“Joyful Stitch”: a beautiful new public art installation by Thai visual artist and landscape architect, Ponnapa Prakkamakul, will have an Opening Reception Saturday, July 1, 2023 , from 2-5:00 pm at Boston’s Leather District Park . My poem, “My MaMa’s Back”, will run through and over the new installation, in English , Chinese, and Braille. … Continue reading “Joyful Stitch”
I wrote this letter in 2019 in support of the new Pao Art Center founded in 2017. I designed a homage to my immigrant heritage in Yu Wen Wu’s Pao artist-in-residence Bundlings project : Leavings/ Belongings. Asian American artists: musicians writers dancers choreographers filmmakers gather under Yu Wen Wu’s “Lantern Stories,” a project supported by … Continue reading The Pao Arts Center: Holding Each Other Close
Experience Chinatown 2022, a wonderful 3 month arts festival organized by the talented staff at the Pao Arts Center under the leadership of Cynthia Woo, included window mural art. To my surprise and delight, my face painted on the window of the Happy Lamb faced Washington Street, the former site of the adult entertainment district … Continue reading Experience Chinatown: The On-Going Festival Celebrating Boston’s Chinatown | Arts | The Harvard Crimson
Shaw Pong Liu, musician, violinist, erhu player, composer, and activist was the inaugural artist-in -residence at the Pao Art Center 5 years ago . It was my great pleasure to meet her, to sing a song from my Girl Scout days at the Maryknoll Sisters Center, the main center for girls’ leadership training in Chinatown, … Continue reading SingHome.org – A Collection of Songs and Migration Stories by Shaw Pong Liu
Revolutionary Spaces hosted a free screening of "A Tale of Three Chinatowns," directed by Lisa Mao and produced by Penny Lee. This fabulous documentary features Boston, Washington D.C., and Chicago’s Chinatown. I am honored to provide opening remarks and a reading of my poem "My MaMa's Back" at the screening. "My MaMa's Back" is a … Continue reading “A Tale of Three Chinatowns” at Revolutionary Spaces
So honored to have participated in this multi-film festival awards winning documentary, “A Tale of Three Chinatowns,” directed by Lisa Mao and produced by Penny Lee. This film features Boston, Washington D.C., and Chicago’s Chinatown, and is winner of the Audience Award at the 2021 Boston Asian American Film Festival. The film is now available … Continue reading A Tale of Three Chinatowns – Film Available Via Local USA
The Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture Poetry Program, led by 2019 Boston Poet Laureate Porsha Olayiwola, selected 15 poems for National Poetry Month on “The Human Condition. “ My poem, “My MaMa’s Back,” a tribute to the Chinese immigrant women garment workers of historical Chinatown, was selected as one of the 15 and will … Continue reading Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture
https://vimeo.com/688858928?embedded=true&source=video_title&owner=34106179 Convergent Waves is a site-responsive, multimedia experience by Lenora Lee Dance. It is the first iteration of this project and future performances will continue to shed light on the stories of displacement and gentrification in communities across the country. Sharing my stories and family photos, and contributing my narration voice to this project bring … Continue reading Convergent Waves: Boston – Lenora Lee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49Q4_WcxT8M&feature=emb_title H What an honor to participate in the Virtual Panel with Revolutionary Spaces and speak with other panelists about the gentrification of Boston's Chinatown. I hope the stories and perspectives shared uplift our community and bring us closer together. https://www.revolutionaryspaces.org/gentrification-chinatown/
March 2, 2022 On January 17, 2020, with a free space from SpaceUs on Washington Street, Homa Sarabi-Daunais from Emerson College’s Film Department invited me to collaborate with her and Jenn Pipp on their project, ”Pop Up Artist Studio: Spaces of Connection,” delving into the history of Downtown Crossing, through mental mapping.Boston’s Downtown Crossing, once … Continue reading Collaboration with Iranian American Filmmaker Homa Sarabi -Daunais: Spaces of Connection
Hudson Street Chronicles 