Events included… The Post Adoptive Resources Centre in NSW will be presenting more anti-racism workshops for adoptive parents and featuring adult international adoptee speakers from Vietnam and other overeseas countries. The first one will be held in Bulli in March. For more info contact theao@bensoc.org.au
ICASN next social for inter-country adoptees will be March 7, 2004 at 11am in the Botanical Gardens. Contact Analee for more details at: analee.matthews@fitnessnetwork.com.au
(Archive)
Planning Committee needed for Catalyst Event Boston
Radio Interview on SBS Australia radio with VN adoptees
New Publication about Vietnamese Diaspora
Peace on Planet Earth – New book for Children
Call for submissions: New anthology of trans-racial adoptee writers
International Events
New Books on Adoption – Jane Jeong Trenka and Lana Noone:
International Events
Adoption Documentary new project US/Vietnam
Host an Exchange Student from Vietnam
Vietnam Adoptions Update
International Events
Book
Mam Non Picnic day
Asia Writers Network and Music CD Launch
SARS Warning
Vietnamese Mother Found
International Events
Vietnamese In Hindsight? The Construction of Adopted Vietnamese Identity and Place In the Diaspora
VN Adoption Film Screening
Visiting Vietnam for Tet
International Events
Last call for Volunteers to be interviewed for research project
Documentaries in Production
Recent Documentaries
Events included….On 25 November Melbourne VN adoptees Jen, Emma and Zion were interviewed along with Indigo from AVI by Natasha Cuculovski (2003) for SBS Radio17 November.
Download Interview: 203.15.102.140/elg/f26139004.mp3
(SYDNEY, MELBOURNE) Australia-Asia New Leaders Program 2003 Information Sessions – Thursday 24 and Tuesday 29 October
Are you committed to building a prosperous and peaceful future for Australia in the Asian region? Are you an emerging leader with relevant work experience and a belief that you can make a difference?
The Australia-Asia New Leaders Program will develop your leadership skills while building high-level Asian knowledge and networks.
The program is an initiative of Asialink at the University of Melbourne in partnership with the National Institute for Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University and will operate in Melbourne and Sydney in 2003.
Information sessions:
SYDNEY- Thursday 24 October 2002, 6 pm – 7.30 pm, Minter Ellison, Level 19, 88 Phillip St, Sydney
MELBOURNE – Tuesday 29 October, 6pm – 7.30 pm, Freehills, Level 42, 101 Collins St, Melbourne
Bookings are essential. Please RSVP to Bernadine Fernandez at Asialink by phone: 03 8344 3574 or email: b.fernandez@asialink.unimelb.edu.au
The closing date for applications is 22 November 2002. For further information about the program contact Justin Kennedy at Asialink by phone: 03 8344 3583, email: j.kennedy@asialink.unimelb.edu.au, or visit the Asialink website: www.asialink.unimelb.edu.au/cpp/leadership/index.html
Many excellent local musicians and Vietnamese Australian comedian Hung Le are getting together to provide a full afternoon of entertainment at Henson Park in Marrickville, Sydney Australia. The aims are to raise awareness and to fundraise, including to Refugee Action Coalition and welfare organisations. From 12 noon till 7pm. No alcohol and all ages. Website under constructions – for info see www.zeronet.com.au/r4r. Tickets just $12 and available from next week.
The Post Adoptive Resources Centre are inviting adoptive parents (and potential) to join their staff, government people and adult adoptees for an evening of ‘talking about racism’ – how to help your child cope and celebrate their cultural diversity. Hope to see you there.
The Vietnamese adoptees are invited to join in on casual meetings in Boston between 24 – 30 September.
Email: adoptedvietnamese@hotmail.com
The Vietnamese adoptees and other intercountry adoptees are invited to join the ICASN group 21 September contact Lynelleb@au1.ibm.com
The Vietnamese adoptees are invited to join in on casual meetings in Boston. Dates: Sunday 13 April and Thursday 17 April. Email: adoptedvietnamese@hotmail.com
Vietnamese adoptees are invited to join in on casual meetings in Melbourne, Australia in conjunction with the Intercountry Adoptee Support Network (ICASN).
International Vietnamese adoptees met up in Ho Chi Minh City / Saigon Vietnam.
Monday December 9th 2002
7:30PM – Sydney
THE QUIET AMERICAN
+ Q&A WITH PHILLIP NOYCE
This program is presented in association with
INSIDE FILM
Popcorn Taxi in association with Inside Film present a very special advanced preview screening of PHILLIP NOYCE’s topical new film, THE QUIET AMERICAN, starring MICHAEL CAINE, BRENDAN FRASER and DO THI HAI YEN.
Pulled from its release schedule after September 11, THE QUIET AMERICAN could not have re-emerged to make it’s mark at a more important time. American Aid worker Alden Pyle (Brendan Fraser) arrives in Saigon in the fall of 1952, at the height of the Vietnamese fight for independence from French colonial rule. He befriends a London Times correspondent (Sir Michael Caine), and falls for his beautiful Vietnamese mistress (Hai Yen). Nothing, and no one, are as they seem, in this adaptation of Graham Greene’s classic and prophetic story of love, betrayal, murder and the origin of the American war in Southeast Asia.
After the screening, director PHILLIP NOYCE joins INSIDE FILM’s Editor BEC SMITH, for an indepth on-stage discussion and Q&A session about the film. For more info on PHILLIP, see below.
POPCORN TAXI
Admission (M )
Time : 7:30 pm.
Date: Monday December 9th 2002
Where: Valhalla Cinema
Address: 166 Glebe Point Road, Glebe
Entry: $15 / $13 Concession.
Tickets on sale from 6:00pm (sorry no bookings, cash only).
The Catalyst Foundation, together with Humanitarian Services for the Children of Vietnam, invites you to join us for our “Take a Chance on Me” Annual Benefit Dinner on Friday – December 6. 2002, at 5:30 p.m., in the Great Hall, US Bank Trust Center Building, Lowertown – 180 East Fifth Street – St. Paul, Minnesota
The Honored Guest Speaker, Kien Nguyen, is the Author of “The Unwanted” and “The Tapestries.” Kien Nguyen grew up an outsider in his native land. His once wealthy family, thrust into poverty at the dawn of a new political regime, lived amongst neighbors who treated them as pariahs, unwelcome remnants the colonial past. Kien himself, a child of mixed race (his father was American), was among the most unwanted. Told with a stark, poetic brilliance, Kien’s account of his early years-from the fall of Saigon, when at age eight he watched the last U.S. Army helicopter leave without him and his family, to his eventual escape-is a work of profound emotional resonance, at once harrowing and inspiring. “The Unwanted” unforgettably records a universal human experience played out in extreme circumstances: the forging of an identity, a life. Kien Nguyen left Vietnam in 1985 through the United States’ Orderly Departure Program. After spending time at a refugee camp in the Philippines, Nguyen arrived in the United States. He now lives in New York City.
That evening, we’ll also be honoring the following people: Catalyst Foundation Community Award Recipient: John A. Gappa, Senior
Vice President and CFO, Universal Hospital Services, Bloomington, MN
Catalyst Foundation Service Award Recipient: Julie Hessler, Vietnam
Adoption Specialist, Children’s Home Society of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN
Cost for the evening is $55 per person and includes the meal; register online at www.catalystfoundation.org
VAN will help Clear Path International and the Adopt-A-Minefield campaign by hosting a dinner for the worldwide “Night of 1000 Dinners” annual fundraiser. To register contact info@van-online.org
We are one of many in our state and across the nation who will participate in this the global campaign to help rid the world of landmines and support landmine accident survivors. Clear Path International is one of 10 charter affiliates in this benefit spearheaded by the Adopt-A-Minefield campaign, which is drawing support from family hosts, restaurants, churches and community service clubs in Vermont, Washington, Maine, New Hampshire, Oregon, Idaho and California and all over the world.
Here’s your chance to get involved in this worthy effort. Hosting a dinner is easy. Last year VAN hosted a buffet-style meal in Seattle with 20 guests in attendance. We exceeded our fundraising goal and hope to raise even more this year. 85% of our proceeds went directly to Clear Path International’s efforts in Vietnam and the remaining 15% we earmarked for distribution to relief efforts in Afghanistan.
To get involved, please register online at:
What: Adoption Forum for Adult Adoptees Topic will be Identity
When: Sunday, December 1, 2002, 1-4 PM
Where: 39-60 54 Street, Woodside
Info: Adoption is a lifelong journey that contains complex emotions and issues. Individually our paths lead to different places, though they meet in crossroads throughout the course of our lives. Adoption Forums are sessions were adult intercountry adoptees come together to share their own experiences and feelings with other adult intercountry adoptees. Forums are small informal discussion groups intended to provide a casual and comfortable space to meet, build friendships and share experiences.
Directions: Take the 7 train to 52 Street and walk to 54 Street. Make a left. The road breaks so you need to look to your right. Continue on 54 and I am on the left hand side.
By car:
From West: Queens Boulevard to 58 Street. Make a left onto 58 Street. At light make left onto Roosevelt Avenue. Bear right onto Skillman andmake first right onto 54 Street. I am on the left hand side.
From East: Queens Boulevard to 58 Street. Make a right onto 58 Street. At light make left onto Roosevelt Avenue. Bear right onto Skillman and first right onto 54 Street. I am on the left hand side.
Contact: Lee-Ann Hanham by phone at 718-205-8033 or email at lhanham@mail.alsoknownas.org. If you are going to email, please leave a phone number to contact you to confirm. Please RSVP by November 27.
…on the grounds of the Garden State Art Center at Exit
116 of the Garden State Parkway.
NOVEMBER 23, 2002 AT 1:00 PM
www.njvvmf.org
Fee-$5.00
The program will include a special presentation of the Babylift Documentary Film “Precious Cargo”, with the co-producers leading a discussion.
Speakers include:
Shirley Barnes, author of “The War Cradle”, Mike Boehm, Vietnam Veteran and Organizer of the My Lai and Hanoi Peace Parks, (tentative) Ross Meador, FCVN’s Babylift Coordinator…Ross has the final civilian passport stamped for departure April, 1975, I wish to cordially invite all Babylift adoptees to participate as well.
Other activities include:
Music, Vietnamese Dance Group Performance, Art Exhibit…to include the Babylift Quilt…created by Shirley Barnes from remnants of clothing worn by the Babylift adoptees in 1975…soon to be archived at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library, Section of the C-5A Airplane, Babylift Award Statue, Photo Exhibit, etc. The program will be followed by a Holiday Lighting Ceremony at 6:00 PM.
Please contact Lana Noone: noone@mailbug.com for further information.