Lindork’s Lists #264 – Film Festival Ticket Giveaway, Spring Deals in St. Albert, and MORE!
Newsletter for April 30-May 6, 2025
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Things to Do This Week
Hi! It’s just been one of those ‘behind-on-everything’ weeks so this week’s email is condensed. I wanted to giveaway a pair of tickets to next weekend’s FascinAsian Film Festival – Edmonton and I wanted to share about a local gift shop in St. Albert who is doing a big sale on Friday & Saturday you might be interested in, AND I wanted to share about the 50th anniversary of the Fall of Saigon (which ultimately led to my existing here in Canada and sending my email out!)
If you are a newsletter subscriber, you got to enter to win a pair of tickets to a film of your choice from the inaugural FascinAsian Film Festival – Edmonton taking place May 9-11, 2025!
The festival centers and celebrates Asian stories with universal themes and includes screenings of 4 feature films and 15 short films, all centered around Asian storytelling. Plus free Opening Ceremony/Reception, an Awards / Closing Banquet, and industry workshops. I’m on the volunteer organizing team for the event and am really excited to help it launch in the city.
I believe representation in media is so important and this festival is playing an important role in building diversity and inclusion in the city (at a time when it feels like the world is going in the wrong direction by trying to eliminate diversity & inclusion initiatives).
Shop the Seasons’ Gift Shop Sale!
I’ve partnered with Season’s Gift Shop in St. Albert to tell you about their Spring Steals and Mother’s Day Deals event this Friday & Saturday May 2 & 3. 🛍️🗓️
If you want to pick up super cute, steal of a deal gifts, home products, decor, jewelry, fashion, baby items and more, all while supporting a wonderful local business, you’ll want to check out this store, which has been the go-to gift shop in St. Albert for more than 20 years. 📣 EVERYTHING will be 30% off! 📣 There’s also select door crasher items (more deeply discounted) and you get free Glee jewelry with purchases over $100.
📍 Season’s Gift Shop
8665 McKenney Ave
St. Albert, Alberta
SALE DATES & TIMES:
Friday, May 2 – 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Saturday, May 3 – 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
30% off store-wide. Free jewelry with purchases over $100. Door crasher deals as well!
50th Anniversary of the Fall of Saigon
My dad was interviewed by The Canadian Press for this story on the 50th anniversary of the Fall of Saigon. In it, he recounts some of what he witnessed on April 30, 1975, when the North Vietnamese communists captured the southern democratic capital city of Saigon and won the Vietnam War. For many Vietnamese refugees and their families like mine—April 30 is a day of mourning. It’s the day democracy ended, marking the beginning of an exodus of up to 2 million Vietnamese refugees who fled the country and resettled around the world. At least 100,000 of these Vietnamese refugees, called boat people, arrived in Canada. My mom, dad and brother were among this group. Hundreds of thousands who fled by boat tragically died at sea.
I also shared some of my thoughts about the Fall of Saigon in this Instagram post:
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