The Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN) presents ACCENTED: Dialogues in Diaspora, a virtual series of programs that will feature a variety of writers, poets, artists, actors, filmmakers, scholars, and other cultural producers from the Vietnamese and Southeast Asian diaspora.

Hosted by Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Sympathizer. This event is in partnership with the Oakland Asian Cultural Center, who is hosting a virtual screening of Susan Lieu's “140 LBS: HOW BEAUTY KILLED MY MOTHER” the next day.

This installation of ACCENTED will feature actor Marc delaCruz, playwright Qui Nguyen, journalist/editor/critic Diep Tran, and playwright/producer/performer Susan Lieu. Amidst the current political theatre of the 2020 US Elections, the conversation will center the hopes and struggles of Asian American performers and writers, the roles they have (or don't have), the guests' bodies of work, and journeys in the performing arts, and the narrative production of the Southeast Asian diaspora.

Get tickets HERE.