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Documenting Public Cultures with Vivian Wong

"Documenting Public Cultures: Oral Histories, Community Ethnography, and Visual Storytelling"
with Vivian Wong

This event is free and open to the public with limited seating.

Independent Filmmaker and Researcher, Vivian Wong is a writer/director/editor whose documentaries include the award-winning Homecoming, about her family's transnational migration from Malaysia to America. Her work has screened internationally in film festivals, academic conferences, and on PBS. Her films address the creation and maintenance of enduring practices for transferring crucial knowledge between generations through what appear to be ephemeral activities. Wong will address archive studies, community media-making, digital research resources, and screen her film, A Community of Friends (2011), about the early history of the public library in Downtown Los Angeles Chinatown. Wong has a M.F.A. in Directing from the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television, and Ph.D. in Information Studies. www.archivaldiary.com