Event Recap: Spotlight on Design — Neri&Hu

On May 30th, 2023, the 1882 Foundation and friends gathered with the National Building Museum for a conversation with interdisciplinary designers Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu of Neri&Hu, historical preservationist Michelle Magalong, PhD, and landscape architect Jenn Low. A part of the NBM's Spotlight on Design series, the lecture and panel discussion explored the relationship(s) between public memory, architecture, and poetic place-making in times of unprecedented cultural destruction and reform. Neri and Hu began with a lecture entitled 'between them', exploring their design approach in the…

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Event Recap: Talk Story! Public Policy and Cultural Centers: Stories from DC and Philadelphia Chinatowns

On April 17th, 2023, we convened for a panel conversation to explore the impact of public policy on Chinatowns, drawing specifically on the Washington DC and Philadelphia Chinatowns. This conversation opportunely comes in the recent news of a plan to build a new sports arena in Philly's Chinatown, mirroring a similar decision made in the 1990s in DC that devastated the ethnic community that called it home. 1882 Foundation Executive Director Ted Gong and Jennifer Li of the Harrison Institute for Public Law gave a…

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Event Recap: Talk Story! Literature & Arts Corner Database (Re)Launch

The Literature & Arts Corner Library is an online platform that was launched at last month’s Talk Story to highlight Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) media representation. The event featured developers Lauren Eng and Jasmine Soni, author Jenny Cho, and Literature & Arts Corner Director Stan Lou. Days before the launch, Everything Everywhere All at Once, a film depicting the multiverse adventure of a Chinese immigrant tasked with saving existence, won seven Oscars, including best picture. It is one of many works that the…

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Event Recap: Talk Story! 50 Years of Asian American Community Lawyering: Looking Back, Looking Ahead – AAAS 2023

Having roots in the Civil Rights Era and the community activism movement, Asian American community leaders in Boston, Washington D.C., San Francisco and New York City addressed the legal needs of their local communities in the 1970s and 80s. In this panel, held as a part of the Association of Asian American Studies Conference 2023, four leaders both within and outside the legal profession reflected on the historic ties between the Asian American movement, Asian American studies, and community-led lawyering practices that laid the foundation…

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Event Recap: 1882 @ MLK – Bad Axe Film Screening and Director Talk

On Sunday, March 26, the 1882 Foundation hosted a film screening of Bad Axe at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library. Directed by David Siev, the film documents Siev’s family living in Bad Axe, Michigan during the COVID-19 pandemic. Following the Cambodian-Mexican-American family’s fight to keep their local restaurant running and unite a divided community amid rising racial tensions, the film engages in topics of intergenerational trauma, community activism, and the concept of the American dream. Bad Axe received critical acclaim, winning the Critic’s…

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Event Recap: The Summit Tunnel – Diversity and Pride in Building the American Nation

On March 21st, 2023, the 1882 Foundation convened our first activation as a member of the Kennedy Center's Culture Caucus. We gathered at the Kennedy Center REACH's Justice Forum on a warm Tuesday evening for a film screening and reception event. The activation was centered on the Summit Tunnel, a historic part of the Transcontinental Railroad constructed by largely unrecognized Chinese laborers. Despite the site being over 2,000 miles away, the sights, sounds, and ambiance of the Summit Tunnel was cultivated through film, the passion…

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