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SUMMARY:Legacies and Peace Youth Forum: Shared Roots\, Shared Future
DESCRIPTION:Legacies and Peace Youth Forum: Shared Roots\, Shared Future is a half day conference to empower youth leadership and engagement by providing a platform for young leaders to share their experiences\, ideas\, and visions for the future\, equipping them with the skills and knowledge to drive positive change in their communities. Addressing legacies of the Indochina wars and promoting peacebuilding\, we will facilitate discussions on the impacts of war among Vietnamese\, Laotians\, and Cambodians and explore ways to heal and move forward. By strengthening regional collaboration and networks\, we aim to create opportunities for participants to build partnerships\, encouraging the development of collaborative projects that address regional challenges. Ultimately\, we strive to build a vision for a shared future\, where youth are united by common goals and aspirations\, working together to create a prosperous and peaceful Vietnam and Southeast Asia. Co-sponsors: USIP\, Columbia University\, Legacies of War and US-ASEAN Young Professionals Association. \nTentative Schedule: \nThursday\, October 10 – 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. EDT (lunch included) \n\nRegistration opens at 8:30 A.M.\n\n\nOpening Plenary\n\n\nRoundtables: Roundtables: Vietnam\, Laos\, and Cambodia’s Regional Cooperation with the United States; Vietnam Wartime Accounting Initiative; People-to-People Diplomacy and Exchange; Disability and Survivor Assistance in Vietnam\, Laos and Cambodia; The War Legacies Cooperation Exhibit at the War Remnants Museum; Transnational Crime\, Trafficking and Cyberscams in Southeast Asia\n\nFriday\, October 11 – 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. (lunch included) \n\nPlenary Session: Launch of PeaceWorks Report on U.S.-Vietnam Reconciliation\nRoundtables: Vietnamese Americans and War Legacies; Progress in UXO Clearance and Environmental Remediation\n\n\nYouth Forum – 1:30 to 4:00 P.M. – also as part of Vietnam Society’s Vietnam Week 2024 and in partnership with US ASEAN Young Professionals Association and Legacies of War (more information below)\n\n\nReception – 4:00 to 5:00 P.M.\n\nRegistration is required and will close Tuesday\, October 1. Please note that this event has a limited capacity and registrations will be on a first come\, first served basis. Invitations are nontransferable. If you wish for someone to be considered for an invitation\, please email us at vietnam@usip.org. \nThe full agenda and logistical information will be emailed to all registered attendees 2 weeks before the event. \nThis Eventbrite registration is ONLY for those who are attending in-person. We will provide an option to stream the public plenaries virtually if you cannot join us in-person. Registration to access the public plenaries virtually will be posted on the USIP website the last week of September. \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://www.vietnamsociety.org/event/legacies-peace-youth-forum-2024/
LOCATION:United States Institute of Peace\, 2301 Constitution Avenue Northwest\, Washington\, DC\, 20037\, United States
CATEGORIES:Vietnam Week
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SUMMARY:The Island by Tuan Andrew Nguyen: Video Screening
DESCRIPTION:Special viewing of Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s single-channel color video The Island (2017)\, followed by a discussion led by Smithsonian American Art Museum Time-Based Media Curator Saisha Grayson. The forty-two minute video (with Vietnamese translation)\, set on the Malaysian island of Pulau Bidong\, artfully combines Vietnamese refugee history with futurism to explore the impact of forced global migrations in startlingly innovative ways. The Island highlights the challenges of isolation\, repercussions of state-enforced relocation\, and the fundamental tension between remembering and honoring past trauma while not undermining the possibilities of a distinct future.  This special program\, in collaboration with Smithsonian American Art Museum\, provides a unique opportunity for Vietnamese refugees to view and reflect on their own migration experiences. Tuan Andrew Nguyen is an internationally recognized artist whose work has been shown in numerous film festivals and international exhibitions\, and included in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art\, the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.  \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://www.vietnamsociety.org/event/the-island-talk-2024/
LOCATION:Smithsonian American Art Museum\, G Street Northwest &\, 8th St NW\, Washington\, DC\, 20004\, United States
CATEGORIES:Vietnam Week
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SUMMARY:Cranky Kids’ Corner: Reading and Activities with Author Phuc Tran
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to Cranky Kids’ Corner: Reading and Activities with Author Phuc Tran! Join us at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington\, DC for a fun-filled event with the amazing author Phuc Tran. Get ready for an exciting day of storytelling\, interactive activities\, and maybe a few surprises along the way! This in-person event is perfect for kids who love books and enjoy a good laugh. Don’t miss out on this fantastic opportunity to meet the author and have a blast at Cranky Kids’ Corner! Book signing follows. Event is part of Vietnam Week 2024 and is sponsored by Vietnam Society\, the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library and Public Library Foundation. \nAbout Phuc Tran \nPhuc Tran is an award-winning writer\, tattooer\, and Latin teacher. Tran is the author of the memoir\, Sigh\, Gone and Cranky. He graduated Bard College in 1995 with a BA in Classics and received the Callanan Classics Prize. His 2012 TEDx talk “Grammar\, Identity\, and the Dark Side of the Subjunctive” was featured on NPR’s Ted Radio Hour. He has also been an occasional guest on Maine Public Radio\, discussing grammar; the Classics; and Strunk and White’s legacy. He currently tattoos at and owns Tsunami Tattoo in Portland\, Maine\, where he lives with his family. \n\n\n\n\nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://www.vietnamsociety.org/event/cranky-kids-corner-reading-2024/
LOCATION:Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library\, 901 G Street Northwest\, Washington\, DC\, 20001\, United States
CATEGORIES:Vietnam Week
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SUMMARY:Rebellion and Aesthetic Expressions: Book Talk with Phuc Tran & Elizabeth Ai\, moderated by Thuy Dinh
DESCRIPTION:A Vietnam Week 2024 Event \nCome join us at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library for Rebellion and Aesthetic Expressions featuring New England Book Award Winner Phuc Tran (Sigh\, Gone and Cranky) and Elizabeth Ai\, an Emmy award-winning film director/producer of the acclaimed film New Wave and accompanying book New Wave: Rebellion and Reinvention in the Vietnamese Diaspora. Moderated by Thuy Dinh\, Tran and Ai will discuss the recurring themes in their works – linguistic and cultural displacement\, memory loss\, intergenerational trauma\, music and artmaking as both livelihood and self-preservation. Book signing follows. Event is co-sponsored by Vietnam Society\, The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library and the Public Library Foundation. \nAbout Phuc Tran \nPhuc Tran is an award-winning writer\, tattooer\, and Latin teacher. Tran is the author of the memoir\, Sigh\, Gone and Cranky. He graduated Bard College in 1995 with a BA in Classics and received the Callanan Classics Prize. His 2012 TEDx talk “Grammar\, Identity\, and the Dark Side of the Subjunctive” was featured on NPR’s Ted Radio Hour. He has also been an occasional guest on Maine Public Radio\, discussing grammar; the Classics; and Strunk and White’s legacy. He currently tattoos at and owns Tsunami Tattoo in Portland\, Maine\, where he lives with his family. \nAbout Elizabeth Ai \nElizabeth Ai is a Chinese-Vietnamese-American Los Angeles based Emmy award-winning producer. She writes\, directs\, and produces independent narratives and is known for New Wave (2024)\, Crown Prince of Heaven (2010) and There Is a New World Somewhere (2015). She’s a fellow of Berlin Talent Campus\, Film Independent\, Sundance\, and Tribeca. Her film projects are supported by California Humanities\, Firelight Media\, Knight Foundation\, and ITVS. She received her B.A. from the University of Southern California. \nAbout Thuy Dinh \nThuy Dinh is a bilingual critic\, literary translator\, coeditor of the Vietnamese webzine Da Màu\, and editor-at-large for the Vietnamese Diaspora at Asymptote Journal. Her essays and poetry translations have appeared in Asymptote\, Manoa\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, NBC Think\, NPR Books\, Prairie Schooner\, Rain Taxi Review of Books\, Amerasia\, among others. Green Rice\, her co-translation of the selected poetry of Lâm Thị Mỹ Dạ\, was published by Curbstone Press in 2005\, and nominated for the Kiriyama Prize in 2006. \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://www.vietnamsociety.org/event/rebellion-and-aesthetic-expressions-2024/
LOCATION:Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library\, 901 G Street Northwest\, Washington\, DC\, 20001\, United States
CATEGORIES:Vietnam Week
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SUMMARY:Three Seasons Film: 4K Restored Screening & Director’s Talk with Tony Bui
DESCRIPTION:Three Seasons \nNew 4K Restoration \nIn Person: Tony Bui\, director \nFilm screening of Three Seasons (newly restored to in 4K from the original 35mm camera negative and original master 4-track stereo) and a director’s talk with Tony Bui. This acclaimed film\, a Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award winner at the Sundance Film Festival\, intertwines the tales of three narratives representing the past\, present\, and future of Vietnam. The long and emotional journey to restore Three Seasons isn’t just about preserving the film\, but about bringing it back to life to share this timeless story of love\, loss\, and hope after the Vietnam War for generations to come.  Following the screening\, Tony Bui will share insights from his longstanding film career\, especially on the role of artists and filmmakers in redefining narratives about Vietnam\, its history\, and people. The conversation will be moderated by Dr. Sylvia Chong\, associate professor of American Studies and English at the University of Virginia\, and author of The Oriental Obscene: Violence and Racial Fantasies in the Vietnam Era. (Dir.: Tony Bui\, Vietnam/United States\, 1999\, 109 min.\, DCP\, English and Vietnamese with English subtitles) \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://www.vietnamsociety.org/event/three-seasons-screening-2024/
LOCATION:Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art – Freer Gallery of Art\, Independence Avenue at 12th St\, Washington\, DC\, 20004\, United States
CATEGORIES:Vietnam Week
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SUMMARY:Vietnamese Night at the Museum: An Evening of Art\, Food\, and Music
DESCRIPTION:Spend the evening with us as part of Vietnam Week\, with afterhours programs that include a screening of Three Seasons followed by a discussion with director Tony Bui. \nAccessibility: The public elevator in the West Building (Freer Gallery of Art) is out of service\, so your route to the event location may take a few more minutes than usual. Use the accessible entrance at the corner of Independence Avenue and 12th Street SW\, and follow the directions when you arrive. Get more accessibility details. \nProgram Details: \nFood for purchase from Nue Vietnamese and cash bar \nWest Building (Freer Gallery of Art)\, Courtyard \n5:30–7:15 p.m. \nDJ Leon spins jazz and Vietnamese classics \nWest Building (Freer Gallery of Art)\, Courtyard \n5:30–7:15 p.m. \nColor a Chữ Nôm calligraphy page and decorate a paper fan \nWest Building (Freer Gallery of Art)\, South Corridor \n5:30–8:30 p.m. \nTake pictures with models from the VietFest Royal Court \nAll areas \n5:30–8:30 p.m. \nScreening of Three Seasons followed by discussion with director Tony Bui \nMeyer Auditorium \n7:30 p.m. \nRegistering does not guarantee you a seat for the film performance. Seating will be available on a first-come\, first-served basis until capacity is reached. \nAbout the film: \nPresented in 4K\, Tony Bui’s debut feature was the first American film made in Vietnam after the United States embargo was lifted. \nThe film’s characters struggle to find themselves in a rapidly changing society. A cyclo driver (Đơn Dương) forms a relationship with a sex worker (Zoe Bui) whom he ferries to her clients. An American veteran (Harvey Keitel) searches for the daughter he fathered during the Vietnam War\, and a street kid (Nguyễn Hữu Được) befriends him. A flower vendor (Ngọc Hiệp) finds solace in the beauty of lotus blossoms. \nThree Seasons blends the beauty of traditional Vietnamese architecture and landscape with the relentless modernization then sweeping through Saigon. Like no other\, this film captures a unique\, pivotal\, and now long-lost moment in modern Vietnamese history. \n(Dir.: Tony Bui\, Vietnam/United States\, 1999\, 109 min.\, DCP\, English and Vietnamese with English subtitles) \nImage Credit: Courtesy of NBC Universal \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://www.vietnamsociety.org/event/night-at-the-museum-2024/
LOCATION:Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art – Freer Gallery of Art\, Independence Avenue at 12th St\, Washington\, DC\, 20004\, United States
CATEGORIES:Vietnam Week
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