This year 2021, Year of the Metal Ox, The Day I Woke Up Different was honored to be part of the Storytelling Night Series for Tết in Seattle virtual festival. Jennifer Ha provides a heartfelt reading of our beloved Vietnamese American story filled with annotations. We are so excited to share this! Check out the video below!
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Recently Korean New Zealander , Hye Ji Erica Lee, who is an academic researcher on the migrant Asian experiences of race. Erica recently guest lectured at the University of Auckland, where she opened her sociology course presentation with "The Day I Woke Up Different" story. Leading up to her lecture, Erica reached out to us in hopes of obtaining a copy of this Asian American story to help further examine the Asian migrant's perspective. To help ensure enough time would be allocated for piecing together her presentation, 4th WORLD PRESS worked tirelessly and swiftly to convert "The Day I Woke Up Different" to its very first ebook version! What an HONOR! Erica is currently working on her doctoral thesis. Her...
🎉 Prints now available! 🎉The Gemma Collection was created in love and as a sweet torch to pass forward.
The Vietnamese alphabet and diacritics are a humble love note to the Vietnamese heritage. The rainbow 🌈 as a reminder of something so beautiful created by a mixture of different ingredients. These have come a long way, just as you have… just as we all have.
Get these heritage pieces at https://www.thidoanart.com/gemma-collection-prints
4th WORLD PRESS illustrator Thi Doan recently interviewed with HillsboroARTS Magazine for their Fall 2020 issue starting on page 8. Titled, Illustrating the "Othered" into the story.
To read the full the article visit Thi Doan's page at the link below.
https://www.thidoanart.com/press
To read the full Fall 2020 issue.
https://issuu.com/hillsboroparks/docs/fall_2020_hillsboro_arts_full_version
With new life breeds new hope. Author Andy A. Nguyen writes a sincere poem to his son to offer as the foundation of ethics to one’s humanity during those moments of “lost” to fall back on. May new hope also breed a new and more compassionate future.Dear son, Fall 2020, you arrived Born in times more sick and divide, Still, today and tomorrow Have seen better days Then yesterday’s sorrows. What man will you become? Will you hurt or heal? Will you give or steal? Will you serve those who bear the worst? Or seek only to quench your thirst? What about your burdens? Will you deny and run astray? Or will you confront and stay? Will you spread the...
