New Narratives Series: Our Past and Present

Through arts, culture, and education, the Pao Arts Center brings together community members across generations to reclaim a critical piece of Chinatown history and to create healthy families and vibrant communities. In partnership with Bunker Hill Community College, BCNC opened the Pao Arts Center in 2017 to be Chinatown’s first community-based arts center and Boston’s newly dedicated Asian American and Asian immigrant cultural space.The Pao Arts Center sits on a historically significant piece of land, Parcel 24, where hundreds of Chinatown residents were displaced in the 1960s in order to build a highway on ramp. The reclamation of this land as a place to celebrate and explore Asian culture represents a powerful shift towards community oriented development in the face of rapid change.

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Join the Rose Kennedy Greenway, Curator Leslie Anne Condon, and Pao Arts Center in a July outdoor performance series at Mary Soo Hoo Park.

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In collaboration with Greenway Conservancy, Pao Arts Center and Curator Leslie Anne Condon have 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 SauceThis 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. To learn more about Visons/Voices, go to<a href="https://www.rosekennedygreenway.org/visions-voices" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Rose Kennedy Greenway Webpage</a><a href="https://www.paoartscenter.org/events/visionsvoicesyearofthetiger" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Pao Arts Center Webpage</a>A Special Thank You to Our Supporters:YEAR OF THE TIGER and VISIONS/VOICES received generous support of the Barr Foundation, Boston Cultural Council, Goulston &amp; Storrs, Linda see, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Paul &amp; Edith Babson Foundation, TD Charitable and Yotel. This project is also supported by Ralph Lauren, Niantic, Inc., THe Kresge Foundation, and National CAPACD.

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