Workshop I: How do we remember? An Archive Lab
Thursday, 22 January 2026, 6–8pm
Capacity: 15
This lab will take participants on a deep dive into the practice of community archiving, using a curated selection of materials from AVA’s collection that speak to the journeys, resilience, and everyday life of Vietnamese and Southeast Asian refugees in Britain.
Together, participants will explore what makes something an archive - beyond boxes, documents, and photographs - and consider how personal and community-held memories become forms of meaning-making. Rather than seeing the archive as a static collection, AVA approach it as a living, communal practice. Archiving becomes a way to gather, to honour those who came before us, and to imagine the ancestors we hope to become. This workshop invites participants into that ongoing process of questioning, tending, and storytelling.
The workshop is facilitated by Phương Anh Nguyễn, Kaitlan Bui, and Trà My Hickin of An Việt Archives.
Free entry, spaces limited, sign up here.