I'm proud to have met Grace Lee Boggs several years ago when I worked for a Peace and Justice organization on the far Eastside of Detroit. She was an inspiration then but for some reason or another, I never stepped forward as a volunteer or activist for her organization. I'll be getting involved in the Detroit Asian Youth Project, Detroit Summer and the Grace Lee Boggs Center pretty much, right now. You can say I'm sort of excited! I'm also very proud to be attending the following event this Saturday:

Detroit Summer and DAY Project Present...
THE GRACE LEE PROJECT
"Do you know Grace Lee?"

Film screening in Detroit
Saturday, March 18, 2006
8:00 PM
@ Barth Hall, 4800 Woodward Ave.
(Woodward Ave. and Warren Ave., Detroit, MI)

With remarks from long-time Detroit activist, Grace Lee Boggs And a Q/A with director Grace Lee following the film.
Adult tickets: $10-20
Youth: $5

Pre-Screening Reception @ 6:30 PM -- $35 Call in advance for tickets: (313) 333-3112

**All proceeds will benefit Detroit Summer, a multi-racial youth organization dedicated to rebuild, redefine and respirit Detroit from the ground up, and the Detroit Asian Youth Project , a group promoting social justice and political self-development with predominantly Hmong and Asian American youth on Detroit's east side.

About the film:
"...a funny but complex meditation on identity, ethnicity and cultural expectations..." --Variety

"The Grace Lee Project is a breezy first-person video essay that goes in search of the average Asian American woman, all the while wondering if there is in fact such a thing...[interviews include] Grace Lee Boggs, an 88-year-old Chinese American activist known in her Detroit community for her work in the black-power movement.." --The Village Voice


For more info:
http://www.gracelee.net/
[email protected]
(313) 333-3112