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• Bright Lights Film series: Screening 'The Farewell' with panel discussion

  • When
    15 Oct 2019
  •  
    7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
  • Location
    Bright Family Screening Room, The Paramount Center - Emerson College 559 Washington St, Boston, Massachusetts 02111

  In this funny, uplifting tale based on an actual lie, Chinese-born, U.S.-raised Billi reluctantly returns to Changchun to find that, although the whole family knows their beloved matriarch, Nai-Nai, has been given mere weeks to live, everyone has decided not to tell Nai Nai herself. To assure her happiness, they gather under the joyful guise of an expedited wedding, uniting family members scattered among new homes abroad. As Billi navigates a minefield of family expectations and properties, she finds there’s a lot to celebrate: a chance to rediscover the country she left as a child, her grandmother’s wondrous spirit, and the ties that keep on binding even when so much goes unspoken.

  Discussion led by Susan Chinsen director of the Boston Asian American Film Festival and Tufts Andreas Klein, MD Associate Professor of Medicine, Associate Chief, Division of Hematology/Oncology and Director, Hematologic Malignancies

  Program to follow.

  More information at https://www.facebook.com/events/550776085696837/

  
  

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• The Boston Asian American Film Festival (BAAFF)

  • Start
    24 Oct 2019
  • End
    27 Oct 2019
  • Location
    Various; please check individual events

  Join BAAFF on October 24-27 to enjoy a wide range of short films, feature films, documentaries, and panels while supporting your local Asian American Community! Q&A with filmmakers follow most screenings.
  
  

  *PRE-FESTIVAL SCREENING*

  Saturday, October 12
  10/12 3:30pm Alternative Facts: The Lies of Executive Order 9066 (Preceded by "Everyone Counts: Looking Forward to the 2020 Census" and followed by "Japantown: A Walk Through Memory")

  *FESTIVAL PROGRAM*

  THURSDAY
  10/24 6:45pm Lucky Grandma | OPENING NIGHT FILM 
  10/24 9:45pm Lucky Grandma (Encore Screening)
  
  FRIDAY
  10/25 6:30pm Seadrift (Preceded by "Justice for Vincent") | CENTERPIECE FILM
  10/25 9:30pm After Dark | SHORTS
  
  SATURDAY
  10/26 3pm Finding Your Place | SHORTS
  10/26 6pm Go Back to China 
  10/26 9pm Love, Family and Self-Discovery | SHORTS
  
  SUNDAY
  10/27 12pm Discovery | SHORTS
  10/27 3pm Geographies of Kinship 
  10/27 6pm TBA | CLOSING NIGHT FILM

  *POST-FESTIVAL SCREENING*

  Saturday, November 16
  11/16 2pm Chinatown Rising

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• Navigating the Intersectionality of Race, Culture and Adoption: Lessons on Microaggressions, Identity and Reculturation

  • When
    15 Nov 2019
  •  
    9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Fantasia, 404 Washington Ave., North Haven

  Save the date for the CCA Conference with Amanda Baden, Ph.D.

  Join the Connecticut Council on Adoption in National Adoption Awareness Month as the CT adoption community comes together to build bridges of understanding, respect and support for all members of the adoption triad across the lifespan.

  Social workers, clinicians, mentors, court staff, adoptive, foster and kinship parents, and adult adoptees are invited to this all-day training with nationally-recognized adoption expert, Dr. Amanda Baden. This workshop will have attendees examine the complex intersection of race, culture and adoption in the lives of adoptive families, learn about the Cultural-Racial Identity Model and develop effective advocacy strategies in dealing with racial and adoption microaggressions.

  Additional conference and registration information will be forthcoming on the CCA website at www.ctadopt.org.

  Registration fee will include CEC’s and a buffet lunch. Please contact info@ctadopt.org with any questions.

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