“NEW WAVE” Film Screening

2025 marks 75th anniversary to the end of involvement in wars of Southeast Asia. Join us on April 5, 2025 to honor and commemorate Southeast Asians in the United States with a screening of New Wave, is documentary New Wave music, a genre of Vietnamese-American music created by Vietnamese American immigrants in the 1980s, while also featuring the experiences about immigrant motherhood and intergenerational trauma.

Come to meet the maker of the film, Elizabeth Ai, hear her personal experiences with a Q&A session, and have your copy of her book, New Wave: Rebellion and Reinvention in the Vietnamese Diaspora (available for purchase here!) SIGNED!

Then join us for an after party at Wild Days (Eaton DC) Rooftop, 1201 K St NW, Washington, DC 20005 featuring DC's own Les the DJ to immerse and experience New Wave music yourself the way it was meant to!

Thank you to our co-hosts: OCA-Asian Pacific American Advocates, Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC), Together, We Thrive, Viet Place Collective, and Georgetown University Vietnamese Student Association.

Info: Meet the filmmaker of New Wave, Elizabeth Ai, and get your copy of her book, New Wave: Rebellion and Reinvention in the Vietnamese Diaspora, SIGNED!

Host or Publisher OCA-Asian Pacific American Advocates