RESEARCH PRIORITIES AND CHALLENGES FOR COMMUNITY CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT

Free public lecture and discussion led by Bernice Gerrand, Manager, Community Cultural Development Board, Australia Council for the Arts. Does community cultural development present alternative and fresh perspectives and practices for those engaged in community strengthening, health promotion, environmental action, arts development and related fields of practice?

11.30am – 1pm, Wed 6 November 2002 University of Technology, Sydney 235 Jones St, Ultimo (Building 10, level 6, room 430)

For further information contact: Paul Johnston, Centre for Popular Education (UTS) tel: 02 9514 3861 fax: 02 9514 3030 email: paul.johnston@uts.edu.au

An adopted Vietnamese female returns to Vietnam to find and meet her birth mother in this Sundance Award winning documentary Screening:

The Quad Cinema 34 West 13th Street
New York, NY Opens Nov. 1, 2002
www.quadcinema.com

The Coolidge Corner Theatre 290 Harvard St.
Brookline, MA Opens Nov. 8, 2002
www.coolidge.org

The NuArt Theatre 11272 Santa Monica Blvd.
West Los Angeles, CA Opens Nov. 15, 2002
www.landmarktheaters.com

Opera Plaza Cinemas 601 VanNess Ave.
San Francisco, CA Opens Nov. 29, 2002

Shattuck Cinemas 2230 Shattuck Ave.
Berkeley, CA Opens Nov. 29, 2002

The Ken Cinema 4061 Adams Avenue
San Diego, CA Opens Dec. 13, 2002
www.landmarktheaters.com

GENERATE: doing [multi] culture exhibition Tues 29 October – Mon 11 November 2002 UTS Gallery, Peter Johnson Building (Building 6, Level 4), 702 Harris St, Ultimo. doing [multi] culture is an installation that maps culturally diverse Western Sydney. It’s also one component of the major cultural event, GENERATE: The Art of Migration, which represents Stage Two of the partnership project between the MHC and the Centre for Cultural Research (UWS). For additional information on the exhibition and project please visit:

www.migrationheritage.nsw.gov.au/projects/55.html#exhibition

Rally for the Truth about Refugees and War

This was originally planned to commemorate the drowning of 353 asylum seekers on the so-called SIEV-X vessel and the failure of the government and the navy – strangely, given they were warned – to do anything about this. It now has a broader aim to connect the questions of refugees and war to strengthen our movement. War creates refugees! People will meet at Town Hall at 12 noon. Speakers are being organised and posters and leaflets are already available. Email rallyfortruthoct26@yahoo.com.au to get leaflets or posters sent out. If you stick them up at work or at your bus stop or your school then we will have a really big rally.

“Families with Children from Vietnam” are holding a culture camp and are extending the event to adult adoptees – volunteers appreciated. For more information please contact Maryanne O’Conner at email: moconnor@arielgroup.com

Games area: Will be coordinated by Christine Poirier.

Arts & Crafts area: Will be coordinated by Chris Thomas and Eileen Heeney.

Cooking: Hai will coordinate two sessions where the kids (and parents) can make fresh rolls.

Dance: Thuy will teach a dance session.

Songs: Thuy and Diep will run a session

VAN: We have several members of VAN (Vietnamese Adoptee Network) who will be speaking with parents about their experiences.

Language: Linh will teach an introductory language session for parents.

Buddhism in Vietnam: Maryann will be doing this this with the help of Anton from Viet Cafe in Arlington.

Performance: To be announced

Lunch included in the fee.

Drinks: punch lemonade and water

Inter-Country Adoption Forum – Sydney

Date: Sat 19 October
Venue: St Scholastica’s College – Glebe
Focus: Racial Identity & Attachment and the Emotional Development of Trans-racially Adopted Children
Guest Speakers: Specialists in Adoption
Other Speakers: Inter-country Adoptees, Adoptive parents, Birth Parents

Jointly presented by PARC, DoCS, ICASN, ASIAC, & AFFC.

RSVP by October 14 $20 PH: 02 9365 3444

The Multiracial Child: What Professionals, Parents and Communities Need to Know

hosted by the Association of MultiEthnic Americans (AMEA) Tucson, AZ

www.ameasite.org/conference2002.html

e-mail AMEAorg@aol.com or call 1-877-954-AMEA

Source: Matt Kelley
Founder/President & CEO
mattk@mavinfoundation.org

MAVIN Foundation
600 First Avenue, Suite 501
Seattle, WA 98104

Ph 206 622.7101
Fx 206 622.2231

www.mavinfoundation.org

‘A story of soil’, by Chi Vu, is an Australian-Vietnamese tale about a generation of young people who are attempting to create a new identity for themselves that incorporates both Western and Asian ways. Tien, a young Australian woman with Vietnamese parents, runs away with her Australian boyfriend, who is rebelling against his middle-class family. Tien’s sense of identity is a complex one that draws on her Vietnamese heritage and her upbringing in suburban Melbourne. The play highlights the clash between Vietnamese and Australian values ­ between hearth and home and Western individualism.

WHEN: Thursday 10 – Sunday 20 October

TIME: Thursday ­ Saturday 8pm, Sunday 5pm

WHERE: SideTrack Studio 9, The Centre 142 Addison Rd Marrickville

TICKETS: $25 full / $20 cons

BOOKINGS: Please phone 03 9294 4655 or email boxoffice@sidetrack.com.au

The next generation of Vietnamese within Australia is the cultural mediators within the Vietnamese – Australian community, and they are the beacons of the future.

This exhibition presents a range of work, which examines the contested meanings of being Vietnamese in Australia and in particular in Western Sydney.

This exhibition identifies the need to understand the ways in which Asians in Australia construct their ethnic and cultural identities, in charting the changes in Australian social and cultural life in the contemporary moment.

Location: Liverpool Regional Museum, Cnr Hume Hwy & Congressional Drive, Liverpool

The Museum and Collingwood House are located about one kilometre south of Liverpool City Centre,on the Hume Highway near Congressional Drive – about 20 minutes walk from Liverpool Railway station. Ample free parking is provided. Open Tuesday – Sat – 10 – 4 pm

Further info contact Ricardo Peach, Curator, Liverpool Regional Museum on 9602 0315

Manly Jazz Festival

Is anyone interested in helping leaflet the crowd with pro-refugee material at any time – even a little while – at this very large event? Please let me know at brucek@triode.net.au if you might be interested.

Portland Mini Gathering For Adult Adoptees-September 27-29 Carrying on the tradition of the past mini gatherings (Chicago, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and New York City), here are the dates for the next gathering set in Portland, Oregon. Please contact Todd if you are interested in attending. More Info contact: toddk@holtinternational.org

Adoption Summit: Adoption Journey Continues – St. John’s University 9/21

WHO: St. John’s University, Center for Psychological Service and Clinical Studies

WHAT: The Adoption Summit: The Adoption Journey Continues

WHEN: September 21, 2002, Queens, NY

CONTACT: Dr. Rafael Javier (718) 990-6331 E-mail:

javierr@stjohns.edu

INFO

Annual Adoption Conference focuses on adoptees & their lifespan development. Four panels will address adoptees’ childhood development, adoloescence, adulthood, & transracial adoption issues.

Vietnamese Moon Festival

www.mamnon.org for Ann Arbor Mam Non Activities

All Day Sunday at Cabramatta (half hour train ride from Sydney city) to main mall 9am to 5pm Festival

MAVIN invites you to join us at the reception for a photo text exhibit titled “Portraits of Diveristy: Changing the Face of America through Transracial Adoption.” (Please see below for more information.) Saturday, September 7th, 5pm-8pm Capitol Hill Café 219 Broadway Ave. E. Seattle, WA 98102

For more information please contact Emiko at

emiko@mavinfoundation.org or call (206) 622-7101.

THEATRE EVENT: BLACK & TRAN AT THE STABLES THEATRE (SYDNEY):

A comedy that laughs in the face of racism, which unites the new Aussie and the old Aussie in the front bar of an inner city pub with hilarious consequences.

Created by Ningali Lawford,an indigenous actress from the Kimberley, and Hung Le, a stand up comedian who was one of the first Vietnamese boat people to arrive in Australia in 1975 – this is the first time that Aboriginal and Vietnamese culture have collided on stage. Join them as they swap jibes and stories which blow apart many of the stereotypes thought to be true of their respective cultures, and afterwards in the foyer to greet and meet the actors.

When? 8pm, Wednesday 14 August

Where? SBW Stables Theatre, 10 Nimrod St, Kings Cross

To book tickets, phone 02-9250 7799