Community Convening for 1975: A Vietnamese Diaspora Healing Memorial,
December 16, 2023
Thank you to the Mayor Office of Culture and Arts for your generous contributions. Thank you Anh Khang for your critical support and advice. Thank you Bruner Cott Architecture firm for your dedicated collaboration and expert insights. Thank you to the documentation team, which includes Dr. Peter Kiang, Ammany, Ivy, and Asa from the Asian American Studies Program, Tommy Lam, our media specialist on the team, and Aurora Lee, our photographer. Big thanks to Chi Laurie Thai for being a phenomenal MC for today. Your skills are unparalleled! We want to thank Huong Que and CocoLeaf for the delicious foods, snacks and refreshments. We can not also forget George Huynh and Aly Tran and Kevin of VietAID for letting us host the meeting here in multiple rooms and supporting us through the process.
Last but not least to the residents of our cherished community, your resilience is the very foundation upon which we build this memorial. Your stories are the bricks, your hopes the mortar - binding us together in our shared remembrance and honoring.
Please mark your calendars, for our next Community Convening in April 2024, which will be a larger production of commemoration. We will also be sharing 3-D models of memorials that you all have helped inform in the artmaking process. Until then, let us continue the conversations that have started here and let the seeds planted today grow into enduring bonds and meaningful actions.
The “1975: A Vietnamese Diaspora Healing Memorial”
The “1975: A Vietnamese Diaspora Healing Memorial”
is an ambitious project set to become a public art installation in the Boston Little Saigon Cultural District in 2025 with a long-term vision for a permanent memorial. Envisioned as a testament to healing, this installation seeks to provide a space where memories, narratives, and lived experiences from the Vietnamese diaspora are both honored and shared.
This survey is designed to gather invaluable insights to guide our team in shaping the project.
Your involvement is crucial as we prepare for the inaugural Community Convening on
December 16, 2023, from 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
at VietAID, 42 Charles Street, Dorchester, MA 02122
“1975: Công Trình Tưởng Niệm Cho Người Việt Hải Ngoại”
là một dự án tác phẩm nghệ thuật tại Khu Văn Hóa Boston Little Saigon. Được hình dung như một minh chứng cho sự chữa lành, tác phẩm này mong muốn mang đến một không gian nơi những kỷ niệm và câu chuyện trải nghiệm từ cộng đồng người Việt hải ngoại đều được tôn vinh và chia sẻ. Khảo sát này được thiết kế để thu thập những góp ý giá trị của cộng đồng để giúp chúng tôi định hình dự án. Sự tham gia của quý vị và các bạn rất quan trọng khi chúng tôi chuẩn bị cho buổi
Tụ Họp cộng đồng vào ngày 16 tháng 12 năm 2023, từ 12:00 PM đến 2:00 PM chiều
tại VietAID: 42 Charles Street, Dorchester, MA 02122