Some Projects

 AVI and Other Vietnamese Adoptee Groups' Projects News

Global:

35th Anniversary of end of Vietanm War in April 2010

Features news on all activities connected with the above anniversary

Australia:

See above for 35th anniversary writings by adoptees from Australia and elsewhere

AVI and ICASN presents:
Touring Transcultural Adoptee Films (TTAF)
Australia-wide
http://www.adopteefilms.info

A tour of films made by or in collaboration with transcsultural adoptees held at various events nationally.

Adoption Australia magazine.

Evelyne Schilz-Middleton (ASIAC President) wishes to begin a regular adult adoptee editorial column. For more info contact: lesleymulder@grapevine.net.au

Quarantine Station

For archives of Operation Babylift children please contact
Anna Williams

Development Assistant

Mawland Quarantine Station

Ph: (02) 9977 5145 Fax: (02) 9977 6680

website: www.q-station.com.au

Box 50, 145 Sydney Road, Fairlight NSW 2094

Also see story by Chris Sturt

Ongoing: Adopted Vietnamese Australians National Listing

AVI is attempting to register the names of all adoptees who entered Australia during the Vietnam War.  For more info click here

USA:

Photography projects

Mavin

Those who are interested in becoming involved, please contact Kelly Brownlee at
kelly@mavinfoundation.org

I am looking for international adult adoptee participation right now, but also
am interested in speaking to partners, parents, and supporters of adoptees. 
We are also taking applications for those who are interested in being part of
our first face-to-face meeting in October in Seattle.


Thanks!
Kelly
Mavin Foundation

MAVIN FOUNDATION ANNOUCES PROJECT TO EMPOWER
INTERNATIONAL ADOPTEES

(Seattle) MAVIN Foundation has launched a multi-year, adoptee-led project to
identify what international adoptees and their families need to foster
connectedness and healthy cultural identities. Once identified, the project will

work with adoptees to implement the project's vision. The project is funded by
a $75,000 grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation of Battle Creek, Michigan.

The Immigration and Naturalization Service reports that U.S. parents adopt
approximately 20,000 children annually from over three-dozen countries.
Although today there is a considerable body of resources related to adoption,
adoptees and adoptee perspectives often remain excluded from leadership
roles in adoption organizations and from the creation of adoption policy and
research.

"Today there are generations of adult adoptees who are eager to contribute
their perspectives to the adoption discourse," says Kelly Brownlee, the
project's manager, who was adopted from Vietnam in 1975. "Having lived the
experience ourselves, adoptees are uniquely equipped to support adoptive
parents, agencies, and the next generation of adoptees."

Starting this month, MAVIN Foundation's Adoptee Empowerment Project will
work with dozens of adoptee-led organizations to initiate a cross-cultural
needs assessment. This fall, the project will take this information into online,

telephone, and face-to-face forums. The outcome of these activities will be to
design an innovative, adoptee-led project to launch in 2006. In the interim, the

project will also provide program support to strengthen the infrastructure of
existing adoptee-led organizations.

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation was established in 1930 "to help people help
themselves through the practical application of knowledge and resources to
improve their quality of life and that of future generations." Its programming
centers around the common vision of a world in which each person has a
sense of worth; accepts responsibility for self, family, community, and societal

well-being; and has the capacity to be productive, and to help create nurturing
families, responsive institutions, and healthy communities. Please visit
www.wkkf.org.

MAVIN Foundation is the nation's leading organization that celebrates and
advocates for mixed heritage people and families. Since 1998, MAVIN's
award-winning projects like MAVIN magazine and the MatchMaker Bone
Marrow Project have raised awareness of this rapidly growing population.
Please visit www.mavinfoundation.org


Kelly Brownlee
Project Manager
Adoptee Empowerment Project


MAVIN Foundation
600 First Avenue
Suite 600
Seattle, WA 98104

Ph: 206 622 7101
Fx: 206 622 2231
kelly@...
www.mavinfoundation.org

MAVIN Foundation creates innovative projects
that celebrate mixed race people and families.

IN THIRD SPACE NEWSLETTER

Jared Rehberg (operation babylift 75) and Lisa Hanson are putting
together a  new Transracial adoptee newsletter titled, IN THIRD SPACE. It will features stories and events in the
adoptee community. Our voices will be heard. We will celebrate our
community and our contribution to Asian America. We look forward to
showcase articles, art, stories and national events from Vietnamese,
Korean, and Filipino adoptees.

Please submit your writing and ideas to Jared_Rehberg @ yahoo.com

UK

FWD from VN adoptee Jessica Emmett, artist and film-maker:

This is a link to a documentery i made for a compietition where we were asked to use old
documentery footage of huge media events and "remix" it into a new documentery. In this
case it's using footage from Vietnamese Refugee camps and the Hong Kong hand over (it's
5mins):

http://www.jessica-emmett.com/Noise/mylifeinthenews.html

This next link is part of a long project i have been working about my foster family. It's not
necessarly about being vietnamese, but more about adoption processes and the real
responsably of it as well as getting into the mind of my foster family, people that i don't think
about that much (is a website as part of the project):

http://www.sockbunnies.com