diaCRITICS News & Events: February 19, 2018

Socio-cultural, literary, and political news and events relating to Việt Nam and to the Vietnamese diaspora.

Events

Viet Stories: Vietnamese American Oral History project at the University of California, Irvine announces the opening of VIET STORIES: Recollections and Regenerations, an art, history, and oral history exhibition in the Rose Hills Foundation Gallery at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, California from February 17, 2018 to May 28, 2018.

VAOHP Viet Stories


Art of Struggle, Elder Gallery of Contemporary Art, Charlotte NC. February 1 – 28, 2018. In the midst of a nationwide racial and gender reckoning, North Carolina artists MyLoan Dinh, Susan Brenner, and Charles Farrar address how contemporary art challenge us to confront our fractured reality, and what role does the artist play in this challenge.

Art of Struggle


Danh Vo: Take My Breath Away, New York Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, February 9 to May 9, 2018. Danish artist Danh Vo dissects the public forces and private desires that define individual experience and that the self is plural and inherently fluid, yet decisively shaped by larger power structures.

Take My Breathe Away


News from the Diaspora

DC has recruited Minh Lê and other authors for a new series of Young Reader Graphic Novel.

DC Zoom


Danh Vo‘s Take My Breath Away exhibition addresses imperialism, war, and terrorism often with dark humor.

She Was More Like a Beauty Queen from a Movie Scene, Danh Vo, 2009.


The beaten and enslaved life of a Vietnamese trafficked victim is recounted.

Trafficked victim


After pursuing a dream for twenty years, Kequyen Lam at 38 goes to the Winter Olympics.

Kequyen Lam


News from Việt Nam

Families of kidnapped girls suffer from fluctuating emotions of distress, confusion, anguish, despair, sadness, frustration, helplessness, hope.

Families of kidnapped girls suffer from fluctuating emotions of distress, confusion, anguish, etc.


Seventeen Vietnamese women sold as brides to men in China were rescued from a cross-border human-trafficking network.

Chinese police arrest human traffickers selling Vietnamese brides to men in China


The government is trying to nurture solar power generation instead of nuclear power as the country’s main source of electrical power. [No doubt, some of you will miss that glowing three-eyed fish delicacy. Well, that’s the price of clean energy, eh?]

Cancelled nuclear power plant site in Southern Vietnam


A very funny advertisement features delightful and beautiful singer Bích Phương. [WARNING: Laughing out loud may result from watching this video.]


Human Rights

3 COMMENTS

  1. So beautifully written. Thank you for sharing your voice. I love the idea that this is the first time in Vietnamese history that we are scattered across the globe, little seeds waiting to sprout and bloom. I am so glad you will carry on the editorship for our diaspora.

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