Thursday, June 4, 2009 Tiananmen Commemoration Events
6:00 P.M.  Play "Letters to a Student Revolutionaary"
                  at the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy
                  See details below
                  $15 if you mention Visual Artists Guild
                  Play ends at 7:15 P.M.
8:00 P. M. Candlelight Vigil
                  Consulate of the Peoples Republic of China
                  434 Shatto Place,
                  Los Angeles, California, 90020

A special ONE NIGHT ONLY Benefit Performance to Commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre in China.

LETTERS TO A STUDENT REVOLUTIONARY traces the decade-long correspondence and friendship between two pen-pals -- one Chinese, the other Chinese American -- which ended abruptly with the Massacre. This bittersweet tale seeks to make sense of history, how we participate in it and how we are overwhelmed by it. By focusing on the loves and losses, desires and disappointments, the play explores ideas of capitalism and communism, and ultimately becomes a call to remember the price of democracy.