Event “ABC LGBTIQ and ME”

Fri 18 Dec 2015, 6 pm
Nha San Collective

From Nha San Collective:

We are delighted to invite you to “ABC LGBTIQ and ME” – another exciting event of Queer Forever festival on 18 Dec 2015, 6PM at Nha San Collective.

In this event, we hope to create an intimate talk to discuss about queer language and literature, how queerness is being translated from one culture to another, how queer words and terms are being constantly re-invented, twisted to express emotions, create meanings but also for fun.

We are so happy to welcome professor Robert Ostertag who is also a legendary experimental music composer, performer, music instrument builder, journalist, activist, and kayak instructor. Our very special guest is Stevie Ann DePaola (Aka Stv Anntonym), is a Chinese medicine doctor from San Francisco and the “Lesbian in Chief” and founder of The Lesbian Lexicon Project.

In this event, Queer Forever!, Nha San Collective & The Lesbian Lexicon Project is excited to present Tuyền Từ Quêêr – a collection of words and terms used by queers in Vietnam to express love, desire, sex, and gender with wit and playfulness. This slim bilingual Vietnamese/ English dictionary of the words comes with amazing illustrations by Nguyễn Đức Huy, Quý Hiền, and Dan Ni.

* The Lesbian Lexicon document’s words invented to describe previously unnamed queer phenomenon, words already used in popular queer vernacular, and a few gay words of antiquity. The third edition of The Lesbian Lexicon, published in 2015, compiled over 200 words into a beautiful and filthy little dictionary.

* Tuyền Từ Quêêr is inspired by The Lesbian Lexicon. It is initialized and carried out by Gabby Miller in Viet Nam in collaboration with Đinh Thị Nhung, Hoàng Tùng Lâm, Hà Thanh, Dương Mạnh Hùng, Nguyễn Lý Hiền Nga, Nguyễn Quốc Thành.

* Queer art festival Queer Forever! 2015 is organized by Queer Forever!, Nhà Sàn Collective, Goethe-Institut Hanoi, Nicole Martine Lewis, Hà nội Queer, CAMA ATK and has received generous supports from Hanoi Creative City, Chula, SINE store. Communication partners: &ofotherthings và Hanoi Grapevine.

Nhà Sàn COLLECTIVE is not a museum, a gallery or an international culture institute where completed work are presented by established artists. Just like Nhà Sàn Studio before, it is a working studio to nurture where artists can create, collaborate, be given advice, critiques, and have chances to meet with international artists, curators. Works that are presented at open studio every month could be finished or not, but the process of developing idea and working to improve the quality of the art work for local artists is what Nhà Sàn COLLECTIVE focuses on.

If you are interested and curious about experimental art, and want to have conversation with the working artists, please visit

Nha San COLLECTIVE 15th floor, Hanoi Creative City Building, 01 Luong Yen, Hanoi Website: www.nhasanstudio.org Email: [email protected]