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Posted by on Fri, 30 May 2008 22:31:00 GMT |
Dancing on the Intergenerational Bridge |
The Dance CultureHuy, Tam, and I drove home after watching Planet B-Boy, a documentary on one of the pillars of hip hop culture: b-boys and breakdancing. Each year the b-boy community hosts the annual...
Posted by on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:57:00 GMT |
Our indomitable spirit! |
I woke up from a nap, heavy from the UVSA Olympics we had the Saturday prior, in front of my laptop with notes and papers scattered across the table of various UVSA-related things. My friend messages ...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:43:00 GMT |
Addressing the Vietnamese Youth Leadership Shortage |
"Our community can't simply just focus on fighting communism and not think about health care, education, gang intervention, and other issues. If we could galvanize the community over the naming of the...
Posted by on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:51:00 GMT |
Rise of the Activistas |
Thousands of Vietnamese Americans packed the San José City Hall chambers, with overflows leading out to the Rotunda. The air was buzzing with apprehension, and it was such an exciting feel. A few of u...
Posted by on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:21:00 GMT |
Starting Off the New Year in Good Spirits |
At the Vietnamese Spring Festival & Parade, the day opened to a beautiful morning, a good thing for the girls wearing colorful áo dài and sporting fans, parasols, and the like; unlike past years w...
Posted by on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:35:00 GMT |
Crucial Junction |
We drove up to UC Davis for our ICC meeting, in a snowball carpooling style. Those of us in San Jose went to pick up fellow VSAers at Berkeley and San Leandro. Maybe if we had more drivers, go pick up...
Posted by on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 15:00:00 GMT |
Southeast Asian Intercollegiate Summit |
This past weekend there was the first ever "National" Southeast Asian Intercollegiate Summit held at UC Berkeley. I put "national" in quotes because although the aim was to bring in students from acro...
Posted by on Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:59:00 GMT |
Summit Debrief |
On September 28, 2007 at the University of California, Berkeley, more than 60 students hailing from the VSAs of 8 schools participated at the UVSA (Northern California) Summit, in order to plant the s...
Posted by on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:22:00 GMT |
Viet Youth Leader Potluck: A New Start; Connecting Homeland Issues to Local Youths |
The purpose of these weekly potlucks is to connect leaders together and to really delve into the heart of important issues facing our youth community.One thing that I must make clear is that the peopl...
Posted by on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:12:00 GMT |
