Chinatown Arts Festival opens with a special block party. Come by the Mosco St newsstand to get your copy of the Chinatown Arts Fest brochures that will be hot off the press. Snap your “red carpet” photo moment with friends and neighbors at this special opening. Soundtracked by Chinatown Records & friends, it’ll be an afternoon of dancing (and singing along) to remember!
Our neighborhood DJ historian yiuyiu 瑶瑶 invites special guest DJ tinasnow to rock the block with her in this Chinese x Vietnamese “back-to-back” you don’t want to miss!
This is a block party for the whole family! Free with no RSVP required, this event is rain or shine ~ see you there 💃🕺
Chinatown Records 華埠錄音 is a homegrown community effort weaving together the music, memory, & history that comes with inherited family collections. Homebased in NYC’s Manhattan Chinatown, DJ historian yiuyiu 瑶瑶 takes on her childhood name to care for & activate the Chinatown Records archive of over 30 record/CD/tape collections inherited from her family & neighbors. From block parties to sonic histories to workshops, Chinatown Records 華埠錄音 evolves as an ever-growing record of the people we love, who bring all this music to life with us. chinatownrecords.us | @chinatownrecordsproject
tinasnow was born and raised in Portland, Oregon to Vietnamese refugees.Her early life was soundtracked by new wave, 90s hip-hop and club classics along with Paris by Night and Asia Entertainment, thanks to many nights dancing in her ông bà ngoại’s living room. This has inspired her lifelong love for music, and her passion for collecting Vietnamese vinyl. She currently DJs all across NYC playing vinyl that weaves sonic memories on the dance floor. @tinasnowle
yiuyiu 瑶瑶 is a cultural organizer, artist, & oral history educator homebased on Lenape land in NYC’s Manhattan Chinatown. As a community-taught & -powered DJ historian for Chinatown Records, she has the most fun bringing the music out of the archive to the streets of Chinatown, into the living rooms we share, and going back-to-back (b2b) with family & friends, who have taught her so much. Chosen to be a DJ by them, she especially loves training up our next generations of DJ historians of all ages to bring the music to life with us. She will always be a dancer first. @rochellehkwan
Think!Chinatown is a place-based intergenerational non-profit in Manhattan’s Chinatown, working at the intersection of storytelling, arts, and neighborhood engagement. T!C is the team behind neighborhood cultural programs like Chinatown Arts Festival, Chinatown Night Market, Chinatown Block Parties, Chinatown Storytelling Festival, and more. Find more at www.thinkchinatown.org