We visited HOLA (Heart of LA) to decorate backpacks with the kids and staff. The event was a HUGE success! Can’t thank the staff at HOLA enough for making it happen.
We had a wonderful visit to Las Familias Del Pueblo! We decorated backpacks with the kids. Everyone had a great time!
Sunday, February 25, 2018, 1-4pm
Hands On O.T., 137 Bay St. #1, Santa Monica, 90405
1) You live in a blue state
2) We match you with a team of volunteers in your district
3) A few of them are your district captains (DCs)
4) DCs are responsible for organizing with Sister District HQ
5) Sister District matches your team with your “Sisterhood race” – a fragile Democrat to defend or a Republican to flip
1) Sign up at http://www.sisterdistrict.com
2) Donate to Sister District Action Network, a 501(c)(4) organization focused on educating voters, training new leaders, and conducting research to flip state legislatures from red to blue
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/sda
Special Thanks To - Paul Gerstenfeld, of Hands On OT for hosting this event.
https://www.wondermei.com/events
Queen Elizabeth Coin Project at SAHK (formerly known as the Spastics Association of Hong Kong).
August 2014
I was invited to an art jam party organized for my fellow alumni, St Paul's Co-Educational College Class of 1973 in Hong Kong. I had no idea what an art jam was, but wanted to see my high school friends anyway.
Turns out my friends are all artistic!! It was hugely inspiring to see them having fun, painting away. I thought about joining but felt too inhibited - I had never used acrylic before, had no idea what/how to paint - so I decided to sit back, watch, and learn.
I was the only one without a painting. But...my friends had shown me a whole new world and I couldn't wait to get home and try on my own.
Freshly inspired by my friends, I started doodling, coloring, writing, on magazine ads.
The view from my bedroom window was spectacular, so I tried to make it the backdrop...
I had scissors, glue, paper, and old magazines. Voila, my first collage!
Once I started, I could not stop. I grabbed everything I could find in my apartment - the lid of a moon cake tin box, Chinese calligraphy practice sheet paper, stickers, postcard cutouts, my favorite poems...
When people ask who or what I am, I never know how to answer. A product of colonial education? East meets West? I grew up in Vietnam and Hong Kong, studied in the United States, and am now living in Los Angeles. So it's no accident that I created an ode to Van Gogh with Chinese incense papers and Don McLean's "Vincent (Starry, Starry Night)."
I was on fire and invited my friends over for more art jamming. Winnie brought paints, canvases, and easels, Stella brought jewelry making supplies, Marian brought food, etc. I showed them what I had made in the days since our first art jam party. They were beyond encouraging - Perry came up with my artist name (a Chinglish version of my high school nickname), and Edith designed my artist logo. And so, "Wondermei" was BORN!
