2025 will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War and the beginning of a significant Vietnamese diaspora. The project, titled "1975: A Vietnamese Diaspora Healing Memorial," aims to reclaim narratives often told about the Vietnam War and pay homage to the families and communities of the Vietnamese diaspora. The project will culminate in the installation of a healing memorial in 2025, with a vision for a permanent memorial in Boston’s Little Saigon Cultural District. This collaborative community-led effort is an acknowledgment and celebration of the Vietnamese diaspora, offering a shared space for healing traumas and grief. #1975VietHealing
Ngọc-Trân Vũ
Lead Artist
Linh-Phương Vũ
Outreach Specialist
Theresa Tran
Partnerships Specialist
Tommy Lam
Media Specialist
Jennifer Tran
Branding Intern
#1975VietHealing | @1975VietHealing | 1975VietHealing@gmail.com
Watch Viet Press (TNT Boston Live) coverage of our Intergenerational Cultural Commemoration on April 20th, 2024
Walking Site Tour
Summer 2024 TBA
Initial Memorial
Designs Showcase
Summer 2024 TBA
April 20, 2024
Intergenerational Cultural Commemoration
VietAID Community Center, Dorchester
April 2, 2024
Community Dialogue Night #3
6:00-8:00 PM ET
February 27, 2024
Community Dialogue Night #2
6:00 - 8:00 PM ET
February 4, 2024
Tabling at Tết in Boston
10:30 - 5:00 PM ET
January 30, 2024
Community Dialogue Night #1
6:00 - 8:00 PM ET
December 16, 2023
Community Convening Meeting #1
12:00 - 2:00 PM ET
Community Convening for 1975: A Vietnamese Diaspora Healing Memorial,
December 16, 2023
Thank you to the Mayor Office of Culture and Arts for your generous contributions. Thank you Anh Khang for your critical support and advice. Thank you Bruner Cott Architecture firm for your dedicated collaboration and expert insights. Thank you to the documentation team, which includes Dr. Peter Kiang, Ammany, Ivy, and Asa from the Asian American Studies Program, Tommy Lam, our media specialist on the team, and Aurora Lee, our photographer. Big thanks to Chi Laurie Thai for being a phenomenal MC for today. Your skills are unparalleled! We want to thank Huong Que and CocoLeaf for the delicious foods, snacks and refreshments. We can not also forget George Huynh and Aly Tran and Kevin of VietAID for letting us host the meeting here in multiple rooms and supporting us through the process.
Last but not least to the residents of our cherished community, your resilience is the very foundation upon which we build this memorial. Your stories are the bricks, your hopes the mortar - binding us together in our shared remembrance and honoring.
Please mark your calendars, for our next Community Convening in April 2024, which will be a larger production of commemoration. We will also be sharing 3-D models of memorials that you all have helped inform in the artmaking process. Until then, let us continue the conversations that have started here and let the seeds planted today grow into enduring bonds and meaningful actions.
