Asian Heritage Month started off with a kickoff party on the first of the month, organized by the Asian Students Alliance and Student Center for Multicultural Life.
On Thursday, April 4, poet Paul Tran will perform at a slam poetry event at Jack Magee's Pub. Next week, Lisa Ko—author of the acclaimed novel The Leavers, about a child of Chinese immigrants—will give a talk in Kresge Auditorium at 7:00 pm.
Asian and Asian American students will tell their own stories several days later, at a storytelling event at Jack Magee's pub.
Three more events will bring comedian Fumi Abe, poet Margaret Rhee, and sociologist Julie Park to Bowdoin. Park is the author of Race on Campus: Debunking Myths with Data, in which she lays out "the notable significance and admirable effects that diversity has had on campus life."
For the final event of Asian Heritage Month, students will celebrate the colorful Hindu festival Holi, where, traditionally, people throw rainbow-colored powder into the air and at one another to rejoice in the coming of spring and the victory of good over evil.
