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The Center's 45th Anniversary With Author Kao Kalia Yang at Munson in Utica, Nov. 12
Hear a Hmong American memoirist who was born in a refugee camp, at the party for the Utica agency that has welcomed 18,000 refugees since 1981.
The Center celebrates its 45th anniversary on Thursday, Nov. 12, at Munson, 310 Genesee St. in Utica, with doors at 5:30 p.m. and author Kao Kalia Yang speaking at 6. Tickets are sold online through The Center's event page; the price wasn't listed there when we checked. First reported by WKTV.
Schedule
| Time | What |
|---|---|
| 5:30 PM | Doors open |
| 6:00 PM | Talk and audience Q&A |
| 7:30–9:00 PM | Book signing, hors d'oeuvres, cash bar |
Books bought at the event can be signed.
About the speaker: Yang was born in Ban Vinai, a refugee camp in Thailand, after her Hmong family fled Laos; they moved to Minnesota when she was 6. Her memoir The Latehomecomer was the first book by a Hmong author to get national distribution.
About The Center: It started in 1981 as the Mohawk Valley Resource Center for Refugees and has resettled about 18,000 people from 37 countries, a big part of why Utica's neighborhoods, shops and churches look the way they do today.
Parking: Munson has free parking behind the Museum of Art, entered from State Street.
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