Boston Chinatown Banquet - Perceptions of Chinatown

Is Boston Chinatown a community or a geographic location? What will transpire as more and more youth, immigrants and Asian-Americans grow up and live outside of its boundaries? This video depicts two very different tours of Chinatown. One is a motorized trolley, primarily for out-of-town tourists. The other is a treasure hunt of Chinatown undertaken by high school members of CAPAY the coalition of Asian Pacific Youth. The trolley tour never enters Chinatown, merely skirting around its border. The majority of CAPAY students live outside the neighborhood and aren't very familiar with Chinatown or its history.

Storytellers: Lawrence Cheng, Vineet Gupta, Kai Lau, Paul Lee, Lydia Lowe, Bill Moy, David Moy, Beverly Wing

Video footage: Mike Blockstein, Victor Fong, Jackson Hau, David Lawrence, Eun-Joung Lee, Peter Pang, Kim Szeto, Andrew Tong, Kathy Tran, Carol Wong, Kim Wong Johnny Yong

Interviews: Mike Blockstein, Eun-Joung Lee

Producer: Mike Blockstein

Editor: David Lawrence

A Chinatown Banquet is a series of short educational films about Boston Chinatown, sparking learning and dialogue across generations, disciplines and geography. The Banquet offers an unprecedented glimpse into the history, culture, and character of the neighborhood. This multimedia project highlights the Asian American experience and Chinese culture in Boston and was created as an educational tool by youth in the Asian Community Development Corporation (ACDC or AsianCDC) Young Leaders Network (YLN) which has grown to become A-VOYCE (Asian Voices of Organized Youth for Community Empowerment). These "courses," offering a rich view of the forces that shaped and continue to influence Chinatown, consist of audio and video interviews with community members and others who offer insight into specific issues, interspersed with contemporary and historic footage, images and information, music and ambient sounds. As a part of the Chinatown Heritage Project, the Banquet is a compendium of Chinatown's history, political struggles, culture and physical environment and living conditions.

http://www.chinatownbanquet.org/index2.html
http://www.asiancdc.org/heritage/home.html
http://www.asiancdc.org/

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Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Boston
• Chinatown
• Asian
• American
• Chinese
• Culture
• Education
• Community
• Development
• Corporation
• ACDC