Bead rolling workshops with Nguyễn Ngọc Thảo

Visit First Site and learn to make clay beads and name bracelets with artist Nguyễn Ngọc Thảo. A chance to come in from the cold and to share warm stories and tea with old friends and new.

Join us at First Site Gallery for any of the following bead rolling workshops:

  • Thursday 24 July 12:30 – 1:30pm
  • Thursday 31 July 12:30 – 1:30pm
  • Thursday 7 August 12:30 – 1:30pm


Nguyễn Ngọc Thảo is an artist, curator and educator who lives and works in Naarm/Melbourne. Her current art and research practice focusses on the weaponisation of language against Asian Australians, and how creative practice can notice, understand and ultimately resist against the impacts of Whiteness. tên tôi (my name) embraces and celebrates ethnic names through community-based workshops and a participatory art installation. 

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