1882 Foundation

Talk Story Event: Stories from Chinatown
2017-01-28 13:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G Street NW, Washington, DC, 20001, United States
Join us on the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year as we kick off the 1882 Foundation’s sixth season of Talk Story Community events! On January 28th, 2017 through a collaboration with the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, we will be showing two short films — “April 1968” and “The Fight is On” — and facilitate a community discussion about life in DC’s Chinatown as we commemorate Dr. King’s legacy.
As always, this event is FREE, casual and open to all. Please join us!

Talk Story Year in Review: Shaping DC's Chinatown
2016-12-18 13:30 - 15:00 UTC | Chinese Community Church, 500 I St NW, Washington, DC , DC, 20001, United States
As 2016 comes to a close, we will gather together to reflect and discuss the year of Talk Story events, and look forward to 2017 and beyond.
The 1882 Foundation’s Talk Story Events is entering its fifth year of monthly talks, film screenings, and community discussions on Chinese American topics. Many of these conversations have focused on DC Chinatown. All of them have been offered with the goal of reinforcing the idea of Chinatowna as a cultural touchstone where both Chinese Americans throughout the DMV region and all visitors can hear a good story. Regardless of residents and gentrification and neighborhood, the life of Chinatown lies in the strength of its stories remembered and shared in community gatherings.
Join us in our annual review of 2016’s programs and look ahead to 2017. Together we will consider how DC Chinatown has been shaped in the last five years and what it might become.
As always, these events are free and open to all. Please contact ali@1882foundation.org with any questions or comments.

Finding KUKAN: NYC Screenings
2016-11-15 17:30 - 19:30 UTC | Cinepolis Chelsea, 260 W 23rd St, New York, NY, 10011, United States
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Kukan (1941), one of the first documentaries honored with an Academy Award®, was long considered lost. A chronicle of Chinese resistance to Japanese aggression, the project was credited to Rey Scott, an adventurer who had never before made a film. When Hawaiian filmmaker Robin Lung learns that a driving force behind Kukan was Li Ling-Ai, a Chinese-American Hawaiian woman all but erased from its history, she begins investigating the film and its mysterious production, leading to unanticipated discoveries.
Screenings:
Tue Nov 15, 2016, 5:30 PM | Cinepolis Chelsea

Wed Nov 16, 2016, 12:45 PM | IFC Center

Talk Story Event: Chinese American Veterans - A DC Roll Call
2016-11-13 13:30 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Chinese Community Church, 500 I St NW, Washington, DC , DC, 20001, United States
This Veteran’s Day weekend, please join us for our upcoming Talk Story Event to honor our community’s veterans. We will be gathering at the Chinese Community Church for a celebration and remembrance of Chinese American Veterans, with an open mic moderated by Jennings Wong.

Talk Story Event: Scott Seligman on "Tong Wars"
2016-10-23 13:30 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Chinese Community Church, 500 I St NW, Washington, DC , DC, 20001, United States
Join us for our October Talk Story event with Scott D. Seligman. Through his new book, “Tong Wars: The Untold Story of Vice, Money and Murder in New York’s Chinatown,” he tells the true story of the Chinese gang wars that engulfed New York Chinatown from the 1890’s to the 1930’s.
As always, this event is FREE, and we hope you can join us to be a part of the conversation.
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“New York’s early Chinatown history has been portrayed unfairly as an exaggerated Yellow Peril den of mysterious Orientals. By diligently and expertly trawling the evidence, however, Scott Seligman has unshrouded the mystery and offered up the gripping story of the men of Chinatown’s underworld and their intramural battles over gambling, opium and other vices.” – Paul French, author of the New York Times bestselling “Midnight in Peking”.
