Viet Nam Lectures
Viet Nam Echoes
Page, Song, and Stage
Tuesday, February 21, 2023, 3:00 PM | Humanities Gateway 1030
Featuring:
Dr. Alexander M. Cannon (Associate Professor, University of Birmingham, UK)
Leon Le (Director/Co-writer, Song Lang, 2018)
Van-Anh Venessa Vo (Emmy Award-winning composer/Vietnamese traditional music master)
Join us for a very special afternoon of talk, film, and performance featuring traditional music of Viet Nam's past and present. Three prominent artists and authors will present on the Mekong Delta's "Don Ca Tai Tu" folk music, the operatic "Cai Luong," and multiple genres of Vietnamese music.
The event is co-sponsored by UCI History, UCI Humanities Center, UCI Center for Asian Studies, UCI Vietnamese American Alumni Chapter (VAAC), and Vietnamese American Arts & Letters Association (VAALA).