Fire and Bronze Lửa Đông Sơn Concert

The Sound of Fire and Bronze, an enchanting blend of jazz, traditional Vietnamese folk-inspired music and original scores performed by internationally acclaimed jazz guitarist Nguyên Lê and Đàn Tranh [Vietnamese Zither] virtuoso Vân Ánh Vanessa Võ.

A small exhibit of ancient Đông Sơn drum and several drum rubbings will be open to the public on Saturday Nov 3, 2012 at the Rose Center.


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Lửa Đông Sơn Cultural Exhibit & Concert
Rose Theater Center, Westminster, CA
Saturday, Nov 3, 2012
Đông Sơn Culture & Bronze Drum Exhibit: 2:00-4:00 PM.
Special talk at 2:30 PM by Drs. Chan and Quynh Kieu – complimentary

Concert at 7:30
Concert Ticket Prices:
$25 Student (ID required, spaces limited)
$40 General
$100 Bronze (Preferred seating)
Tickets Available:
1. By Credit card or PayPal
2. At Lee’s Sandwiches on Beach/McFadden: 15440 Beach Blvd., Westminster, CA 92683
3. At Bolsa Tickets (www.bolsatickets.com): 714.418.2499, 10161 Bolsa Ave, Ste B-207, Westminster, CA 92683
For further questions email: tix@firenbronze.com

2012 MacArthur Fellow - An My Le

The MacArthur Fellows Program awards five-year, unrestricted fellowships to individuals across all ages and fields who show exceptional merit and promise of continued creative work. It is limited to U.S. citizens and residents.  

The fellow program is usually referred to as the Genius Grant with the award of $500,000.   Previously two other Vietnamese-Americans had received the award

Dr. Huynh, Sanh Thong, Yale University (1987).  The award is for his exceptional work in literary study.

Dr. Huynh, My Hanh, High Explosives Technology Group,  Los Alamos National Lab (2007).  The award is for her work in high energy chemical reactions and its practical application.


This year, Le, My An, at Bard College, NY, was given the award for her talent in documentary photography.

In given her the award,  the foundation stated the following -

An-My Lê is an artist whose photographs of landscapes transformed by war or other forms of military activity blur the boundaries between fact and fiction and are rich with layers of meaning. A refugee from Vietnam and resident of the United States since 1975, much of Lê’s work is inspired by her own experience of war and dislocation. From black and white images of her native Vietnam taken on a return visit in 1994 to pictures of Vietnam War battle re-enactments in rural America, her photographs straddle the documentary and the conceptual, creating a neutral perspective that brings the essential ambiguity of the medium to the fore.

http://www.macfound.org/fellows/868/