Art Tour
Chinatown Edges: Photo Tour & Neighborhood Exploration
7 Nov 2015
Event times
12pm
Cost of entry
Event registration required — sign up on vanalen.org.
Address
- 30 W 22nd Street
- New York
New York - 10010
- United States
How do a neighborhood’s borders impact its residents? Join us for an afternoon exploration in which participants trace the shifting boundaries and hidden stories of Lower Manhattan’s Chinatown.
About
Photo Tour & Neighborhood Exploration
Presented with the Museum of Chinese in America
215 Centre Street, Manhattan
How do a neighborhood’s borders impact its residents? Join us for an afternoon exploration in which participants trace the shifting boundaries and hidden stories of Lower Manhattan’s Chinatown. Accompanied by leaders in the realm of social media documentation, we’ll collectively walk the neighborhood’s perimeters, generating an alternative cartography of Chinatown’s invisible gateways along the themes of housing, food, contemporary art, and more by posting to Instagram with the hashtag #ChinatownEdges.
Afterward, join us for a discussion of the neighborhood’s thresholds and the role of social media in community mapping, accompanied by a projection of the afternoon’s photos as a backdrop.
3pm
The American Legion Lt. Kimlau Chinese Memorial Post 1291
191-193 Canal Street, Manhattan
Participants: Irene Chin, artist and filmmaker of The Last Arcade; Stephen Fan, author and curator of Suburbanisms: Casino Urbanization, Chinatowns, and the Contested American Landscape; Diya Vij, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs; and more