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
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
‘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:
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
Free Public Forum on Australia’s Refugee Policies
The University of Sydney is organizing a free public forum on the topical issue of Australia’s refugee policies.
The key speaker will be the prominent social justice advocate Fr Frank Brennan SJ AO, the Associate Director of Uniya Jesuit Social Justice Centre.
His theme will be “Developing Just Refugee Policies in Australia: Local, National and International Concerns”. There will be ample opportunity for audience questions and debate.
The forum is an initiative of the Senate of the University of Sydney and is being organized by the University’s Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies. The introduction will be given by the Hon. Justice Kim Santow OAM, the Chancellor of the University of Sydney.
Details: Father Frank Brennan, “Developing Just Refugee Policies in Australia Local, National and International Concerns”
Wednesday 7th August, 2002, 6.30 pm (doors open at 6.00 pm), FREE
Eastern Avenue Auditorium University of Sydney
Letters & Conversation: Articulating Asia-Australia seminar
The Asia-Australia Arts Centre presents Letters & Conversation: Articulating Asia-Australia a public seminar featuring four Asian-Australian artists and writers. Each will discuss their experiences living in Australia and how this is expressed and articulated in their creative practice. Exploring issues such as cross-cultural relationships, family and personal experiences through artwork and literature, the seminar will raise greater awareness and understanding of the idea of cultural diversity in Australia. The seminar will also examine how the interaction of different cultures can inform each speaker’s creativity while participating in an Australian environment. Letters & Conversation is held in conjunction with Turtles, a Fish and Ghosts, an exhibition of paintings by Phaptawan Suwannakudt.
Date: Thursday 25 July 2002, 6-8pm
Venue: Asia-Australia Arts Centre
181-187 Hay Street (between Pitt & George St)
Sydney NSW 2000
tel: 9212 0380 fax: 9281 0873
Admission: $5 (GST inclusive) Bookings essential
Hapa Issues Forum National Conference 2002 hosted by Hapa Issues Forum (HIF)
San Francisco, CA
e-mail sf@hapaissuesforum.org
First Annual Transracial Adoptee Summit & Family Camp hosted by Pact, An Adoption Alliance
e-mail info@pactadopt.org or call (510) 243-9460
Long Thanh’s Photography Exhibition
Blender art gallery
1 Elizabet Street , Paddington.