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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]