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Inherent Expression
We believe in an expansive definition of the Arts. Arts and culture is both tangible and intangible and fluid in community practice. These are learned, passed on by ancestors and also shaped by the public sphere. It can be found in our cultural institutions such as taiko dojos, temples, and museums; in our rituals and celebrations like lion dances and pig roasts; as well as in the ways in which we greet our neighborhood elders as ‘kapuna’ or ‘pau pau.’ Arts and culture are vital to our sustainability and growth—and should not be commodified, appropriated or colonized. They are a means of resistance, of bringing us together, and imagining new futures.
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Chinatown Pretty
Stylish Elder Fashions in Chinatowns Across the Country
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Maku’u Farmer’s Market
It’s All About ‘Ohana
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The W.O.W. Project
reinventing and preserving NYC’s Chinatown
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InterIm Pig Roast
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“Here [at Bhanchha Ghar], I hold meetings for my societies… I invite them here, we eat here, we sit here, we discuss here…People who don’t have jobs, I get them a job. People who don’t have a place to sleep, I find them a place.”
Yamuna Shrestha, owner of Nepali restaurant Bhanchha Ghar
A story about Small Business Organizing in Queens with CHHAYA CDC
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Kapwa Gardens
A Healing Space for the Community
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VEGGI Farmer’s Cooperative
Culturally Rooted Recovery & Workforce Development
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YELLOW SEEDS
Same Struggle, Same Fight
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