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Bad Activist

Thursday, September 17 at 7:30 PM·7:30 p.m.·Callowhill

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Bad Activist

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Theatre Fringe Festival Arts

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Posted to Callowhill on September 1, 2026

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Once dubbed Vietnam’s “Lady Gaga,” Mai Khôi emerged from her life as a pop star to become an internationally lauded human rights activist. Her journey includes dialogue with President Obama, police detention in Hanoi, and an invitation to the world stage in Oslo where she received the Václav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent. Now living in exile in the US, Khôi has created “Bad Activist”: a multime...

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