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Arts December 23, 2023 0

Lunchbox Moments Interview with Artist Aime Bantz

Step into the Pao Arts Center in Chinatown before Feb 17th of 2024 and you will be greeted with colorful walls covered in metal lunchboxes with phrases painted on them. The phrases are distilled from stories by people in the Asian American and Pacific Islander community who attended workshops with artist Aime Bantz. She wrote down the encounters they shared with her during communal meal times throughout their lives. Some of these encounters were positive moments of cultural exchange, but […]

Front Page December 9, 2023 0

Artist Tammy Nguyen Asks, ‘What Is A Farm?’

In Tammy Nguyen’s self-titled exhibit at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, she repeats a question that was originally posed by Ralph Waldo Emerson, “What is a farm but a mute Gospel?” It’s a question that Nguyen is prepared to try to answer through her paintings, collage, and self-published art books in the exhibit. Nguyen is a talented artist, born 1984 in San Francisco.Her father was a Vietnamese refugee. Her work spans several disciplines across environmental, geopolitical, and spiritual […]

Leisure November 18, 2023 0

Sunshine Brings Science to the Screen

The Coolidge Theater screened Sunshine (2007) on November 6th as part of their “Science on Screen” programming, including a talk by Harvard astrophysicist Dr. Katharine Reeves. The talk that accompanied the Sci-fi/horror film was on the topic “What It’s Like to Fly Through a Solar Eruption.” The audience laughed along with Dr. Reeves throughout the entire half-hour presentation as she gave a humorous and accessible lecture to a room full of moviegoers. It provided a nice introduction to the very […]

Leisure November 3, 2023 0

The Fortune Teller is a Heartwarming Play about Family and Destiny

This week, a heartwarming play premiered at the Boston Center for the Arts Plaza Theaters. The Fortune Teller’s opening night was October 28th and the play runs through November 4th. It’s a story about a family through the generations, starting in the 1800s, and the destiny that lies before each of the members as they are tied together by familial legacy. The play was co-produced by CHUANG Stage, a translingual Asian American theater company in Boston, and TC Squared Theatre […]

Leisure November 3, 2023 0

The Boston Asian American Film Festival Gave Red Carpet Treatment To The Contribution — and Voice — of Asian American Film

Kicking off with a book launch and talk by the authors of The Golden Screen: The Movies That Made Asian America, the Boston Asian American Film Festival celebrated Asian American films in October. Traditional dances were performed by the Wah Lum Kung Fu & Tai Chi Academy and the New England Bhangra Club. “I’m very excited to just hear about the perspectives of the Asian American community within the filming space.” said Chelsea Vuong, 2023 Miss Massachusetts, who acted as […]

Leisure October 20, 2023 0

Family Style: Memories of an American From Vietnam / Interview with Thien Pham

Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam is the engrossing and heartfelt tale of a family that leaves Vietnam and eventually settles in the United States. It is told from the point of view of a man remembering his time from his childhood through his maturation into an adult. This biographical story is relayed in a graphic novel that Thien Pham wrote and beautifully illustrated. With its depiction of the struggles his family faced, Family Style takes an unflinching look at the realities of life for many immigrants. […]

Arts October 20, 2023 0

Blue Triangle Gallery: Opens with Brash Colors and Words

There’s a new art gallery in Chinatown and it’s proving to be quite the hot spot. The Blue Triangle Gallery, at 17 Edinboro Street, invites visitors to climb a steep set of stairs to the 3rd floor and then they enter into a world of color and words The walls are currently covered in plywood and are wheat pasted from floor to ceiling with posters and framed art by prettycoolstrangers in his first gallery show and first offline art exhibition. […]

Leisure October 6, 2023 0

We Are the Land Tells Wampanoag History

Under the rococo gilding of the Cutler Majestic Theater, a new show was performed for two nights only, September 29th and 30th, in a limited engagement on the historic stage. We Are the Land, the story of what it means to be Wampanoag, is both a pageant and a play and gives audiences a chance to hear directly from Wampanoag people about their history as protectors of the land spanning across several eastern states (including Massachusetts) with stories focusing on […]

Arts October 6, 2023 0

Hao Ruoqi “Spellbinding” Performance of Mulan at the Wang Theater

An ancient Chinese tale was told on the stage. For two nights only, September 23rd and 24th, China Arts and Entertainment Group brought the legend of Mulan to Boston for its US Premier. Winner of the 2018 Lotus Award for a Dance Drama, Mulan explores the folk story of a young woman who goes on a journey of self-discovery, taking her elderly father’s place in the army in the fight against the Huns. Mulan disguises herself as a man and […]

Arts September 15, 2023 0

Little Amal Begins Her US Walk in Boston

A 10-year-old Syrian girl stepped off a boat in Boston Harbor on September 7th—a beacon of hope encountering a new land. Her name is Amal, and she was without parents, a stranger in a strange place, displaced from her home and everything she knew. But Little Amal was not alone; observing closely, she was surrounded by a sea of people who came to greet the 12-foot-tall puppet along with her three puppeteers. Two of the puppeteers were operating her arms […]

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