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✍️ Step into the world of Vanessa Le and other featured authors on the Viet Book Fest webpage. Click on each author’s box to explore their biography, discover their books, and dive into exclusive spotlight interviews that bring you closer to their creative journey. Our Author Spotlight brings you closer to the incredible writers featured at #VietBookFest2026. Through thoughtful, exclusive interviews led by Program Manager Alan Trinh and Author Spotlight Liaison Cathy Duong, each spotlight reveals the inspirations, creative journeys, and personal stories behind their work. - 📅 Held on April 6 at the Bowers Museum, the Vietnamese American Arts and Letters Association (VAALA) proudly presented Viet Book Fest 2026, an all-day literary event celebrating Vietnamese diasporic voices in literature, culture, and storytelling. 💛 Support our mission to uplift these voices—consider making a donation to VAALA today. Every contribution helps us continue creating spaces for community, creativity, and cultural celebration. Click the link in bio to support our mission today!

for AAPI month, VAALA is proud to present a special spotlight on Vietnamese diaspora fine artists 🎨🌿 Curated through VAALA’s ongoing exhibitions and programming, these eight Vietnamese diaspora artists work across a range of mediums and reflect the depth and diversity of contemporary Vietnamese diasporic art. Learn more at vaala.org ✨ They have previously partnered with VAALA through exhibitions including “On Refuge: 50 Years of Recomposition”, “Here/There: Chúng Tôi”, and “Yellow Submarine Rising”, contributing powerful perspectives shaped by memory, migration, identity, and transformation 🖼️ Support VAALA 🌿 Your support helps us continue uplifting Vietnamese and Vietnamese diasporic fine artists and sustaining exhibitions that bring their work into community spaces. Through programs like our multi-art exhibitions and Gallery Beyond Walls, VAALA creates opportunities for artists to share work shaped by memory, migration, identity, and transformation ✨ Please consider donating to help us continue this work and keep these artistic voices visible, supported, and celebrated 🤍 Past Curators Credit: Audrey Bùi @auggybui & Thuy N. D. Tran @artsythuy Previous Exhibition Venues: OC Center for Contemporary Art @occcart & Black Umbrella Tattoo & Art Gallery @blackumbrellatattoo

✍️ Step into the world of Elyse Dinh and other featured authors on the Viet Book Fest webpage. Click on each author’s box to explore their biography, discover their books, and dive into exclusive spotlight interviews that bring you closer to their creative journey. Our Author Spotlight brings you closer to the incredible writers featured at #VietBookFest2026. Through thoughtful, exclusive interviews led by Program Manager Alan Trinh and Author Spotlight Liaison Cathy Duong, each spotlight reveals the inspirations, creative journeys, and personal stories behind their work. - 📅 Held on April 6 at the Bowers Museum, the Vietnamese American Arts and Letters Association (VAALA) proudly presented Viet Book Fest 2026, an all-day literary event celebrating Vietnamese diasporic voices in literature, culture, and storytelling. 💛 Support our mission to uplift these voices—consider making a donation to VAALA today. Every contribution helps us continue creating spaces for community, creativity, and cultural celebration. Click the link in bio to support our mission today!

4/12/26: @vaalacommunity Viet Book Fest, “A Cookbook Panel.” “Go ask your mom to prove my recipes wrong,” “Fish is fishy!” @andreanguyen88 “If you’re scared to spill fish sauce (because it smells), I don’t think you should buy this book.” @__tien__ “If the Vietnamese title turns you off, I don’t even want you to buy my cookbook.” @sharemyroots 📸: @nhauforever

🎬Dinner & A Movie: Celebrating AAPI Heritage Join OCAPICA in partnership with South Asian Network and CAIR-LA for a special evening of community, culture, and storytelling as we screen Blinded By the Light . This powerful film highlights identity, belonging, and the impact of representation - stories that matter now more than ever. 🗓 Friday, May 15 ⏰ 6:30PM Dinner | 7:00PM Program Begins 📍 Frida Cinema, Santa Ana Learn more at the link in bio @ocapica97

Sharing on behalf of Viet Bao Foundation: Thiệp mời Ra Mắt Sách -- Bùi Vĩnh Phúc: Chữ nghĩa & Không gian Văn chương Book Launch at Coffee Factory in Westminster, featuring Viet Book Fest 2024 Author, Bùi Vĩnh Phúc

✍️ Step into the world of Quyên Ngô and other featured authors on the Viet Book Fest webpage. Click on each author’s box to explore their biography, discover their books, and dive into exclusive spotlight interviews that bring you closer to their creative journey. Our Author Spotlight brings you closer to the incredible writers featured at #VietBookFest2026. Through thoughtful, exclusive interviews led by Program Manager Alan Trinh and Author Spotlight Liaison Cathy Duong, each spotlight reveals the inspirations, creative journeys, and personal stories behind their work. - 📅 Held on April 6 at the Bowers Museum, the Vietnamese American Arts and Letters Association (VAALA) proudly presented Viet Book Fest 2026, an all-day literary event celebrating Vietnamese diasporic voices in literature, culture, and storytelling. 💛 Support our mission to uplift these voices—consider making a donation to VAALA today. Every contribution helps us continue creating spaces for community, creativity, and cultural celebration. Click the link in bio to support our mission today!

For AAPI month, VAALA, proud organizers of Viet Film Fest, is excited to share a special curated selection of Vietnamese films 🎬🌿 🎥 Curated by Viet Film Fest Artistic Director Eric Nong, this collection celebrates the richness of Vietnamese and Vietnamese diasporic cinema, highlighting essential films spanning generations, genres, and global perspectives. 🌎As the largest international Vietnamese film festival in the diaspora, Viet Film Fest showcases the best creative work by and about Vietnamese people. We are proud to be a central platform for filmmakers of Vietnamese descent to tell their stories the way they want them to be told. 🎉Viet Film Fest was created in 2003 by the Vietnamese American Arts & Letters Association (VAALA) to celebrate the many stories about Vietnamese people. Now running successfully for over a decade, the festival has attracted thousands of national and international attention for its stunning showcase of shorts and features submitted from many corners of the world.

✍️ Step into the world of VyVy Nguyen and other featured authors on the Viet Book Fest webpage. Click on each author’s box to explore their biography, discover their books, and dive into exclusive spotlight interviews that bring you closer to their creative journey. Our Author Spotlight brings you closer to the incredible writers featured at #VietBookFest2026. Through thoughtful, exclusive interviews led by Program Manager Alan Trinh and Author Spotlight Liaison Cathy Duong, each spotlight reveals the inspirations, creative journeys, and personal stories behind their work. - 📅 Held on April 6 at the Bowers Museum, the Vietnamese American Arts and Letters Association (VAALA) proudly presented Viet Book Fest 2026, an all-day literary event celebrating Vietnamese diasporic voices in literature, culture, and storytelling. 💛 Support our mission to uplift these voices—consider making a donation to VAALA today. Every contribution helps us continue creating spaces for community, creativity, and cultural celebration. Click the link in bio to support our mission today!

For AAPI month, we are proud to unveil the official VAALA reading list 🌿📚 See full list through out link-in-bio Curated by the Vietnamese American Arts and Letters Association (VAALA), this list reflects our mission to connect and enrich communities through Vietnamese arts and culture, through programs like Viet Book Fest, Viet Film Fest, and year-round exhibitions. At the heart of this reading list is Viet Book Fest — VAALA’s annual celebration of Vietnamese diasporic literature and storytelling. Many of these titles have been featured through the festival over the years, shaped by conversations, readings, and the authors who continue to engage with our community. Donate today to be a part of our literary legacy today! Explore these works through LibroMobile and Tu Lục Bookstore, as well as damau.org and the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network @weare_dvan for more literary features and community voices.

✍️ Step into the world of Andrea Nguyen and other featured authors on the Viet Book Fest webpage. Click on each author’s box to explore their biography, discover their books, and dive into exclusive spotlight interviews that bring you closer to their creative journey. Our Author Spotlight brings you closer to the incredible writers featured at #VietBookFest2026. Through thoughtful, exclusive interviews led by Program Manager Alan Trinh and Author Spotlight Liaison Cathy Duong, each spotlight reveals the inspirations, creative journeys, and personal stories behind their work. - 📅 Held on April 6 at the Bowers Museum, the Vietnamese American Arts and Letters Association (VAALA) proudly presented Viet Book Fest 2026, an all-day literary event celebrating Vietnamese diasporic voices in literature, culture, and storytelling. 💛 Support our mission to uplift these voices—consider making a donation to VAALA today. Every contribution helps us continue creating spaces for community, creativity, and cultural celebration. Click the link in bio to support our mission today!

✍️ Step into the world of Peggy HồngĐức Nguyễn and other featured authors on the Viet Book Fest webpage. Click on each author’s box to explore their biography, discover their books, and dive into exclusive spotlight interviews that bring you closer to their creative journey. Our Author Spotlight brings you closer to the incredible writers featured at #VietBookFest2026. Through thoughtful, exclusive interviews led by Program Manager Alan Trinh and Author Spotlight Liaison Cathy Duong, each spotlight reveals the inspirations, creative journeys, and personal stories behind their work. - 📅 Held on April 6 at the Bowers Museum, the Vietnamese American Arts and Letters Association (VAALA) proudly presented Viet Book Fest 2026, an all-day literary event celebrating Vietnamese diasporic voices in literature, culture, and storytelling. 💛 Support our mission to uplift these voices—consider making a donation to VAALA today. Every contribution helps us continue creating spaces for community, creativity, and cultural celebration. Click the link in bio to support our mission today!