June 24: Gold House and AARP AAPI Community Present THE JOY LUCK CLUB Virtual Book Club Discussion with Amy Tan, Lauren Tom, Ming-Na Wen, Rosalind Chao, Tamlyn Tomita, Janet Yang and Aileen Lee

Updated 6/24/20

On Wednesday, June 24, 2020, Gold House co-hosted The Joy Luck Club  virtual book club discussion with AARP AAPI Community on Facebook Live.

For the first time in decades, legendary author Amy Tan and every Joy Luck Club daughter–Lauren Tom, Ming-Na Wen, Rosalind Chao, and Tamlyn Tomita–reunited and chatted with Executive Producer Janet Yang and super-investor Aileen Lee about the iconic novel, their groundbreaking movie, and the progress of Asian women over the last three decades.

Kieu Chinh, Ming-Na Wen, Tamlyn Tomita, Tsai Chin, France Nuyen, Lauren Tom, Lisa Lu, Rosalind Chao. (Buena Vista/Hollywood/Kobal/Shut)

As an ally to the Black community, Gold House also hosted a fundraiser for the Equal Justice Initiative.

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Lia Chang is an actor, a multi-media content producer and co-founder of Bev’s Girl Films, making films that foster inclusion and diversity on both sides of the camera. Bev’s Girl Films’ debut short film, Hide and Seek was a top ten film in the Asian American Film Lab’s 2015 72 Hour Shootout Filmmaking Competition, and she received a Best Actress nomination. BGF collaborates with and produces multi-media content for artists, actors, designers, theatrical productions, composers, musicians and corporations. Lia has appeared in the films Wolf, New Jack City, A Kiss Before Dying, King of New York, Big Trouble in Little China, The Last Dragon, Taxman. She stars in and served as Executive Producer for the short independent films Hide and Seek, Balancing Act, Rom-Com Gone Wrong, Belongingness and When the World was Young. She is also the Executive Producer for The Cactus, The Language Lesson, The Writer and Cream and 2 Shugahs.

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