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What makes a place home? Three Vietnamese artists offer different ways to look
Make it Home brings family photographs, paintings and textiles to Huntington Beach Art Center. The venue lists Saturday, October 24, 2026, as the exhibition’s closing date, earlier than the October 25 date in VAALA’s announcement.
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A film and a conversation: see In Waves with its director in Santa Ana
Viet Film Fest will screen Phương Mai Nguyễn’s animated feature at The Frida Cinema on Friday, October 23, 2026, at 7 p.m. The director and graphic novelist AJ Dungo are scheduled to answer audience questions afterward.
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Want to attend Vesak at Garden Grove Park? The city has not finalized the 2027 request
Two Buddhist organizations have asked to hold a festival at Garden Grove Park on April 24–25, 2027. Their letter proposes a free event with about 3,000 visits, but the council’s decision has not been confirmed.
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Same moon, different holiday: why Tết Trung Thu belongs to the kids — a guide for the generation that grew up calling it "Moon Festival"
On Friday, September 25, 2026, the eighth-month moon is full, and your Chinese and Korean friends will be celebrating too — but not the same way. In Vietnam the Mid-Autumn Festival turned into a children's holiday, with its own man in the moon, its own lanterns and a song your grandparents can still sing. Here is what they wish you knew before you take your own kids to a lantern night in Little Saigon.
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From a Software Nobody Wanted to a $90 Million Table: The Việt Nguyễn Story
Việt Nguyễn came to America from Vietnam at 16 with no English and no money; today his Huntington Beach company, Kei Concepts, runs thirteen restaurants across Orange County and expects nearly $90 million in sales in 2026, according to the Orange County Business Journal. His newest restaurant is also his most personal — a tribute to the Saigon neighborhood where he grew up, built a few miles from Bolsa Avenue, in the community whose story his own most resembles.