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Archiving is not only the act of gathering physical materials, nor is it confined to official institutions such as archives, research centers, libraries, or museums. It also exists through storytelling, in words, or in other ways of sharing memory. When approached as a collective practice, archiving becomes a space of connection—between storyteller and listener, between generations, and between fragments of personal memory that have never been made public.

In that spirit, the “Tìm Bóng” series opens up a communal space to watch, listen, and create together around queer stories drawn from different slices of life. The program consists of two continuous parts:

Activity 1: Screening of Vietnamese Queer Short Films & Conversation with Directors
A screening of six short films by queer Vietnamese directors of different ages and life stages. These films portray diverse emotions and reflections on queer experience, opening up a dialogue with the directors about personal memory, intergenerational queer awareness, and the role of art as a form of self-preservation within a social context that increasingly tends toward assimilation, shaping, and simplifying identities.

Time: 6:30PM - 9:00PM, 19th September 2025
Venue: Amanaki Hotel, 10 Nguyễn Đăng Giai, An Khánh Ward, HCMC
(This screening will have both English and Vietnamese subtitles)

Activity 2: Collaborative Writing & Archiving Queer Stories
A collaborative writing session, facilitated by Linh Thân (Tắm Đêm) and Hồng Khang (Bán Ẩn), where we imagine, narrate, and continue the unfinished stories of queerness. Participants can embody a character, write themselves into the film they just watched, create a new story, compose poetry or scripts, and together arrive at beautiful endings for one another. Collaborative writing opens up a safe space where unfinished emotions can be expressed, heard, and carried forward. Writing together becomes both a collective and personal act of archiving, expanding discourse on queerness and fostering deep connections among those who write and live together.

Time: 10:00AM - 12:00PM, 20th September 2025
Venue: Reading Cabin, 18A/33 Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai, Sài Gòn Ward, HCMC

The program welcomes everyone—no prior knowledge of film or literature is needed, only an open heart and a desire to share and explore queerness through art.

This program is a collaboration between Tắm Đêm and Bán Ẩn, as part of VietPride 2025, with generous support from VietPride, Hà Nội Queer, Amanaki Hotel, Núc Kitchen & Bar, Im Lặng Coi Phim, and Fuda Nguyen.

Linh Linh Thân is the founder and director of Tắm Đêm. By transforming unexpected settings into vibrant spaces for experimentation, collaboration, and artistic presentation, the project invites people to wander into the hidden corners of the soul, exploring and connecting through poetry performance, collaborative creation, and collective experiences of finding, seeking, and chanting poetry. Currently, Linh is practicing arts education and making film-poetry around both visible and invisible forms of loss.

Hồng Khang (they) works across visual arts, publishing, and culture through various media such as editing and designing publications, movement, drawing, research, and freelance writing. Their interests center on urban structures, the entanglement of geography-culture-history, the coexistence of nature and culture, food, queer archiving, and anti-war practices. They studied Anthropology in the U.S. In 2024, Khang co-founded Bán Ẩn to expand dialogue around publishing in Vietnam, aiming to approach editing and publishing critically, actively exploring the role of artistic practice in today’s world. Their work focuses on transmitting non-digital qualities while pursuing social research and nurturing voices that challenge dominant narratives.