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.

About Borough Based Liberation Project 

space provided by Immigrant Social Services’ Storefront for Ideas

The Borough Based Liberation Project is a series of neighborhood cultural events and interventions to collectively vision abolition, climate justice, migrant justice, and housing futures in New York City. For the month of September, our project will activate this storefront to serve as a centralized hub for our organizing. As our communities converge, learn, and share together, we will co-create an intersectional space that connects our local and global struggles to build solidarity and power. The project’s “Abolitionist Futures” theme will spotlight local resistance and link struggles for liberation from NYC to Palestine through art workshops, exhibitions, teach-ins, gatherings, performances, and celebrations.