Share Your Chinatown Placekeeping Story

We invite you to participate in reclaiming and reasserting our own narratives through telling our own stories of resilience and resistance in Chinatown. In the face of rapid displacement of working class immigrant tenants and the ongoing construction of the tallest jail in the world, we know that Chinatown has always been a site of resistance and resilience.

At this story gathering event we’ll be capturing people’s audio stories about Chinatown. Bring stories about your favorite places, people, sights and sounds of Chinatown – past and present. Share your hopes for a justice-oriented future for Chinatown. Excerpts of these recorded stories will be shared at a late September public event. Some may also be included in a mobile audio walking tour that will be launched at the end of September.

The workshop will be led by media artist Megan Hattie Stahl and Chinatown Art Brigade co-founder Betty Yu.