Name: “Sao con chưa về? | Why haven’t you come home yet?” Community Gathering Workshop with Lưu Bích Ngọc and Lem TragNguyen
Start: 2026-03-21T16:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-03-21T18:30:00+01:00

“Sao con chưa về? | Why haven’t you come home yet?”: A Community Gathering Workshop

Saturday 21 March, 4-6:30pm

Hiếu thảo (filial piety) is a core tenet of traditional East Asian family caregiving obligations. Can maintaining relationships with our loved ones from afar become a creative practice? This collective writing session aims to build a glossary of “care words” in our mother tongues, and translate them into performative acts of being together.

Lưu Bích Ngọc (she/her) is a Berlin-based cultural worker, focusing on accessibility and empowerment in the arts with transdisciplinary – intersectional approaches. Moving between archival, community and curation work, her practice explores queerness, Vietnamese diasporic experiences and cultural memory.

Lem TragNguyen (she/they) is a performance-based visual artist and curator, born in Germany and raised between Vietnam and Germany. Educated in an MFA program focused on the body, theory, and the poetics of performance art, she combines practice-led research with curatorial work. Her practice explores origin, belonging, and shifting identities in postcolonial contexts, often using domestic materials to turn performance and reconfiguration into spaces of memory and intergenerational resonance.

This community gathering workshop takes place as part of the project “Caring Histories: Asian Caregivers in Berlin – Migration, Memory, and Social Change (1950–present)) at Mental Health Arts Space from March to December 2026.

As space is limited, please register for this event using the form below. We will get back to you to confirm your registration at least three days before the event. 🙂

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