Talk Too Much 2024: Navigating Fuzhou Identity
St. John's University Address, 81-98 170th St, Jamaica, NY, United StatesYou know how the story goes: someone in your family — likely your father/mother, uncle/aunt, or grandfather/grandmother — crossed the Atlantic by boat. Then, they opened a take-out restaurant in a corner of this country. From the rural villages back in Fuzhou, they succeeded in carving out a space in America. But with success came ... Read more
Play – Reclaiming Vietnam
Jalopy Theatre 315 Columbia Street, Brooklyn, NYWritten and performed by Kim Chinh Directed by Elizabeth Browning Growing up in a bi-racial home with a white mother and a Vietnamese father, Kim spent years wishing away her father’s less-than-desirable immigrant status, skin color and all the painful family secrets she inherited. Determined to face her demons, she joins a volunteer organization in ... Read more