AVI sends out care and respect for the Vietnamese people who arrived 37 years ago, and in memory of those who didn’t make it.   Also a special time for all involved in the Vietnam War period, including over 1000 Vietnamese children who were sent abroad in the years before 1975, and approximately 3000+ Vietnamese children [...]

Dr Bert Ballard, academic and featured in Operation Babylift film (also in AVI advisory group), and Kevin Ost Volmers, Korean adoptee and founder: LGA, will present at this conference in New York city in April 2012: http://symposium.jointcouncil.org/?page_id=11

RSVPs for this event have now closed. Thank you: Hermosa Beach, LA, Sunday 25 March, 2012 Meeting for Cali VN adoptees.  RSVPs closed 22 March 2012, but if you would like to make contact for future visits/meet ups please feel welcome to email: indigowilling@gmail.com  International mobile (text only): + 01161403168490 Conference: Claremont, CA Thurs 22- Sat 24 March, [...]

A number of AVI’s Advisory Group members are featured in a newsletter (PASQ, QLD Australia – http://www.bensoc.org.au/uploads/documents/PASQ_Newsletter_Summer2012.pdf) and also posted as an online article on adoptee website (tba) about their Vietnamese adoptee community work, and why being in contact with other adoptees can generate a healthy sense of engagement and connection for individuals adopted from [...]

AVI members in Australia might be interested in a story on SBS Film Online about the ‘Asian Australian Film Forum (AAFF)’, Held in Melbourne, Australia, 12 – 13 November, co-convened by Dr Indigo Willing, AVI founder & VN adoptee (with Amadeo Marquez Perez), and with a couple of speakers on one of the panels (held [...]

Future AVI co-presented events include screenings of Operation Babylift: The Lost Children of Vietnam. The next one is in Brisbane 7pm on 7th September hosted by the Post Adoption Services Queensland. For Australian updates and the flyer to the above event see www.adopteefilms.info and for international news you can also go to the project website: [...]

A COMMUNITY VIDEO MAKING WORKSHOP Thank you to our guest lecturer Amadeo Marquez-Perez, sponsors and the 15 participants of the below event (inc. adoptees from Vietnam, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Hong Kong and locally in Australia and adoptive families). If you were a participant and would like a DVD of your class exercises please email adopteefilms@gmail.com Workshops [...]

Jessica Emmett writes: When I first started to explore my adoption “self” over 6 years ago, the AVI network and its founding convener, Indigo ‘Indi’ Willing, were one of my first connections I’d made with other adult VN adoptees. I have been on the Advisory Committee for a few years now but always wanted to be able [...]

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 [...]

There will be an evening meet up and lunch get together with AVI and Operation Reunite Vietnamese adoptees 25 – 26 September 2010. For more info see event page at AVI FB Group or email: adoptedvietnamese@hotmail.com For regular get togethers in LA with VN adoptees meet ups info with adoptees from groups like Operation Reunite email [...]

International Meet Ups for AVI members, their friends and family will be held in: Toronto, Canada 23 – 24 September 2010 LA, USA 25 – 26 September 2010 Melbourne, Australia October 2010   For updates on other events see AVI FB Group or email: adoptedvietnamese@hotmail.com

For more info email:Dr. Robert Ballard, Assistant Professor, Communication, Leadership and Social Innovation, University of Waterloobballard@uwaterloo.ca There will be a dinner meet ups with AVI Vietnamese adoptees and others during the above event 23 – 24 September. For more info see event page at AVI FB Group or email: adoptedvietnamese@hotmail.com  

Monday, April 27 2010, 2009, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.Ring AuditoriumHirshhorn Museum and Sculpture GardenIndependence Avenue at 7th Street, SWMetro Stop: Smithsonian or L’Enfant PlazaGeneral 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

35th Anniversary of the End of the Viet Nam / American War and Operation Babylift events plus much more can be found at the 35th Anniversary (2010) AVI page.

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 thetransracial and transcultural adoption community through film, words, and music. The MNTRFF is being held at the Oak Street Cinema on November 14th, 2009. www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=149169810063&ref=ts