INTERNATIONAL EVENTS  Australia, USA, France and more below

• 35th Anniversary of end of Vietnam War and Operation Babylift News - global news, events, media, trips and writings April 2010
  

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• TOURING TRANS-CULTURL ADOPTEE FILMS (TTAF), Australia
  

http://www.adopteefilms.info

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Adoptee Films & Panel Event in Brisbane

Annual event in July - AVI in collaboration with groups such as QLD ICASN, IAFQ, AKFG and Jigsaw Australia hold a special events by adoptees in conjunction with the International Adoption Day proceedings. Venue is Logan Entertainment Centre.
For enquiries please email: amhdavison@yahoo.com.au and also see www.adopteefilms.info

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

Australia-wide:  AVI often holds casual dinners in Melbourne and sometimes other interstate cities. 
For updates on other events see AVI FB Group or email: adoptedvietnamese@hotmail.com for Vietnamese adoptee contacts in your area

For general intercountry adoptee activities (Vietnamese adoptees and others) also see ICASN webpage: www.icasn.org

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CANADA

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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UNITED KINGDOM, FRANCE AND EUROPE:

Global adoptee meet up organized by Project Return 2 in Paris for 22nd October 2010

This Project Return II event is open to all Vietnamese Orphans & Adoptees only, if you are aware of any VADs wishing to attend who have not joined the group please feel free to forward on my details and ask them to contact me at le-thanh@le-thanh.com
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=345631618795

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

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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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 Colorado

 Vietnamese Heritage camp  at www.heritagecamps.org

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

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LA

 
For regular 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

ARCHVE: 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

Please visit the Vietnamese Adoptee Network (VAN) Facebook page

To post info here please email: adoptedvietnamese@hotmail.com

  Lana Noone, an adoptive parent and babylift historian, 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

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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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Other Adopted Vietnamese Events Listings in USA

 See www.operationreunite.org  and  www.van-online.org for local events in your state

There is a Colorado Heritage Vietnamese Camp every year in
outside of Winter Park)

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