OC Archives Bazaar

03/19/2025

Thank you for patterning with us for Sunday’s fundraiser and many thanks to everyone that came out to our event! We’ll be posting photos and recaps soon :)

03/12/2025

We are so excited to partner with for a fundraiser!

On the day of the archives bazaar, (Sunday March 16th) stop by 7Leaves on 14845 Jeffrey Road to grab a drink. Showing the flyer in our post or in our stories will mean that 20% of your order will be donated by 7leaves to our volunteer group!

To help us raise more, be sure to snap a photo of your order and tag us and in your IG stories!

03/11/2025

We are so excited to welcome you all this Sunday at the Great Park!

03/11/2025

03/09/2025

As a volunteer run group, we hope to continue planning our annual bazaars and we couldn’t do it without the support of the community!

At this year’s event we will have some fun raffle prizes! Purchase a ticket for $2 or purchase three tickets for $5! *cash only*

03/07/2025

Last but not least, announcing our final panel, "Gallery Talk with Michael Thế Khôi Trần!"

🖼Sunday March 16th
1:30pm-2:15pm
Palm Court Gallery, Great Park Irvine, CA🖼

Join artist Michael Thế Khôi Trần for a walk through of the exhibit, More Than You Can Chew.

Michael Thế Khôi Trần is an interdisciplinary artist who resides in Los Angeles/Orange County. He received his BFA in Drawing and Painting from California State University, Long Beach. Tran’s work explores how the displaced Vietnamese population used community as a tool to create a new home in Little Saigon, California. He achieves this by referencing local spaces such as supermarkets, temples, and swap meets, and how his community exists within these locations. The Asian community is often reduced to an aesthetic, such as orientalism and being a model minority. Challenging these standards, Tran injects himself into these frequently inhabited spaces wearing a traditional Vietnamese garment, Áo dài. Wearing the Áo dài in these spaces, he has reclaimed his culture and reappropriated the aesthetic standards placed upon the Asian community.

03/06/2025

Announcing our third panel, "Cultural Identity in Art: Insights from Vietnamese American Artists Tiffany Le and Thao-Vy Nguyen!"

🎨Sunday March 16th
12:30pm-1:15pm
Great Park Studio, Great Park, Irvine 🎨

Thao-Vy Nguyen is an illustrator and multimedia artist based in Little Saigon, Orange County. She has collaborated with many organizations and small businesses making promotional materials and graphics. She aims to continue to do work alongside her community and make inclusive and accessible art. Her work takes inspiration from her Vietnamese culture, nature, and animals.

Tiffany Le
Born and raised in the Little Saigon area of Southern California, Tiffany Le is a Vietnamese-American freelance illustrator who investigates themes towards cultural legacy, comparative mythology and literature, and social topics through an Asian American lens. She had started her career early by drawing images from cereal boxes at the age of three, and has worked her way up into much larger projects since then. She received her B.A. in Liberal Arts with her capstone project about Vietnamese-American identity and the relationship between generations through the use of visual narrative, and later her M.F.A in Illustration from CSU Long Beach.

Tiffany has also participates in gallery exhibitions at Gallery Nucleus and Giant Robot as well as table at artist alleys and zine fests at SDCC, Wondercon, LAZF, and similar events.
Aside from these art endeavors, she enjoys exploring various landscapes (whenever that's possible), learning how to be a plant parent, and acts as bunny wrangler to retired sassy pet rabbits named Sputnik and Apollo. Oh, and there's her cat, Nocturne, too.

03/05/2025

Announcing our 2nd panel: NEW WAVE: A Conversation with Elizabeth Ai & Lan Duong!

🎬Sunday March 16th
11:30am-12:15pm
Great Park Studio, Great Park Irvine🎬

Mile-high hair. Synthesized music. Underground parties. Filmmaker Elizabeth Ai is on a mission to excavate an untold story of rebellious punks in the chaotic world of 80s Vietnamese new wave until she rediscovers a hidden past.

Join us for a short preview of the documentary and a conversation between Elizabeth Ai and Lan Duong, NEW WAVE Documentary advisor and contributor to the film’s companion book, New Wave: Rebellion and Reinvention in the Vietnamese Diaspora which celebrates the rebellion, reinvention, and rebirth of joy in this young generation in cultural limbo.

Elizabeth Ai is a Chinese-Vietnamese-American Los Angeles based Emmy award-winning producer. She writes, directs, and produces independent narratives as well as branded content for companies such as National Geographic, ESPN, and VICE. She produced documentary features; DIRTY HANDS: THE ART & CRIMES OF DAVID CHOE (2008), on the titled artist after his prison release and before his meteoric rise and A WOMAN’S WORK: THE NFL’S CHEERLEADER PROBLEM (2019), which examines wage theft and exploitation of the only visible NFL women.

Lan Duong is Associate Professor in Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Treacherous Subjects: Gender, Culture, and Trans-Vietnamese Feminism. Dr. Duong’s second book project, Transnational Vietnamese Cinemas and the Archives of Memory, examines Vietnamese cinema from its inception to the present day. Her research interests include feminist film theory, theories of the archive, and Asian and American film.

Duong’s critical works can be found in Signs, MELUS, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Journal of Asian American Studies, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Amerasia, Asian Cinema, Discourse, and the anthologies, Transnational Feminism in Film and Media, Southeast Asian Cinema, Recollecting Vietnam, Gendering the Transpacific, and the The Refugee Handbook. landuong.com

03/03/2025

SAVE THE DATE!

OC Archives in Action presents this year's OC Archives Bazaar, "From Saigon to Little Saigon: Reflections on 50 Years of Home" on Sunday March 16th from 10-3pm at the Great Park in Irvine, CA.

This free event, presented by OC Archives in Action in collaboration with Anaheim Public Library, CSUF Pollak Library, and UCI Libraries, supports the Great Park Gallery’s exhibition More than You Can Chew. No registration required.