Take a Saturday afternoon to relax, create, and meditate from your home with virtual Chinese brush painting.

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

About the Artist

Contact: arts@bcnc.net | 617-863-9080

GHOST ROOTS: A New 강강술래 Ganggangsullae

On view from September 22 – December 2

Closing Screening | Thurs, December 1 | 6:30 - 7:30 pm

Join us for a final opportunity to view the GHOST ROOTS: A New 강강술래 Ganggangsullae film and meet artist Soyoung L Kim. This 16 minute performance art film served as the inspiration for Pao Arts Center’s current exhibition of the same name on view through Friday, December 2.

Through GHOST ROOTS, multi-disciplinary Artist Kim explores the possibilities of a future of solidarity, care, and celebration through the stories of two Asian American women. In this interactive exhibit, Kim asks, “Can America’s attempt at reconciliation/Extend beyond black and white?/Can America’s embrace include/The yellow of my skin?”

The GHOST ROOTS film is made possible by a Live Arts Boston grant from the Boston Foundation.

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GHOST ROOTS: A New 강강술래 Ganggangsullae

Soyoung L Kim  Creator/Director

Soyoung L Kim and Fernadina Chan  Spoken Word

Fernadina Chan and Soyoung L Kim  Choreography

Soyoung L Kim Visual Art/Stop Motion Animation

Jeremy Stanley Filming and Editing

DoYeon Kim   Original Music

Marvin Kim Sound Engineering and Mixing

Performed by Soyoung L Kim and Fernadina Chan

About the Artist:

Soyoung L Kim

Soyoung L Kim’s work blends several practices, including painting, sculpture, writing, stop motion animation, and performance. As 교포 Gyopo, as part of the Korean diaspora, she moves freely across artistic disciplines to create new works that blend those disciplines and to break those boundaries. Her work is influenced by her own childhood of many moves and displacements and the many stories she has gathered over the three continents she has called home. Kim’s work aims to transport us to a place of liberation, where we are free from colonization and the burdens of racism, fear and hate.

GHOST ROOTS collaborators:

Fernadina Chan was the Founding Artistic Dean and Dance Department Chair at the Boston Arts Academy (BAA). She is the recipient of the Surdna Arts Teacher Fellowship in 2001, Teacher of the Year from the International Network of Schools for the Advancement of Arts Education in 2005, Boston Educator of the Year in 2011, and 2013 Dance Champion from Boston Dance Alliance. Ms. Chan founded Continuum Dance Project (CDP) as a laboratory for choreography with BAA alumni in 2013, and was awarded the 2017 Boston Center for the Arts Choreographer Residency. CDP under the Co-Directorship of Fernadina Chan and Adriane Brayton received two LLC Grants from The Brookline Commission for the Arts, and was the recipient of a 2020 LAB grant from The Boston Foundation. Most recently, Brayton and Chan are 2022 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship Finalists, and received an AiR residency at the Somerville Arts Council’s ArtAssembled. Chan's work has been presented at High School Dance Festivals in Miami, Philadelphia, and Baltimore; South Vermont Dance Festival, Rebound Festival and numerous festivals in the Greater Boston area. She is a Certified GYROKINESIS ® and GYROTONIC® Instructor.

Jeremy Stanley is an accomplished filmmaker residing in Brooklyn, NY. He has spent the last 20 years working in various aspects of the film & television industries. In addition to his entertainment endeavors, much of his time is spent working on documentary and public awareness projects in the post-conflict and developing world. His work has been featured in and he has been a Producer on multiple Emmy award winning television series.

DoYeon Kim is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning virtuoso of the gayageum (a traditional Korean string instrument). In addition to traditional Korean music, DoYeon specializes in free jazz, jazz, and improvisation. She regularly performs solo and group concerts worldwide in Asia, Europe, North America, and South America. As a graduate of the New England Conservatory, and protégé of the world’s leading gayageum master Yi Jiyoung, DoYeon has performed alongside many distinguished improvisors, including Joe Morris, Agusti Fernandez, Barry Guy and Tyshawn Sorey. Her 2017 album Gapi was nominated for a Korean Grammy award, and her latest album Macrocosm, with Joe Morris, received international critical acclaim, and Grammy.com recognized her as one of 7 Musicians Pushing Ancient Asian Instruments Into The Future (2021). DoYeon’s approach to playing the gayageum, as well as improvised music, is a singularly unique experience.

Marvin Juneyoung Kim (nanum.wav) is a music maker and audio engineer based in Boston, MA. Graduated from Berklee College of Music in 2021, his musical background is rooted in wide ranges of sound from Classical and Jazz music to Rock and Hip-Hop music. As a producer, his work focuses on revealing the artists’ truest and most honest voices, encouraging them to take risks and allow vulnerability to bloom in their music. In studios, nanum.wav lives to capture the moment that will only exist once into an immortal digital recording. He has worked with artists including Autumn Jones, Shakale Davis, Christourfer Schrock, Sheroz Mazhar.

Take a Saturday afternoon to relax, create, and meditate from your home with virtual Chinese brush painting.

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

About the Artist

Contact: arts@bcnc.net | 617-863-9080

UNACCOMPANIED, A Classical Music Performance by Leo Eguchi

Boston-based cellist Leo Eguchi presents: UNACCOMPANIED, a performance featuring eight short new works for solo cello which explore personal stories of immigration and American assimilation. Each of the commissioned works is by immigrant and first-generation American composers tasked with tackling the question, “What does your American-ness sound like?”

Read more about the project’s development in our interview with Leo Eguchi.

Free | Suggested Donation $10

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All visitors are required to be masked during the duration of the performance. Performers may be unmasked while performing.

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Leo Eguchi, cello

Leo Eguchi has been described as “copiously skilled and confident” (New York Times) with performances that were "ravishing" (New Bedford Standard-Times) and "played with passion and vitality" (Boston Music Intellegencer).

A native of Michigan, Leo has performed extensively across North America, Europe, Australia and Asia. An active soloist and chamber musician who believes in the power of music for social change, he is the co-founder and co-artistic director of both the  Willamette Valley Chamber Music Festival and Sheffield Chamber Players, and performs with Shelter Music Boston, which delivers classical music to homeless shelters and substance misuse recovery centers. Leo is the principal cellist of the New Bedford Symphony, a member of Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, New Hampshire Music Festival and the Portland Symphony Orchestras; and appears frequently with the Boston Pops.

A strong advocate of new music, Leo has worked closely with, and premiered dozens of solo and chamber works by many of today’s most important composers, including Jessie Montgomery, Gabriela Lena Frank, Osvaldo Golijov, Reena Esmail, William Bolcom, Bright Sheng, George Crumb, Lukas Foss, Joan Tower, Ken Ueno, Yehudi Wyner, and Daniel Bernard Roumain.

Recent performing highlights include being a prize winner at the 2021 ProCello International Cello Competition, having several GRAMMY nominated recording releases from Parma recordings, multiple concerto appearances, an artist residency and solo performances in Kabul, Afghanistan, and opportunities to share the non-classical stage with the likes of Pete Townshend, Queen Latifah, Melissa Etheridge, Demi Lovato, Brian Wilson, Kelly Clarkson, Peter Gabriel, Billy Idol, Jennifer Hudson, Nick Jonas, Josh Groban, and Audra McDonald, to name a few.

Leo is on the music faculty of Boston College, and is the Assistant Conductor of the MIT Symphony Orchestra. His degrees include a BM (Cello Performance) and BS (Physics) cum laude from the University of Michigan, and MM (Cello Performance) from Boston University, where he received the String Department Award for Excellence. Leo, along with violinist wife Sasha Callahan and cat-obsessed daughter Freya, live in Boston and spend their non-musical time appreciating the outdoors, food, and wine.

James Díaz (Colombian, Lives in New York City), composer

Called “stark, haunting elegance” with “intimate focus” by The Washington Post, the music of Colombian-born composer/sound maker James Díaz strives to create unique sonic textures, sound masses, and interactive environments. Deeply influenced by the concept of psychedelia, his music also draws from elements of graphic design, Latin-America landscapes, and photography. James is currently working on his studio album “[speaking in a foreign language]” with violinist Julia Suh.

Colombian composer/sound maker James Díaz, currently based in Philadelphia/New York, composes music that strives to create unique sonic textures, sound masses, and interactive environments. Deeply influenced by the concept of psychedelia, his music also draws from elements of architecture, Latin-America landscapes, graphic design, and photography. He was recently featured in The Washington Post‘s “22 for ’22: Composers and performers to watch this year."

Serving as the 2019 composer-in-residence for the Medellin Philharmonic, James premiered "RETRO", his concerto for orchestra and electronics. 

James has won multiple international and national awards, such as the 2015 National Prize of Music in Composition from the Colombian Ministry of Culture for "Saturn Lights", his concerto for percussion trio and orchestra. His orchestral piece "Frack[in]g" was awarded the 2018 Bogotá Philharmonic Prize in Composition. Similarly, James has been a fellow at the Orchestra of St. Luke’s DeGaetano Institute, the American Composers Orchestra's Underwood Readings, the Nashville Symphony Composers Lab, the Loretto Project, the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music, and the International Winter Festival of Campos do Jordao.

His music has been performed by orchestras such as the WDR Sinfonieorchester, Basel Sinfonietta, National Symphony of Colombia, American Composers Orchestra, Medellin Philharmonic, Xalapa Symphony Orchestra, Nashville Symphony, Bogotá Philharmonic, Orchestra of St. Luke's, and EAFIT Symphony, and by ensembles such as Longleash, Yarn/Wire, Sō Percussion, Unheard-of//ensemble, Efferus Quartet, Apply Triangle, Quartet121, Camará Ensamble, ZOFO, and National Sawdust Ensemble.

Similarly, as collaboration with filmmaker/producer Leticia Akel Escárate, his film music has been presented at the SIFF Seattle International Film Festival ShortsFest, Palm Springs International ShortFest, Madrid FCM-PNR Festival, Cinemaissí Festival (Finland), and the Huesca, Quito, Sao Paulo, and Santiago international festivals.

James is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in composition at the University of Pennsylvania as a Benjamin Franklin fellow.

Milad Yousufi (Afghan, refugee status, lives in New York City), composer

Milad Yousufi was born in 1995 during the civil war in Afghanistan. At that time the Taliban were ruling Afghanistan, and music was completely banned.  At the age of two he started drawing. He drew the piano keys on paper and pretended to play.

Milad Yousufi is a pianist, composer, conductor, poet, singer, painter and calligrapher. Yousufi’s work is deeply inspired by his country and culture.

When the Taliban rule was lifted after a period of five years, the arts flourished in Afghanistan, and Yousufi took advantage of every opportunity to learn and study music and art. By the age of 12 he was teaching painting and was able to attend the one and only music school in Kabul. After only three years of formal piano training, Yousufi was one of four students  accepted into a music program in Denmark; He was also chosen to represent Afghanistan at various music festivals in The Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, and Germany.  He placed third in the International Golden Key competition in Frankfurt, Germany.

Upon his return to Afghanistan, Yousufi concentrated on teaching piano, theory, and a course of music notation program (Sibelius) at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music.

In 2011 The Afghan Youth Orchestra was formed. Yousufi was the pianist and then became the first Afghan conductor and arranged music for their performances.

In 2013 the Afghan Youth Orchestra made a U.S. tour playing sold-out concerts in Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and New England Conservatory where he performed as a pianist.

Upon moving to the United States, Yousufi was awarded a full scholarship to attend Mannes School of Music as an undergraduate and studied piano with the world-renowned pianist Simone Dinnerstein. Yousufi had the opportunity to study jazz piano and improvisation with Uri Caine,  orchestration with Rudolph Palmer, music arrangement with Jacob Garchik and Matt Haimovitz and film music with Micheal Bacon from the Bacon Brothers.Yousufi has graduated from Mannes School of Music in spring 2020 and currently pursuing masters degree in composition under Dr. Dalit Warshaw's mentorship at Brooklyn College. Yousufi has had the opportunity to compose for The New York Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, premiered at Lincoln Center; Refugee Orchestra Project; Kronos Quartet, premiered in Carnegie Hall; Worcester Music, South High Community School Brass Band, Terezin Music Foundation, premiered in Boston Symphony Hall. Refugee Orchestra, premiered at the Barbican Center in London, Pianist Yael Weiss for 32 Bright Clouds: (Beethoven Conversation Around the World), Winsor Music, Trio Solisti, Burncoat High School Orchestra, Worcester Chamber Music Society, Upcoming commissions include The VISION Collective, Cellist Leo Eguchi, Choral piece for Old Ship Church, Musaics of the Bay and Raleigh Civic Symphony Orchestra. Milad Yousufi is on the directory board of Musaics of the Bay, The VISION Collective, and an ambassador for Arium TV. Yousufi is a faculty member at Brooklyn Conservatory of Music.

Yousufi has a dream to make a difference in the future of music and culture in Afghanistan.

Kenji Bunch (Japanese American, lives in Portland, OR), composer

Kenji Bunch is one of America’s most engaging, influential, and prolific composers. Through an expansive blend of classical and vernacular styles, Bunch makes music that’s “clearly modern but deeply respectful of tradition and instantly enjoyable.” (The Washington Post) Deemed “emotional Americana,” (Oregon ArtsWatch) and infused with folk and roots influences, Bunch’s work has inspired a new genre classification: “Call it neo-American: casual on the outside, complex underneath, immediate and accessible to first-time listeners… Bunch’s music is shiningly original.” (The Oregonian) Hailed by The New York Times as “A Composer To Watch” and cited by Alex Ross in his seminal book The Rest Is Noise, Bunch’s wit, lyricism, unpredictability, and exquisite craftsmanship earn acclaim from audiences, performers, and critics alike. His interests in history, philosophy, and intergenerational and cross-cultural sharing of the arts reflect in his work. Varied style references in Bunch's writing mirror the diversity of global influence on American culture and reveal his deft ability to integrate bluegrass, hip hop, jazz, and funk idioms. Rich, tonal harmonies and drawn-out, satisfying builds characterize Bunch’s work and easily lend themselves to dance and film. Over sixty American orchestras have performed Bunch’s music, which “reache(s) into every section of the orchestra to create an intriguing mixture of sonic colors.” (NW Reverb) As the inaugural Composer in Residence for the Moab Music Festival (2021), Bunch composed Lost Freedom: A Memory in collaboration with and starring actor George Takei as the narrator of his own writings, interwoven with chamber ensemble. Other recent works include commissions and premieres from the Seattle Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Lark Quartet, Britt Festival, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Music From Angel Fire, Chamber Music Northwest, Eugene Ballet, Third Angle New Music, Grant Park Music Festival, and 45th Parallel (2020 Composer in Residence). His extensive discography includes recordings on Sony/BMG, EMI Classics, Koch, RCA, and Naxos labels among others. Also an outstanding violist, Bunch was the first student ever to receive dual Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in viola and composition from The Juilliard School and was a founding member of the highly acclaimed ensembles Flux Quartet (1996-2002) and Ne(x)tworks (2003-2011). Bunch currently serves as Artistic Director of Fear No Music, directs MYSfits, the Metropolitan Youth Symphony’s conductorless string orchestra, and teaches viola, composition, and music theory at Portland State University, Reed College, and for the Portland Youth Philharmonic.

José-Luis Hurtado (Mexican, lives in Albuquerque, NM), composer

Winner of a 2020 John Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, Mexican born-American composer José-Luis Hurtado’s music has been performed across continents by ensembles and soloists such as the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, JACK Quartet, International Contemporary Ensemble ICE, Talea Ensemble, Earplay Ensemble, Juilliard Ensemble, New York Miniaturist Ensemble, Seattle Chamber Players, Iowa CNM Ensemble, Callithumpian Consort,The Ikarus Chamber Players, SEM Ensemble, Sigma Project Sax Quartet,The North/South Consonance Chamber Orchestra, Interensemble, Concorde Ensemble, Quinteto Latino, Ensamble 3, Ensamble Ónix,Versus 8 Percussion Quartet, Orquesta Uninorte, Orquesta Sinfónica de Guanajuato, Orquesta Sinfónica de San Luis Potosí, Camerata de las Amérícas, CEPROMUSIC Ensemble, Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir, Quatuor Molinari, Pierrot Lunaire Ensemble Wien, Stephen Drury, Émile Girard-Charest, Lora Kmieliauskaite,Tony Arnold, Garth Knox, Claire Chase, Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne and the Arditti String Quartet among others.

He has been the recipient of the Kompositionspreis der Stadt Wolkersdorf (Austria), the Harvard University Green Prize for Excellence in Composition (USA), the Rodolfo Halffter Ibero-American Composition Prize,The Adelbert W. Sprague Prize (USA),The George Arthur Knight Prize (USA), the Micro-Jornadas de Composición y Música Contemporánea Prize (Argentina), the Julián Carrillo Composition Prize (Mexico), El Premio Estatal de Composición del Festival Internacional de Música Contemporánea de Michoacán (Mexico), the José Tocavén Lavín Medal in recognition of his artistic trajectory, 2nd prize in the Troisieme Concours International de composition du Quatuor Molinari (Canada), 2nd prize in the Ariel Piano Composition Competition,Third Prize Winner of the National SCI/ASCAP Composition Competition, and finalist of The Earplay Composition Competition,The Look & Listen Festival Composition Competition and The Jeunesses International Composition Competition (Romania). Grants and Fellowships include those from the National Endowment for the Arts of Mexico, the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures (USA), Ibermúsicas, the American Music Center, and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation (Italy). He has just been named member of the prestigious Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte grant in recognition of a distinguished artistic trajectory.The SNCA is a government supported program that converges the most renown artists of Mexico, including writers, visual artists, dancers, film makers, and composers.

He is currently working on commissions for bassonist Ben Roidl-Ward, bass clarinetist Gleb Kanasevich, saxophonist Philipp Stäudlin, CRAS Danish Guitar Ensemble, flutist Camilla Hoitenga, German percussionist Magdalena Meitzner, cellist Leo Eguchi, Spanish Vertixe Sonora Ensemble, and an interdisciplinary concertante piece for a child pianist, string orchestra, percussion, and fixed media supported by the John Guggenheim Foundation. Premieres and performances of his pieces during 2021, 2022, and 2023 are taking place in Lithuania, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, France, Mexico,Argentina, and the US.

His second CD portrait, which features NY based Talea Ensemble performing six of his most recent compositions for large ensemble of 16 members, will be released at the end of March of 2021 under the prestigious Kairos recording label. Many of his works can be heard on ATMA Clasique (Canada), New Focus Recordings (USA), Con Brio Records (USA) and Urtext (Mexico). His music is published and distributed by Babel Scores, a french publisher specialist in new music.

In addition to his compositional career, he is highly active as a pianist and music advocate. He is the pianist of Low Frequency Trio (Contemporary Bass clarinet, double bass, and piano ensemble), founding member of áltaVoz (Latin- American composers collaborative in the U.S), founder and curator of La Mansion de la Cantante Muda (an interdisciplinary festival of contemporary music, film, and storytelling at the Leonora Carrington Museum in Mexico), and former director of The Harvard Group for New Music.

Hurtado holds degrees in piano performance and composition from Conservatorio de las Rosas (Morelia, Mexico), a Master of Music in Composition from Universidad Veracruzana (Xalapa, Mexico) and a Ph.D. from Harvard University where he studied under Mario Davidovsky, Chaya Czernowin, Magnus Lindberg, Brian Ferneyhough and Helmut Lachenmann.

Hurtado is currently Associate Professor of Theory and Composition at the University of New Mexico where he also founded, directs and curates the Music from the Americas Concert Series.

Shaw Pong Liu (Chinese American, lives in Boston area), composer

Violinist and composer Shaw Pong Liu engages diverse communities through multidisciplinary collaborations, creative music and social dialogue. Her project Code Listen, which she started as City of Boston Artist-in-Residence in 2016, uses songwriting and performances to support healing and dialogue around violence, racism, and police practices, in collaboration with the Boston Police Department, teen artists, family members surviving homicide and local musicians.

Ongoing projects include the song-sharing project Sing Home which she leads as Artist-in-Residence at the Pao Arts Center in Boston’s Chinatown, and composing music for Conference of the Birds, an international multimedia collaboration with choreographer Wendy Jehlen's Anikaya Dance Theatre and dancers from 8 countries.

Previous projects include Sunbar, connecting Bostonians with sunlight, warmth, and each other during cold winter months, with the vision of a future mobile solarium; What Artists Knead, a series of breadmaking parties across five neighborhoods in Boston for artists to bake bread and discuss their ideas for Boston's creative future; Water Graffiti for Peace, a series of outdoor Chinese water calligraphy sessions inviting public play and conversations about peace; A Bird a Day, exploring birdsong, sunrises and composition (resulting in a site-specific composition for 18 solo string players in three tiers of balconies); and Soldiers’ Tales Untold, a musical-narrative production mixing veterans’ stories, live music, and audience dialogue about war. In addition to violin, she also performs as a vocalist, erhu (Chinese violin) player, and even performed as an aerialist (aerial silks with Whistler in the Dark theatre company’s production of “Tales From Ovid”). 

Shaw Pong is is a founding member of Play for Justice, a network of musicians and artists in Boston supporting social justice causes. Her compositions have been commissioned by Silkroad Ensemble for the Freer-Sackler Museum, Anikaya Dance Theatre, A Far Cry, Lorelei Ensemble, and pianist Sarah Bob. As a violinist she performs with groups including Silk Road Ensemble, MIT’s Gamelan GalakTika, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Ludovico Ensemble, and Castle of Our Skins. She has worked as a teaching artist with Yo-Yo Ma's Youth Music Culture Guangzhou, the New England Conservatory of Music, the Urbano Project, Celebrity Series, Cantata Singers, Young Audiences, and is a founding faculty at the Cuerdas Oaxaca strings chamber music festival in Mexico.

A graduate of U.C. Berkeley with a Masters in Violin Performance from the New England Conservatory of Music, Shaw Pong was an Expressing Boston Public Art Fellow in 2014-15; artist-ethnographer for Boston's cultural planning initiative, Boston Creates in 2015; one of three Artist-in-Residence for the City of Boston's first Artist-in-Residence program in 2016; and 2017-18 Artist-in-Residence at the Pao Arts Center in Boston Chinatown. She is a 2018-19 Kennedy Center Citizen Artist Fellow.

Earl Maneein (Thai/Chinese American, lives in New York City), composer

Earl Maneein was born and raised in Queens, NY. He began studying classical violin at age four. Later, he discovered extreme music in October of 1989 at an all ages show in the basement of Our Lady of Lourdes in Queens Village. There he saw the hardcore band No Redeeming Social Value and was accidentally punched in the face by a “SHARP” skinhead in the mosh pit. He has never been the same since.

He received a Bachelor of Music Degree from Queens College and a Master of Music Degree from the Mannes College of Music in New York City, where he studied with Daniel Phillips of the Orion String Quartet.

Earl has made a career for himself by wearing different hats. As a composer, he has received commissions from Rachel Barton Pine (international concert violinist), Tito Muñoz (music director of the Phoenix Symphony), Masumi Rostad (violist of the Pacifica String Quartet), The Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, The Dance Theater of Harlem, The Francesca Harper Dance Company, and Zentripetal Duo.

Earl also regularly composes for his two projects, the experimental grindcore-improvisatory-jazz-metal duo Black Heart Sutra, and his new music/hardcore crossover string quartet SEVEN)SUNS, whose first full length album, "For The Hearts Still Beating", was released on Party Smasher Inc. in June 2017.

Earl’s violin concerto "Dependent Arising" received its World Premiere by Rachel Barton Pine with Tito Muñoz conducting the Phoenix Symphony in April of 2017. It is scheduled for more performances for the 2018-19 season with the Orchestre Symphonique Bretagne in Rennes, France and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA.

Praised by Metallica’s Robert Trujillo as a “kick ass player who pushes the creative boundaries”, Earl’s expertise in extreme music is much sought after by musicians in the hardcore/metal community and beyond. Among the artists Earl has collaborated with as a metal and hardcore specialist are Janet Biggs (visual artist), Blake Fleming (original drummer of The Mars Volta), Jessica Pimentel (Orange is the New Black, Alekhine’s Gun), the bands Blood Has Been Shed, So Hideous, and The Dillinger Escape Plan. Earl and his string quartet SEVEN)SUNS were featured prominently on The Dillinger Escape Plan’s final album, “Dissociation”, released at the end of 2016.

As a freelance violinist and violist Earl is comfortable and skilled in varied styles including but not limited to classical, bluegrass, orthodox Jewish music, jazz and rock.

Earl tours as a featured player of Vitamin String Quartet.

He has recorded and played with such varied artists and groups as Albert Hammond Jr. of the Strokes, Aretha Franklin, Alicia Keys, Avraham Fried, Florence+The Machine, Jay-Z, Mordechai Ben David, Paul Weller of The Jam, Rhianna, The Roots, and Sean Lennon, among others.

Earl has played on countless commercial recording works including: the 2010 Monster.com Superbowl ad; incidental music for the Nickelodeon show Team Umizoomi; and “Rising Sun”, the theme song for the WWE wrestler Shinsuke Nakamura.

Earl lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife (and SEVEN)SUNS cellist), Jennifer and their daughter.

Kareem Roustom (Syrian, lives in the Boston area), composer

Syrian-American Kareem Roustom is an Emmy-nominated composer whose genre crossing collaborations include music commissioned by conductor Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, the Kronos Quartet, arrangements for pop icons Shakira and Tina Turner, as well as a recent collaboration with acclaimed British choreographer Shobana Jeyasingh. Roustom has been composer-in-residence at the Grant Park Music Festival in Chicago, the Grand Teton Music Festival in Wyoming, and with the Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen in Germany. For the 2021-2022 season Roustom will be composer-in-residence with the Mannheim Philharmonic.

Roustom’s music has been performed by ensembles that include the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Boulez Ensemble, the Deutsch Oper Berlin, The Crossing choir, Lorelei Ensemble, A Far Cry, and at renowned festivals and halls such as the BBC Proms, the Salzburg Festival, the Lucerne Festival, Carnegie Hall, the Verbier Festival, the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin, the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, and others.

Roustom has received commissions from the Malmö Symphony Orchestra (Sweden), the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Düsseldorfer Symphonkier, the Grand Teton Music Festival, the Grant Park Music Festival, the Daniel Barenboim Stiftung, the Pierre Boulez Saal, Shobana Jeyasingh Dance, the Royal Philharmonic Society & Sadler’s Wells Theatre (London), A Far Cry & Lorelei Ensemble and others.  Roustom’s music has also been recorded by the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester (Berlin), and the Philharmonia Orchestra (London). Upcoming performances of Roustom’s music during the 2021 – 2022 season include the Mannheim Philharmonic, the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Oregon Symphony, the Toledo Symphony, and at the Grange Festival in Hampshire, England. The Chicago Tribune wrote that Roustom is “a gifted and accomplished artist, one of the most prominent active Arab-American composers,” BBC Radio3 described Roustom’s music as “among the most distinctive to have emerged from the Middle East”, and The New York Times described it as “propulsive, colorful and immediately appealing.” The Guardian (London) wrote that Roustom’s music is “arrestingly quirky and postmodern…music with lots of personality.” Roustom holds the position of Professor of the Practice at Tufts University’s Department of Music in Boston. More details available at www.kr-music.com.  

Frank Duarte (Mexican American - Lives in East Lansing, MI), composer

Frank Duarte (b. 1992) is an American composer, songwriter, conductor, writer, and poet. His music, inspired by his upbringings, transcends conventional boundaries creating a programmatic approach full of luxuriant emotion, perception of color, and a palette of sonorities that make it organic and innate. Recipient of two Global Music Awards, Duarte has been granted two ASCAP Plus Awards and has had works performed throughout the United States (Alabama, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Kansas, North Carolina, Oregon, Indiana, Michigan, Utah, Virginia), Japan (Kyoto, Seto, Nagoya), Greece, and the Republic of Colombia by professionals and secondary, collegiate, and community ensembles. 

His music has been featured throughout universities including in seminars and conferences at Ball State University, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and Universidad of Cauca, and recitals and concerts at California State University, Northridge, Eastern Connecticut State University, Fullerton College, Henderson State University, Michigan State University, Mills College, Snow College, Texas Tech University, and the University of North Texas among others. His music has also been featured by Composers Circle and the online radio station Kinetics Radio. The Green Band Association, an organization that sponsors Japanese bands to participate in the Tournament of Roses Parade, programmed his works three times in 2012, 2014, and 2017 for their charitable benefit concerts. His compositions have also been featured in books, journals, and academic papers.

Born in Southern California, Duarte was primarily raised by his Indigenous Mexican (Zapotec) maternal family in Santa Ana, California, located within Metropolitan Los Angeles. Duarte earned Associate of Arts degrees in Music and History and degrees in Interdisciplinary Studies, emphasizing in Science and Mathematics, Arts and Human Expression, and Social Sciences from Fullerton College. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Composition from California State University, Northridge, and a Master of Music Degree in Composition from Butler University. Duarte attended Texas Tech University and was a doctoral student in composition. He is currently a Doctor of Musical Arts student in Composition at Michigan State University as an awardee of a Michigan State University Fellowship. 

His previous mentors and teachers have included Anthony Mazzaferro, Michael Colburn (Conducting), and Liviu Marinescu, Milen Kirov, Michael Schelle, James Mulholland, and Jennifer Jolley (Composition). He previously served as an Instructor of Record, teaching composition at Texas Tech University. His works are published or distributed through Murphy Music Press, Tolliver Music Company, and ADJ•ective New Music. Duarte is a member of ADJ•ective New Music Composers' Collective and Landscape Music, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, and an alumnus of Beta Theta Pi. 

Convergent Waves: Boston (Film) by Lenora Lee

Documentary | 52 minutes | English | World Premiere

“Convergent Waves: Boston” by Lenora Lee Dance, in collaboration with Pao Arts Center, celebrates the contributions of activists and non-profit leaders, reclaiming space by eliciting stories of community agency, resilience, and transformation. Inspired by rich narrative, this work represents a powerful call for community oriented development in the face of rapid change, making a collective statement for the preservation of community as neighborhoods across the country inhabited for generations face cultural erosion, loss of businesses, and displacement through gentrification. “Convergent Waves: Boston” highlights successes in preserving the cultural fabric and accomplishments of these communities.

The Convergent Waves: Boston film screening is a part of the 2022 Boston Asian American Film Festival “Boston Chinatown Artivism” day, co-presented by Pao Arts Center. Learn more about the film festival and the see the full schedule here.

Ticket Prices: $5 - $15

Emerson Paramount Theater

Film Screening will be followed by an in-person Q&A with all four directors of the day’s films: Xinyan Fu, Curtis Chan, Kenneth Eng, and Lenora Lee.

About the Artists:

Lenora Lee

Lenora Lee Dance (LLD) integrates contemporary dance, film, music, and research and has gained increasing attention for its sustained pursuit of issues related to immigration, incarceration, global conflict, and its impacts, particularly on women and families. LLD creates works that are both set in public and private spaces, intimate and at the same time large-scale, inspired by individual stories as well as community strength, at times crafted for the proscenium, or underwater, or in the air, at at times are site-responsive, immersive, and interactive. For the last 14 years, the company has been pushing the envelope of large scale multimedia and immersive dance performance that connects various styles of movement and music to culture, history, and human rights issues. Its work has grown to encompass the creation, presentation, and screening of films, museum and gallery installations, civic engagement, and educational programming.

Partners

Take a Saturday afternoon to relax, create, and meditate from your home with virtual Chinese brush painting.

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

About the Artist

Contact: arts@bcnc.net | 617-863-9080

Looking for ways to relax this summer?

Join us on the deck outside of Pao Arts Center every 3rd Thursday from June to August for an hour of fun creative activities! Let's connect and create together!

6/16, 7/21, and 8/18

12:00 – 1:00 pm

Outside Pao Arts Center (66 Hudson Street Deck)* will move indoors to Pao Arts Center in case of inclement weather.

Light snacks and refreshments provided

Program will be in English, with Mandarin translation upon request.

This project is supported by:

Contact: arts@bcnc.net | 617-863-9080

In collaboration with Greenway Conservancy, Pao Arts Center and Curator Leslie Anne Condon curates this summer 2022 outdoor performance series which celebrates the cultural power that flows through AAPI communities across the Asian diaspora, in ways that vocalize both struggles and joys. Featuring live performances by Boston-area spoken artists and performers who draw upon a wide range of artistic styles, cultural traditions, and languages from AAPI communities and beyond, the event series activates artist Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong’s YEAR OF THE TIGER installation in Mary Soo Hoo Park. Through their words, dance, creative gestures, and songs, each artist brings greater visibility to our interconnected histories and current realities while offering more playful and empowering visions of our collective future.

New Narratives Series: Present and Future

Saturday, August 13 | 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Performances featuring: Tamiko Beyer, Micah Rose, Juk Sing, and The Flavor Continues.

Free + Suggested Donation $10, Donations go to support Pao Arts Center’s arts and cultural program.

This event is the final of the VISIONS/VOICES: YEAR OF THE TIGER performance series. Through a partnership with the Greenway Conservancy, Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong has been commissioned to create an artwork celebrating the Year of the Tiger, as part of an annual project honoring the Chinese Zodiac on The Greenway. Her upcoming artwork, YEAR OF THE TIGER, is a community pavilion and a site-specific public artwork composed of vibrantly colored seating, podiums and sprawling floor motifs. As both stage and seating, YEAR OF THE TIGER creates a new, intergenerational hub to gather outdoors, perform or engage in public programs. Pao Arts Center is proud to partner with the Greenway to bring public events to Mary Soo Hoo Park.

See the full performance schedule.

About The Artists:

Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong

Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong is a New York-based artist working at the boundary of art and architecture. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Cheryl received her B.A. in Art and Italian at UC Berkeley and her Master of Architecture from Columbia University GSAPP. Her work has been commissioned by the NY State Thruway Authority, NYC Parks Department, City of Inglewood, City of Calgary and by the Washington DC Government. 

About our Partner:

The Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy

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, seasonal exhibitions that engage people in meaningful experiences, interactions, 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.

Contact: arts@bcnc.net, 617.863.9080

Looking for ways to relax this summer?

Join us on the deck outside of Pao Arts Center every 3rd Thursday from June to August for an hour of fun creative activities! Let's connect and create together!

6/16, 7/21, and 8/18

12:00 – 1:00 pm

Outside Pao Arts Center (66 Hudson Street Deck)* will move indoors to Pao Arts Center in case of inclement weather.

Light snacks and refreshments provided

Program will be in English, with Mandarin translation upon request.

This project is supported by:

Contact: arts@bcnc.net | 617-863-9080

In collaboration with Greenway Conservancy, Pao Arts Center and Curator Leslie Anne Condon curates this summer 2022 outdoor performance series which celebrates the cultural power that flows through AAPI communities across the Asian diaspora, in ways that vocalize both struggles and joys. Featuring live performances by Boston-area spoken artists and performers who draw upon a wide range of artistic styles, cultural traditions, and languages from AAPI communities and beyond, the event series activates artist Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong’s YEAR OF THE TIGER installation in Mary Soo Hoo Park. Through their words, dance, creative gestures, and songs, each artist brings greater visibility to our interconnected histories and current realities while offering more playful and empowering visions of our collective future.

New Narratives Series: Our Past and Present

Saturday, July 16 | 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm 

Performances featuring: Cynthia Lin, Lani Asuncion, Subdrift Boston, and Adobo Fish Sauce.

Free + Suggested Donation $10, Donations go to support Pao Arts Center’s arts and cultural program.

This event is the third of the VISIONS/VOICES: YEAR OF THE TIGER performance series. Through a partnership with the Greenway Conservancy, Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong has been commissioned to create an artwork celebrating the Year of the Tiger, as part of an annual project honoring the Chinese Zodiac on The Greenway. Her upcoming artwork, YEAR OF THE TIGER, is a community pavilion and a site-specific public artwork composed of vibrantly colored seating, podiums and sprawling floor motifs. As both stage and seating, YEAR OF THE TIGER creates a new, intergenerational hub to gather outdoors, perform or engage in public programs. Pao Arts Center is proud to partner with the Greenway to bring public events to Mary Soo Hoo Park.

See the full performance schedule.

About The Artists:

Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong

Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong is a New York-based artist working at the boundary of art and architecture. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Cheryl received her B.A. in Art and Italian at UC Berkeley and her Master of Architecture from Columbia University GSAPP. Her work has been commissioned by the NY State Thruway Authority, NYC Parks Department, City of Inglewood, City of Calgary and by the Washington DC Government. 

About our Partner:

The Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy

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, seasonal exhibitions that engage people in meaningful experiences, interactions, 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.

Contact: arts@bcnc.net, 617.863.9080

The Ghost of Keelung, a Radio Play Presentation
Written by Jamie Lin
Directed by Audrey Seraphin

In the present, a woman visits her family home in Taiwan to appease an ancestral wrong. Back in 1956, a young woman begins working at a bar for American sailors and falls for one of them with dire consequences.

Location: YEAR OF THE TIGER installation at Mary Soo Hoo Park on The Greenway

Performance Time: Saturday, June 25, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Language: English with Mandarin and Hokkien

Pricing : Free, suggested donation $10

About Found in Translation
“Found in Translation” is a play-reading and community workshop series through Winter 2021 to Spring 2022 that amplifies the power and complexities of being multilingual, immigrants, or identifying as AAPI in Greater Boston.

About the Playwright

This event is the second of the VISIONS/VOICES: YEAR OF THE TIGER performance series. Through a partnership with the Greenway Conservancy, Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong has been commissioned to create an artwork celebrating the Year of the Tiger, as part of an annual project honoring the Chinese Zodiac on The Greenway. Her upcoming artwork, YEAR OF THE TIGER, is a community pavilion and a site-specific public artwork composed of vibrantly colored seating, podiums and sprawling floor motifs. As both stage and seating, YEAR OF THE TIGER creates a new, intergenerational hub to gather outdoors, perform or engage in public programs. Pao Arts Center is proud to partner with the Greenway to bring public events to Mary Soo Hoo Park.

See the full performance schedule.

About the Partners

Found in Translation is made possible by a Live Arts Boston grant from the Boston Foundation and the ReOpen Creative Boston Grant from Boston Culture Council.

This project is also supported by Ralph Lauren, Niantic, Inc., The Kresge Foundation, and National CAPACD.

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

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

Contact: arts@bcnc.net | 617-863-9080

Looking for ways to relax this summer?

Join us on the deck outside of Pao Arts Center every 3rd Thursday from June to August for an hour of fun creative activities! Let's connect and create together!

6/16, 7/21, and 8/18

12:00 – 1:00 pm

Outside Pao Arts Center (66 Hudson Street Deck)* will move indoors to Pao Arts Center in case of inclement weather.

Light snacks and refreshments provided

Program will be in English, with Mandarin translation upon request.

This project is supported by:

Contact: arts@bcnc.net | 617-863-9080

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

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

Contact: arts@bcnc.net | 617-863-9080

Join Pao Arts Center, Curator Leslie Anne Condon, and artists Yanni Niki Li, Ponnapa Prakkamakul, Micah Rose, Jessica TranVo, and Tran Vu as we celebrate the opening of The Collective Imaginary on view at our gallery from May 27 - July 22, 2022.

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!

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

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

Opening Reception:

Friday, May 27 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm
Free + Suggested Donation $10, Donations go to support Pao Arts Center’s arts and cultural program.

Gallery Hours:

• Wednesdays 1:00 - 5:00 pm 

• Thursdays 1:00 - 7:00 pm 

• Fridays 1:00 - 5:00 pm 

• Saturdays 1:00 – 5:00 pm 

• Sundays, Mondays and Tuesdays: Closed 

View our visitor policy.

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

Pao Arts Center 5th Anniversary Community Celebration and YEAR OF THE TIGER Opening

Five years ago, BCNC and Bunker Hill Community College came together in a visionary collaboration to open Pao Arts Center, Chinatown’s first arts, cultural, and education center.

On May 14th, gather to experience live performances celebrating 5 years of creativity and culture at Pao Arts Center. Featuring the opening of “YEAR OF THE TIGER” installation by Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong and performances by: Wah Lum Academy, Jennifer Lin and dancers, BHCC student and alumni musicians, Minhua Chen, Elgin Lee, Ba Pham, Patricia Seun, Yu Wang, Chen Chen, Chavi Bansal, IJ Chan, Flora Hyoin Kim Han, and Anju.

Partners: The Greenway Conservancy

This event is the first of the VISIONS/VOICES: YEAR OF THE TIGER performance series. Through a partnership with the Greenway Conservancy, Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong has been commissioned to create an artwork celebrating the Year of the Tiger, as part of an annual project honoring the Chinese Zodiac on The Greenway. Her upcoming artwork, YEAR OF THE TIGER, is a community pavilion and a site-specific public artwork composed of vibrantly colored seating, podiums and sprawling floor motifs. As both stage and seating, YEAR OF THE TIGER creates a new, intergenerational hub to gather outdoors, perform or engage in public programs. Pao Arts Center is proud to partner with the Greenway to bring public events to Mary Soo Hoo Park.

See the full performance schedule.

About The Artists:

Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong

Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong is a New York-based artist working at the boundary of art and architecture. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Cheryl received her B.A. in Art and Italian at UC Berkeley and her Master of Architecture from Columbia University GSAPP. Her work has been commissioned by the NY State Thruway Authority, NYC Parks Department, City of Inglewood, City of Calgary and by the Washington DC Government. 

Anju 

Anju is a singer, songwriter, producer, and performer from Minneapolis. Their music conjures imaginary lovers, scents of citrus, and visions of hairy brown skin under the sun. Anju was highlighted by NPR’s All Songs Considered as an outstanding Tiny Desk Contest entrant, and they were commissioned by South Asian American Digital Archive to create original music for a sound tour of immigrant history in Philadelphia. They are currently teaching piano, viola, and violin to young musicians and working on their debut full-length album.

I.J. Chan

IJ Chan (陳加恩) is a dance artist and educator from Boston, MA. She has dedicated her life to training and performing intensively in multiple dance genres and under many choreographers. In her own choreographic work, IJ is interested in intersecting and exploring the Asian-American narrative. She is committed to bringing quality performing arts instruction to low-income and minority youth populations within Boston. She also works as a freelance graphic designer,  visual artist and seamstress.

Chen Chen

Chen Chen is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency (BOA Editions, 2022) and the forthcoming book of essays, In Cahoots with the Rabbit God (Noemi Press, 2023). His debut book of poems, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions, 2017), was longlisted for the National Book Award and won the Thom Gunn Award, among other honors. He teaches at Brandeis University.

Minhua Chen 

In Minhua Chen’s own words she is “New to real life, new to music. A yet unknown singer who is trying to be better.”

Flora Hyoin Kim Han

Flora Hyoin Kim Han (dance – Boston) is a Korean-American dancer, choreographer, and dance educator. Since earning her B.F.A. in Dance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2014, she has worked with The Click, Prometheus Dance, Jenna Pollack, Lenora Lee Dance, beheard.world, Jennifer Lin, Deborah Abel Dance Company, Lorraine Chapman, and Urbanity Dance. Flora is currently an Assistant Professor of Dance at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, a Lecturer of Dance at Brandeis University in Fall 2021, a senior faculty at Urbanity Dance and Coastline Ballet Center. Flora’s artistic vision is to bring inclusivity, empowerment, and joy to individuals and communities through the power of dance.

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.

Patricia Seun 

I am a proud BHCC Alumni who’s currently in the Voice Performance program at UMass Lowell. I was born in Boston and I’m excited to be able immerse myself into the Boston music scene. Some of my dreams are to be able to write and perform my music as much as I can. I also would like to some day teach voice and help others feel joy and empowered through their voices. 

Ba Pham 

I was born in Vietnam, inspired and facilitated by my family to learn piano. I developed a love for music from an early age. Since the age of ten, I've been on stage performing for local audiences, and it's always been an exciting feeling. This childhood experience helped shape my musical journey.  Later I decided to study classical music and harmony theories. I then learned more about the classical organ and joined choirs and accompanists for churches.Currently, a sophomore majoring in music at Bunker Hill Community College. I am now playing piano and organ in the church for the choir in Everett. I am currently studying and practicing to continue on the musical path in the future.

Wah Lum Kung Fu and Tai Chi Academy

Wah Lum Kung Fu and Tai Chi Academy of Malden & Quincy, MA, is a world-class representative of the Wah Lum Kung Fu of U.S.A., a kung fu system that has roots in Greater Boston for almost 50 years. The Wah Lum Malden & Quincy Academy has been established for more than 15 years and serves as an anchor for healthy mind, body, spirit, and community development for all ages. Members of Wah Lum Malden & Quincy are not only passionate about promoting the arts of Chinese cultures in dragon dance, lion dance, kung fu, and tai chi, but also committed to meaningful and impactful community and civic leadership. 

Yu Wang

My name is Yu Wang and I am a Boston native jpop artist. I am the frontman of the Boston based Japanese pop/rock band @shiori_kubrick. By blending popular online Japanese internet culture with music, I hope to share my unique take on Japanese music with the US.

About our Partner:

The Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy

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, seasonal exhibitions that engage people in meaningful experiences, interactions, 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.

This project is supported by Ralph Lauren, Niantic, Inc., The Kresge Foundation, and National CAPACD.

Contact: arts@bcnc.net, 617.863.9080

Our Objects and Possibilities
In Collaboration with Asian Musical Voices of America

Our Objects and Possibilities explores AAPI storytelling through performances of works by AAPI composers, interwoven with readings of works by AAPI writers. Objects—whether they are things of everyday use, poems, or songs—become treasured memories, especially for diasporic and immigrant communities, inspiring our individual and collective destinies. The musical program includes Ken Ueno’s Atlas of Crossed Destinies, duo for violin and viola inspired by Italo Calvino’s work and a facsimile of a 15th century set of illuminated tarot cards, Iman Habibi’s Âhūye Kūhī, a work for violin and cello based on an 8th century Farsi poem in which the composer expresses concern for our displacement and hope for our survival during the climate emergency, JungYoon Wie’s Han, a work for string quartet which includes the use of Korean folk songs and instruments to express the collective suffering of the Korean people, and a live world premiere of Michael Thomas Foumai’s Printing Kapa, duo for violin and harp inspired by kapa prints of contemporary Hawaiian artist Manaola, particularly the design of the ‘ūwila, or lightning bolt, a physical representation of the life force, embodying raw power of nature. 

The event will create a collective space for storytelling by our diverse AAPI community of creatives - composers, musicians, and writers - and celebrate our most primal need to connect with our destinies, past, present, and future. Performers include violinists Lucia Lin, Jae Lee, and Hyeyung Sol Yoon, violist Sarah Darling, cellist Leo Eguchi, and harpist Charles Overton.

Pricing: Free, $13 suggested donation
Performance Time: Friday, May 6, 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM

COVID-19 Protocol:
In accordance with other performance venues in the City of Boston, Pao Arts Center’s will continue to require proof of vaccinations for entry into any performance or scheduled public program (drop – in gallery visits are exempt). Masks will continue to be required for entry into Pao Arts Center.

About the Artists

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

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

Contact: arts@bcnc.net | 617-863-9080

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

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

Contact: arts@bcnc.net | 617-863-9080

New Narratives AAPI Adoptee Social through Pao Arts Center (Virtual)

We warmly invite you to an AAPI adoptee-only virtual social, taking place on Thursday, March 24th from 6 to 8 pm through Pao Arts Center in Boston Chinatown. This event is co-hosted by artist and curator Leslie Anne Condon and writer Amy Pollard.

The private 18+ adoptee event will include an artist and open mic showcase, and opportunities to socialize with other New England-area adoptees. Registration is required and attendees can sign up through the form in our bio. (Please note that this event is only for AAPI adoptees 18 years or older)

Please remember that this is an ADOPTEE ONLY space. We ask that all attendees make mutually-respectful space for the entire spectrum of adoptee experiences. We will be creating breakout rooms so that people who wish to celebrate their experience and those who wish to process their experience have equal space. 

 Registration is required and attendees can sign up here:

New Narratives AAPI Adoptee Social via Zoom

Please reach out to Leslie Condon, Pao Arts Center Program Manager and fellow adoptee via email or phone at Leslie.Condon@bcnc.net or 617-635-5129 x 2017. For more information about this event, select the link below: