AREA 405 presents Queer Manifesto, a pop-up exhibition featuring poems and visual collages of twenty-one (21) East and Southeast Asian queers. The exhibition is presented in collaboration with the Wishing Fountain Project, a virtual diasporic queer ESEA art book library (@the.wishing.fountain.project). Founded by You Liang and Zao Zao Zhang (MICA c/o 2024), the project began with a writing workshop that encouraged participants to transform poetry, prose, and diary entries into visual forms and was later published as a zine. Queer Manifesto loyally exhibits select pages of zines, with renewed visualization of words arraying themes from family relationships to immigration processes.

Queer Manifesto is part of Asia North 2026, an annual one-month public program celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in the Station North Arts District. The exhibition will be on view at the Club Car, a beloved queer art and cocktail club located at the historic North Avenue Market.