Phuc TranJoin the DC Public Library\, the Vietnam S ociety and the DC Public Library Foundation for a special conversation wit h New England Book Award Winner \;Phu c Tran \;(Sigh\, Gone \;and \;Cranky) and \;< a href="https://elizabethai.com/new-wave" title="Elizabeth Ai">Elizabeth A i\, an Emmy award-winning film director/producer of the acclaimed film \;New Wave \;and accompanying book \;New Wave: R ebellion and Reinvention in the Vietnamese Diaspora.
\nModerate d by Thuy Dinh\, Tran and Ai will discuss the recurring themes in their wo rks &ndash\; linguistic and cultural displacement\, memory loss\, intergen erational trauma\, music and artmaking as both livelihood and self-preserv ation.
\nA book signing will follow the discussion. \;
\nPhuc TranPhuc Tran is an award-winning writer\, tattooer\, and Latin teacher. Tran is the author of the memoir\, Sigh\, Gone and Cranky. He graduated B ard College in 1995 with a BA in Classics and received the Callanan Classi cs Prize. His 2012 TEDx talk &ldquo\;Grammar\, Identity\, and the Dark Sid e of the Subjunctive&rdquo\; was featured on NPR&rsquo\;s Ted Radio Hour. He has also been an occasional guest on Maine Public Radio\, discussing gr ammar\; the Classics\; and Strunk and White&rsquo\;s legacy. He currently tattoos at and owns Tsunami Tattoo in Portland\, Maine\, where he lives wi th his family.
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Elizabeth Ai is a Chinese-Vietnamese-Ame rican Los Angeles based Emmy award-winning producer. She writes\, directs\ , and produces independent narratives and is known for New Wave (2024)\, C rown Prince of Heaven (2010) and There Is a New World Somewhere (2015). Sh e&rsquo\;s a fellow of Berlin Talent Campus\, Film Independent\, Sundance\ , and Tribeca. Her film projects are supported by California Humanities\, Firelight Media\, Knight Foundation\, and ITVS. She received her B.A. from the University of Southern California.
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Thuy DinhThuy Dinh is a bilingual
critic\, literary translator\, coeditor of the Vietnamese webzine Da M&agr
ave\;u\, and editor-at-large for the Vietnamese Diaspora at Asymptote Jour
nal. Her essays and poetry translations have appeared in Asymptote\, Manoa
\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, NBC Think\, NPR Books\, Prairie Schooner\,
Rain Taxi Review of Books\, Amerasia\, among others. Green Rice\, her co-t
ranslation of the selected poetry of Lâ\;m Thị Mỹ Dạ\
, was published by Curbstone Press in 2005\, and nominated for the Kiriyam
a Prize in 2006.
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