1882 Foundation

The Page Act of 1875: Through Line to Atlanta
2021-09-12 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom

RepresentAsian - Past, Present, Future
2021-08-08 14:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | Zoom

Growing up Asian in America
2021-08-01 14:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | Zoom

The History of Martial Arts in DC
2021-07-25 14:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | Zoom

History of The Chinese Community Church Faith and Religion in DC’s Chinatown
2021-07-10 11:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | Zoom

1882 Foundation Chines American Short Film Seminar
2021-06-29 | DC
Join the 1882 Foundation for our collaboration with the Alexandria Black History Museum in our first Chinese American Short Film Seminar. We are bringing together film makers committed to exploring the intersection of race and identity, and through the combination of screenings and guided community dialogue,

Talk Story! Selflessness Today
2021-03-08 20:00 - 21:30 UTC | Zoom
When his father was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, Richard Lui set aside his rising career as a news anchor to care for family. But this selfless journey did not come easily. Richard will share the practical tips and tools he learned along the way that unlocked the unexpected power of selflessness — and can help us to shift the way we think and live.
Now through March 23, get a complimentary ticket to watch Richard’s Academy Award®qualified documentary, Sky Blossom, when you pre-order Enough About Me at www.richardlui.com. All author’s net proceeds will be donated to charitable causes promoting selflessness.
Register HERE: http://bit.ly/3bMRlfc

Congressional Gold Medal Presentation Ceremony Honoring Chinese American WWII Veterans of The Greater Washington, D.C. Area
2021-02-19 18:00 - 19:30 UTC | Zoom
RADM Alma Lau Grocki and MGen William Chen will recognize WWII veterans living in the Washington DC area — David Leo, Lindy Leo, Luther Chien, Austin Wah, Wah Bong Lee, Elsie Seetoo, and Robert M Lee. They represent over 20,000 Chinese Americans who served in the U.S. armed forces during WWII. Past President Ed Gor and National President Melanie Chan of the Chinese American Citizens Alliance will add remarks. Andrew Huber of the Veterans Oral History Project at the Library of Congress will describe a national effort to uncover and preserve invaluable stories. An Open Mic follows for all participants to share individual and family stories of Service to Country throughout America’s history. Please join us for this virtual presentation.
Friday, February 19, 2021 | 6:00 – 7:30pm EST
Zoom Registration: http://bit.ly/39nvmf2

Musical Mosaic: Three Generations of Asian American Music
2021-02-07 16:00 - 17:30 UTC | Zoom
WHEN & WHERE

Feb 07, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Zoom

ABOUT THIS EVENT

Join Nancy Yunhwa Rao, professor at Rutgers University, and Eric Hung, Executive Director of Music of Asian America Research Center, to explore Asian American composers of symphonic music since the 1950s. Referencing their own journeys and careers, the presenters will reflect on how the immigrant experience has shaped the contributions of Asian American composers and their work. Featured pieces include Paul Chihara’s Forest Music (1969), Chen Yi’s Symphony No. 2 (1993), and Reena Esmail’s Black Iris (#metoo) (2018). This event is the third in our five-part virtual Discovery Series – Musical Mosaic: America’s Composers of Color. Guest speakers presented by Florence Bank.

More about our guest speakers:
Eric Hung is Executive Director of the Music of Asian America Research Center (MAARC), and Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Maryland. His research focuses on Asian American music, music and trauma, and public musicology. He is also an active pianist and conductor who has performed in Germany, Austria, Hong Kong, and Australia and throughout North America. Prior to joining the nonprofit world full-time, he was a tenured professor at Westminster Choir College of Rider University. He is co-director of the Westminster Chinese Music Ensemble and a long-time member of New York–based Gamelan Dharma Swara. Hung holds a Ph.D. in musicology from Stanford University and an MLIS in Archives and Digital Curation from the University of Maryland.

Nancy Yunhwa Rao is professor of music at Rutgers University. Her work bridges musicology, music theory, Chinese opera and Sinophone studies. She has published on the use of musical gestures, singing, and percussion patterns of Beijing opera in contemporary music by composers of Chinese origin. Her study on composer Ruth Crawford Seeger won the best article award from the Society for American Music in 2009. Rao’s study of Chinese in North America has led to writings on transnational issues in the production and opera performance in Chinatown theaters. Her book, Chinatown Opera Theater in North America, includes analysis of networks, playbills, aria and spectacles. It has received three book awards, from American Musicological Society, Society for American Music, and Association for Asian American Studies, and Certificate of Merit from Association for Recorded Sound Collection. In addition, Rao has written about contemporary music by composers of Chinese heritage, including Chen Yi, Tan Dun, Bright Sheng and Zhou Long. A recent article “The Concept of Shi: Chinese Aesthetics and Chen Yi’s Happy Rain on a Spring Night,” can be read in Music Theory Online.

Talk Story! Angel Island, A Story of Chinese Immigration
2021-02-07 14:00 - 15:30 UTC | Zoom
Join us to learn more about the history of Angel Island and some of the immigrants who passed through it in their journey to enter the US.
Sunday, February 7, 2021 | 2:00 pm Eastern Standard Time
Zoom Registration Required: http://bit.ly/3ckNojM

Meet the Author: One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924 - 1965
2021-01-28 19:00 - 20:00 UTC | DC
Meet the author, deputy national editor at the New York Times, Jia Lynn Yang, as she discusses her book “One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924 – 1965″ with the Chinese American Museum featuring guests Ted Gong, Executive Director of the 1882 Foundation, and immigration lawyer, Gordon Quan.
Thursday, January 28, 2021 | 7-8 pm ET (4-5pm PT)
Free Registration:
http://www.ChineseAmericanMuseum.org/mighty

Talk Story! Built for Food: Chinese Restaurants in San Francisco’s Chinatown
2021-01-24 14:00 - 15:30 UTC | Zoom
Accounts on Chinese immigration history during the Exclusion Era have placed great emphasis on the mainstream society’s hostility towards Chinese people. But, how did the Chinese fight back? Where could we find the resilience of Chinese people? Can we still observe these imprints today? As an architectural historian and material culture scholar, Hongyan Yang (Adjunct Professor and PhD candidate in Architecture, UW-Milwaukee) found answers to these questions primarily in the artifactual evidence. This talk aims to uncover the voices of Chinese restaurant owners that were materialized and revealed through the built environment and culinary practices in San Francisco’s Chinatown.
REGISTER HERE: http://bit.ly/2XnwW9L

Talk: DC's Historic Chinatown
2021-01-12 19:00 - 20:00 UTC | Zoom
Our director, Ted Gong, will speak on issues of gentrification and preservation in DC Chinatown at this event hosted by Palisades Village. He will discuss the inspiration for the Foundation’s creation, and its reference to the only Federal statute to specifically and totally exclude immigrants of a particular ethnic/cultural heritage–the Chinese. He will address the history of DC’s Chinatown and its continuing evolution via the “Chinatown Off H Street Project,” and a related project at DC’s Congressional Cemetery.
Don’t miss it! More info & registration here: https://palisades.helpfulvillage.com/events/767

Talk Story! The Summit Tunnel: Power And Grit In The Building Of A Nation
2020-12-17 18:30 - 19:30 UTC | Zoom
To commemorate the anniversary of the repeal of the anti-Chinese laws on December 17, 1943 and to remember the amazing national contributions of the Chinese workers, the 1882 Foundation will screen “Legacy” by the US Forest Service. The short film will be followed by comments from descendants of the railroad workers and readings from “Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island” and “Voices from the Railroad.”
Register for the Zoom event as this link: https://bit.ly/3ge8ksI

Talk Story! Assimilate: The Historical Challenges Facing Immigrants Coming to America
2020-12-13 14:00 - 15:00 UTC | Zoom
Join us for an online presentation about the word “assimilation” and the metaphor of the melting pot. It asks the question, “Is it time to discard them?” The discussion will focus on the shared and contrasting experiences of African Americans, Chinese Americans, and Southern and Eastern European Americans.

Register for the Zoom event as this link: https://bit.ly/37BdDP4

Timeless Echoes: Jewish, Chinese, and African American Histories
2020-10-05 18:00 - 19:00 UTC | DC
Join the 1882 Foundation and Dr. Gary Zola (American Jewish Archives), Alan Spears (National Parks Conservation Association), and Carolyn Chan (Chinese American Citizens Alliance) in the second event of our Timeless Echoes series. The panelists will examine the historic intertwining of the Jewish, Black, and Chinese American communities, including Jewish comments and Frederick Douglass’ writings on the issue of Chinese exclusion in the 19th century. Analyzing incidents of both tension and solidarity/integration, this event will discuss the implications of this complex history for our communities today.
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Talk Story! Chinatown (DC) Catch-Up: An Update on Projects and Initiatives
2020-09-27 14:00 - 15:30 UTC | DC
Join us for the next Talk Story event on Sunday, September 27 to learn about our current projects underway that will document and share the history of the neighborhood from the perspectives of its longtime community. We will discuss the Chinatown Walking Tour, the Chinatown Off H Oral History project, a digital mapping project in partnership with AARP-DC, and more! We will also hold space for questions and discuss ways on how you can get involved in this work.

Register for the Zoom in advance HERE!

Talk Story! Inter(n)generational Showcase
2020-08-09 14:00 - 16:00 UTC | Zoom
Join us to celebrate the phenomenal work of our summer 2020 interns! Each intern will be presenting the work and research that they’ve conducted all summer on topics such as historic preservation, the Range 99 Project, the Chinese diaspora in Peru, and many others!
Register HERE

Weekly Lit Corner Book Chat
2020-08-06 15:00 - 16:00, 2020-07-16 15:00 - 16:00, 2020-07-09 15:00 - 16:00, 2020-07-02 15:00 - 16:00 UTC | DC
Join us for our weekly discussion about APIA Literature!
RSVP Here!

Timeless Echoes: Viral Racism During & Before the Age of COVID-19
2020-07-26 14:00 - 15:30 UTC | Zoom
The 1882 Foundation invites you to join us for the inaugural event in our Timeless Echoes series, a new program focused on providing historical perspectives on racism, racial justice, and Asian-American solidarities. Join Audrey Clark (English, USNA) as she examines the historical and discursive intertwining of the “Model Minority” and “Yellow Peril” stereotypes through the smallpox epidemics and anti-Asian violence of the 19th century. Audrey Clark, Janelle Wong (American Studies, UMD), and Adrienne Poon (MD, MPH) will then relate these enduring stereotypes to anti-Asian xenophobia and racism in the current pandemic. The panel will be moderated by community leader Yilin Zhang.
Register HERE

Asian American Entertainment in the Exclusion Era Online Event
2020-07-11 14:00 - 16:00 UTC | DC
Join Music of Asian America Research Center’s Eric Hung and Nancy Yunhwa Rao for a program on Asian American entertainment during the Exclusion Era.
The event is sponsored by Alexandria (VA) Library, and co-sponsored by the Music of Asian America Research Center and 1882 Foundation.
Register HERE

"Legacy" US Forest Service Film Screening and Panel Discussion
2020-06-27 15:00 - 17:00 UTC | DC
Join the Alexandria Library for a screening of “Legacy,” a film by the US Forest Service, that chronicles Chinese Railroad Workers’ contribution to the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad.
Register HERE

We are Resilient: A National Conversation Across Chinatowns with Wing on Wo Project
2020-06-27 13:00 - 15:00 UTC | DC

Weekly Lit Corner Book Chat
2020-06-25 15:00 - 16:00 UTC | DC
Join us for a community discussion about APIA Literature! This week, we will discuss our current reads, favorite books, and Asian & Black solidarities (particularly within queer & feminist groups).
RVSP Here!

Talk Story! American Exodus
2020-06-21 14:00 - 15:00 UTC | DC
With special guest Professor Charlotte Brooks.
RSVP here.

Weekly Literature Corner Book Chat
2020-06-18 15:00 - 16:00 UTC | Zoom
Please join us on Thursday, June 18th on Zoom, to kick off our very first Weekly Book Chat. Anyone is welcome to participate!

Asian Pacific American Film Festival
2019-05-31 - 2019-06-02 | DC
The 2019 Asian Pacific American Film Festival is coming up very soon. It will begin on Friday, May 31, and run through to Sunday, June 2, at the Navy Memorial “Burke” Theater, 701 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington DC.

This year, the festival is featuring a series of captivating short films submitted from around the world. These movies will take you on powerful visual and emotional journeys through the eyes and creative minds of Asian American film makers.

You can see the festival’s full screening schedule https://www.apafilm.org/schedule-2

Purchase tickets online https://filmfreeway.com/APAFILM19/tickets
