Orange County & Southeast Asian Archive Center

Featuring photographs and other materials from our Southeast Asian Archive collection, Jana Lipman (author of the new book In Camps: Vietnamese Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Repatriates) connects the current conditions of detainees with the historical exodus of Southeast Asian refugees. #refugees #detainees #humanrights #protest #archives

The Anne Frank Visiting Researcher Award application process is postponed until further noticehttps://seaa.lib.uci.edu/anne-frank-visiting-researcher-award

Composer Chinary Ung and his daughter, Kalean Ung Breen, were featured artists at UCI earlier this month! Orange County & Southeast Asian Archive Center, UCI Illuminations

UCI student, Vian Nguyen, shares her firsthand experience with community-centered archives through our IMLS-funded Transforming Knowledge Transforming Libraries summer program. Check it out! University of California, Irvine UCI Libraries

Tomorrow we will have extended hours until 7:00 pm so you can view the Music Letters Home exhibit before heading over to the Claire Trevor Theater (UCI campus) to see Letters from Home!

Call for applications! Are you interested in using the UCI Libraries Southeast Asian Archive for your scholarly or creative project? Do you live outside of Orange County, CA? We've got an opportunity for you! Application deadline is April 24.

Our exhibition, MUSIC LETTERS HOME, tells the backstory to Kalean Ung's LETTERS FROM HOME. Come see the show this Thursday at the UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts Theater, University of California, Irvine. The performance integrates music and striking visual design, using projection and costume to create a scenic installation. It tells an emotional and compelling story about a Cambodian-American woman and her exploration of her connection to her family, her legacy, and th...e country of her father. RSVP for your free tickets in the link! Accompanying exhibition runs now until April 1 in the OC&SEAA Center. #music #arts #theater #SoutheastAsianAmerican #CambodianAmerican #KhmerAmerican #OrangeCountyCA ................. UCI Drama UCI Vietnamese American Alumni Chapter Group UCI Friends University of California, Irvine University of California, Irvine School of Humanities AAAS Southeast Asian Section CSUF Asian American Studies Department UCI East Asian Studies (EAS) Friends of UCI Asian American Studies Asian American Pacific Islander Staff Association at UCI UCI Southeast Asian Student Association - SASA Group UCI Special Collections & Archives UCI Asian American Studies UCI Humanities Center VAALA: Vietnamese American Arts and Letters Association Orange County Cambodian American Network (OC-CAN)The Cambodian Family Cambodian Coordinating Council Cambodian Town Cambodia Town Film Festival Khmer Girls in Action KhmerBodian Community Khmer Alumni Association (KAA) Khmer Arts Academy Khmer TV Cambodian Awareness Organization (CAO) @ UC Irvine VSA UCI Vietnamese Student Association @ UCI --- Kalean Ung Breen Thúy Võ ng James Dinh Judy Tzu-Chun Wu

We had a full house tonight for the opening of MUSIC LETTERS HOME: an exhibition celebrating the journey of composer Chinary Ung and actor Kalean Ung. Beautiful music performances by Susan Ung, Maggie Parkins, Mari Kimura, and Kalean Ung. The exhibit will be up until April 1. Join us on February 13 at 7:00 pm at UCI’s Claire Trevor Theater for the solo show LETTERS FROM HOME. Rsvp here: http://illuminations.uci.edu//2020_02_13_Letters_from_Home Thúy Võ ng

We're so excited! Join us next Wednesday, February 5 from 6:00 - 8:00 PM for the o pening of MUSIC, LETTERS, HOME: an exhibition celebrating the journey of composer Chinary Ung and actor Kalean Ung. ** With special music performances by Susan Ung, Maggie Parkins, and Mari Kimura... Curated by Thuy Vo Dang and Kalean Ung, designed by James Dinh RSVP at: http://illuminations.uci.edu//2020_02_05_Music_Letters_Hom

Amazing to see our materials serve a larger purpose in the community! #communityarchives

Susan Lieu’s #140lbs Orange County premiere is THIS weekend at Nguoi Viet Daily News Community Room. We had the privilege of providing Susan with primary source material for the show and got to host her with VAALA: Vietnamese American Arts and Letters Association & #VietUnity board member Julie Vo today. Hope to see you at the show, SoCal friends!