Dinner with Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Viet Thanh Nguyen
Event Information
Description
On Sunday, May 5th, DVAN will host a five-course dinner prepared by Tu David Phu of Top Chef at the historic Haas-Lilienthal House! It will be an intimate evening for 15 guests to enjoy conversations with DVAN's Co-Director and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Viet Thanh Nguyen. The setting will take place in the parlors and dining room of a National Treasure and San Francisco Landmark. Tickets are $750 per seat and are tax-deductible. All proceeds benefit and support DVAN’s work to promote Vietnamese American stories through various programming. Dinner ticket includes a limited-edition tote bag featuring original artwork by Thi Bui (cartoonist/memoirist of award-winning The Best We Could Do), plus more.
More info on Viet Thanh Nguyen, Chef Tu David Phu, and the Haas-Lilienthal house can be found in the links below:
- Named by San Francisco Chronicle as a Rising Star Chef and most recently a featured contestant on Bravo's Top Chef Season 15
- Pulitzer Prize-winning author, MacArthur Prize winner and NY Times best-selling author Viet Thanh Nguyen teaches at USC and travels the world to give lectures
- The Haas-Lilienthal house, built in 1886 is a San Francisco Landmark and the only Victorian House Museum open to the public in the city
The Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN)'s primary mission is to promote voices and stories of the Vietnamese diaspora through nurturing writers, poets and artists, and connecting their work to readers, audience, and diasporic communities all over the globe. We envision a world in which the diversity, complexities, and nuance of Vietnamese diasporic experience and imagination are understood, integrated and supported across national boundaries. We envision a world where our divides are healed, and individuals and communities are empowered and connected. Through nurturing Vietnamese diasporic writers, artists, and readers, DVAN will reshape how Vietnamese people are perceived and build an international, diasporic community of artists in conversation with Vietnamese in Vietnam and with other diasporic communities at large. Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN) is part of the incubator program at Intersection For The Arts, a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization.
How We Work
Through dialogues between writers and artists, literary readings and events, writer/artist residencies, collaborative projects and publications, DVAN offers support and spaces in which Vietnamese diasporic writers and artists can make and present their art works on their own terms, without pressure to comply with mainstream or majority narratives about identity, ethnicity, war, memory or representation. DVAN encourages writers and artists to explore the multi-faceted ways of being and becoming Vietnamese in the diaspora, with the understanding that our identities are fluid, ever-changing, multilingual and multi-confluent, and shaped by various axes of power while also possessing power to establish our own new axes of agency and insight.
Our programs focus on three main areas of supportive engagement:
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The Writers (process): We nurture writers and artists in the development and creative stages of producing their art work(s), through offering concrete support (residencies, mentorship) and fluid/indirect support (literary resources, networking).
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The Stories (cultural productions): We provide communications outlets to promote the stories and art works that writers and artists create; we promote these works via our blog, diaCRITICS, and through inviting writers/artists to participate in events and readings. We also edit/curate our own anthologies and publications that further establish a context for our diasporic literature(s); as texts, these publications are accessible to readers everywhere and as educational resources for future generations.
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Connection with Community: Through the combination of our public events, publications, our website and web presence, organic and targeted networking, we work to connect stories and writers to an international Vietnamese diasporic community, to Vietnamese in Vietnam, to student populations; we extend our endeavor of connectivity also to other diasporic and non-Vietnamese communities.
Organizer The Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN)
Organizer of Dinner with Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN)'s primary mission is to promote voices and stories of the Vietnamese diaspora through nurturing writers, poets and artists, and connecting their work to readers, audience, and diasporic communities all over the globe. We envision a world in which the diversity, complexities, and nuance of Vietnamese diasporic experience and imagination are understood, integrated and supported across national boundaries. We envision a world where our divides are healed, and individuals and communities are empowered and connected. Through nurturing Vietnamese diasporic writers, artists, and readers, DVAN will reshape how Vietnamese people are perceived and build an international, diasporic community of artists in conversation with Vietnamese in Vietnam and with other diasporic communities at large. Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN) is part of the incubator program at Intersection For The Arts, a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization.
Now is a crucial time to make space for and amplify underrepresented voices of the diaspora. We need your help to keep our work going. We invite you to take a minute to view our DVAN 2018 Fundraiser video and make a tax-deductible donation via GoFundMe.
