Viet Voices

05/10/2026

4/4 - Introducing the Banana Leaves Fellows of Spring 2026 🎉

Dannie Zhu

🌟graduating senior from UCSD 🎉
🌟aspiring economics and polisci major
🌟SCLU director of organizing
🌟mama of (0) cats or dogs 😔💔
🌟big fan of art and frolicking outdoor

Dannie carries a passion for using local organizing to create structural change that serves communities. She dares to imagine a more progressive and representative future for everyone in San Diego, and sees organizing as the vehicle to accomplish it.

05/10/2026

05/08/2026

3/4 - Introducing the Banana Leaves Fellows of Spring 2026 🎉

Vivian Ton

🌟Viet native of San Diego
🌟graduate from UC Santa Cruz
🌟project assistant for AANAPISI
🌟mama of (2) dogs 🐶
🌟loves going to new cafe and restaurants with friends
🌟enjoys reading and mindful journaling

Vivian’s goal in the fellowship is to learn how to best support her community and do work that actually impacts them. Because she has mainly learned about organizing and people power through research, she wants to put apply what she’s learned through action.

05/07/2026

2/4 - Introducing the Banana Leaves Fellows of Spring 2026 🎉

Tracy Vu ._.bullet

💫 Viet polisci and biology student
💫 part time barista, avid volunteer
💫 also mama of (2) cats
💫 loves sewing, crafting, singing, and dancing 🕺

Similar to her co-fellow Ashley, Tracy wants to learn the skills of an organizer to uplift and support her people in City Heights. In addition, she wants to explore and stay in touch with her culture and heritage through community building and studying Vietnamese.

05/01/2026

This day is not only affecting the Vietnamese community, and also our Lao brothers & sisters. We are connected in this struggle against imperialism that tore our communities, our families apart. We can reflect, learn from the history & look forward into our future. We can heal as a community. A war has disrupted our lives, and we need to disrupt its trauma.

04/21/2026

Announcing the secreted artists for the 2026 AAPI Emerging Artist Fellowship — Armaan Mumtaz Kelsey Boncato Lucy Mu Li and X

This year, we transform the classification of the “emerging” artist into the submerging. Submerging into our oceans, our sleeping dreams, our grief and decolonial work as technologies for reclaiming the erotic — the aliveness experienced beyond the human flesh. As artists, organizers, and activists, our tri-pronged multiplicity will continue to resist the de-funding of arts in San Diego. We are the culture preservers and makers, and our art is needed.

Our fellows will work alongside artist-curator and our visiting artist-facilitators: for a culminating group show in July 2026 on Kumeyaay land.

Big hugs to our sponsors and collaborators for inspiring this fellowship continue 🫂

03/06/2026

✨Our upcoming events for March - April ✨

💫 March 10th - Asian Communities for Healthy Life, an info session for upcoming changes in Medi-Cal presented by San Diego Health Table 🩺⚕️

💫 March 22nd - Business Know Your Rights in San Marcos, the third installment of our KYR series to provide businesses the tools to protect themselves from 🧊 🥶 raids

💫 April 11th - Viet Voices Spring Community Mixer featuring the More Than Pho series to highlight local businesses and showcase the beauty in diversity of our food 🤤🍜

💫 April 14th - Vietnamese Heritage Night with the San Diego Padres, our first ever large-scale celebration at the annual theme game ⚾️ 💥

02/26/2026

👉 Join the San Diego Health Table for a community town hall about Medi-Cal! Food and health resources will be available. If you have any questions, please reach out to [email protected].

🗓️ Date: Tuesday, March 10th
⏱️ Time: 11:00AM
📍Location: Bayside Community Center
📍Address: 2202 Comstock St. San Diego, CA 92111

Hosted by Viet Voices, The San Diego Health Table, and the California Pan-Ethnic Health Network

02/25/2026

Our schedule for March and April. Don't miss out!!

👉 March 10th: Asian Communities for Healthier Lives — an information session on the upcoming changes to Medi-Cal

👉 March 22nd: Business Know Your Rights in San Marcos— the third installment of our KYR series on educating and supporting business to protect themselves against 🧊raids

👉 April 6th: Viet Voices Spring Community Mixer — a fun and chill social gathering, come meet your community members and eat good food with us!!

👉 April 22nd: San Diego Padres Vietnam Heritage Night — the first ever heritage night dedicated to Vietnamese community in San Diego, a historic celebration milestone for our rep 🔥

02/20/2026

The Shaman-Artist mirror effect with

Artists wander, harvesting visions in other realms. They share their fruits and truths with us. What is a home but not the karma, conflict, and repair that forms from learning to be together, again and again?

Seb is the Creative Director of “Dwelling: Collective Dreams of Earth/Site/Energy/Shelter/Sky/Person”, a six person co-hort creating a home together through watercolor.

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02/05/2026

Re-mything as World building with

Jon connects Bixi, the turtle god of East Asia, to the creation tales of Turtle Island as a way of cultivating joy while living in a world in transition. How does technology and indigeneity interconnect? How do our prayers amplify through art, especially while including our friends as collaborators?

from Bixi: A Mythic Interface, 2025
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