Workshop Living Poetry: An experience by Paul Christiansen & Ian
Auroborium and Vietnam Sound Library present Do Baskets Dream Of_ , a sonic & art living archive and workshop series exploring ancestral memory, soundscape, and collective making in Ho Chi Minh City.
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Step out of the noise and into the moment with a sensory poetry workshop led by Paul Christiansen & Ian.
Where living sounds, sights, and shared presence become the raw material for poems shaped in real time.
Paul Christiansen is a Saigon-based poet, writer, and editor.
He is the author of the essay collection “Beneath Saigon’s Chò Nâu” (Phương Nam Publishing House).
His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Best New Poets, Gulf Coast, Pleiades, Plume, Threepenny Review, and elsewhere.
A former Fulbright Fellow, Paul resides in Saigon and works as Content Director for the arts and culture publication, Saigoneer.
📅 Date: Wednesday, 24nd September, 2025
⏰ Time: 18:30 – 21:00
📍 Venue: S+ Studio – Room S6, 1 Trương Đình Hợi, Xóm Chiếu, HCMC
Agenda
6:30 - 7:00 Welcome and Exploration
7:00 - 8:30 Quiet Writing
8:30 - 9:00 Optional Sharing
👉 Craft poems from live sensory prompts from sound, sight, memory, and the room around you
👉 Write alongside others and feel how shared presence shapes language differently
👉 Leave with fresh drafts and a practice for turning any moment into material
All levels welcome! Slots are limited (100 people) to ensure quality instruction and proper partnering, so RSVP early to lock in your spot!
Follow Thúng Có Mơ Về, Vietnam Sound Library, Vietnam Festival of Creative & Design, and RMIT University Vietnam, and check our upcoming workshop schedule here to be part of an unforgettable experience!
Contact +84-963-036-296 (Thiên Ân)
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Hosted by Auroborium & Vietnam Sound Library.
Auroborium is a California nonprofit stewarding collective wisdom and shared capacity to shape long-term, civilization-scale social, ecological, spiritual, and technological futures through research, ancestral continuity, education, and the arts.
Vietnam Sound Library is an open collection preserving and sharing the everyday sounds of life in Vietnam treating each sound as a way of evoking memory, culture, and emotion.
In collaboration with Vietnam Festival of Creativity & Design 2026 RMIT University Vietnam