian Ocean.A catalog was published with all proceedsgoing to the EWC Tsunami Relief Fund.

EWC Curator Michael Schusterexplaining the Indonesian mask

tradition to students in conjunctionwith the EWC Gallery exhibition,

“Gods and Demons, Monkeys, andMen: Masks of Southeast Asia.”

An EWC sponsored Bon Dance exposesinternational students to this Japanesetradition.

Master textile artist from Uzbekistandemonstrating suzani embroidery techniquesin conjunction with the EWC Galleryexhibition, “Enduring Threads.”

Japanese Temple Architecture ofHawai‘i, curated by LorraineMinatoishi Palumbo, showcased thephotography of Paul Chesley andcultural objects conveying the signifi-cance of temple structures in Hawai‘i’ssociety from late 19th century to thepresent. In collaboration with theNational Historical Trust, this exhibit,complemented by 20 symposia andguided tours, raised awareness of theimportance of historic preservation.

Enduring Threads: Central AsianEmbroidered Textiles featured suzanitextiles from Uzbekistan, provided byThe Doris Duke Foundation for IslamicArt and shown publicly for the first time.Artists-in-residence included DilbarKhalimova of Bukhara, a prominentUzbek dye master and embroiderer; andHermine Dreyfuss, a Washington-basedphotographer/visual ethnographerspecializing in textile traditions aroundthe world. A series of public forumssupplemented the exhibition.

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EAST-WEST CENTER ALUMNI

The East-West Center Association(EWCA) is an international networkof more than 50,000 professionals whohave participated in East-West Centerprograms. EWCA provides manyprograms and services for its membersdesigned to support the Center’smission to help build an Asia Pacificcommunity and to extend the outreachof the East-West Center.

n Gordon Ring is the EWC alumni officer.

n Larry Foster was elected president of EWCA in 2005.

New ChaptersFive new EWCA Chapters wereofficially established in Brisbane,Chandigarh, Phnom Penh, Vientiane,and Rangoon, bringing the number ofchapters in the EWCA network to 45.

South Asia Regional ConferenceOver 150 EWC alumni from 10countries and EWC officers and staffgathered in New Delhi for theNovember conference devoted toBuilding a South Asia Community in aGlobal Context. For more informationon the conference, see page 8.

EWC alumni gathering in Brisbane,Australia for the inaugural chapter meeting.Present were: (standing l to r) Alison Carlisle,Wendy Carlisle, Jeremy Webb, Larry Foster,Karen Nunan, Ralph Carlisle, (seated l to r)Peter Nunan, Aline Webb, Iraphne Childs,Edilyn Bajracharya, Bhishna Bajracharya.

Carl Hefner (left), president of the EWCA Hawai‘i Chapter, and Loretta Pang andLarry Foster, officers of the EWCA Board (right), presented travel grants to eightEWC students.

Chennai alumni present a$5,000 check from the

EWC Tsunami Relief Fundto the ROSA Foundation.

Student Relations Relations between EWC alumni andcurrent participants were strengthenedas EWCA scholarships assisted fournew and five continuing students, andprovided an additional eight travelgrants. For the first time, an EWCAalumnus will serve on the EWCScholarship Screening Committee,which selects new students each year.More than 140 students have partici-pated in the mentoring program,which links returning students withalumni who can assist them infurthering their professional goals.

Alumni FundraisingEWC alumni from the 1960s raised$250,000 to build a student scholarshipendowment fund. The 150 contributorsgenerously donated $1,000 or more.

EWCA Chapter HighlightsThe Jakarta chapter held seminars on Emotional Intelligence and a work-shop on ASEAN, which featured apresentation by EWC Visiting SeniorFellow Seiji Naya.

The Chennai chapter hosted aseminar on disaster management at theUniversity of Madras and presented a$5,000 EWC contribution to the non-profit organization ROSA in support oftheir tsunami relief efforts.

The Kathmandu chapter held amusical concert fundraiser generating$1,500 for the EWC Tsunami Relief Fund.

Over 100 alumni attended theHawai‘i chapter’s Annual Meeting inApril, which raised nearly $5,000 tosupport EWC students. Dan Bermanwas honored with the chapter’sOutstanding Service Award.

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