Imagining Radical Vietnamese Futures: Zine-Making Workshop with Superbloom

​This interactive workshop explores the act of altar-making and zine-making as ways to interpret traditions and rituals. To imagine Vietnamese futurity 50 years after reunification.

​The workshop will include a panel discussion, Q&A, and an interactive zine-making workshop.

​Using personal and found images from Vietnamese archives, participants are asked to build their own offering tables through the pages of the zines. Participants are encouraged to bring their own family images or anything you wish to include in your own personal offering table.

About the artists: 

​Superblooom  is a Vietnamese-American small publishing group dedicated to promoting the culture, arts, stories, and design of the Vietnamese Diaspora and Global South. Founded in Richmond, Virginia, and made up of various Vietnamese-American artists, creatives, and innovators, Superblooom strives to bring new perspectives towards "Vietnamese-American art" and what it means to be Vietnamese in a global community.

​Anh Nguyen  is a Vietnamese photographer based in Brooklyn. Her work explores how cultures shift and adapt outside of their original contexts through unpacking rituals and mythologies. She draws inspiration from Vietnamese customs, iconographies, and how new meaning is created through interpretation.