Qld Tet picnic – New farm park Babylift people Jen Fitzpatrick, John Douglas, Brian Stehn and partners along with AVI founder Indigo Willing plus Trung Nguyen of Vietnamese Community, the Rep of the ICASN group Ms Ilan Ivory, and friends Terry Tyler and partner enjoyed Tet picnic at New Farm Park. For next general meet [...]

9th Australian Adoption Conference in Sydney 3 – 5 September 2008!Info on how to submit tbaHeld in association with COAPC, NSW For more info contact: Angharad CandlinManagerPost Adoption Resource CentreThe Benevolent SocietyT: 9365 3444AngharadC@bensoc.org.auW: www.bensoc.org.au/parc NSW ICASN Socials – Regular Get to-gethers of Inter-country adoptees under the ‘ICASN’ group in Sydney occur at a reasonably [...]

9th Australian Adoption Conference in Sydney 3 – 5 September 2008! If you are an adoptee and wish to meet up at or around this event please contact Indigo at: i.willing@uq.edu.au For more info on the conference please contact: Angharad CandlinManagerPost Adoption Resource CentreThe Benevolent SocietyT: 9365 3444AngharadC@bensoc.org.auwww.bensoc.org.au/parc ALSO SEE Young Adult Adoptees Forumwww.australianadoptionconference.com/sites/australianadoptionconference.com/files/AdopteeForumFlyer.pdf(pdf not [...]

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 – www.australiansadopt.orgACC – www.accau.orgAICAN – www.aican.org  

Friday 12 Dec 2008 – Social/Work visit Dominic Golding and Indigo Willing will be attending a David Eng Workshop as part of Monash University (there is also free symposium by this Asian American scholar). Hope to meet up with locals on Friday 12th for dinner. Please email: i.willing@uq.edu.au 3 – 4 July 2008 – Adoption [...]

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.

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

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  

Update East Meets West August 2008 East meets West no longer receives funding from the Government as at April 2008 to cover our program costs. Our recent funding for the period April to June 2008 from PASS (Post Adoption Resource Centre) has also now ceased since the end of this financial year. PASS who have [...]

Origines Vietnam Regularly holds events – please see Marita (aka Chi), originesvietnam.com or join fr.groups.yahoo.com/group/newsletter-originesvietnam/

General Adopted Vietnamese Events Listing See www.van-online.org for local events in your state General Regular Vietnamese Events Vietnamese International Film Festival (ViFF) “Beyond Boundaries” www.VietFilmFest.com The Club O’ Noodles Show “Reinventing Entertainment…one Vietnamese at a time” www.clubOnoodles.com VAALA “Enriching our communities since 1991″ www.vaala.org General USA Attend the VAN and Vietnamese Camp every year in Colorado [...]