General USA Attend the VAN and Vietnamese Camp joint conference! August 9-12th, 2007 at Snow Mountain Ranch 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. This year, 2007, the VAN conference is going to be a special and inaugural event. This [...]

ICASN are hoping to send adult adoptees to assist The Post Adoptive Resources Centre (PARC) with their popular ‘talking about racism and cultural heritage’ talks for adoptive parents. PARC’s Thea Ormond has details for upcoming events at email: theao@parc.bensoc.org.au  

28 – 30 June 2007 – CONFERENCE Anyone want to go to the Asian Australian Identities 2 Conference as audience (paper submission deadline closed) – speaker line up includes Khoa Do, William Yang, Tony Ayeres and much more! Early bird rates close 25 April COB. Good one day rates for concession only $77. To register [...]

AVI has participated in some of the following events and remains dedicated to fostering spaces for adopted people’s voices to be heard and explored.   QLD Multicultural Summit – October 2007 Ilan and Indigo (from Taiwan and Vietnam) attended the above event and gala dinner. Networking with groups from various multicultural NGOs, migrant community groups [...]

Heart of Stone New book launch by Hoa Stone released 2007. Thursday, May 17th, 2007.6.00 – 7:30pmat the South Australian BaptistUnion Centre, 35 – 39 King WilliamRoad, Unley For more info email: sabu@sabu.com.au Moving Cultures Conference Panel session: Overseas Adoptions and Australian Post-traditional Kinship: Transnationals, Diasporas and Cosmopolitanisms at Moving Cultures, Shifting Identities: a conference [...]