May Digital Display

Chef Janet Yu, owner of Hollywood East Café in Wheaton, Maryland, shares stories and prepares recipes from her home kitchen that draw upon her family’s heritage from Taishan, a village in the Guangdong Province of China. Yu talks about her work preserving and sharing Chinese food culture in the Greater Washington, D.C., area and how doing so is a vital form of advocacy. She also discusses her role as a mentor and the ways mentorship can maintain cultural bonds and identities as well as empower a new generation of chefs, cooks, and food entrepreneurs.

This year, our community event focuses on the rich past and uncertain future of local and regional Asian American and Pacific Islander ”affinity neighborhoods,” including Boston and Chicago’s Chinatowns, Boston Little Saigon in Dorchester and other enclaves.

This is a hybrid event. You have two ticket options:

Join us in the GBH Studios, located at One Guest Street in Brighton, MA (5:45-8:30pm EDT)

Join the virtual event (6-7:30pm EDT)

A 2-hour workshop examining the historical context of racism with, towards, and within the AAPI community.

With the recent rise in acts of violence and hate targeting Asian Americans, it seems the collective attention of our country is being called to turn and face the history of racism and discrimination against members of this highly diverse group. When paired with the racial reckoning we are facing with Black and Brown folks, particularly with regard to law enforcement, it is imperative that we look toward alternative models to promote cross cultural support and solidarity. How do we examine anti-Asian racism without examining anti-Blackness?

This presentation by Christopher Martin, a historian with the U.S. Census Bureau, focuses on historic Census Bureau resources for Filipinos, Guamanians and Chamorros, American Samoans, and Native Hawaiians. We will explore the surveys and census history unique to those Pacific islands as well as the enumeration and representation of their populations in stateside questionnaires and reports. Learn more about the 1950 Census with our Genealogy Series.

Kumu Glen Kila of Koa Ike Foundation, Dawn Yoshimura, painter, and Jan Beckett, photographer, are inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting to present their collaborative project Kānehūnāmoku to build awareness and support for the creation of a World Heritage Site and place of refuge and healing for the Hawaiian community. Through the depiction of the unique landscape and wahipana from Malaea to Kaʻena, these artists seek to share the power, mystery, and beauty of these landscapes threatened today with the problem of being hidden from the minds and hearts of people who should know more to treasure and protect these unique areas of human and natural history. Discussion moderated by curator Marion Cadora from the Mayorʻs Office of Culture and the Arts