pop-up Location

The Club Car
12 W. North Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 21201

Opening with asia north

Friday, 05.01.2026
5:00 – 9:00 p.m.

CLOSING with asia north

Friday, 05.27.2026
5:00 – 9:00 p.m.

Venue business hours

Thursday, 7:00 – 11:00 p.m.
Friday & Saturday, 7:00 p.m. – 1:00 a.m.
Sunday, 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.

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 Class of 2024), the project began with a writing workshop that encouraged participants to transform poetry, prose, and diary entries into visual forms. Queer Manifesto was later published as a zine. Exhibition Queer Manifesto loyally exhibited selected 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. The exhibition is curated by Joyce Liang, the Creative Programs Director of AREA 405.

Asia north 2026

Celebrate Baltimore’s Charles North — Station North — neighborhood’s constantly evolving identities as a Koreatown, arts district, and creative hub. Co-produced by Asian Arts & Culture Center and Central Baltimore Partnership

The wishing fountain project

The Wishing Fountain Project is a nomadic space born from and dedicated to the hopes of queer communities across East and Southeast Asia. This “fountain” springs from the vision of Zao Zao Zhang and You Liang: to gather, protect, and nurture the artistic expressions of queer creators. The Wishing Fountain Project creates, collects, and showcases a wide variety of queer art books, encompassing photography, illustration, poetry, personal stories, research, and more.

The club car

The Club Car is a queer-owned entertainment, event space, art gallery and Cocktail bar.

Station north arts district

Station North Arts District is a program of the Central Baltimore Partnership. We manage public art projects, facilitate thought-provoking programming, and forge strong relationships with local artists, makers, designers, residents, businesses, and institutions to preserve and revitalize the district.