Category: Collaborations

Filming Magic : on making a totally unscripted documentary short , “LOVE, CHINATOWN, “ with Breakwater Studio’s talented director, Lukas Dong, two time Academy Award winning director of photography, Sam Davis , and my multi-talented co-storyteller, Gwen Liu, Spring, 2024.

Gwen Liu and I are the subjects of the two-time Academy Award winning Breakwater Studios documentary short, LOVE, CHINATOWN, to be released in 2025. I shared this photo guest speaking at the Emerson College FPS MiniFest film festival. Part of my speech was about allowing the magic of spontaneity and serendipity to infuse their work. … Continue reading Filming Magic : on making a totally unscripted documentary short , “LOVE, CHINATOWN, “ with Breakwater Studio’s talented director, Lukas Dong, two time Academy Award winning director of photography, Sam Davis , and my multi-talented co-storyteller, Gwen Liu, Spring, 2024. →

Taking Northeastern University’s “Anti-Displacement Studio” urban planning students of Professor Dr. Lily Song on a tour of Boston Chinatown Small Businesses, December 18, 2024.

It was a pleasure to take Northeastern University Urban Planning and Design and Architect students from NU Assistant Professor of Race and Social Justice in the Built Environment, Dr. Lily Song’s “Anti-Displacement Studio“ on a walking tour of Small Businesses in Boston Chinatown. We started at Cafe 180 with the symbols of resistance against colonial … Continue reading Taking Northeastern University’s “Anti-Displacement Studio” urban planning students of Professor Dr. Lily Song on a tour of Boston Chinatown Small Businesses, December 18, 2024. →

Reimagining Stoop Culture in Boston’s Chinatown, a collaboration with Swedish Chinese artist architect and Northeastern Univ architect professor, Ang Li , for her public installation: “Place of Assembly.”

Reposted from N+T. https://www.nowandthere.org/blog/2021/11/1/accelerator-artist-ang-li-place-of-assembly So honored to work with talented artists like Ang Li, and share historical stories about our Chinatown. Also, such an honor and feelings of gratitude to meet Boston Mayor, Michelle Wu, who came to the opening event! Text of blog: A vacant lot at 8-12 Hudson Street in Boston’s Chinatown, known … Continue reading Reimagining Stoop Culture in Boston’s Chinatown, a collaboration with Swedish Chinese artist architect and Northeastern Univ architect professor, Ang Li , for her public installation: “Place of Assembly.” →

Interview with the Boston Compass Newspaper, May, 2021.

I was interviewed by Stephen Grigelevich in Spring of 2021. I had just been nominated, to my great surprise, to apply for the Brother Thomas Fellowship at the Boston Foundation and was struggling with the intricacies of the online form when he flew into my life . To fit him into my hectic life I … Continue reading Interview with the Boston Compass Newspaper, May, 2021. →

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 →

Lantern Stories — 116 Hudson Street

My home, 116 Hudson Street, memorialized in the “Lantern Stories” exhibit on the Greenway by artist, Yu Wen Wu. I am 13 years old babysitting my friend Susan’s little brother Ken on Hudson Street. It was the last Easter Sunday before the demolition of my neighborhood. I sewed my own dress of lilac polished cotton … Continue reading Lantern Stories — 116 Hudson Street →

“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 →