Come share your favorite memories and experiences of preserving and celebrating Chinatown's rich cultural heritage with us! 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 […]
A series of neighborhood events and interventions to collectively vision abolition, climate justice, migrant justice, and housing futures 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 […]
W.O.W. 2026 Fire Horse Puppet Artbuild Shifts Happy New Year! We’re inviting community members to help bring our Fire Horse puppet to life! The workshop will take place in W.O.W.’s basement studio (26 Mott St) on Sunday 1/18 and Sunday 1/25. Due to the limited size of our basement space, each shift has 8 spots available. […]
Abrons Arts Center, lucky risograph and The W.O.W. Project hosts an afternoon of all-ages arts activities, karaoke, and a lion dance performance to celebrate the year of the fire horse. We invite you to imagine what an abundant new year will look like for the Chinatown and Abrons communities. This event is free and open […]
Join us for a free papermaking workshop on Saturday, May 2! Come to Resist Recycle Regenerate’s papermaking workshop on Saturday, May 2 at Chatham Square Library (33 East Broadway)! The fellows collected lots of colorful confetti on Super Saturday — now help us turn it into recycled handmade paper! The workshop is FREE and open […]
In this opening conversation, Mei Lum and Diane Wong will revisit the origins of W.O.W—from their early kitchen table conversations to its evolution into a community arts initiative that centers women, queer, non-binary, and trans Asian youth as stewards of Chinatown’s creative culture. Grounded in personal stories and collective memory, this dialogue invites us to […]
This conversation draws crucial connections between cultural work and labor organizing in working-class communities across New York City. Bringing together organizers, artists, and community members, the event traces how struggles over labor and land are deeply intertwined—from tenants organizing against evictions in Chinatown to campaigns resisting casino development in Flushing, and movements to decriminalize sex […]
Building on years of organizing, this conversation brings together artists, organizers, and community members to examine the impact of the Borough-Based Jail Plan (BBJP) in New York City, with a focus on the skyscraper jail being constructed in Chinatown. Situating the project within a broader landscape of mass incarceration and displacement—from the police takeover of […]