As we descend from Women’s History Month and ascend towards the spring equinox, ACCENTED will be hosted by Hoa Nguyen and Dao Strom, poets from the She Who Has No Master(s) Collective, who will sip tea and read tarot as they talk about their recent and forthcoming projects.

This magical evening will feature Hoa and Dao drawing cards into a vernal equinox spread that transcends time and space, engaging in Walter Benjamin’s intuitive faculty and Carl Jung’s creative thinking. We’ll be interrogating expectations and exposing potentials of creativity, and will also be joined by artist Thi Bui and audience members for tarot readings.

The event will be streamed directly to the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN) Facebook page -- please RSVP "going" for access and reminders!

Hoa Nguyen’s latest poetry collection, A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure, is forthcoming in April from Wave Books. Dao Strom’s poetry/art book & music album project, Instrument/Traveler’s Ode, was released in fall 2020 by Fonograf Editions and Antiquated Future Records.

She Who Has No Master(s) is a collective project of womxn writers of the Vietnamese diaspora who engage in collaborative, polyvocal, and hybrid-poetic works. Through a collaborative writing process and art engagement activities that reach across borders, this project endeavors to bring into concert the voices and experiences of women/womxn writers of the Vietnamese diaspora.

SWHNMs has published collaborative poetry and hybrid art short works in BOMB Magazine and AJAR Journal, and presented readings and poetry performance at Black Mountain Institute, SF Asian Art Museum, San Jose Museum of Art, Reed College, American Library in Paris, and at the 2018 United States of Asian America Festival. In 2020, they held their first exhibition of poetry-artwork at the George S. & Dolores Doré Eccles Art Gallery in Salt Lake City. The collective is currently at work on an anthology of genre-defying works by contemporary Vietnamese and Vietnamese diasporic women writers.

Founded in 2015, She Who Has No Master(s) is a project of DVAN (Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network). For more information, please visit https://dvan.org/she-who-has-no-masters/.

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