Find Your Crew: Connecting Bay Area Filmmakers and Content Creators
2023-05-19 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Oakland Asian Cultural Center, 388 9th St. #290, Oakland, CA, 94607, United States
Sunday, May 17, 20262-4 pmFREE

Join us for a book launch, film screening, and discussion with Vietnamese American author Andrew Lam. He will be reading from his new book of short stories, Stories from the Edge of the Sea, which explore love and loss, lust and grief, longing and heartbreaks through the lives of Vietnamese immigrants and their children in California. The reading will be followed by a segment of the PBS documentary, My Journey Home and a Q&A with UC Davis professor Dr. Kiều-Linh Caroline Valverde discussing Lam’s 30 years of writing as a Vietnamese American author and essayist, and the future prospect of immigrant narratives. This book reading is presented by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center in partnership with the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network. It is free to attend, but registration is requested. Praise for Stories from the Edge of the Sea “Universal and personal.”—Maxine Hong Kingston, author of The Woman Warrior “Maps the moveable feast of the Vietnamese diaspora.”—Scott Lankford, author of Tahoe Beneath the Surface “Taste the desires of comedians, soldiers, tomboys, friends, queers, mothers, and refugees.”—Long Bui, author of Returns of War: South Vietnam

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About Andrew Lam Andrew Lam is a long time Bay Area journalist and author who writes about Vietnamese immigrants. He has published 4 books, including Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora, his memoir of being a Vietnamese refugee in America, which won a 2006 PEN Award. His most recent book, Stories from the Edge of the Sea, explores love and loss among Vietnamese in the Bay Area. He is the subject of a PBS documentary called My Journey Home. Lam lives in San Francisco and travels to his homeland Vietnam frequently. He is working on a novel. About Dr. Kiều-Linh Caroline Valverde Dr. Kiều-Linh Caroline Valverde is an Associate Professor of Asian American Studies and Founding Director of the New Viet Nam Studies Initiative at the University of California, Davis. She was a Fulbright, Rockefeller, and Luce scholar. She authored “Transnationalizing Viet Nam: Community, Culture, and Politics in the Diaspora.” Professor Valverde founded the movement ‘Fight the Tower’ with women of color and in the academy and co-edited the anthology, “Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy.” She is also working on her third manuscript, “National Aesthetics,” and the revitalization of ethnic spaces like Chinatown Square in Sacramento and Little Saigon in Oakland. Her future research project looks at spirit realm beliefs and the history of its exclusion from the US academy, as well as the importance of its return. More on Professor Valverde can be found at kieulinh.com.

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