Nurturing Our Voices

Collage of Art Crawl. Photo credit: Jiamei Zheng

“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.” 

Thank you to those who joined our Nurturing Our Voices events and helped to make them a success! 

Nurturing Our Voices showed us how amazing it is when we can hear from community members about what the Center means to them, and how important it is to support, uplift, and amplify API voices. 

At the Virtual Showcase on Tuesday, November 9th, we experienced spoken word artist, Micah Rose, who, in their poetic performance, explored the mango as a symbol for us to speak to ourselves into full, loving futures. We presented Residence lab, a unique collaboration between Pao Arts Center, Asian Community Development Corporation (ACDC), local residents, and artists, that develops public art and brings to life empty sites in Chinatown. We featured Lenora Lee Dance and its stories of hope and the power of community voices and action. We also introduced a very special group of local seniors who have made Pao Arts Center a home to dance, exercise, and grow. 

At the sold-out Art Crawl on Friday, November 11th, over 40 people attended our first fundraiser, organized in partnership with LaiSun Keane Gallery in Boston’s SoWA district. The event welcomed viewers to see our current exhibit “Embodied Identities.”  The evening continued with a lantern lit walk from Boston Chinatown to SoWA where we were greeted at LaiSun Keane Galltery with a glass of wine and tasty dumplings from Myers & Chang.  

As of today, we've reached 75% of our goal! Help us reach our goal with a gift! Your gift will be matched by a couple of our generous supporters.

Special thanks to our sponsors: Nancy Wang Adams & Scott Schoen • Ada Chu • LaiSun Keane Gallery • MassMutual • Bill & Theresa Mock • Eleanor & Frank Pao •Elaine Shiang • Peter & Lai-May Woo • George Yip