ViệtSpeak is a non-profit community arts organisation situated in Melbourne’s west. Our principal purpose is to promote Vietnamese Australian diasporic art and culture through community arts practices and projects.

ViệtSpeak formed in response to the loss of Australia’s only Vietnamese-English bilingual program. We understand the significance of this loss through the deep connection between culture and language. We seek to promote Vietnamese Australian diasporic art and culture, and advocate for and support the preservation of Vietnamese language in Melbourne’s west.

We believe in community arts and language education that values cultural heritage through multilingual inclusion. We value a dynamic continuity, across generations, in the languages and cultures of Australia’s Indigenous, multicultural and diasporic communities. In working for the continued life of Vietnamese language and culture, we recognise that the vital importance of local language and culture extends to other disenfranchised groups within the west. We therefore lend our advocacy in support of projects and alliances that acknowledge and foster the lived cultures and experiences of diverse communities.