Boston Chinatown Banquet - Bubble Y

The Bubble YMCA, a temporary structure that existed in various iterations for over 20 years, anchors this story of how Chinatown has grown and evolved. In its heyday, the Bubble epitomized a more close-knit monolithic Chinatown society. The piece tells the story of different "Bubbles," how the community successfully fought to maintain the Bubble against the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA), and how the current Wang YMCA came into existence.

Storytellers: Richard Chin, Bill Moy

Video footage: Mike Blockstein, Jeremy Liu, Rich Wang

Interviews: Mike Blockstein, Eun-Joung Lee

Images courtesy of: Chinese Historical Society of New England, New England Medical Center Archives, The Sampan, Tufts University Archives

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/

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

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

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Former Celtics M.L.Carr and Tiny Nate Archibald held Instructional Clinics here during the early 80's.