Boston Chinatown Banquet - The Trip to Canobie Lake

Back when few Chinatown residents had cars and the community was still small, the big annual summer outing was a trip to Canobie Lake Park organized by the Chinese Merchants Association. The event brought together families for a day of fun that was, for many, a rare excursion out of the neighborhood.

Storytellers: Caroline Chang, Florence Soo Hoo, Richard Soo Hoo

Video footage: Mike Blockstein

Interviews: Mike Blockstein, Eun-Joung Lee, Kim Szeto

Archival Video: Internet Moving Images Archive (www.archive.org) in association with Prelinger Archives, Olivia Waishek

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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