The Floating Box: A Story in Chinatown

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Imagining Chinatown: Dramatizing Cultural Spaces
Saturday, October 20 at 5pm, following Ma-Yi Theatre Company’s The Square. Select playwrights and directors from The Floating Box and The Square discuss issues, transformations, and creative processes that they have undergone in their re-imagining of Chinatown. Panelists include Jason Hwang; Catherine Filloux; Jessica Hagedorn, one of the playwrights of The Square; Chay Yew, Co-conceiver, dramaturg, and participating playwright of The Square, and moderated by Richard Ku, Acting Chair of Asian American Studies, Hunter College. At the Public Theatre, 425 Lafayette Street, New York City. Co-presented with Museum of Chinese in the Americas. (Free admission).

Like Parent, Like Child? Immigrant Families Coping with Change
Saturday, October 27th from 2:00 - 4:00 pm
At Chatham Square Regional Branch of the New York Public Library
33 E. Broadway (near Catherine St.) NY, NY 10002
Free admission. Space is limited. RSVP preferred at 212-517-ASIA
*attendees are entitled to $16 discounted tickets to The Floating Box opera

Old values in a new country, tradition and change, living in America, becoming American - how do some Asian immigrant families cope with challenges such as parental authority, dating, self-expression, religious beliefs, language and cultural preservation? A discussion on the issues that beset immigrants and their children growing up in America.

Co-sponsored with The New York Times. In association with Museum of Chinese in the Americas and Chatham Square Regional Branch of the New York Public Library.

The program is funded in part by the Wallace-Reader's Digest Funds.

Roots & Revelations: Exploring Our Family Histories through the Creative Process
Tuesday, October 30, 2001, 6:30- 7:30 pm
Museum of Chinese in the Americas, 70 Mulberry Street, 2nd Floor
Free with Museum admission ($3 adults; $1 students/seniors); call (212) 619-4785 for information

The Museum of Chinese in the Americas will present a discussion with authors Winifred Chin (Paper Son: One Man’s Story) and Lisa Huang Fleischman (Dream of the Walled City) on the journeys they each have taken as they researched their family history, and brought them to life through their writings.

Museum of Chinese in the Americas

Workers’ Rights and Immigrant Communities
Thursday, November 1, 6:00-7:30 p.m.
$ 5 student w/ ID; $ 7 member/NGO; $10 nonmember/Corp
8th floor, Asia Society

A panel discussion on the issues that Asian and Pacific Islander immigrant workers face in New York City and the strategies used to address labor rights issues and their impact. Invited speakers include: Muzaffar Chishti, Director, Immigration Project of the Union of Needletrades, Industrial & Textile Employees (UNITE); Marian Thom, Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance; Bhairavi Desai, New York Taxi Workers Alliance; and Carolyn H. de Leon, Women Workers Project.