Community Fair

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PROGRAM
Community Fair
WHEN
12 PM–4 PM on December 2, 2023

Our annual Community Fair returns this winter on December 2! Bring the whole family to enjoy our arts & crafts market, delicious foods, and hands-on activities while supporting our youth program and celebrating the end of this school semester.

RSVP to the event here!

List of Vendors:

Design + Prints + Illustrations

EL TORO (@eltoro215)

Lynette Munoz (@lynettemunoz)

Hanzi

Liz Karcewski (@lizpop_art)

Idkcrochet (@idkcrochet)

Hui-yi Kuo (@hkuoart)

Bun in the Sun (@bun.inthe.sun)

Crafts + Objects

Baisun Candle Co., Candles & Homegoods (@baisuncandleco)

Yoosora.nails, Nail art (@yoosora.nails)

Madeleine Conover, Prints & Ceramics (@madeleineconover)

Chaotic Neutral, Jewelry (@chaoticneautralny)

Fussy Louise Jewelry, Jewelry (@fussylouisejewelry)

JAIDEE By Poppy, Jewelry (@jaidee_bypoppy)

Anchovy Studio, Clothing (@anchovystudio)

Dirtbaby Farm, Locally grown tea and farm goods (@Dirtbabyfarm )

Rosewood Botanicals, Plants and planters (@rosewood.botanicals)

Loon Laughlin, Glass Art (@loonlagoon)

Activity + Info Tables

Community Action Relief Project (CARP), Community Organization. (@communityactionreliefproject)

Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation (PCDC), Community Organization (@chinatownpcdc)

Ballet SunMi, Dance Studio

DJ Kevin Kong, DJ+Music (@djkevinkong)

Maisie O’Brien, Arts and Crafts Activity (@maisie_oh)

Marisol Vibracion, Tarot Card Reading. (@marisolvibracion)

Food Vendors

Tartery (@tarterybaking)

K&J’s Corner

Chinatown Art Brigade

Artist's Website

Chinatown Art Brigade (CAB) is a cultural collective of artists, media makers and activists creating art and media to advance social justice. Our work is driven by the fundamental belief that collaboration with and accountability to those communities that are directly impacted by racial, social and economic inequities must be central to our cultural, art, or media making process. Chinatown Art Brigade is collaborating with the Chinatown Tenants Union of CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities (www.caaav.org), a grassroots non-profit that organizes low-income pan-Asian communities around tenant rights, fighting evictions and displacement.

Background
In 2015, artists Tomie Arai, ManSee Kong and Betty Yu formed the Chinatown Art Brigade (CAB), a cultural collective that recognizes the power of art to advance social justice. As Asian American social justice minded artists, cultural workers and media makers we have roots in activism and movement-building work. We believe that art, culture and media work must serve and advance these social justice movements.

Currently, Chinatown Art Brigade is a project-driven collective that is working in close collaboration with CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities’ Chinatown Tenants Union, a grassroots organization that works with (and organizes low-income) pan-Asian communities around tenant rights, fighting evictions and community empowerment.

As a new collective of Asian American social justice artists, cultural workers and media makers; our work is driven by the fundamental belief that collaboration with and accountability to those communities that are directly impacted by racial, social and economic inequities must be central to any cultural, art or media making process. Therefore we joined forces to launch ‘Here to Stay’, a project that includes a series of large-scale outdoor mobile projections that will address themes of gentrification, displacement and community resilience in NYC's Chinatown. Artwork based on oral histories, photography and video created in community-led workshops will be incorporated into photo and video montages that will be projected onto buildings and public landmarks in Chinatown and the Lower East Side.

Our goal, as artists, is to join forces with CAAAV to successfully campaign for an equitable community-based rezoning plan that can fight gentrification and protect the rights of people who need affordable housing.

THE EROTIC PROJECT: Short Film Screening & SOFT Readings Program

PROGRAM
THE EROTIC PROJECT: Short Film Screening & SOFT Readings Program
WHEN
5:30 PM–9 PM on July 6, 2023

THE EROTIC PROJECT EXHIBITION / SOFT Reading + Film Screening Program: July 6th 5-9PM / Join us in The Theater, Asian Arts Initiative’s impressive black box space, on Thursday July 6th from 5-9PM. Writing contributors will read the stimulating written works they've contributed to our SOFT Book LIVE. SOFT is our first independently published + robust erotica Art Book featuring original erotic writings, revealing interviews, sensual poetry, accessible + inclusive erotic prompts, stunning photography + intimate portraits conceptualized by Aubrié Costello + co-created with over 40 Artists from Philadelphia, Los Angeles, + Mexico City. Purchase SOFT during the event to have it autographed by contributors. Then we will screen films from THE EROTIC PROJECT as well as additional experimental & erotic films by our collaborators.

ADA access. Masks required. RSVP appreciated. Free and open to the public.

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