Oct 1st and 2nd for the madison book festival....do
ing a kids writing workshop friday and showing of this movie on the 2nd
Kao Kalia Yang Writing Workshop for Youth
Friday, October 1 | 4:30 - 6:30 PM
Venue: Kennedy Heights Community Center
Presenter(s): Kao Kalia Yang
The experiences as an immigrant guide the writings of Kao Kalia Yang, author of The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir. This workshop encourages youth to define and write their own stories. Participants must pre-register for this FREE workshop. Click HERE to register.
Category(s): International, Writing & Publishing, Youth & Kids Kao Kalia Yang Film Screening: The Place You Were Born
Friday, October 1 | 7:00 - 8:00 PM
Venue: Kennedy Heights Community Center
Presenter(s): Kao Kalia Yang
Hmong author Koa Kalia Yang, author of The Latehomecomer, will screen The Place Where We Were Born, a lyric documentary about the Hmong experience in the Ban Vinai Refugee Camp. The screening will be followed by an interactive dialogue with the audience members.
Category(s): International, Society & Politics, Wisconsin Ties Kao Kalia Yang: Saturday, October 2 Kao Kalia Yang & Judy Pasternak
Saturday, October 2 | 5:30 - 7:00 PM
Venue: Promenade Hall/Overture
Presenter(s): Kao Kalia Yang, Judy Pasternak
In search of a place to call home, thousands of Hmong families made the journey from the war-torn jungles of Laos to the overcrowded refugee camps of Thailand and onward to America, but their history remains largely unknown. Kao Kalia Yang’s memoir The Latehomecomer is a tribute to her grandmother, the remarkable woman whose spirit held the family together. With a journalist’s heart for the truth and a storyteller’s gift for lyricism, Yang describes her family’s harrowing escape from Laos, their life in the refugee camps, and her own experiences with American life and learning. In her compelling and compassionate expose, Yellow Dirt: The Betrayal of the Navajo, prize-winning investigative reporter Judy Pasternak reveals how from the 1930’s to the 1960’s, the United States knowingly used and discarded an entire tribe of people: In the uranium mines that fueled the Manhattan Project and the Cold War, the Navajo worked unprotected. Pasternak chronicles the state-sanctioned deception which resulted in the deadly radiation contamination of the tribe’s air, water and soil. Transporting readers into a little-known country-within-a-country, Pasternak gives rare voice to Navajo perceptions of the world, their own complicated involvement with uranium mining, and their political coming-of-age.