ResiStories: Re-Imagining Refugee Memoir

Museum of Vancouver

Join us for a compelling reading of excerpts from the memoirs of Y-Dang Troeung and Carmen Aguirre.

Museum of Vancouver - MOV

On January 11th, join us for a compelling reading of excerpts from the memoirs, Landbridge by <a href="http://www.y-dang.com/" title="http://www.y-dang.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Y-Dang Troeung</a> and <a href="http://www.carmenaguirre.ca/" title="http://www.carmenaguirre.ca/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Carmen Aguirre</a>'s Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter. Both Y-Dang and Carmen’s works resist traditional forms of the refugee memoir and examine the problematic image of the “grateful” refugee’s arrival in Canada.Carmen will be in attendance and Y-Dang's work will be read by her husband and collaborator, Chris B. Patterson (aka Kawika Guillermo). The readings will be followed by a conversation with Dr. Amanda Cheong from UBC’s Sociology department.The authors’ books will be on sale at the event.This programming is part of our engagement with Pier21’s travelling exhibition <a href="https://museumofvancouver.ca/refuge-canada" title="https://museumofvancouver.ca/refuge-canada" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Refuge Canada</a>—on view at the MOV until February 2nd, 2024.Date: Thursday, January 11, 2024Time: 6:30 – 8:00pmSchedule:<ul><li>Doors Open - 6:00pm</li><li>Event and readings begin - 6:30pm</li><li>Moderated panel + audience Q&amp;A - 7:00pm</li><li>Book sales and signing - 8:00pm</li><li>Event ends - 8:30pm</li></ul> About the Series:ResiStories is a collaboration between the Museum of Vancouver and the <a href="https://publichumanities.ubc.ca/" title="https://publichumanities.ubc.ca/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">UBC Vancouver Public Humanities Hub</a>. This series of programming aims to bring scholars of intersectional equity-seeking work and identities together in mutual learning and solidarity with communities in the public space of the city’s oldest (and initially Eurocentric) cultural institution to resist colonial narratives. Each program features ongoing histories and acts of resistance in conversation with the Museum’s exhibitions.

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