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SUMMARY:Enduring Spirit of Vietnam - Portland
DESCRIPTION:Join Vietnam Society\, World Oregon\, OVEEVA\, and PLACE for a conversation with Dr. Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai and Peter Steinhauer. \n  \n📅 Date: Wednesday\, April 16\, 2025\n⏰ Time: 6 PM – 9 PM\n📍 Location: Portland State University\, Native American Student & Community Center \nVietnam Society is pleased to present a special event to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War: a conversation between award-winning Vietnamese author\, Dr. Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai and celebrated artist photographer Peter Steinhauer. Over the past decades\, Peter and Quế Mai have used their arts to foster peace\, empathy and healing. \n The two artists will engage in discussions regarding inheriting the past and fostering hope for the future. Their talks will highlight how the arts have played a powerful role in promoting peace and building bridges for new generations. To honor more than 3 million people from Vietnam\, the U.S. and several other countries who lost their lives in the war\, Quế Mai will perform her poetry in Vietnamese and English. Peter will share his perspectives and photographs of Vietnam from the past 30 years\, which captures his admiration for Vietnam’s beauty and deep respect of the Vietnamese people’s resilience\, survival and creativity.  \nThe two artists will answer questions from the audience\, help us commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War in the most meaningful ways\, and suggest the work which we can all do together to contribute to global peace.  The talk will conclude with book signings.  Que Mai will sign her new poetry book “The Color of Peace”\, “The Mountains Sing” and “Dust Child”\, and Peter will sign his book “Enduring Spirit of Vietnam” which received the award “Best Photography Book of the Year” in 2007 by Photo District News (PDN). \nThe “Enduring Spirit of Vietnam” Talk will travel to major U.S. cities\, including Seattle\, Portland\, Washington DC\, and Chicago\, and to Vietnam\, including Hanoi and Saigon. \nSpecial Photo Exhibition \nAccompanying the talk is a special photographic exhibition “Spires — Cathedrals of Vietnam’s Red River Delta”\, a selection of Peter Steinhauer’s latest project which captures majestic cathedrals built during the French colonial period of the 19th and early 20th centuries. These edifices were not merely architectural imports\, but adaptations blending French Gothic and Romanesque styles with Vietnamese design sensibilities.Each photograph invites you to a space where spirituality meets artistry. Regrettably\, many of these architectural marvels now face neglect\, deterioration\, or intentional dismantlement. Their fading presence erases unique chapters of architectural brilliance\, diminishing visual testimonies of a bygone era of cultural amalgamation. Through this project\, Steinhauer seeks to immortalize their elegance\, narrating the profound stories embedded in their sacred silhouettes before they blend into the annals of history. \nAbout the Speakers \nNguyễn Phan Quế Mai \nBorn and raised in Việt Nam\, Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai is the author of thirteen books in Vietnamese and English\, most recently the global bestselling novels The Mountains Sing and Dust Child\, and the forthcoming poetry book The Color of Peace. Her writing has been translated into more than twenty-five languages and has received the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award\, the International Book Award\, the BookBrowse Best Debut Award\, the Lannan Literary Fellowship in Fiction as well as Runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.  She was named by Forbes Việt Nam as one of 20 inspiring women of 2021. She has a Ph.D in Creative Writing from Lancaster University in the United Kingdom. For more information: www.nguyenphanquemai.com \nPeter Steinhauer  \nPeter Steinhauer is an artist photographer\, and he lived and worked in Asia for twenty years\, beginning in Vietnam in 1993. His photography focuses on architecture within urban landscape\, man-made structure\, and natural landscape. His prints are in the collections of the Carnegie Museum of Art\, the Hong Kong Heritage Museum and a growing number of private and corporate collections worldwide. He is a recipient of numerous international photography awards including a finalist for the 2014 and 2017 Lucie Awards\, Ford Foundation grant for his multiyear work in Vietnam\, three Communication Arts Photography Annual Award of Excellence awards\, among others.  Steinhauer’s Enduring Spirit of Vietnam was awarded Best Photography Book of the Year 2007 by Photo District News (PDN).  For more information: www.petersteinhauer.com \n🔗 Register here: Event Link \nFind out ongoing information on our website (www.vietnamsociety.org) and on our social media @vietnamsociety.
URL:https://www.vietnamsociety.org/event/enduring-spirit-of-vietnam-portland/
LOCATION:Portland State Univerisity\, Native American Student and Community Center\, 710 SW Jackson St\, Portland\, OR\, United States
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