Dec
18
7:00 PM19:00

Found In Translation: Chosen Family on December 18

Age advisory: Appropriate for all ages

Language: English and Vietnamese

Event is free, suggested donation $10.

Performance Time: Saturday Dec 18, 7:00 PM


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About Artists:

Jessica Luu Pelletier - Playwright

Jessica Luu Pelletier (she/her) is a New York-based queer biracial Vietnamese-American theatre artist, writer, and actor. She received her BFA in Drama from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Born in Hà Nội, Việt Nam and raised in Massachusetts and Guam, Jessica has always identified as a third culture kid and as part of Generation 1.5. Seeking to understand this place in the diaspora, she writes multi-cultural stories that aim to represent her communities, connect generations, and liberate those who have been Othered. Jessica has worked with the Sống Collective as an inaugural member of their Việt Writers' Lab.


Cara Hinh - Director

Cara Hinh (she/they) is a queer, fat & mixed Viet American director and educator originally from Indiana. As the daughter of a refugee, they are drawn to work about and for people of the diaspora that expands the ideas of American identity. She rejoices in work that speaks to the complicated and messy intersectionalities of holding a multiplicity of cultures and identities. Cara is a 2021-22 Drama League Hangar Fellow and a proud member of the Roundabout Directors Group.


About Partners:

Chuang Stage

CHUANG Stage is the Mandarin-English bilingual, bicultural theater company in Boston, MA that cultivates boundary-breaking stories that bridge the world.


AATAB

Asian American Theatre Artists of Boston is a social collective that empowers and connects Pan-Asian theatre artists in the Greater Boston area.


About Sponsor:

“This project is made possible by a Live Arts Boston grant from the Boston Foundation.” 

 

Contact: Ashley Yung, 617-863-9080

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Dec
17
7:00 PM19:00

Found In Translation: Chosen Family on December 17

Age advisory: Appropriate for all ages

Language: English and Vietnamese

Event is free, suggested donation $10.

Performance Time: Friday, Dec 17, 2021 7:00 PM


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About Artists:

Jessica Luu Pelletier - Playwright

Jessica Luu Pelletier (she/her) is a New York-based queer biracial Vietnamese-American theatre artist, writer, and actor. She received her BFA in Drama from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Born in Hà Nội, Việt Nam and raised in Massachusetts and Guam, Jessica has always identified as a third culture kid and as part of Generation 1.5. Seeking to understand this place in the diaspora, she writes multi-cultural stories that aim to represent her communities, connect generations, and liberate those who have been Othered. Jessica has worked with the Sống Collective as an inaugural member of their Việt Writers' Lab.


Cara Hinh - Director

Cara Hinh (she/they) is a queer, fat & mixed Viet American director and educator originally from Indiana. As the daughter of a refugee, they are drawn to work about and for people of the diaspora that expands the ideas of American identity. She rejoices in work that speaks to the complicated and messy intersectionalities of holding a multiplicity of cultures and identities. Cara is a 2021-22 Drama League Hangar Fellow and a proud member of the Roundabout Directors Group.


About Partners:

Chuang Stage

CHUANG Stage is the Mandarin-English bilingual, bicultural theater company in Boston, MA that cultivates boundary-breaking stories that bridge the world.


AATAB

Asian American Theatre Artists of Boston is a social collective that empowers and connects Pan-Asian theatre artists in the Greater Boston area.


About Sponsor:

“This project is made possible by a Live Arts Boston grant from the Boston Foundation.” 

 

Contact: Ashley Yung, 617-863-9080

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Dec
17
to Dec 18

CANCELLED: Found In Translation: Chosen Family

Due to the recent increase in COVID-19 numbers and for the safety of the community, this weekend’s performance has been cancelled.

 We are making this decision with the community’s best interest in mind– we want to prioritize the safety of the Chinatown and local AAPI community as well as our actors and creative team.

We are in the process of discussing the future of Chosen Family. We are invested in Jessica and Cara’s work and hope to stage a reading in the future. We hope to see you at a future “Found in Translation” event.

 Chuang Stage, Asian American Theatre Artists of Boston (AATAB), and Pao Arts Center unite for “Found in Translation,” a play reading and community workshop series that amplifies the power and complexities of being multilingual, immigrants, or identifying as AAPI in Greater Boston.

The first play in this series - Chosen Family weaves together the Vietnamese-American diaspora with Buddhist reincarnation theory. The theory in question for this story is one that claims a person’s soul enters a “void” after passing on. Once in that void, the soul gets to decide if they’d like to live again. In this lies the piece’s Dramatic Question: if you knew everything you know now, would you do it all over again? 

Here to answer that question are four “students" and pillars of the Viet-Am experience. Due to not confronting "khổ " ("suffering") during their lifetimes, the four find themselves reuniting in a perpetual place of learning…their old Vietnamese language school.

Age advisory: Appropriate for all ages

Language: English and Vietnamese

Event is free, suggested donation $10.

Performance Time: Friday, Dec 17, 2021 7:00 PM & Saturday Dec 18, 2021 7:00 PM

About Artists:

Jessica Luu Pelletier - Playwright

Jessica Luu Pelletier (she/her) is a New York-based queer biracial Vietnamese-American theatre artist, writer, and actor. She received her BFA in Drama from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Born in Hà Nội, Việt Nam and raised in Massachusetts and Guam, Jessica has always identified as a third culture kid and as part of Generation 1.5. Seeking to understand this place in the diaspora, she writes multi-cultural stories that aim to represent her communities, connect generations, and liberate those who have been Othered. Jessica has worked with the Sống Collective as an inaugural member of their Việt Writers' Lab.


Cara Hinh - Director

Cara Hinh (she/they) is a queer, fat & mixed Viet American director and educator originally from Indiana. As the daughter of a refugee, they are drawn to work about and for people of the diaspora that expands the ideas of American identity. She rejoices in work that speaks to the complicated and messy intersectionalities of holding a multiplicity of cultures and identities. Cara is a 2021-22 Drama League Hangar Fellow and a proud member of the Roundabout Directors Group.


About Partners:

Chuang Stage

CHUANG Stage is the Mandarin-English bilingual, bicultural theater company in Boston, MA that cultivates boundary-breaking stories that bridge the world.


AATAB

Asian American Theatre Artists of Boston is a social collective that empowers and connects Pan-Asian theatre artists in the Greater Boston area.


About Sponsor:

“This project is made possible by a Live Arts Boston grant from the Boston Foundation.” 

 

Contact: Ashley Yung, 617-863-9080

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Dec
11
2:00 PM14:00

Online Chinese Brush Painting for Adults: Plum Blossom flowers and birds

Take a Saturday afternoon to relax, create, and meditate with Chinese brush painting.

Bird-and-flower paintings (花鸟画) are a popular subject matter and type of Chinese brush painting. It was popular amongst scholars and poets due to the paintings to be considered a study on nature. Contrary to its name, Bird-and-flower paintings can include any plant, and other creatures other than birds.

Class taught in English | Online

Deadline for registration with mailed supplies: Wednesday, December 1, 2021. Please allow 10 days for mailing and delivery. A supply set can be used for more than one class.

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Supply list: Chinese calligraphy brush; Chinese calligraphy black Ink; calligraphy rice paper; 12 color Chinese watercolor paint set.

About the Artist

Gengyi (Yi) Li

Gengyi (Yi) Li has studied traditional Chinese Brush Painting for over a decade, and began teaching as an assistant eight years ago, moving to full instruction for the last five years. She has taught at Chinese schools, youth groups, and at adult arts centers.

Contact: Qi Cheng | 617-863-9080

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Nov
13
2:00 PM14:00

Online Chinese Brush Painting for Adults: Landscape painting -- Jiang Nan water towns in fall

Take a Saturday afternoon to relax, create, and meditate with Chinese brush painting.

Picturesque water towns (水乡) are renowned in eastern China, particularly the Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. Their bridges, rivers, canals, and distinct architecture are a popular theme in landscape painting.

Classes taught in Mandarin, English-friendly | Online

Deadline for registration with mailed supplies: Wednesday, November 3, 2021. Please allow 10 days for mailing and delivery. A supply set can be used for more than one class.

Register below. Please refresh this page if you do not see the form after a minute. (如果您沒有看到註冊表格,請刷新您的頁面


Supply list: Chinese calligraphy brush; Chinese calligraphy black Ink; calligraphy rice paper; 12 color Chinese watercolor paint set.

About the Artist

Xiaoyong Liu emigrated to the United States in 2008. In 2009, he started teaching children and adults Chinese painting of landscapes, flowers, and birds. In recent years, his students have exhibited their art and participated and won awards in the National Teenagers Calligraphy Contests.

Contact: Qi Cheng | 617-863-9080

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Nurturing Our Voices: Art Crawl (in-person)
Nov
12
5:30 PM17:30

Nurturing Our Voices: Art Crawl (in-person)

Art is healing. Art restores us. Art lets us tell our stories.

“Art has helped me make sense of myself and my identity and my place in the world.”

Join us for Nurturing Our Voices, a Virtual Showcase on 11/9th and an in-person Art Crawl on 11/12 to celebrate and strengthen the API community.

FREE ticket for the Art Crawl includes 1 drink ticket and refreshments. Donations encouraged. All proceeds support Pao Arts Center. Sponsorship opportunities for upcoming season available.

SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS:

Nancy Wang Adams & Scott Schoen • Ada Chu •  Bill & Theresa Mock •  George Yip •  LaiSun Keane Gallery

Contact: events@bcnc.net or 617-603-2540 for more information.

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Nurturing Our Voices: Virtual Showcase
Nov
9
5:30 PM17:30

Nurturing Our Voices: Virtual Showcase

Art is healing. Art restores us. Art lets us tell our stories.

“Art has helped me make sense of myself and my identity and my place in the world.”

Join us for Nurturing Our Voices, a Virtual Showcase and an in-person Art Crawl to celebrate and strengthen the API community.

Events are FREE, donations encouraged. All proceeds support Pao Arts Center.

Sponsorship opportunities for upcoming season available.

Experience a preview of the upcoming season at Pao Arts Center and hear from community members about what the Center means to them. Find out how you can support, uplift, and amplify API voices.

Video still Meditations on the Power of Community, dancer Naoko Brown at Shen Wei: Painting in Motion Exhibition (Hostetter Gallery), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, December 3, 2020 – June 20, 2021, courtesy of Weiying Olivia Huang. Aznjujube and Jeff La perform at Experience Chinatown 2021, photo credit: Lee-Daniel Tran. Video still of elder singing at Live Band Karaoke, 2018, courtesy of Tina Xu.

Video still Meditations on the Power of Community, dancer Naoko Brown at Shen Wei: Painting in Motion Exhibition (Hostetter Gallery), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, December 3, 2020 – June 20, 2021, courtesy of Weiying Olivia Huang. Aznjujube and Jeff La perform at Experience Chinatown 2021, photo credit: Lee-Daniel Tran. Video still of elder singing at Live Band Karaoke, 2018, courtesy of Tina Xu.

SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS:

Nancy Wang Adams & Scott Schoen • Ada Chu •  Bill & Theresa Mock •  George Yip • LaiSun Keane Gallery

Contact: events@bcnc.net or 617-603-2540 for more information.

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Oct
30
8:00 PM20:00

Crossing: Stories of Immigration

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Continuum Dance Project, in collaboration with visual artist Myrna Balk, presents a free performance of their new evening-length dance/theatre work examining contemporary stories of immigration. All stories are true as remembered by project participants. Storytellers are originally from 9 countries including: Columbia, The Dominican Republic, Honduras, Italy, Jamaica, Kenya, Russia, The US Virgin Islands, and Vietnam. 

Age advisory: Appropriate for all ages

Language: English

Event is free, suggested donation $10.

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About Artist:

Continuum Dance Project

Continuum Dance Project (CDP) is a Boston based dance company focused on creating site-specific work, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and reflecting the backgrounds of our collaborating artists. Founded in 2013 by Fernadina Chan, CDP has shown dance in concerts and festivals throughout New England. Co-Directors Brayton and Chan have been creating together since 2007, most notably “Passage Through Blue” (2017) for Boston Center for the Arts, and “Forage in Park" (2020) at Larz Anderson Park.


About Sponsors:

Contact: Ashley Yung, 617-863-9080

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Oct
23
2:00 PM14:00

Online Chinese Brush Painting for Adults: Landscape painting -- Jiang Nan water towns

Take a Saturday afternoon to relax, create, and meditate with Chinese brush painting.

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Picturesque water towns (水乡) are renowned in eastern China, particularly the Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. Their bridges, rivers, canals, and distinct architecture are a popular theme in landscape painting.

Classes taught in Mandarin, English-friendly | Online

Deadline for registration with mailed supplies: Wednesday, October 13, 2021. Please allow 10 days for mailing and delivery. A supply set can be used for more than one class.

Register below. Please refresh this page if you do not see the form after a minute. (如果您沒有看到註冊表格,請分鐘後刷新您的頁面

Supply list: Chinese calligraphy brush; Chinese calligraphy black Ink; calligraphy rice paper; 12 color Chinese watercolor paint set.

About the Artist

Xiaoyong Liu emigrated to the United States in 2008. In 2009, he started teaching children and adults Chinese painting of landscapes, flowers, and birds. In recent years, his students have exhibited their art and participated and won awards in the National Teenagers Calligraphy Contests.

Contact: Qi Cheng | 617-863-9080

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Oct
21
6:00 PM18:00

Opening Reception: Embodied Identities

Photo credit: Mel Taing. Ode to Durian (We Are Ineffable), Digital Photography 18 x 24

Photo credit: Mel Taing. Ode to Durian (We Are Ineffable), Digital Photography 18 x 24

Join Pao Arts Center, Curator Leslie Anne Condon, and artists Maria Fong, Eugene La Rochelle, Brenda Lau, Jennifer Okumura and Mel Taing as we celebrate the opening of Embodied Identities on view at our gallery from October 21 - December 17, 2021. 

The evening’s program will include short presentations by the individual artists and then a roundtable discussion facilitated by the curator. 

Register below: Please refresh this page if you do not see the form after a minute.

Due to COVID-19, we are limiting the number of visitors allowed in our gallery at a time. Please register early to reserve your space!

About the Artists:

Maria Fong

Maria Fong is an artist from Berkeley, California. She is currently earning her BFA at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. Maria works in hand-drawn and stop-motion animation, drawing, performance art, and bookmaking. She is dedicated to making work that tells silenced stories and fosters interaction between people. Her collaborative artworks explore racialized and politicized spaces, community building, and expansive Asian American identities. Fong was a 2020 Pao Art Center Residence Lab artist, a program that connects artists and Boston Chinatown residents in the creation of public art.


Eugene La Rochelle

Eugene La Rochelle was born in Fulda, West Germany in 1987. As the son of an American soldier, he spent his formative years traveling between military installations. Through military culture, he examined and learned the effects of US military colonialism and its effects on the surrounding country. This experience has directly informed his work on miscegenation and identity. After graduating with a Master’s degree from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in 2013, he has been focusing on identity politics in South Korea and how American foreign policy has directly affected the treatment of mixed-race Koreans today.


Brenda Lau

Brenda Lau is a Boston-based visual artist utilizing her creative process as a mindfulness practice. She is primarily inspired by the relationships between and surrounding existence within our flesh and the rest of the natural world. Her work is an intimate projection of her seeking, yearning, accepting, as well as learning.


Jennifer Okumura

Jennifer grew up in Philadelphia. She attended Syracuse University in addition to receiving her MFA from Boston University. Jennifer’s work has been featured and a part of The Vendue Art Hotel, Massachusetts State Senate [Sen. Will Brownsberger], Four Seasons Downtown Boston, Kayak, Boston Consulting Group, Boston College Office of Marketing Communications, Morgan Stanley, Acadian Asset, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Collection, Aetna Corp. Collection and Private Collections. Okumura has relationships with galleries in Manhattan, Westport, Boston, Charleston and exhibited in Swiss Art Expo ZÜRICH, Art Metropole Europe Barcelona, Spain, and upcoming Artexpo New York Art Fair, Pier 36 in 2021.


Mel Taing

Mel Taing is a Boston-based Cambodian American photographer. She received her BFA at the Massachusetts College of Art & Design in 2016. Mel creates portraiture that expresses the beauty of resilience. Her personal aesthetic is rooted in creating colorful environments that are filmatic, dreamy, and slightly surreal. As a child of Cambodian refugees in America, Mel is deeply interested in visually exploring concepts of intergenerational trauma, racial identity, spirituality, and resilience in community. Mel has exhibited her photography in Brooklyn, NY, Boston, MA and Lowell, MA. Outside of creative portraiture, Mel is a freelance photographer documenting exhibitions and events at museum institutions and is an Artist in Community Fellow at Arts Connect International.


About the Curator:

Leslie Anne Condon

Leslie Anne Condon is a Boston-area multidisciplinary artist and independent curator, interested in Critical Race Art History and issues of representation within the arts. She graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a degree in English and a minor in the Fine Arts. She briefly attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts as a Diploma student and earned her Post Baccalaureate in Fine Art 3D from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2011.


About the Partner:

Unbound Visual Arts

Unbound Visual Arts (UVA) is a unique Allston-Brighton-based non-profit art organization. We serve the Greater Boston community with impactful educational programs and exhibits to encourage learning, engagement, and change.

Contact: Leslie Condon, 617-863-9080 x 2017

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Oct
21
to Jul 26

New Narratives

Pao Arts Center is proud to host New Narratives, an ongoing multifaceted project first exhibited in 2020 through Unbound Visual Arts. This second iteration, divided into three distinctive segments, features twenty-five artworks by sixteen Boston-area artists who explore aspects of their identity through their artist practice, as well as Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander (AAPI) culture and narratives informed by personal experience.

Curated by guest curator Leslie Anne Condon, our exhibition offers a partial glimpse into the many interrelated and tangled issues that impact the AAPI communities, as well as the complex and ever-growing iterations of AAPI identity that continue to emerge from every corner of the Boston area.


Embodied Identities

October 21 - December 17, 2021

Photo credit: Mel Taing. Ode to Durian (We Are Ineffable), Digital Photography 18 x 24

Our identities as Asians, Asian Americans, and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) are shaped by our racial and ethnic identities and cultural understandings interwoven with our embodied experiences, but what it means to be part of the AAPI community lies beyond our shared biological traits and overlapping ancestral histories. Even the language that we use to categorize and define ourselves, though powerful, is highly imperfect and constantly evolving in response to new considerations. Some of us feel tethered to the cultural norms of our communities, resisting and embracing different elements over time. Others feel closely tethered to the white gaze and the stereotypes projected onto our communities and ourselves. How are the cultural norms of our communities reflected in our bodily expressions? How do our bodies offer opportunities for liberation and healing from the stereotypes projected onto us? The artists included in this exhibition explore how identity is deeply connected with, but not limited by, our physical selves.

Participating Artists: Maria Fong, Eugene La Rochelle, Brenda Lau, Jennifer Okumura, and Mel Taing


Intergenerational Storytelling

January 27 - March 25, 2022

Photo Credit: Matthew Okazaki, Ojichan's Home. Crystal City, Texas, 1945, Digital collage, 12 x 16

Photo Credit: Matthew Okazaki, Ojichan's Home. Crystal City, Texas, 1945, Digital collage, 12 x 16

Storytelling across generations allows us to preserve and reimagine family histories and strengthen and advance community narratives. Stories also reinforce culture. Interpreting the stories of our elders for ourselves and each other allows the stories to live on in more expansive ways. How do we reinterpret our ancestor’s stories for ourselves? How do we acknowledge certain generational divides within our evolving society while still honoring our elders? Each artist in this segment of New Narratives addresses such questions through their artwork, sometimes piecing fragments together to tell a new story. 

Participating Artists: Melody Hsu, Madeline Lee, Yuko Okabe, Matthew Okazaki, Melissa Teng, and Lily Xie


The Collective Imaginary

May 27 - July 22, 2022

Photo Credit: Jessica TranVo, A Ride Into Space.., Digital Collage

 Our ability to dream and imagine our futures is greatly influenced by how we interpret our AAPI histories. Dreaming of more just and equitable realities can transform whole neighborhoods, communities, and societies, but we can only envision more inclusive and expansive social structures if we fully account for the conditions of our present and past, alongside other historically subordinated communities. This segment of the exhibition features artists who address aspects of our present society and also help us dream of better futures.

Participating Artists: Yanni Niki Li, Ponnapa Prakkamakul, Micah Rose, Jessica TranVo, and Tran Vu

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Oct
21
to Jul 31

Online Exhibit : Embodied Identities

Photo credit: Mel Taing. Ode to Durian (We Are Ineffable), Digital Photography 18 x 24

Photo credit: Mel Taing. Ode to Durian (We Are Ineffable), Digital Photography 18 x 24

Our identities as Asians, Asian Americans, and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) are shaped by our racial and ethnic identities and cultural understandings interwoven with our embodied experiences, but what it means to be part of the AAPI community lies beyond our shared biological traits and overlapping ancestral histories. Even the language that we use to categorize and define ourselves, though powerful, is highly imperfect and constantly evolving in response to new considerations. Some of us feel tethered to the cultural norms of our communities, resisting and embracing different elements over time. Others feel closely tethered to the white gaze and the stereotypes projected onto our communities and ourselves. How are the cultural norms of our communities reflected in our bodily expressions? How do our bodies offer opportunities for liberation and healing from the stereotypes projected onto us? The artists included in this segment of New Narratives explore how identity is deeply connected with, but not limited by, our physical selves. 

Embodied Identities is part of New Narratives curated by guest curator Leslie Anne Condon and first exhibited in 2020 through Unbound Visual Arts. 

Experience Embodied Identities with our 3D virtual tour:

 

Embodied Identities was on view at Pao Arts Center from October 21 to December 17, 2021.

About the Artists:

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Maria Fong

Maria Fong is an artist from Berkeley, California. She is currently earning her BFA at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. Maria works in hand-drawn and stop-motion animation, drawing, performance art, and bookmaking. She is dedicated to making work that tells silenced stories and fosters interaction between people. Her collaborative artworks explore racialized and politicized spaces, community building, and expansive Asian American identities. Fong was a 2020 Pao Art Center Residence Lab artist, a program that connects artists and Boston Chinatown residents in the creation of public art.


Eugene La Rochelle

Eugene La Rochelle was born in Fulda, West Germany in 1987. As the son of an American soldier, he spent his formative years traveling between military installations. Through military culture, he examined and learned the effects of US military colonialism and its effects on the surrounding country. This experience has directly informed his work on miscegenation and identity. After graduating with a Master’s degree from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in 2013, he has been focusing on identity politics in South Korea and how American foreign policy has directly affected the treatment of mixed-race Koreans today.


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Brenda Lau

Brenda Lau is a Boston-based visual artist utilizing her creative process as a mindfulness practice. She is primarily inspired by the relationships between and surrounding existence within our flesh and the rest of the natural world. Her work is an intimate projection of her seeking, yearning, accepting, as well as learning.


Jennifer Okumura

Jennifer grew up in Philadelphia. She attended Syracuse University in addition to receiving her MFA from Boston University. Jennifer’s work has been featured and a part of The Vendue Art Hotel, Massachusetts State Senate [Sen. Will Brownsberger], Four Seasons Downtown Boston, Kayak, Boston Consulting Group, Boston College Office of Marketing Communications, Morgan Stanley, Acadian Asset, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Collection, Aetna Corp. Collection and Private Collections. Okumura has relationships with galleries in Manhattan, Westport, Boston, Charleston and exhibited in Swiss Art Expo ZÜRICH, Art Metropole Europe Barcelona, Spain, and upcoming Artexpo New York Art Fair, Pier 36 in 2021.


Mel Taing

Mel Taing is a Boston-based Cambodian American photographer. She received her BFA at the Massachusetts College of Art & Design in 2016. Mel creates portraiture that expresses the beauty of resilience. Her personal aesthetic is rooted in creating colorful environments that are filmatic, dreamy, and slightly surreal. As a child of Cambodian refugees in America, Mel is deeply interested in visually exploring concepts of intergenerational trauma, racial identity, spirituality, and resilience in community. Mel has exhibited her photography in Brooklyn, NY, Boston, MA and Lowell, MA. Outside of creative portraiture, Mel is a freelance photographer documenting exhibitions and events at museum institutions and is an Artist in Community Fellow at Arts Connect International.


About the Curator:

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Leslie Anne Condon

Leslie Anne Condon is a Boston-area multidisciplinary artist and independent curator, interested in Critical Race Art History and issues of representation within the arts. She graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a degree in English and a minor in the Fine Arts. She briefly attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts as a Diploma student and earned her Post Baccalaureate in Fine Art 3D from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2011.


About the partner:

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Unbound Visual Arts

Unbound Visual Arts (UVA) is a unique Allston-Brighton-based non-profit art organization. We serve the Greater Boston community with impactful educational programs and exhibits to encourage learning, engagement, and change.

Contact: Leslie Condon, 617-863-9080 x 2017

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Oct
21
to Oct 31

Virtual Exhibit: Embodied Identities

Photo credit: Mel Taing. Ode to Durian (We Are Ineffable), Digital Photography 18 x 24

Our identities as Asians, Asian Americans, and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) are shaped by our racial and ethnic identities and cultural understandings interwoven with our embodied experiences, but what it means to be part of the AAPI community lies beyond our shared biological traits and overlapping ancestral histories. Even the language that we use to categorize and define ourselves, though powerful, is highly imperfect and constantly evolving in response to new considerations. Some of us feel tethered to the cultural norms of our communities, resisting and embracing different elements over time. Others feel closely tethered to the white gaze and the stereotypes projected onto our communities and ourselves. How are the cultural norms of our communities reflected in our bodily expressions? How do our bodies offer opportunities for liberation and healing from the stereotypes projected onto us? The artists included in this segment of New Narratives explore how identity is deeply connected with, but not limited by, our physical selves. 

Embodied Identities is part of New Narratives curated by guest curator Leslie Anne Condon and first exhibited in 2020 through Unbound Visual Arts. 

Experience Embodied Identities with our 3D virtual tour:

 

About the Artists:

Maria Fong

Maria Fong is an artist from Berkeley, California. She is currently earning her BFA at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. Maria works in hand-drawn and stop-motion animation, drawing, performance art, and bookmaking. She is dedicated to making work that tells silenced stories and fosters interaction between people. Her collaborative artworks explore racialized and politicized spaces, community building, and expansive Asian American identities. Fong was a 2020 Pao Art Center Residence Lab artist, a program that connects artists and Boston Chinatown residents in the creation of public art.


Eugene La Rochelle

Eugene La Rochelle was born in Fulda, West Germany in 1987. As the son of an American soldier, he spent his formative years traveling between military installations. Through military culture, he examined and learned the effects of US military colonialism and its effects on the surrounding country. This experience has directly informed his work on miscegenation and identity. After graduating with a Master’s degree from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in 2013, he has been focusing on identity politics in South Korea and how American foreign policy has directly affected the treatment of mixed-race Koreans today.


Brenda Lau

Brenda Lau is a Boston-based visual artist utilizing her creative process as a mindfulness practice. She is primarily inspired by the relationships between and surrounding existence within our flesh and the rest of the natural world. Her work is an intimate projection of her seeking, yearning, accepting, as well as learning.


Jennifer Okumura

Jennifer grew up in Philadelphia. She attended Syracuse University in addition to receiving her MFA from Boston University. Jennifer’s work has been featured and a part of The Vendue Art Hotel, Massachusetts State Senate [Sen. Will Brownsberger], Four Seasons Downtown Boston, Kayak, Boston Consulting Group, Boston College Office of Marketing Communications, Morgan Stanley, Acadian Asset, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Collection, Aetna Corp. Collection and Private Collections. Okumura has relationships with galleries in Manhattan, Westport, Boston, Charleston and exhibited in Swiss Art Expo ZÜRICH, Art Metropole Europe Barcelona, Spain, and upcoming Artexpo New York Art Fair, Pier 36 in 2021.


Mel Taing

Mel Taing is a Boston-based Cambodian American photographer. She received her BFA at the Massachusetts College of Art & Design in 2016. Mel creates portraiture that expresses the beauty of resilience. Her personal aesthetic is rooted in creating colorful environments that are filmatic, dreamy, and slightly surreal. As a child of Cambodian refugees in America, Mel is deeply interested in visually exploring concepts of intergenerational trauma, racial identity, spirituality, and resilience in community. Mel has exhibited her photography in Brooklyn, NY, Boston, MA and Lowell, MA. Outside of creative portraiture, Mel is a freelance photographer documenting exhibitions and events at museum institutions and is an Artist in Community Fellow at Arts Connect International.


About the Curator:

Leslie Anne Condon

Leslie Anne Condon is a Boston-area multidisciplinary artist and independent curator, interested in Critical Race Art History and issues of representation within the arts. She graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a degree in English and a minor in the Fine Arts. She briefly attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts as a Diploma student and earned her Post Baccalaureate in Fine Art 3D from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2011.


About the partner:

Unbound Visual Arts

Unbound Visual Arts (UVA) is a unique Allston-Brighton-based non-profit art organization. We serve the Greater Boston community with impactful educational programs and exhibits to encourage learning, engagement, and change.

Contact: Leslie Condon, 617-863-9080 x 2017

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Experience Chinatown Arts Festival 2021
Sep
9
to Sep 25

Experience Chinatown Arts Festival 2021

Discover a new take on Asian American cultures

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During September, see, hear, create, and connect. Together, celebrate the rich cultural fabric of Boston Chinatown through free creative activities for all.

Experience Chinatown will happen rain or shine! In case of inclement weather, performances will be at Pao Arts Center, 99 Albany Street. Masks will be required indoors.


Window Installations at Local Businesses:

Thursday, September 9 – Sunday, October 3

Enjoy lively murals by Melody Hsu, Soyoung Kim, Jillian King, payal kumar, Shaina Lu, Stephanie Pan, Yuanyuan Wang, and Helen Yung.

Create your own self-paced tour:

APM coffee: 99 Kneeland St, Boston, MA 02111, Community and Coffee, Jillian King

Liuyishou Hotpot Boston: 702 Washington St, Boston, MA 02111, The Food That Binds Us, Stephanie Pan

Happy Lamb Hotpot Boston: 693 Washington St, Boston, MA 02111, Year of the Ox , Helen Yung

Dumpling Cafe: 695 Washington St, Boston, MA 02111, Greetings With Tea, Yuanyuan Wang

Penang Malaysian Restaurant: 685 Washington St, Boston, MA 02111, On Wave of Memory, Soyoung Kim

Q Restaurant: 660 Washington St, Boston, MA 02111, Lion Resistance, Shaina Lu

Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center: 38 Ash Street, Boston, MA 02111, Guiding Lights, Melody Hsu and payal kumar

Residence Lab Activation at Mary Soo Hoo Park on the Rose Kennedy Greenway (near Chinatown Gate)

Interact with artwork by Residence Lab 2021 lead artists Sheila Novak, Yuko Okabe, Brian Pistols, and Kathy Wu with community members Itasha Daniels, Clare Florentino, Cass Li, Amy Lam, and Elaine Liang that respond to the theme, “Collective Care.” Residence Lab is a partnership between Pao Arts Center and Asian Community Development Corporation (ACDC) to empower and train artists and residents to collectively preserve the Chinatown community through creative and artistic space activation. This year’s installation is supported by The Greenway.

Schedule:

Saturday, September 25 | 12:00 - 3:00 pm

Chinatown Park on The Greenway (near Chinatown Gate)

Auntie Kay & Uncle Frank Chin Park

12:00 pm | Dance Performance by Jennifer Lin

12:15 pm | Dance Performance + Workshop by ConArt

1:00 pm | Musical Performance by Mikahely

2:00 pm | Dance Performance by Continuum Dance Project

2:15 pm | Musical Performance by Juk Sing

Pao Arts Center (99 Albany Street) 

Chinese Lion Head Photo Booth with Becky Yee Photography

They Watch You Thrive installation by Chanel Matsunami Govreau with collaborations by Jhona Xaviera, Micah Rose, Julissa Emile, payal kumar, and Jae Quisol

One Greenway Park, Hudson Street Stoop, 66 - 88 Hudson Street

Storytell and Sway by Gianna Stewart

8 Hudson Street

(Cancelled) Place of Assembly Interactive Workshop

Join artist Ang Li in a brick-painting workshop to contribute to the creation of an ongoing public art installation on 8-12 Hudson Street. 

** Performances will follow Commonwealth of Massachusetts guidelines as they evolve. Hand sanitizer stations will be available.

Visual Artists:

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Melody (Yu-Hsuan) Hsu

Melody (Yu-Hsuan) Hsu is a multidisciplinary creator from Taiwan. Melody is soulfully inspired by both her cross-cultural identity and her background in visual arts. Having designed for plays like “Abortion Road Trip,” which was nominated for the 38EVVYs award for Outstanding Scenic Design, she has also been invited to design a collection of short films, including music videos like “Get Out of My Head” by Four Years Strong, recently premiered on Billboard. 


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Soyoung L Kim

Soyoung L Kim’s mixed media and installation practice converges memories of the past, the feeling of the present, and the dreams of the future. Transforming forgotten materials into something new, Kim draws inspiration from her art-adjacent practice as a writer to create dynamic, ethereal compositions scattered with poignant textual references. She currently lives and works in Boston, MA.


Jillian King

Jillian King is a Boston-based designer and recent graduate of Massachusetts College of Art and Design. A design strategist by trade, her work often explores creating connections and building empathy through storytelling. When she's not doodling, she enjoys crafting unusually flavored waffles, roller skating, and binge-listening to podcasts.


payal kumar

payal kumar (they/them) is a diasporic dreamer working towards inclusive solidarity and liberation based on Wampanoag territory. As a multimedia artist, doula, medical advocate, and futurism fanatic, they invoke the power of interdisciplinary movement-building to construct tender new possibilities of being beyond borders and capital. Their visual work is rooted in the Desi folk art of their ancestral villages and traditional Americana tattoos to construct new in-between spaces exploring mental illness, queer intimacy, and traumas around embodiment.


Ang Li

Ang Li is an architect and Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture at Northeastern University. Her work operates at the intersection between architecture, experimental preservation and public art to speculate on the maintenance rituals and material afterlives behind architectural production.


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Shaina Lu

Shaina Lu (she/her) is a queer Taiwanese-American artist interested in the intersection of art, education, and activism. She studied Arts in Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education, and her art and teaching practice focuses on storytelling and amplifying community voices. Shaina drinks juice every day, and she is full of sugar.


Sheila Novak

Sheila Novak is an interdisciplinary artist with a commitment to socially-engaged art as a form of collective care and creating more equitable futures. In her creative practice, she focalizes the land as an extension of the body and a locus for healing. A jack-of-all-trades, Sheila's practice has included painting, sculpture, bronze casting, ceramics, drawing, fiber art, and gardening.


Yuko Okabe

Yuko Okabe is a Boston-based illustrator and artist with a passion for community-centered storytelling in community development . She is currently a Rose Artist fellow with the North Shore Community Development Coalition where she's worked as a community facilitator for affordable housing projects, community engagement programs, young adult programs, and cultural workshops. She eats oatmeal almost every day and is a very proud auntie.


Brian Pistols

Brian Pistols is a performance artist with twenty years’ experience of Breaking, one of the earliest forms of street dance. His extensive experience ranges from competing all across the country, being a resident performer with the Boston Celtics, teaching locally and internationally, but he is most proud of his passion project "Entering ShaoLynn" which celebrates the rich Breaking history of his hometown of Lynn, MA. Brian is also the Co-Founder and Operations Director of The Flavor Continues, a Greater Boston-based nonprofit organization that serves the Street and Club dance communities through education, events, and community building.


Stephanie Pan

Stephanie Pan is a freelance illustrator, receiving her BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She has a passion for visual storytelling, drawing inspiration from different aspects of her life, especially her experience as an American-Born Chinese. Stephanie’s work is both dynamic and engaging as she utilizes a variety of media to express different narratives. Her work has been shown in multiple exhibitions in Massachusetts, and she currently lives and works in Boston.


Kathy Wu

Kathy Wu is a Boston-based artist who is interested in making complex information more accessible to people through art, and helping to uplift people’s voices in imaginative ways. She is also a tech creative who grew up in Massachusetts. She has been a member of Asian American Resource Workshop since 2019 and is connected to CPA’s Stabilization Committee and Greater Boston Mutual Aid.


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Yuanyuan Wang

Yuanyuan Wang is a Taiwanese artist currently base in Boston. I am interested in showing personal experience on cultural and life through art, especially through the placement of textures, layers, and colors. My subject matters often surrounded with whimsical figures and elements.


Helen Yung

The child of Hong Kong immigrants, Helen grew up mostly just south of Boston, spending many a Sunday afternoon in Boston Chinatown after church having good food with friends. She's experienced first-hand (and seen second hand, as an ancient history nerd) how art connects communities across ages, cultures, and beliefs. She currently lives in Quincy and New York.


Performance Artists:

Ava Sophia

Laid-back R&B feels and emotionally-driven honest lyrics are what define Boston-based singer/songwriter, Ava Sophia. In October 2019, Ava released her debut EP, “To See and Hear Hxrself”, a project dedicated to exploring the relationship between femininity and vulnerability, and empowering women/femmes of color to feel and express our emotions to the fullest extent. She was most recently nominated for “R&B Artist of the Year” at the 2020 Boston Music Awards. Her true passion and ambition are captured when she describes music to be “the only way I know how to make the world a better place”.


aznjujube and Jeff La  

Inspired by the nostalgia of the early 2000's AZN era, aznjujube is an experimental-pop project that incorporates live-looping, mandolin riffs, mountain noises, and lo-fi hip hop beats.  Jeff La is a virtuosic dulcimerist who has been performing in the Boston Chinatown and surrounding areas since the 90s. 


ConArt

The CONcept ARTists, also known as ConArt, debuted in 2011 and for years have performed throughout the Northeast, sharing their multitude of styles and flavors. In 2016, ConArt hosted its first self-produced showcase, CONcentrate On The ARTistry, and has turned it into an annual celebration of New England's dance and recording artists since. Always with more on the horizon, ConArt builds on their legacy by providing high quality performance, instruction, and creative services.


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 Continuum Dance Project

Continuum Dance Project (CDP) is a Boston based dance company focused on creating site-specific work, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and reflecting the backgrounds of our collaborating artists. Founded in 2013 by Fernadina Chan, CDP has shown dance in concerts and festivals throughout New England. Co-Directors Brayton and Chan have been creating together since 2007, most notably “Passage Through Blue” (2017) for Boston Center for the Arts, and “Forage in Park" (2020) at Larz Anderson Park.


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Juk Sing 

Inspired by the Cantonese hits of the 80s and 90s, these Kwong Kow Chinese School dropouts have performed covers of Beyond, Faye Wong, and many more across the Greater Boston Area since 2018. By sharing these classics along with original songs, Juk Sing (JK Wong, Jeffrey La, and Ashley Yu) hopes to bring back some cultural nostalgia with a dream pop twist.


Photo credit: The Dance Complex

Photo credit: The Dance Complex

Jennifer Lin

Jennifer Lin is a classically trained dancer, independent choreographer, and teaching artist of American and Korean descent. Raised in the Midwest, she holds degrees from Boston Conservatory and The University of Hawai`i at Manoa. Lin situates her artistic work in interstitial spaces between tradition and modernity, form and expression, and theory and practice. Currently an Artist-In-Residence at Mount Auburn, Lin is creating The Gathering Place, an outdoor site-specific dance that draws inspiration from local history, nature, and human experiences, to be presented in October 2021.


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Amy Manion

Amy Manion (singer/ guitarist; spoken word artist) is so proud to be performing a short walk away from where her mother and her family first lived when they came to America. A community-based performing artist, Amy uses the arts to heal and to connect. Amy's goal is to spread joy and to share space, envisioning a place where everyone can be free.


Mikahely 

Mikahely is a singer-songwriter who hails from the beautiful island of Madagascar, but his music is out of this world! A self-taught musician, he draws inspiration from traditional Malagasy rhythms to create his own unique and healing sounds on guitar and valiha (a zither-like instrument made from bamboo). Singing his original music in his native language of Malagasy, Mikahely transcends boundaries. Having toured in Madagascar and Europe, he now brings his music to new audiences in the United States. He is also featured in the documentary Guitar Madagascar.


W.A.G.

W.A.G. is a local rock band founded in 2018 and formed by young professionals in Greater Boston area. W.A.G plays an active role in college events and local Asian communities and has major influence in young professionals and international students. Members: JoJo (vocals), Goldie Chen (guitar), Paul (Guitar), K (Bassist), Fried Rice (Drummer)


This event is made possible by our sponsors:

Become a Sponsor: Click here or contact Jean Quintal for more information.

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On View: They Watch You Thrive
Sep
9
to Sep 25

On View: They Watch You Thrive

Collaborators of They Watch You Thrive  pictured on site in installation. Pictured from left, Micah Rose, Chanel Matsunami Govreau, Jhona Xaviera. Photo credit Mel Taing © 2021)

Collaborators of They Watch You Thrive pictured on site in installation. Pictured from left, Micah Rose, Chanel Matsunami Govreau, Jhona Xaviera. Photo credit Mel Taing © 2021)


A collaborative series by Jhona Xaviera, Mel Taing, Micah Rose, Julissa Emile, payal kumar, Chanel Matsunami Govreau, and Jae Quisol

Free Workshop for BIPOC | Saturday, September 25, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

RSVP here, walk-ins welcome—capacity permitting

Free Performance Series, Open to All

Saturday, September 25th, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Photo credit for main image ( pictured from left, Micah Rose, Chanel Matsunami Govreau, Jhona Xaviera. All photos by Mel Taing © 2021)

They Watch You Thrive is an installation and collaborative series that summons the auras of our queer ancestors through folklore, ritual and communal care. Here, we seed the grounds for queer, gender-transcendent artists of color to cultivate what it means to thrive. 

In their floating soft sculptural installation, They Watch You Thrive (2020), Matsunami Govreau conjures the imagery of Japanese folklore monsters known as yokai to give life and form to the lost and hidden spirits of their queer ancestry. Throughout our series, the installation will serve as a gathering space and portal towards a communal and multicultural exploration of thrive. Bright, hopeful eyes watch our now and future while reminding us of our shared and unique pasts. Teeth and hair fiercely guard as we play in folkloric fantasy. 

As collective tenders of this space we channel the many spirits of our abundant diasporas to this installation. We summon, el Coquí y las Ciguapas, Galang Kaluluwa at tigmamanukan, Neang Neak, churails and rakshasas, Futakuchi Onna and Hyakume … We name and call on our lineages known and unknown: Bayoguin and Obeah women. We conjure all who cisheteropatriarchy deems ‘monstrous’ to embrace our multiplicitous and infinite selves. 

During this exploratory and experimental series, we will gather here both publicly and privately to photograph, sing, dance, brew tea, hold workshops, and build altars for and with our chosen kin. We alchemize ashes of violence into nests for new worlds, where we feed each other as our birthright. 

This series is made possible by a Live Arts Boston grant from the Boston Foundation; and support from Arts Connect International, the Pao Arts Center and the Theater Offensive.


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Aug
28
2:00 PM14:00

Chinese Brush Painting for Adults: Chrysanthemums

Take a Saturday afternoon to relax, create, and meditate with Chinese brush painting.

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Chrysanthemums, 菊花, start blooming early in the autumn. In Chinese culture, they are commonly used in food and herbal medicine.

Learn to paint the radial, disk-like blooms of the yellow chrysanthemum flower along with butterflies.

Classes taught in Mandarin, English-friendly | Online

Deadline for registration with mailed supplies: Wednesday, August 18, 2021. Please allow 10 days for mailing and delivery. A supply set can be used for more than one class.

Register below. Please refresh this page if you do not see the form after a minute. (如果您沒有看到註冊表格,請分鐘後刷新您的頁面

Supply list: Chinese calligraphy brush; Chinese calligraphy black Ink; calligraphy rice paper; 12 color Chinese watercolor paint set.

About the Artist

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Xiaoyong Liu emigrated to the United States in 2008. In 2009, he started teaching children and adults Chinese painting of landscapes, flowers, and birds. In recent years, his students have exhibited their art and participated and won awards in the National Teenagers Calligraphy Contests.

Contact: Qi Cheng | 617-863-9080

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Aug
27
6:00 PM18:00

API Arts Network's August Social - Walking It Off (In Person!)

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Join the API Arts Network as we meet to listen, enjoy, and discuss “Walking It Off” by Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro and Directed by Michelle Aguillon, part of the Greenway Walking Plays series developed by Lyric Stage Company of Boston and the Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy.

We will meet at the Chinatown Gate, walk the route together, then meet at Dewy Square to mix and mingle with the playwright and each other!

*Note this event does require walking about.5 miles from Chinatown Park to Dewy Square. Masks are required for the time together for everyone’s safety.

Event Schedule:
6PM Meet and depart from Chinatown Gate
6:30PM Gather at Dewy Square for a discussion with Playwright Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro!

About the Play :
While walking home after dim sum, the elderly Kenzo and his daughter Sally reminisce about his wife, discuss the increasing crimes against Asian-Americans, and question whether or not it’s time for a major change.

The Greenway Walking Plays were developed in collaboration with the Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy. The Walking Plays are sponsored by First Republic Bank. WBUR is the media sponsor for The Walking Plays.

If you have any questions or further inquiries, please contact APIArtsBoston@gmail.com. We look forward to seeing you soon!

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Kit Yan and Melissa Li’s Work-In-Progress Boston Chinatown Musical
Aug
19
7:00 PM19:00

Kit Yan and Melissa Li’s Work-In-Progress Boston Chinatown Musical

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Join Company One Theatre and Pao Arts Center for a virtual concert and conversation featuring songs of a new musical written and performed by Kit Yan & Melissa Li, the 2020-21 C1 PlayLab Pao Fellows. Artists and community members come together to share and celebrate the vibrant Boston Chinatown community, whose stories underpin Li and Yan’s creative process. Together we address the unique and challenging conditions of creation against the backdrop of COVID-19 and the rise in anti-Asian racism, while exploring how community-centered, civically engaged arts practices can combat these forces.

Moderator: Ju Yon Kim (Faculty, Scholar of Asian American Studies at Harvard University)

Speakers:

  • Kit Yan & Melissa Li (2020-21 C1 PlayLab/Pao Fellows)

  • Ben Hires (Chief Executive Officer at Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center)

  • Alison Yueming Qu (Associate Producer/Dramaturg of C1/Pao Chinatown Project) 

  • Christina R. Chan (Community Producer of C1/Pao Chinatown Project) 

About the Program: 

The 2020-21 C1 PlayLab Pao Fellowship is a two-year long fellowship supporting the creation of community-centered art-making with Kit Yan and Melissa Li, along with Community Producer Christina R. Chan, and Associate Producer/Dramaturg Alison Yueming Qu. The fellowship resulted in a new theatrical work-in-progress that responds to the neighborhood’s vibrancy and perseverance, and reflects a rapidly changing Chinatown.

About the Artists: 

Melissa Li (she/her) – Writer / Performer

Melissa Li is a composer, lyricist, performer, and writer based in New York and Baltimore. She is a recipient of the Jonathan Larson Award, a Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellow, a 2019 Lincoln Center Theater Writer-in-Residence, a 2019 Musical Theater Factory Maker, a 2019 Macdowell Colony Fellow, and a former Queer | Art |Mentorship Fellow. Musicals include Interstate (New York Musical Festival, Winner “Outstanding Lyrics”), Surviving the Nian (The Theater Offensive, IRNE Award Winner for “Best New Play” 2007), and 99% Stone (The Theater Offensive). Her works have received support from The 5th Avenue Theatre, The Village Theater, Musical Theater Factory, National Performance Network, New England Foundation for the Arts, Dixon Place, and others. 


Kit Yan (they/them) – Writer / Performer

Kit Yan is a transgender, Yellow American, New York based artist, born in Enping, China, and raised in the Kingdom of Hawaii. Kit is a 2019 Vivace Award winner, 2019 Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellow, 2019 Lincoln Center Writer in residence, a 2019 MacDowell Fellow, 2019-2020 Musical Theater Factory Makers Fellow, and a 2019-2020 Playwright’s Center Many Voices Fellow. Works include Interstate, which won “Best Lyrics” at the 2018 New York Musical Theater Festival, and Queer Heartache, which won 5 awards at the Chicago and SF Fringe Festivals. Their work has been produced by the American Repertory Theater, the Smithsonian, Musical Theater Factory, the New York Musical Festival, and Diversionary Theater. They have been a resident with the Civilians, Mitten Lab, 5th Avenue Theater, and the Village Theater.


Christina R. Chan (she/her) – Community Producer

Christina R. Chan is a founding member of the Asian American Playwright Collective (AAPC). As an actor, director, and writer, her work focuses on the Asian, Asian American immigration experience. She identifies as a 1.5 generation immigrant: born in Hong Kong, she then immigrated to the US as a toddler, and grew up in Boston. Christina was a Company One 2016 PlayLab Fellow, and her first full length play, Stir Frying Mahjong, was a Eugene O’Neill National Theater Conference 2017 Semi-Finalist. She was commissioned to adapt and direct a play written by Harry H Dow, the first Asian-American lawyer in 1938 to pass the Massachusetts bar. She is the recipient of 2016 and 2017 Live Art Boston grants from The Boston Foundation. 


Ben Hires (he/him) CEO, BCNC

 Ben has significant experience in nonprofit leadership and serving young people and families. He held leadership positions in programs, strategy, and external relations at the Boston Children’s Chorus where he played a key role elevating the choir’s social justice mission to bring diverse young people and their families together. As Director of Strategic Partnerships at the Boston Public Library, he established and maintained building strong relationships across education, cultural, and civic engagement sectors to advance the Library’s mission of providing free educational and cultural enrichment to Boston residents. Prior to being the CEO, Ben volunteered as a mentor for BCNC’s College Access Program for youth and as a member of the Pao Arts Center Advisory Committee.


Alison Yueming Qu (she/they) – Associate Producer / Dramaturg

Originally from China, Alison Yueming Qu (chi-oo) is a Creative Producer, Director, and a Dramaturg. Graduated from Emerson College with a BFA in Theatre (Directing and Dramaturgy), Alison was the inaugural Cutler Creative Producing & Engagement Fellow at ArtsEmerson, and the Co-Founder of CHUANG Stage—a Boston-based theater collective dedicated to cultivating AAPI narratives. Her current and recent projects include the PRC-USA Artists Connectivity Series (Ping Pong Arts/KMP Artists), Imaginarium (US Producer, Out of the Blue Theatre), Earthquake by Tatyana Emery (Director, Reground Theater Collective), and Waiting for Kim Lee by Vivian Liu-Somers (Director, Asian American Theatre Artists of Boston). Their dramaturgy work for 10 Out of 12 by Anne Washburn (Emerson Stage) received the 2020 LMDA/KCACTF Region 1 Student Dramaturgy Award. She is a proud alumna of the National Theater Institute and an associate member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society.


Ju Yon Kim (she/her) – Moderator

Ju Yon Kim is Professor of English at Harvard University. Her research and teaching interests include Asian American literature and performance; modern and contemporary American theater and drama; and cross-­racial and intercultural performance. She is the author of The Racial Mundane: Asian American Performance and the Embodied Everyday (NYU Press, 2015), which received the 2016 Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize from the New England American Studies Association for best book in American studies published in 2015 by a New England area scholar. Her articles have appeared in Theatre Journal, Modern Drama, The Journal of Transnational American Studies, Modernism/modernity, Theatre Survey, and the Journal of Asian American Studies. She is currently working on a second book project on suspicion and performance.

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Aug
5
to Aug 26

Take Out Thursdays presented by Pao Arts Center and the Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservanc

  • Rose Kennedy Greenway - Auntie Kay & Uncle Frank Chin Park (map)
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Photo credit: Katie Medrano - Escobar

Bring your families, come by after work and join Pao Arts Center and the Greenway Conservancy for a series of family-friendly concerts and performances. Stop by your favorite Chinatown eatery, grab a snack or dinner, and discover a new creative performer!

Performances will be in the same location as the weekly Greenway Play Sessions, featuring books, games, and more!

This program is part of the Rediscover The Greenway series. Funding and support for this program is provided by abutting property owners who serve as members of the Greenway Business Improvement District (BID). The Greenway BID plays an essential role in supporting an appealing, accessible, and vibrant experience for all that visit The Greenway to gather, relax, unwind, and explore

Schedule of Performances:

CANCELLED due to Rain Thursday, August 5 | 5:00 – 6:00 pm | Ava Sophia .

Thursday, August 12 | 5:00 – 6:00 pm |  Leona Cheung (Collaborative Piano) with Aurora Martin, and David Rivera . View program.

LOCATION CHANGE - Due to extreme heat advisory 8/12/2021 concert will be moved indoors. Masks required regardless of vaccination status.

CANCLEED due to Rain Thursday, August 19 | 5:00 – 6:00 pm | Jennifer Lin (Korean Drum Dance), violinviiv (Electric Violin)

Thursday, August 26 | 5:00 – 6:00 pm | aznjujube (Lo-fi beats)

Thursday, September 2 | 5:00-7:00 pm | Rain Date - Ava Sophia and violinviiv (Electric Violin)

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

August 5 | Ava Sophia

Laid-back R&B feels and emotionally-driven honest lyrics are what define Boston-based singer/songwriter, Ava Sophia. In October 2019, Ava released her debut EP, “To See and Hear Hxrself”, a project dedicated to exploring the relationship between femininity and vulnerability, and empowering women/femmes of color to feel and express our emotions to the fullest extent. She was most recently nominated for “R&B Artist of the Year” at the 2020 Boston Music Awards. Her true passion and ambition are captured when she describes music to be “the only way I know how to make the world a better place”.

August 12 | Leona Chung (Collaborative Piano) with Aurora Martin, and David Rivera

Leona Cheung is a Boston-based collaborative pianist. Her deep devotion to vocal-piano repertoire has brought her to perform extensively in many international festivals, including Aspen Music Festival, Oxford Lieder Festival, Leeds Lieder Festival, Toronto Summer Music Festival and Songfest. As a distinguished choral pianist, she has worked with Seraphic Fire, Handel and Haydn Society and Boston Children's Chorus. She was a founding member and pianist with Cantoria Hong Kong, and can be heard on the Chinese choral music album entitled "Half Moon Rising", presented by the Peters Edition. Leona earned her Master of Music and Graduate Diploma (Collaborative Piano) from the New England Conservatory.  

August 19 | Jennifer Lin (Traditional Korean Drum Dance) 

Jennifer Lin is a classically trained dancer, independent choreographer, and teaching artist of American and Korean descent.  Raised in the Midwest, she holds degrees from Boston Conservatory and The University of Hawai`i at Manoa. Lin situates her artistic work in interstitial spaces between tradition and modernity, form and expression, and theory and practice. Currently an Artist-In-Residence at Mount Auburn, Lin is creating The Gathering Place, an outdoor site-specific dance that draws inspiration from local history, nature, and human experiences, to be presented in October 2021.

August 19 | violinviiv (Electric Violin) 

Vivian Luo throws pop-up performances of pop, EDM and hip hop mixes & mashups in Boston public spaces. A classically trained contemporary violinist/DJ known as “violinviiv,” she also brings her high energy spirited performances to local weddings, hotel openings, corporate and private clients who appreciate her raw energy and unique spin on mainstream hits.

August 26 | aznjujube (Lo-fi beats) 

Inspired by the nostalgia of the early 2000's AZN era, aznjujube is an experimental-pop project that incorporates live-looping, mandolin riffs, mountain noises, and lo-fi hip hop beats. Jeff La is a virtuosic dulcimerist who has been performing in the Boston Chinatown and surrounding areas since the 90s.


Supported by the Greenway Business Improvement District.

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Jul
31
2:00 PM14:00

Closing Celebration Wen-hao Tien: Home On Our Backs

Photo By: Warren Patterson

Photo By: Warren Patterson

Enjoy a family friendly afternoon as we say goodbye to the exhibit! Meet Wen-hao, and bring the family to enjoy some hands-on- exhibition inspired activities. 

Learn more about the exhibit.

About the Artist

Photo credit: Jacyln Poeschl

Wen-hao Tien is a Cambridge-based visual artist and educator. Wen-hao grew up in Taiwan, with family roots in Shandong Province, China. She moved to the United States in 1988 to pursue graduate studies and ultimately became a naturalized citizen.

Early in her career, Wen-hao exhibited contemporary Chinese calligraphy and multi-media paintings. In recent years, she finds herself leaving the studio and to forage for materials and stories on community streets—which brought her to Boston Chinatown. She feels an urgency to interpret the shifting Chinatown cultural landscape, which has changed radically since she first encountered it in the 1990s. 

Follow Wen-hao’s residency on her blog.

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Jul
24
2:00 PM14:00

Chinese Brush Painting for Adults: Water Lilies

Take a Saturday afternoon to relax, create, and meditate with Chinese brush painting.

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Water lilies, 睡莲, rise out of the water or float on the surface, opening during the day or at night. The petals have smooth or spine-toothed edges, and can be rounded or pointed. Each flower has at least eight petals in shades of white, pink, blue, or yellow.

The water lily is a common subject in brush painting not only because of their beautiful shape, but also because they are a symbol of purity in China.

Classes taught in Mandarin, English-friendly | Online

Deadline for registration with mailed supplies: Wednesday, July 14, 2021. Please allow 10 days for mailing and delivery. A supply set can be used for more than one class.

Register below. Please refresh this page if you do not see the form after a minute.

Supply list: Chinese calligraphy brush; Chinese calligraphy black Ink; calligraphy rice paper; 12 color Chinese watercolor paint set.

About the Artist

Xiaoyong Liu Painting Mountain.jpg

Xiaoyong Liu emigrated to the United States in 2008. In 2009, he started teaching children and adults Chinese painting of landscapes, flowers, and birds. In recent years, his students have exhibited their art and participated and won awards in the National Teenagers Calligraphy Contests.

Contact: Qi Cheng | 617-863-9080

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Jul
15
to Jul 22

Teach Me Your Song/Meet the Artist Wen-Hao Tien

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Don’t miss your chance to see Wen-hao Tien: Home on Our Backs in person!

Thursday, July 15 | 5:00 – 7:00 pm  

Thursday, July 22 | 5:00 – 7:00 pm  

Collaborate with artist Wen-hao Tien in her participatory piece, Teach Me Your  Song, part of her current exhibition. Stop by Pao Arts Center to teach her a song or poem in your native language, or to simply discuss the exhibition.  It just might prompt you to remember a place that is special to you!

Can’t make it? Schedule a private zoom or in person here!

(田文浩會在現場與您交流。您也可以帶上您最喜歡的母語歌曲,現場教她唱歌!)

About the Artist

Photo credit: Jacyln Poeschl

Wen-hao Tien is a Cambridge-based visual artist and educator. Wen-hao grew up in Taiwan, with family roots in Shandong Province, China. She moved to the United States in 1988 to pursue graduate studies and ultimately became a naturalized citizen.

Early in her career, Wen-hao exhibited contemporary Chinese calligraphy and multi-media paintings. In recent years, she finds herself leaving the studio and to forage for materials and stories on community streets—which brought her to Boston Chinatown. She feels an urgency to interpret the shifting Chinatown cultural landscape, which has changed radically since she first encountered it in the 1990s. 

Follow Wen-hao’s residency on her blog.

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Jul
7
5:00 PM17:00

API Arts Network's First Virtual Wellness Social

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Calling all Boston-area API visual and performing artists, arts administrators, and other creatives! The API Arts Network invites you to our first Virtual Wellness Social on Wednesday, July 7th from 5 to 6:30 pm, hosted by Pao Arts Center.


Attendees will have the opportunity to meet other API creatives and arts administrators and discuss the different issues we may be navigating in our personal and professional lives related to recent events. Click the link below to register for this event in advance!

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Chinese Brush Painting Class: Blooming flowers
Jun
26
to Aug 28

Chinese Brush Painting Class: Blooming flowers

Take a Saturday afternoon to relax, create, and meditate with Chinese brush painting. Learn to paint blooming flowers.

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June 26 class: Morning Glories

A wild growth that rambles up structures and trees, most morning glories, 牵牛花, bloom in the early morning. The flowers start to fade later in the day, only to return the next morning. The vibrant sunrise flowers that bloom each year are unmistakable and truly a sight to behold.

Register here/课程报名

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July 24 Class: Water lilies

Water lilies, 睡莲, rise out of the water or float on the surface, opening during the day or at night. The petals have smooth or spine-toothed edges, and can be rounded or pointed. Each flower has at least eight petals in shades of white, pink, blue, or yellow.

The water lily is a common subject in brush painting not only because of their beautiful shape, but also because they are a symbol of purity in China.

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August 28: Chrysanthemums

Chrysanthemums, 菊花, start blooming early in the autumn. In Chinese culture, they are commonly used in food and herbal medicine.

Learn to paint the radial, disk-like blooms of the yellow chrysanthemum flower along with butterflies.

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Classes taught in Mandarin, English-friendly | Online

$15 per class without supplies

$35 per class includes supplies picked up at Pao Arts Center or mailed at additional cost.

$45 per class including supplies mailed to your address with priority mail.

A supply set can be used for more than one class. Please allow 10 days for mailing and delivery.

Supply list: Chinese calligraphy brush, Chinese calligraphy black ink, calligraphy rice paper, 12 color Chinese watercolor paint set

About the Artist

Xiaoyong Liu emigrated to the United States in 2008. In 2009, he started teaching children and adults Chinese painting of landscapes, flowers, and birds. In recent years, his students have exhibited their art and participated and won awards in the National Teenagers Calligraphy Contests.

Contact: Qi Cheng | 617-863-9080

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Jun
26
2:00 PM14:00

Chinese Brush Painting for Adults: Morning Glories

Take a Saturday afternoon to relax, create, and meditate with Chinese brush painting.

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A wild growth that rambles up structures and trees, most morning glories, 牵牛花, bloom in the early morning. The flowers start to fade later in the day, only to return the next morning. The vibrant sunrise flowers that bloom each year are unmistakable and truly a sight to behold.

Create a beautiful painting with these beautiful morning glory blooms.

Classes taught in Mandarin, English-friendly | Online

Deadline for registration with mailed supplies: Wednesday, June 16, 2021. Please allow 10 days for mailing and delivery. A supply set can be used for more than one class.

Register below. Please refresh this page if you do not see the form after a minute.

Supply list: Chinese calligraphy brush; Chinese calligraphy black Ink; calligraphy rice paper; 12 color Chinese watercolor paint set.

About the Artist

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Xiaoyong Liu emigrated to the United States in 2008. In 2009, he started teaching children and adults Chinese painting of landscapes, flowers, and birds. In recent years, his students have exhibited their art and participated and won awards in the National Teenagers Calligraphy Contests.

Contact: Qi Cheng | 617-863-9080

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Jun
18
to Jun 30

Quincy Center - Year of the Ox installation by Helen Yung

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Year of The Ox, Helen Yung, 2021

Artist Helen Yung activates store front windows in Quincy Center with large vibrant decals of abstract and year of the Ox imagery.

See the installations in person at 1400 Hancock Street and 1456 Hancock Street, Quincy, MA.

June 18 – June 30, 2021

 

On June 18 we gave out 50 kits to families inspired by Helen Yung's "Year of the Ox" artwork up in Quincy Center. Create with us at home with this activity guide!

 

About the artist:

Helen Yung: The child of Hong Kong immigrants, Helen grew up mostly just south of Boston, spending many a Sunday afternoon in Boston Chinatown after church having good food with friends. She's experienced first-hand (and seen second hand, as an ancient history nerd) how art connects communities across ages, cultures, and beliefs. She currently lives in Quincy and New York.

About the funder:

This program is supported in part by a grant from the Quincy Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.


Contact: Cynthia Woo, 617-635-5129

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Jun
11
to Jul 9

In the Kitchen (At Home): Shanghai-styled wonton soup

Photo Credit: Valerie Li

Photo Credit: Valerie Li

Shanghai-styled wonton soup is a classic, and even though it’s soup, In the Kitchen home-cook Valerie Li thinks it can still a go-to summer meal! Spend an afternoon making and folding a bunch of wontons, freeze them, and then you can cook up a yummy meal whenever you want. Check out Valerie’s video!

"My dumpling preferences change by the season. In the summer, home-style wonton soups are my go-to quick and comfort meal that I can easily whip up in under 20 minutes."

- Valerie Li 

Subscribe and tune into our video on our YouTube Channel. Download the recipe.

 

Contact: Ashley Yung | 617-635-5129

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Jun
4
to Jun 19

Crossing: Stories of Immigration

Photo credit: Joann Yung

Photo credit: Joann Yung

In 2020, Continuum Dance Project (CDP) received a Live Arts Boston Grant from The Boston Foundation. CDP, in collaboration with visual artist Myrna Balk, presents a new evening-length dance/theatre work examining contemporary stories of immigration, culminating in a series of livestreamed performances in partnership with Pao Arts Center.  

To generate source material for Crossing: Stories of Immigration we asked all the members of Continuum Dance Project to connect with people in their lives who are immigrants. Some interviewed their fathers; others their cousins, friends, or former colleagues. Everyone interviewed is personally connected to a collaborator. The immigrants we interviewed are originally from 9 different counties including: Colombia, The Dominican Republic, Honduras, Italy, Jamaica, Kenya, Russia, The US Virgin Islands, and Vietnam. 

Pricing: Sliding Scale $5-$25 

Dates: 
Friday, June 4, 2021, 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm (Premiere/Meet the Artists day) 
Saturday, June 5, 2021, 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm 
Sunday, June 6, 2021, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm 
Thursday, June 17, 2021, 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm 
Friday, June 18, 2021, 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm 
Saturday, June 19, 2021, 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm 

About Our Partner

Continuum Dance Project (CDP) is a Boston based dance company focused on creating site-specific work, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and reflecting the backgrounds of our collaborating artists. Founded in 2013 by Fernadina Chan, CDP has shown dance in concerts and festivals throughout New England. Co-Directors Brayton and Chan have been creating together since 2007, most notably “Passage Through Blue” (2017) for Boston Center for the Arts, and “Forage in Park" (2020) at Larz Anderson Park. 

About the Artists

Myrna Balk’s (Visual Artist) first efforts began as an artist sculpting in steel; later expanding to other materials such as clay, wood, bamboo and printmaking. Balk’s sculptures are often allegorical and abstract, often seen in parks, ponds and public places, exploring the environment in which they were shown. A trained social worker, Balk’s work often surrounds social issues. She has exhibited nationally and internationally most notably in Nepal and China. 

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Haissan Booth's (Dancer) first major influences came from his then idol Sir David Vaughan, who he later worked with as a company member. After graduating from the Boston Arts Academy, Mr. Booth continued on to University of Hartford Hartt School. He later went on to work with various dance companies such as beheard.word, BoSoma Dance Company, Mystique Illusions Dance Theater, Deborah Abel Dance Company, and Contemporarily Out of Order Dance Co.

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Adriane Brayton (Choreographer/Co-Director/Dancer/Sound Design) is the Co-Artistic Director of Continuum Dance Project (CDP). CDP received a 2020 Live Arts Boston Grant from The Boston Foundation, and a 2017 Residency from The Boston Center for the Arts. Born in Boston, Adriane attended the Boston Arts Academy and Connecticut College. She is a Licensed Massage Therapist, and a Pilates/GYROKINESIS® Method Certified Instructor.

Fernadina Chan (Choreographer/Co-Director/Founder) is the Founder and Co-Director of Continuum Dance Project. She was the Founding Artistic Dean and Dance Chair of Boston Arts Academy. During her long career as a dance educator, Chan garnered multiple awards including Boston Educator of the Year and Dance Champion from Boston Dance Alliance. Her work has been presented in different festivals in New England and beyond. She is a GYROKINESIS® and GYROTONIC® Method Certified Instructor.

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Mayra Hernandez (Dancer) was born and raised in Boston, where she began dancing at a young age; her training led her to Boston Arts Academy and further continued at Smith College. Mayra is a Dance Educator at Brookline High School and a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT); her innate love for the arts and education has led her to complete her M. Ed in Teacher Leadership. Mayra currently dances with Beheard.world and Continuum Dance Project.

Mary Ellen Liacos (Dancer) was raised in New Hampshire. She moved to Boston to train at Boston Arts Academy, followed by Boston Conservatory, and Columbia College. She has been fortunate enough to have performed works by Sean Curran, José Límon, Pedro Ruiz, Nathan Trice, Jimmy Vierra, and many others. She currently dances with Beheard.world and Continuum Dance Project. Mary Ellen is a USPA Authentic Pilates teacher, and a GYROTONIC® Method Certified Instructor.

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Soyoung L Kim's (Visual Artist) mixed media and installation practice converges memories of the past, the feeling of the present, and the dreams of the future. Transforming forgotten materials into something new, Kim draws inspiration from her art-adjacent practice as a writer to create dynamic, ethereal compositions scattered with poignant textual references. She currently lives and works in Boston, MA.

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Jennifer Roberts (Dancer) is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College where she began her formal training in dance. Throughout her career she’s encountered many forms of dance and the different pedagogies for engaging and teaching movers. When not in the studio, Jennifer can be found indulging in good fiction, good food, or a good nap.

Rose O’Malley (Audio Engineer) is a Philadelphia based musician who grew up in the Boston area. Attended and later taught at Plugged in, Needham, Ma and Creative arts at Park in Brookline, Ma. Rose studied audio engineering and music education at Berklee College of Music.

Contact: Ashley Yung

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May
26
to Jul 21

In the Nutrition Kitchen At Home

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We are partnering with Greater Boston Chinese Golden Age Center for a cooking and nutrition class for seniors. Want to know more about how to eat healthy at home, or know more about the nutrition programs in MA? Join us on Wednesdays online for this free class! This is a All of Us Research Program class lead in Mandarin.

Check our schedule for more information here.

想知道應該如何在家中吃的健康,或了解更多麻省當地營養計劃? 每周三下午2點15分參與“在家裡的營養廚房與“全民”研究項目講座可能幫助到您。

您可以通過瀏覽计划獲得更多信息。

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About Our Partner

All of Us Research Program is a national health research project supported by the National Institutes of Health to collect health information on minorities, such as Asians, and to improve the existing experimental database of medical research in order to advance precision medicine (customized health care programs).

Greater Boston Chinese Golden Age Center is a nonprofit organization that has been serving the Asian elderly since 1972. A comprehensive network of culturally sensitive and linguistically appropriate programs and services is available to accommodate the needs of the elders so that they can maintain their independence and wellness at home in the community.

Contact: Qi Cheng | 617-863-9080

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