Delayed by the pandemic, we launched the first installation, ”Storytell and Sway,” in June 2021. An excerpt from my story “Snow Angels,” etched into a bench swing, is a tribute to my Uncle Eddie Ai Sook, and the sojourner men of Hudson Street and American Chinatowns. Growing up, I thought it normal to have 5 … Continue reading Artist Collaboration with Public Artist, Gianna Stewart, of Gianna Works, for the Asian Community Development Corporation (ACDC) “Hudson Street Stoops“ Series
Category: Awards, Interviews, and Collaborations
Interview with the Boston Compass Newspaper, May, 2021.
https://www.boston compass newspaper.com/post/meet-cynthia-yee-writer-award-winning-teacher-and-rule-breaker
Meditations on the Power of Community: Collaboration with the Gardner Museum and Lenora Lee Dance Company
https://youtu.be/2b3KVb97YFU Meditations on the Power of Community is a short film commissioned by the Gardner Museum, featuring choreography by Pao Arts Center 2021 Artist-in-Residence Lenora Lee Dance and filmed by Weiying Olivia Huang. The film features interviews with members of Boston’s Chinatown community, in response to the Museum's exhibition Shen Wei: Painting in Motion. This … Continue reading Meditations on the Power of Community: Collaboration with the Gardner Museum and Lenora Lee Dance Company
BAAFF Screening and Preview Party
“My MaMa’s Back,” produced as a voiceover archival photo video by Daphne Xu and myself, was featured at the Boston Asian American Film Festival (BAAFF) under “COVID Shorts.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAyHtDAQh_Q&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=BostonAsianAmericanFilmFestival
Lantern Stories — 116 Hudson Street
My home, 116 Hudson Street, memorialized in the “Lantern Stories” exhibit on the Greenway by artist, Yu Wen Wu.
“My MaMa’s Back” — 29 Oak Street Projections
Join us today, September 24, for “Lantern Stories,” a lighting exhibition, featuring the iconic photo of my 13 year old self and my Hudson Street house, by Yu Wen Wu launching at Chinatown Gate, 6–7:30 p.m., and at 8–9 p.m., enjoy a program of text, still, and moving image artwork by local artists projected on … Continue reading “My MaMa’s Back” — 29 Oak Street Projections
Amid a Rapidly Changing Present, Can Chinatown Preserve Its Past? | Magazine | The Harvard Crimson
Amid a Rapidly Changing Present, Can Chinatown Preserve Its Past? | Magazine | The Harvard Crimson — Read on http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2020/3/26/chinatown-scrut/
“My MaMa’s Back” Voice Over Archival Photo Video: Local Artist Films Program
Top billing in the Local Artist Films Program organized by the Chinatown Community Land Trust 9/17/2020 part of the 29 Oak Street Wall Projections series. My MaMa’s Back,” an excerpt from a longer story called, “Duck,” is a tribute to the Chinese immigrant women garment workers of my Boston Chinatown childhood. The text and the … Continue reading “My MaMa’s Back” Voice Over Archival Photo Video: Local Artist Films Program
2020 Excellence in Arts and Culture
Honored to be the recipient of the Chinese Culture Connection of Massachusetts 2020 Excellence in Arts and Culture Award May, 2020
Nominated by the Director of the largest writers conference in North America, “The Muse and the Marketplace” for the St. Botolph Club 2019 Emerging Artist Award in Literature.
March, 2019