What we do at Viet Voices

Upcoming events

pumpkin painting & movie night

📅 Saturday, October 25
⏰ 5:00–8:00 PM PT
📍 TBD
We asked and you voted!
Celebrate fall with us at our Pumpkin Painting & Movie Night where we will be watching the Vietnamese film Ancestral Home! Bring your friends for a night of creativity, snacks, and community fun. Supplies will be provided — just come ready to paint and connect.

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Civic Education: Surveillance

📅 Thursday, October 23
⏰ 6:00–7:30 PM PT
📍 On Zoom
Join us for a powerful session on Civic Education: Surveillance

Learn how surveillance impacts our daily lives and the San Diego community.

Featuring: Homayra Yusufi from PANA & the TRUST SD Coalition.
@theajaproject

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The Bananna Leaf Fellowship

Monthly Event
The movement will get stronger with more badass AAPI organizers. Introducing our very first Banana Leaves Fellowship.
Wanna get to know them? (And you should ) Reach out to meet these amazing women.

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AAPI Emerging Artist Fellowship

Group exhibition in December 2025 on Kumeyaay land.
Announcing the selected artists for the Fall/Winter 2025 AAPI Emerging Artist Fellowship.
Jenn Ban @jenn.ban
Sebastian Loo @seblooloo
Rino Kodama @bread.kiln
Jon Chen @quantum_friend

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volunteer with us!

Frustrated about the state of the world? Want to do something and make a difference?

In partnership with UCSD APSA, Viet Voices will be taking to the streets (and phones) to encourage community members in City Heights to vote in the upcoming special election. No experience needed, all are welcome!

Labubu wants YOU to sign up and build community power!

Phonebanking - bit.ly/VVGOTVphone
Canvassing - bit.ly/VVGOTVwalk

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Past Events

protect our community

📅 Saturday, October 4th
⏰ 11:00 AM PT
📍 City Heights
Join us for Round 2 of our Business KYR Canvassing as we continue to outreach to our Vietnamese/Southeast Asian/Latino businesses to share Know-Your-Rights resources.
Join us for a couple of hours as we support our communities and provide them ways to protect themselves against ICE raids.

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AAPI Emerging Artist Fellowship

Announcing the selected artists for the Spring/Summer 2025 AAPI Emerging Artist Fellowship
Seh Reum Tom @_the_web_

C. Ryu @c.ryu_portal

Long Nguyen @makeupwithlong

haven luya @luyaentangled

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The land we carry

Saturday, July 26th
El Salon, 114 W Hall Ave, San Ysidro, CA
A One-Day Performance Art Festival Honoring Lineage through Ritual
the land we carry meditates on the intersections of diasporic memory, queerness, and spiritual inheritance. Artists will express live and non-live performances through new media, photography, sculpture, and interdisciplinary methods.
Admission: Free with RSVP

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a new home from far away

📅 Saturday, April 28
⏰ 7:00 PM PT
📍 Old Town Theatre.
Twiggs St, San Diego 92111
In the time when immigrants and refugees are being treated with violence, it is important to document our immigrant stories. Here is another one from the 5 volunteers that we worked with to share their stories at the event, "A New Home from Far Away"
Partnered with Write Out Loud.

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protect our community

📅 Saturday, July 12th
⏰ 8:00 AM PT
📍 City Heights
ICE recently deported 158 Southeast Asian refugees—93 Vietnamese and 65 Laotian—yet, the silence in our community is loud.
We know these clips of kidnappings and violence are horrifying, but by joining us for a few hours, we can show support for our community.

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Viet Voices is dedicated to…

…building a resilient and thriving Vietnamese community in San Diego. Through grassroots community organizing, we seek to elevate the voice of the Vietnamese community to empower them to create a future of abundance for all. We focus on events, outreach, training, and civic engagement to strengthen the power of the Vietnamese people and advocate with our historically underserved community at every level of governance.