A companion exhibit to Busing the Buffer Zone, created by playwright Christina R. Chan and creatively produced by CHUANG Stage,
Celebrate the new year with a group show featuring over 20 artists, each with a different interpretation of the Lunar New Year theme.
Take a Saturday afternoon to relax, create, and meditate with Chinese brush painting.
Temple of Our Ancestral Dreams remembers and honors those who have come before us—blood, chosen, and place-based ancestors, those who have dreamed of our existence today. This exhibit activates Chinatown as a memory archive, a diasporic temple, a space for spiritual, ancestral, and communal refuge.
Take a Saturday afternoon to relax, create, and meditate with Chinese brush painting.
Take a Saturday afternoon to relax, create, and meditate with Chinese brush painting.
Bring in the Year of the Horse with an elegant reception featuring live music, inspired fare, and drinks. Enjoy Lunar New Year-inspired dishes provided by China Pearl and drinks by Shōjō. Experience live performances and the current exhibit at Pao Arts Center. Before the night is over, leave your hopes for the new year on our wishing tree to bring good fortune to the community and local artists.
Pao Arts Center’s annual Lunar New Year celebration is back. Come by for an afternoon of art, interactive workshops, and performances. All ages are invited to join us for cultural activities as we usher in the year of the horse!
Join Pao Arts Center in celebrating the release of Let the Moon Wobble, Ally Ang's debut poetry collection, with readings by Ally Ang and Chen Chen, a musical performance by Anju, and an audience Q&A and book signing.
Launching in November 2025, the Arab American National Museum (AANM) proudly presents the Arab Massachusetts: Building Community in the Commonwealth traveling exhibit, a groundbreaking initiative that will shed light on the vibrant stories of Arab American communities in the state from the late 19th century until present day.
Take a Saturday afternoon to relax, create, and meditate with Chinese brush painting.
Scholar, curator, and founding member of the Boston Little Syria Project, Lydia Harrington, will be guide a walking tour from Chinatown to the South End in collaboration with the Arab American National Museum’s current exhibit at Pao Arts Center: Arab Massachusetts: Community in the Commonwealth. Lydia is a curator, researcher, writer, educator and co-contributor with Chloe Bordewich for the Boston Little Syria Project, a public history initiative that highlights the history of the neighborhood.
Launching in November 2025, the Arab American National Museum (AANM) proudly presents the Arab Massachusetts: Building Community in the Commonwealth traveling exhibit, a groundbreaking initiative that will shed light on the vibrant stories of Arab American communities in the state from the late 19th century until present day.
Take a Saturday afternoon to relax, create, and meditate with Chinese brush painting.
In the face of climate change, as urban spaces grow increasingly uninhabitable during summer heat waves, we must integrate immediate, tangible solutions into the public realm—interventions that lower temperatures and enhance quality of life for both humans and other species.
Bring your camera or smartphone and join us for a unique walk with The Chinatown Project as we seek to capture unexpected moments of nature in our urban neighborhood. No previous photography experience required. This program will include walking on uneven surfaces throughout Chinatown.
This fall, see, hear, create, and connect. Together, celebrate the rich cultural fabric of Boston Chinatown through free creative activities.
Take a Saturday afternoon to relax, create, and meditate with Chinese brush painting.
Join us for a community bike ride from Chinatown to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum! Along the way, we’ll stop at gardens and green spaces featured in our zine, Between the Bricks: A Field Guide to Imagined Gardens.
Once we arrive at the Gardner Museum, participants will enjoy a special tour of Ming Fay: Edge of the Garden, with curator Gabrielle Niu, PhD.
This fall, see, hear, create, and connect. Together, celebrate the rich cultural fabric of Boston Chinatown through free creative activities.
In the face of climate change, as urban spaces grow increasingly uninhabitable during summer heat waves, we must integrate immediate, tangible solutions into the public realm—interventions that lower temperatures and enhance quality of life for both humans and other species.
PlanTable, 2025, by Ecosistema Urbano, Photo Credit: Emilio P. Doiztua
Ecosistema Urbano, Pao Arts Center, and the Greenway invite you to the opening celebration of PlanTable at Chin Park. Bring the whole family to explore this unique installation that provides both a refuge from the heat for people, as well as pollinators also threatened by rising temperatures. Enjoy climate and plant related interactive activities for all ages and meet the creators and partners of this project.
Read more about PlanTable
Opening Reception: Friday, August 15 | 4:30-6:30 PM
Rain Date: Saturday, August 16 | 1:00 - 3:00 PM
Ecosistema Urbano and Pao Arts Center Teams. Photo credit: Wenbin Huang
Ecosistema Urbano is an international architecture and urban design studio working across urban consultancy, public space assessment, and urban transformation processes. Our practice is rooted in the design of high-quality public spaces that enhance bioclimatic performance and ensure climatic comfort, adapting to a wide range of environmental conditions. In response to climate change, we embed resilient design principles into every project, combining immediate interventions with long-term strategies to promote more sustainable, livable, and adaptable urban environments. @ecosistemaurbano
The Greenway is a contemporary public park in the heart of Boston. The Greenway welcomes millions of visitors annually to gather, play, unwind, and explore. The Greenway Conservancy is the non-profit responsible for the management and care of The Greenway. The majority of the public park’s annual budget is generously provided by private sources.
The Greenway Conservancy Public Art Program brings innovative and contemporary art to Boston through free exhibitions that engage people in meaningful experiences and dialogue with art, each other, and the most pressing issues of our time. Past Greenway exhibitions can be viewed on the Conservancy’s website.
PlanTable by Ecosistema Urbano is part of the Un-monument initiative presented by Pao Arts Center and curated by Lani Asunción. Created in partnership with The Greenway Conservancy and the City of Boston Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture, funded by the Mellon Foundation.
Join us for an evening of creativity and community. In celebration of the Pao Arts Center's exhibition, and the Gardner’s Summer Exhibitions, Ming Fay: Edge of the Garden and Flowers for Isabella.
Join exhibiting artist Mel Taing for an afternoon of garden-inspired portraits and a chance to share your vision for future green spaces in Chinatown.
Join us for the opening reception to our new exhibit, Where We Meet: Imagining Gardens and Future.
Where We Meet: Imagining Gardens and Future is on view from July 18 - October 10, 2025 at Pao Arts Center.
As part of a film screening series curated by Nate Shu, join Pao Arts Center in a special screening of The Fall of I-Hotel by film-maker Curtis Choy
Join us in a screening of the critically acclaimed film by Sean Wang, Didi, starring Izaac Wang, Joan Chen, Shirley Chen, and Chang Li Hua.
Amidst the challenges of the current economic crisis, climate change, food inequity, and limited access to green spaces and housing in Boston's Chinatown, artist Ying Ye’s public community engagement art project, Sprouts of Resilience: A Journey from Seed to Tofu, brings Chinese traditional aesthetics of gardening, street food tricycles, and collective food-making gatherings to activate Chinatown’s public spaces and foster cultural resilience and belonging. The project seeks to explore and offer alternative pathways to physical and mental well-being for local residents.
Take a Saturday afternoon to relax, create, and meditate with in-person Chinese brush painting at Pao Arts Center. Create an original work to take home featuring the bamboo motif.
Join Pao Arts Center in welcoming CHUANG Stage and Company One’s co-production of Learning How To Read by Moonlight by Gaven D. Trinidad.
A Contemporary Classical Concert Presented in collaboration with Sheffield Chamber Players.
Take a Saturday afternoon to relax, create, and meditate with in-person Chinese brush painting at Pao Arts Center. Create an original work to take home featuring the bamboo motif.
As part of a film screening series curated by Nate Shu, join Pao Arts Center in a fun, family-friendly screening of Disney/Pixar’s Turning Red.
Mythological creatures are quite imaginative yet are built on the real world - many of them combine features of different animals from our daily life. Through games and drawing, registered participants will construct articulating puppets, creating a mythological creature of their own. The workshop will culminate in the co-creation of a collective puppet which added to the Celebrations of Perseverance: Public Art in Chinatown, 2024-2025 exhibit, on view through June 20, 2025.
Join us in a free screening of “Giant Robot: Asian Pop Culture and Beyond” from the KCET Original series Artbound.
