EVENTS  Listings

INTERNATIONAL EVENTS  Australia, USA, France and more below

NEW EVENT FOR 2010 - TOURING TRANS-CULTURL ADOPTEE FILMS (TTAF).To be held Australia-wide presented by AVI and ICASN
- READ MORE  VISIT

http://www.adopteefilms.info

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QLD Events & Meetings

Adoptee Films & Panel Event in Brisbane

Sunday 26th of July - ICASN & AVI will hold a special session of adoptee films and panel, to be held in conjunction with the International Adoption Day proceedings. Venue is Logan Entertainment Centre.
For enquiries please email: amhdavison@yahoo.com.au and also visit www.adopteefilms.info

 
Qld ICASN Socials - Regular

For the next meeting of inter-country adoptees in QLD please contact  the State Rep of the ICASN group is Anna
 email amhdavison@yahoo.com.au

QLD Adoption Education Sessions 

To get involved with the panel to talk to educate prospective adoptive parents at sessions organised by the QLD Dept/ICA Unit please email:  keeley.cathcart@childsafety.qld.gov.au

Ongoing - IAFQ Info Days 

Adult adoptee special Q and A sessions are held for prospective adoptive parents by the IAFQ (Intercountry Adoptive Families of QLD) for their info days, usually held at the Italio-Australian club at Newmarket. For directions and how to attend a future event contact the organiser, Clarissa via the IAFQ at
clarry_david@optusnet.com.au

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VIC Meetings

June 2009

Adoptee Films and Cultural Event in Melbourne

13 June - held at Australian Catholic University

VIC ICASN Socials - Regular

Get to-gethers of Vietnamese and Inter-country adoptees  in Melbourne please see www.icasn.org

For teens you can also participate in the ICATZ network - an offshoot of ICASN for teens by emailing the teen leader Angela at:
platt@ozemail.com.au

  OTHER: - Melbourne Arts and Adoption.

Get a copy of

SHRIMP

Based on an adopted Vietnamese's journey to Vietnam. 

Review from the Age

and from Vibewire

NOTE that Dominic Golding is now doing his MA on adoptee artists and can be contacted at email:
dominicgolding@hotmail.com

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General Asia Related Events 

For general non-adoptee but exciting events relating to Asia and Asia Australia please visit Asialink's website www.asialink.unimelb.edu.au or email to events@asialink.unimelb.edu.au or call Asialink on (03) 8344 4800 to find out how to become a member and receive their events mailing list.

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 NSW Meetings

The 'NSW Transracial Adoptee Artist and Panel Event'  (TAAPE).


Date tba
RSVP Essential
Email Key Organizer Lynelle Beveridge: icasn@bigpond.net.au
Web: http://www.icasn.org/news/NSW_TAAPE09.html

 NSW ICASN Socials - Regular

Get to-gethers of Inter-country adoptees under the 'ICASN' group in Sydney occur at a reasonably regular basis.
For more info please visit : www.icasn.org

NSW ICASN Dinner
Sat 7 Nov @ 7pm
Chinta Ria on Roof Terrace of Cockle Bay Wharf next to Pyrmont Footbridge entrance @ 201 Sussex St, Sydney
RSVP to Eun at eunnie@iinet.net.au

Other: -

Are you interested in being a buddy at Camp Connection?

 
·        Are you adopted from overseas and aged 18 to 25?
·        Would you like to meet with other intercountry adoptees of your age?
·        Would you like to meet & help other children who may be having similar experiences you had as a child?
If so, we would love to hear from you.
Contact Sue Ann at info@australiansadopt.org  or 0403 763 737

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AFC Culture Camp -  - Adult Adoptee volunteer 'mentors' wanted.

For more info contact: 

Ricky Brisson

rickyb@australiansadopt.org 
Executive Director/Adoption Coordinator and Founder - Australian Families
for Children Inc. (AFC)
Founding member -       Australians Caring for Children Inc. (ACC)
National Coordinator -  Australian Intercountry Adoption Network (AICAN)
Convenor -              NSW Intercountry Adoption Alliance
AFC - http://www.australiansadopt.org
ACC - http://www.accau.org
AICAN - http://www.aican.org

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The Post Adoption Resource Centre, working with ICASN, ASIAC,
DoCS Adoption and Permanent Care Services & Barnardos,
often hold special workshops for   INTERCOUNTRY & TRANSRACIAL ADOPTEES (for more details contact Thea Ormerod at PARC on 9365 3444 or PO Box 239, Bondi. 2026. theao@parc.bensoc.org.au Workshop Suggestions on transracial@bensoc.org.au)

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Adelaide Meetings

ICASN and AVI Adoptee Movie NIght and Performances Event in Adelaide

Date and venue tba - see flyer calling for volunteers and expressions of interest at www.adopteefilms.info

ICASN Meet Ups
visit www.icasn.org

SA ICASN Dinner
Fri 30 Oct, 2009 @ 7pm
SCOOZI's Cafe, Rundle St, Adelaide
RSVP to Megan at mk.j@hotmail.com

EAST MEETS WEST Networking Group
 
 
East meets West no longer receives funding from the Government as at April 2008 to cover our program costs.
The East meets West Board is currently actively looking at other avenues to continue our program and generate funds.  Funding for East Meets West will be the future of our organisation, if we have no funding, then we cannot afford salaries of the paid workers to organise and attend activities.  We are looking for any parents interested in joining the board or who have suggestions for funding opportunities.

info@eastmeetswest.org.au

Post Adoption Support Services Training.

This training is for
> counsellors, psychologists, social workers and other professionals
> who work with clients, or would like to work with clients, whose
> lives involve adoption.
> Please pass this on through your networks, and feel free to contact
> Nikki Hartmann or Sandi Petersen on 8245 8100 should you

There are also special
discussion evenings for people who have been adopted. 

TET Volunteers needed

Face painters and general volunteering assistance welcome for Tet Festivisites to be held by the SA Vietnamese Community Chapter annually. For more info please contact Ruth Tulloch, Exec Committee Member & Public Programs:
Ruthtulloch@aol.com

Heart of Stone Book Out Now

-WA Meetings

1 November, WA ICASN Transnational Adoption Film Night

2 - 5pm Wembley Hotel Wine Room
http://www.icasn.org/news/WA%20TAFE.html

ICASN

Note that WA ICASN people can find out more about meeting at an informal inter-country adoptee social events through visiting www.icasn.org

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 TAS Meetings

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 ACT Meetings

To post info please email: adoptedvietnamese@hotmail.com

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CANADA

Operation Babylift: Lost children of Vietnam film screening Vancouver

VAFF on Sun 11/8
http://www.vaff.org/fest09/lost-children-lost-stories

Canadian Adoption Summit Event for September 2010

For more info email:
Dr. Robert Ballard, Assistant Professor, Communication, Leadership and
Social Innovation, University of Waterloo
bballard@uwaterloo.ca



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FRANCE:

Origines Vietnam 

Regularly holds events - please see

Marita (aka Chi),
htpp://originesvietnam.com

or join

http://fr.groups.yahoo.com/group/

newsletter-originesvietnam/

"Réunion de l'association Le Monde des Adoptés" on

To see more details follow the link below:
http://www.facebook.com/n/?event.php&eid=127317950197

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USA:

INTRO TO EVENTS in USA

Attend the VAN and Vietnamese Camp every year in
Colorado (outside of Winter Park)

Since 2001, VAN has held a conference every other year to connect Vietnamese
adoptees from around the world together. For more info see www.van-online.org now!

EVENTS in various cities: -

Boston

Call for Papers
Adoption: Secret Histories, Public Policies
3rd International Conference on Adoption and Culture

Conference date: April 29 - May 2, 2010 ← note new dates!
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139
Proposal deadline: Sept. 1, 2009
Organized by the Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture
Conference Organizers:
Sally Haslanger (MIT), Marianne Novy (University of Pittsburgh), Charlotte Witt (UNH)

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Boston Mosaic Adoption Group

Greetings all.  Diane Tavitian and Mai Dewees and other supporters have been talking a lot since the
conference in April and we have begun a group called Mosaic.  The meetings will be facilitated
by Mai Linh Dewees.  It doesn't matter where you were adopted from- it is our hope to be as inclusive as possible and invite all adult adoptees.
megan_dewees@yahoo.com

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Boston Photo Exhibit by Adoptee

Anh Dao Kolbe, VN adoptee  Photographer of Misplaced Baggage, has put many of her works on virtual exhibition - you can see some by visiting:

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 Colorado

 Vietnamese Heritage camp  at www.heritagecamps.org

Hope to see you there....
Kathie Scrimgeour
Co-Director, VHC

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Hawaii

Also see archives of KAHI conference 2008

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LA

FWD: Lisa Marie Rollins: November 6th, 2009

7:30pm - 10:00pmPlace - Rhythmix Cultural Works, 2513 Blanding Avenue, Alameda, CA 94501, Art House: Adoptees and Foster Care Alumni Speak Out This event is a benefit for the work of AFAAD and goes directly to support our Annual Gathering and the adoptees and foster care alumni we serve. for more informationafaadinfo@gmail.com http://afaad.wordpress.com 

Featuring

Poets/ Novelists /Solo performers

James Cagney
Amber Field
Liberty Hultberg - writingforliberty.blogspot.com/
Susan Ito - readingwritingliving.wordpress.com
Lisa Marie Rollins - birthproject.wordpress.com

Short films by
Kim Noonan - "Running Dragon"
http://www.runningdragonshort.com/

Amber Field - "Jagadamba, Mother of the Universe"
http://www.amberfieldmusic.com/links.htm

Korean Drums by Korean Adoptees: Amie Kim, Adria Otte and Codie Otte, are part of a Korean drum troupe called Jamaesori (SisterSound). Jamaesori uses traditional Korean drumming to support social justice movements.

Sonic love / music by dj fflood

November 6th, 2009
7:30pm - 10:00pm
Place - Rhythmix Cultural Works, 2513 Blanding Avenue, Alameda, CA 94501, directly off the Fruitvale exit off the 880 South. for directions to the Center -- http://www.rhythmix.org/content/contactMap.html

This event is a benefit for the work of AFAAD and goes directly to support our Annual Gathering and the adoptees and foster care alumni we serve. Each year we host a community education event to educated the public about adult adoptee and foster care alumni issues for us, and by us.

$5-50 , no one turned away for lack of funds.
this event is accessible to those of all physical ability.

AFAAD is a fiscally sponsored project of San Francisco's Community Initiatives.

for more information
afaadinfo@gmail.com
http://afaad.wordpress.com

AFAAD (Adopted and Fostered Adults of the African Diaspora) was formed specifically to support adopted and fostered people, to share our common and divergent experiences around race, adoption, joy, loss, family, search and reunion, and self identity and to celebrate our unique creativity, stories and community.

The purpose of our Annual Gathering is to make connections, network, provide healing space, and to celebrate the diversity of our amazing diaspora of transracial, international, domestic adoptees and foster care alums. AFAAD uses “Black” in the widest diasporic sense, which includes African, African American, bi-racial and multi heritage, Afroasian and Afrolatino peoples.

AFAAD believes that providing connections for and creating space to make visible the adoption and foster community in Black/ African diasporic cultures worldwide will give support to those who otherwise remain isolated in their experiences. As adoptees and fosters ourselves, we believe that coming together, even simply to hear one another’s stories and experiences, is a powerful tool for those of us who have for so long felt we are alone.

Adoptive Family Social & Support Groups.

For info on progress on the above and events see Susan Robinson
susanrobinson1@ca.rr.com

For get togethers in LA with VN adoptees

Meet ups info with adoptees from groups like Operation Reunite email Tricia Housten: thou25@cox.net

To post info please email: adoptedvietnamese@hotmail.com

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Visit www.mamnon.org

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Minneapolis

November 14th, 2009.

* MNTRFF - Minnesota Transracial Film Festival (by an american
adoption group)
Their FB Group states: The Minnesota Transracial Film Festival is the
first festival in the Twin Cities to showcase voices from the
transracial and transcultural adoption community through film, words,
and music. The MNTRFF is being held at the Oak Street Cinema on
November 14th, 2009.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=149169810063&ref=ts

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New York

To post info please email: adoptedvietnamese@hotmail.com

> Lana Noone has been involved with several events in the state.  For more info on future ones
>
> Please contact:
>
> Lana@Vietnambabylift.org
>
>

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Pittsburgh

To post info please email: adoptedvietnamese@hotmail.com

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 San Francisco

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St Louis

November 21st, screening of Operation Babylift: The Lost Children of Vietnam at its Missouri premiere during the 18th Annual St. Louis International Film Festival (SLIFF).
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=197651151349&ref=mf

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Washington DC

For adoptee events / meet ups email Eva at:

ilovecatsanddogs@gmail.com
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 TEXAS

To post info please email: adoptedvietnamese@hotmail.com

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Archive: 30th anniversary of Operation Babylift

Click on the link above for news specifically relating to the 30th anniversary of Operation Babylift and/or the end of the Viet Nam/American War

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