Voices From Vietnam

in collaboration with the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum

Wednesday, February 24th 7:00 
at the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum

 
 

We are pleased to be collaborating again with the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum to present a night of stories about the Vietnam War. Stories recording diverse experiences of the war will be presented in conjunction with the SBMM’s exhibit Marking Time: Voyage to Vietnam. 

“You’re the one who must decide who’s to live and whose to die.
You’re the one who gives his body as a weapon of the war –
and without you all the killing can’t go on.”

This quote, scribbled on the bottom of a canvas bunk, is one of many inscriptions that make up Marking Time: Voyage to Vietnam, which runs at the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum through April 24th. The exhibit contains graffiti and artifacts left behind by the troops on their three-week journey to war.

In conjunction with this moving tribute Speaking of Stories will present Voices From Vietnam, will include stories by the men and women who served during the war as well as the Vietnamese who lived through this turbulent time and its aftermath.
 
Faline England reading excerpts from Shrapnel in the Heart by Laura Palmer

Lisa Gates reading Hope is the Thing with the Golf Club 
by Susan O’Neill, a Vietnam nursing veteran

Ed Lee reading excerpts from The Boat by Nam Le   

reading Duty by Tobias Wolff
reading poetry from Tigers and Songbirds by J. Cruickshank Muir 

TICKETS:
$30 General Admission 
$25 Speaking of Stories Subscribers and 
                  SB Maritime Museum Members

All proceeds benefit Speaking of Stories and the 
Santa Barbara Maritime Museum.

Reserve your tickets today to be part of this great event

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