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Join us on Thursday, May 23rd at 6:15 for a film "Pirates of Silicon Valley". It is a 1999 made-for-television film directed by Martyn Burke and based on the book Fire in the Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer by Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine. The film documents the impact of the rivalry between Apple Computer and Microsoft on the development of the personal computer. It spans the time period of the early 1970s to 1997, when Steve Jobs (Noah Wyle) and Bill Gates (Anthony Michael Hall) develop a partnership after Jobs returns to Apple Computer.

Please join our traditional Conversation Cafe on Wednesday, May 22nd, at 6p.m. You will have a chance to meet U.S. Embassy officer, and ask your questions on the topic.

Come and join us on Tuesday, May 21st at 6:15 pm for a film "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids". It is a 1989 live-action comedy film. The directorial debut of Joe Johnston and produced by Walt Disney Pictures, the film tells the story of an inventor who accidentally shrinks his and his neighbors kids to 1/4 of an inch with his electromagnetic shrink ray and sends them out into the backyard with the trash.

Join us on May 20 at 6 p.m. to hear an exciting lecture "Are All Men Created Equal in American Culture?" by Harvard University professor, Dr. Werner Sollors! He will talk about the the importance and complexity of ethnic equality in the United States. His writings include Beyond Ethnicity: Consent and Descent in American Culture (1986), Neither Black Nor White and Yet Both: Thematic Explorations of Interracial Literature (1997) and Ethnic Modernism (2008).