Mayor Marty Walsh took photos Feb. 24 with Chinatown residents at an open house at the Josiah Quincy Elementary School.(Image courtesy of Yiming Zhao.)
Boston Mayor Martin Walsh held his first 2020 open house Feb. 24 at the Boston Centers for Youth and Family Quincy Community Center.
City departments set up booths and handed out flyers, with staffers answering questions from residents. Walsh made the rounds, speaking to and taking photos with residents at the event.
“It’s hard enough to run a restaurant,” Clark said. “Any loss through criminal activity is even more demoralizing.”
The Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy recently re-installed Lantern Stories in Chinatown’s Chin Park. It’s by Taiwan native and Boston-based interdisciplinary artist Yu-Wen Wu. While its first iteration in 2020 was embraced by the community, it faced COVID-19 restrictions. With this new iteration, Wu created new images that evoked the reality of exclusion acts and racial hatred and the necessity of unity and cohesion. This 2022 version of Lantern Stories also features contributions from other local artists. Wu’s themes cover migration, displacement, arrival, assimilation, and […]
