A Discussion with...
Join the Museum on Main for presentations and lectures with local historians, artists, and community members.  These discussions happen in correlation with a present temporary exhibit at the Museum.  The dates and times will vary based on the speaker. Please see below for information about each discussion's date, time, registration requirements, and ticket price.   

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A Discussion with...Artists featured in Textures of Remembrance 
September 21st from 1pm-2pm: Panel Discussion 
**Sign up is required
​Join us for a FREE panel discussion with three artists featured in the exhibit, and hear them discuss their work. The artists speaking include Terri Trang Lê, Julie Thi Underhill, and Vĩ Sơn Trịnh.  The discussion, moderated by the museum's curator Ken MacLennan, will last an hour and include time for audience members to ask questions. There will be a reception with light refreshments following the panel discussion. Sign up is required to attend due to space. Please call 925-462-2766 to reserve a spot.
 
About the exhibit
April 30 is a date often remembered poignantly, especially by those of South Vietnamese descent; as well, it is a date that denotes new beginnings. On this date in 1975, North Vietnamese forces captured Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, marking the end of the Vietnam War. Reflecting on this day from past to present through written words, visual creations, and audiovisual components, this interdisciplinary exhibit reveals an intimate perspective of the diasporic experience that has been gathered, created, collected and re-collected, and imagined and re-imagined since 1975.
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Textures of Remembrance is presented by the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network, Exhibit Envoy, and the Oakland Asian Cultural Center.
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Work from Vĩ Sơn Trịnh, "The Stories We Carry." Courtesy of Exhibit Envoy and the artist.

“Textures of my Father,” by Terri Trang Lê. Courtesy of Exhibit Envoy and the artist.

“22 Gia Long Street,” by Julie Thi Underhill. Courtesy of the artist.