Name: Queering the Table
Start: 2023-10-30T17:30:00-07:00
End: 2023-10-30T21:30:00-07:00
Location: Mingei International Museum

Queering the Table

Viet Voices

An Asian tapestry of language, connection, and Queer presence

Mingei International Museum

The familial dinner table is often a daunting space for queer Asians because of unspoken games, awkwardness, hierarchical ideology, and passive aggressiveness. This one-day exhibition clears the table by forefronting open communication and providing space for communal witnessing. It gathers queer Asian narratives, bodies, and dreams to form a transient utopia where queerness is staple.C﻿ome join us to share a meal together and engage in meaningful conversations. The one-day event begins at 5:30pm featuring local San Diegan Artists.

Meet our facilitator: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/britt_pham/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Britt Pham </a>(she/they) is a first-generation Vietnamese-Lao-American, a child of refugees, and a lover of all things disco. They design, produce, and facilitate experiences that weave the full spectrum of life — delight and nuance, joy and grief, the goofy and the real — to guide us closer to ourselves and our communities.

Meet our Co-C﻿urator /Community Organizer: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/lapink_meow/?hl=en" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Emily Diễm Trần</a> (they/she) recently graduated from SDSU where they obtained a Bachelors in Gerontology with Distinction, and minored in Asian Studies. With certifications in nursing and elderly care administration, they are passionate about improving aging services. Committed to promoting equity and healthcare justice, Emily is dedicated to discussing ways to enhance aging services in all spaces they are a part of. Emily embodies the core values of intentionality, mindfulness, and inclusion, as it is the driving force in promoting healthcare justice and creating a more equitable and fair healthcare system for older adults.They are a Queer, second-generation Vietnamese American and the eldest of three children. Their Vietnamese parents sought refuge in the United States in 1975 during the first wave of Vietnamese refugees after the fall of Saigon.

Meet our Co-curator and artist: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/performancesandpain/?hl=en" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Jun!yi Min</a> (She/Her) is a performance artist from Singapore pursuing her MFA at UC San Diego. Her works bind familial tensions and queer relational desires to create context for an enduring Asian body. Jun! has performed at Bread and Salt, Teatro Morelos, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, and Qualcomm Institute. She is a co-curator for Queering The Table.

Meet our artist: Einar Escoto (He/Him) is a Mindsei (Mind, Spiritual, Executive, Intuitive) Coach specializing in hypnotherapy techniques and psychic mediumship as a vehicle to help guide his clients toward their soul healing. He received his MA in Women’s Studies from San Diego State University and BA from California State University, San Marcos double-majoring in Women’s Studies and Literature and Writing. His professional experience includes 10+ years in content management and production (including 3 of those years with celebrity life coach Tony Robbins), 14+ years in diversity, equity, and inclusion facilitation and strategy, and 12+ years in education as a higher-ed faculty, poetry workshop facilitator in San Diego juvenile halls and community schools, and as a Senior Manager in the Ed-tech space. Einar’s book about his gender transition, The Woman Inside of Me, was released in the Summer of 2019.

M﻿eet our artist: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/mango__hot__sauce/?hl=en" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Cat Gunn</a> (They/Them/Theirs) Originally from Baltimore, is a transmasc nonbinary artist living and working in Southern California. Grappling with the intersection of an untold familial history and a queer personal history, Gunn extends a series of gestures of ancestral offerings, material investigations, and creative-fictional poetics that together contemplate endless possibilities across various temporalities. Gunn has had their work included in recent group exhibitions at ICA in San Diego, Vielmetter in Los Angeles, and BEST PRACTICE in San Diego among others. Gunn received their MFA in Visual Arts from UC San Diego, where they expanded their practice into the realms of ceramics, sculpture, and installation. They received their MA in Professional Studies (Art History Concentration) and BFA in Painting from Towson University.

M﻿eet our artist: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/hamsalefae/?hl=en" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Hamsa Nguyen</a> (She/Her) is a Vietnamese trans woman and interdisciplinary artist who is native to Los Angeles. She comes from a rich lineage of mystics and healers and has integrated such identities into her work. Hamsa's poetry collection, Blood Frequency, has been recognized by the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network and C&amp;R Publishing. She is currently pioneering herbalism and yoga education for queer + trans* folks, while fashion modeling for nationwide brands

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