A mega gathering of Viet creatives is taking place in New York City next weekend, hosted by thatsneaat, an Asian Art blog.
The one-day event, dubbed “Hay Qua!” – Vietnamese for, well, “That’s neat!” – brings together a wide array of talent, from music to fashion and food.
In the film area, guests include many filmmakers whose works have been shown at ViFF, including Doan Hoang, director of “Oh Saigon”; Ina Adele Ray, the director of “El Paso, Vietnam”; Kim Spurlock, director of “Buoi Chieu”; and Jared Rehberg, an associate producer of “Operation Babylift: The Lost Children of Vietnam” who is himself one of the lifted babies featured in the award-winning documentary.
Registration price is $60; early-bird discounted price is $50. Maybe it’s normal for New York….
See the press release here.
Time date & location:
“Hay Qua!” Mini-Fest
Saturday, June 27th / 10-4PM
The Bitter End (147 Bleecker St, NYC)
Register: www.thatsneaat.com
Hmmm….. not many Vietnamese people in NYC. Only about 15k-20k (and that’s a generous estimate).
In NYC, Chinese outnumber Vietnamese at least 20 to 1 (360k Chinese). And this is in a city of 8 million.
Being Vietnamese in NYC can be quite the lonely existence (speaking from personal experience).
Thanks Bolsavik!!!
Actually that is the price for the combo deal (HAY QUA MINI FEST + KOLLAB NY)
http://www.thatsneaat.com
That’s $25 to listen to over 20+ inspiring AA speakers in the daytime!
(fashion consultants, bloggers, environmentalists, architects, publishers, film-makers, spoken word artists and more!)
For another $25, a chance to listen and watch talented AA singers/songwriters/comedians/hip hop groups/dancers at night!
banh mi tasting @ hay qua + pink berry reception @ kollabNY!
that’s how we roll!
WOW!
This is really cool. I am glad that more Viet people are interested in careers other than engineering or medicine.
I wish I am living in NYC so I can enjoy these programs and go to these cool restaurants.
Best wishes to all.
For another $25, a chance to listen and watch talented AA singers/songwriters/comedians/hip hop groups/dancers at night!
AA = Alcoholic Anonymous? Hahaha.
When it comes to food, fashion and entertainment, residents of New York and Los Angeles have often considered themselves as the nation’s trendsetters, decades ahead of the rest of the country.
All of which brings up the familiar debate about which city is the most livable?
A predictable year-in and year-out winter cold and slush in New York or one unpredictable twenty-second earthquake every ten years in Los Angeles.
Well, California has always been a fantasy for many Americans – like the fantasy of body perfect Baywatch and the Beach Boys “Fun, Fun, Fun till daddy takes the T-bird away”.
Of course, New Yorkers take pride in living in the city that never sleeps. Unfortunately, it’s also the city that never showers and has good aim when it pees. The point is, New York is not only a Mecca, it smells like it too.
Not only that I don’t recall anyone writing a song called “I wish they all could be Bronx girls”
And so …
“Start spreading the news, I’m leaving today
I’m no longer a part of it: New York, New York.
If I can make it there, I’ll make it anywhere,
and so I’m through, New York, New York.”
You did it again Master XYZ! Well put.
NY/NYC is(are) mostly hype. NYC is fortunate because it is near Europe and among the oldest towns in the US; hence more established. As for dalily living and standard of life, it does not come close to California. An average Joe can spend only fuel to visit the many free sites in CA, not so for NY/NYC – you have to pay to do anything.
The perception of CA as being part of the “Wild West”, but we keep addressing social inequity in everyday life. While CA stresses the point of a middle class society, NY/NYC social strata is identified by where one lives to the proximity of that Central Park.
Do you live on the North, West, East, or South? Oh, you must be on the poorer and therefore lower class part of town. Oh really? I apologize for living and breathing the same air as you. If NY/NYC is so great and powerful, how come a bulk of your revenues comes from tourism?
NYC is about Wall Street, capital of World financial activities for the past 100 years.
Pacific trades are emerging as bigger than Pan-Atlantic trades. However, there is no substitute for NYSE on the West coast.
Until recent economic crisis, a one bedroom flat in Lower Manhattan could easily cost around $1 Million plus a pop.