9th Chinatown Arts Festival

Chinatown Arts Festival is returning for its ninth year this October! We’re activating our streets and parks by celebrating Chinatown arts outdoors. We’ve got two headlining performances at SDR Park– a Min (Fuzhounese) opera accompanied by a full orchestra featuring new backdrop artwork commission and bi-lingual super titles, AND a big swing dance featuring a live band playing Chinese jazz standards and bi-lingual dance instruction. On Pell Street, look for a magical afternoon of 变脸 bian lian face-changing performance, street magic, music and dance. In Elizabeth Street Garden, a jazz quintet will live score a silent film directed by Marion Wong in 1916. The beloved Red Silk Dancers return to Seward Park for a demo and dance class. At the Think!Chinatown Studio, Master Ye will teach traditional folk art of dough figurines, Vietnamese Boat People return for another Story Slam, and Jennifer Wen Ma opens the doors to her upcoming art exhibition. We’ll have a very special performance on the sidewalk, doorsteps and through the windows of the T!C Studio featuring traditional Chinese and contemporary dance, Cantonese opera and traditional Chinese instruments.