On April 27th in Boston’s Chinatown, there’s a video premier that is six years in the making. It’s a remarkable portrait of one of Boston’s oldest and most multifaceted neighborhoods.
Entitled Chinatown Banquet, it is a groundbreaking public art and education project that reenvisions the legacy of Boston’s Chinese community in a video installation at the United Commercial Bank located at 68 Harrison Avenue in Boston.
The Project will be joined by State Senator Dianne Wilkerson and Boston City Councilor Sam Yoon.
Led by artist Mike Blockstein and the ACDC’s executive director Jeremy Liu, the Banquet examines the forces that shaped and continue to influence Chinatown.
Begun in 2000, the Banquet has moved through many stages – workshops with high school students who explored Chinatown; partnerships between organizations inside and outside of the neighborhood; an exhibit at the former Dreams of Freedom Museum on immigrant history.
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