Odysseys of Displacement - Concert & Panel

Odysseys of Displacement, a concert featuring performances by Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ, Blood Moon Orchestra, and Arneis Quartet, and a pre-concert panel, marks the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War.

The Odyssey explores the personal and spiritual journeys of the Vietnamese Boat People. The Odyssey musically engages this arc of their transformation and contextualizes them in larger terms of human struggle for survival in the face of conflict and political upheaval. The work contains several movements with many songs. Vietnamese instruments, electronic sounds and Western instruments together create the musical vocabulary. Vietnamese folk songs, especially lullabies, are a key compositional element.

Pre-Concert Panel: 6:00 - 7:00pm

With Panelists:

• Dr. Ben (Vu) Tran, Vanderbilt University

• Dr. Kinh Vu, Boston University

• Dr. SonCa Lam, University of Massachusetts, Boston

• Khang Nguyen, Vietnamese American Community of Massachusetts

• Dr. AnhPhi Nguyen, Boston University Linh Kochan, UC Irvin (Moderator & Master of Ceremony)

The Odyssey Concert: 7:30 - 9:00pm

Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ, Blood Moon Orchestra, Arneis Quartet

This event is free and open to the public. Brought to you by Boston University College of Fine Arts School of Music, the Center for the Study of Asia at Boston University Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University Office for the Arts, and Boston University Center on Forced Displacement. With grant support from BU Center for the Humanities.