At the Center
Be inspired by a Chinatown Presents performance, find cultural connection with a Chinese brush painting class, collaborate with a new neighbor at a workshop, and form stronger bonds by exploring a powerful exhibit with your family.
Featured
Events
Join Pao Arts Center in welcoming CHUANG Stage and Company One’s co-production of Learning How To Read by Moonlight by Gaven D. Trinidad.
Amidst the challenges of the current economic crisis, climate change, food inequity, and limited access to green spaces and housing in Boston's Chinatown, artist Ying Ye’s public community engagement art project, Sprouts of Resilience: A Journey from Seed to Tofu, brings Chinese traditional aesthetics of gardening, street food tricycles, and collective food-making gatherings to activate Chinatown’s public spaces and foster cultural resilience and belonging. The project seeks to explore and offer alternative pathways to physical and mental well-being for local residents.
As part of a film screening series curated by Nate Shu, join Pao Arts Center in a special screening of The Fall of I-Hotel by film-maker Curtis Choy
Exhibits
The "abundance among us" table installation first created spaces for intergenerational gatherings in Boston's Chinatown in 2021. Co-designed by artist Sheila Novak and Chinatown resident Cass Li as part of Residence Lab, this functional artwork ensures that children and elders all have a seat at the same table, illustrating the abundance in community and emphasizing how individuals contribute to community power, regardless of their age. Joining the team this year, artist Wen-hao Tien’s new activity book for the Year of the Dragon called “dragons and friends” will guide the projects community event in mythical storytelling.
Celebrations of Perseverance: Public Art in Chinatown, curated by Lani Asunción showcases temporary public art and performance place-based projects created as part of the 2024-2025 Un-monument initiative. These public art projects create space for joy and community celebration of cultural identity, through uplifting Chinatown as a neighborhood, cultural hub, and monument within the city of Boston.
