PAS Program Calendar
Events for public in November 2008
In November 2008, the American Center closes on Veteran Day (November 11) and Thanksgiving Day (November 27).
Please register here to attend our free public events. If you would like to be an American Center member, please register.
Our office is located on the 1st Floor of the Rose Garden Tower (RG), 170 Ngoc Khanh Street. You can leave your vehicle at VKO Supermarket's vehicle keeping area. Remember to take your ID with you.
Election Day: Live coverage on the CNN of the 56th US Presidential election
Time: 8:00-12:00, November 5, 2008
Venue: 1st Floor, Rose Garden Tower, 170 Ngoc Khanh Street, Hanoi
Who Will Win?
Join us to follow live coverage on CNN of the 56th U.S. Presidential Election.
Join students, researchers, and journalists, Vietnamese and Americans, as the results unfold state by state. Witness the latest coverage, commentary, and analysis from colleagues and broadcasters who have been closely following and reporting on these elections since the campaign began.
We look forward to seeing you.
Promotional items and light refreshments provided.
Film show: Iron Jawed Angels
Time: 14:00-16:30, November 7, 2008
Venue: 1st Floor, Rose Garden Tower, 170 Ngoc Khanh Street, Hanoi
IRON JAWED ANGELS recounts for a contemporary audience a key chapter in U.S. history: in this case, the struggle of suffragists who fought for the passage of the 19th Amendment. Focusing on the two defiant women, Alice Paul (Hilary Swank) and Lucy Burns (Frances O'Connor), the film shows how these activists broke from the mainstream women's-rights movement and created a more radical wing, daring to push the boundaries of political protest to secure women's voting rights in 1920. Breathing life into the relationships between Paul, Burns and others, the movie makes the women feel like complete characters instead of one-dimensional figures from a distant past.
Film show: What's Cooking
Time: 14:00-16:30, November 28, 2008
Venue: 1st Floor, Rose Garden Tower, 170 Ngoc Khanh Street, Hanoi
At first glance, What's Cooking? looks like it was dreamed up by some politically correct screenwriting committee: a series of overlapping stories that intercut among four families (one Hispanic, one Vietnamese, one African American, one Jewish) all preparing for Thanksgiving dinner. But what could be toothless and smarmy is made gripping and genuinely affecting by a mixture of observant writing, fluid direction, and a truly superb ensemble of actors, including Mercedes Ruehl, Alfre Woodard, Joan Chen, Julianna Margulies, Kyra Sedgewick, Dennis Haysbert, and a host of less well known but just as capable others. The script is a marvel of orchestration: small annoyances blossom into fierce conflicts, secrets are deftly revealed, and sanctimoniousness is subtly punctured. The acute but sympathetic portrait of family stress and tension is layered with quiet observations about race and class, as well as the capacity for tolerance and forgiveness. It's recently become a cliché to have characters express themselves through food (examples include Soul Food, Big Night, and Eat Drink Man Woman), but What's Cooking? turns food into a witty exploration of culture as everyone prepares their turkeys in entertainingly different ways--this is not a movie to watch on an empty stomach. Warm without false sentiment, What's Cooking? is deeply enjoyable. --Bret Fetzer
Where Jazz Meets the Blues
Time: 17:30-19:30, November 28, 2008
Venue: 1st Floor, Rose Garden Tower, 170 Ngoc Khanh Street, Hanoi
Join guitarist Donald Mattingley for a presentation on two iconic forms of American music: the blues and jazz. The presentation will address questions such as "what are the differences between jazz and blues music," and " which one came first?" In addition, there will be DVD performances by famous blues and jazz artists and live music performed by Donald.
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