Here to Stay: Chinatown Art Brigade's Placekeeping in Chinatown

Placekeeping in Chinatown - Here To Stay is a multimedia project that centers the stories of people most directly impacted by housing displacement, with the long ­term goal of protecting and preserving our beloved neighborhood.

This is an audio version of the project that invites visitors to learn about the significant places in Chinatown’s activism and movement history. Feel free to visit the locations in any order.

By uncovering Manhattan Chinatown’s largely forgotten or under-told stories of immigrant working class struggles, we are also resisting the cultural, social and political erasure of our community. The places on this walk reflect the lived experiences of people fighting for housing justice, labor rights, abolition, racial equity, cultural preservation and fair education in Chinatown.

This placekeeping project is not about preserving the facade of buildings but it is about keeping our collective memories associated with a place alive, keeping local businesses and community centers open, and keeping tenants who have raised their families in their homes. This project also highlights the organizing history and building campaigns of CAAAV’s Chinatown Tenants Union (CTU).

This project is created by Chinatown Art Brigade. Chinatown Art Brigade (CAB) is an intergenerational collective driven by the fundamental belief that our cultural, material, and aesthetic modes of production have the power to advance social change. CAB is comprised of Asian American and Asian diasporic identifying visual artists, media makers, writers, educators, and organizers with deep roots in Manhattan's Chinatown. For more info: www.chinatownartbrigade.org

This Echoes audio walk was produced by media artist Megan Hattie Stahl.

保存原地－坚守家园

保存原地－坚守家园是一个多媒体项目，集中讲述最受逼迁直接影响的居民故事，长远目标是保护及保存我们所深爱的社区。 此项目邀请观众透过扩增实境 (AR) 应用程式，来了解唐人街社会运动和社运历史中的重要地方。 使用者可在此书刊扫描二维码或亲身到真实地点将相机镜头指向该位置，就可以观看故事影片。 我们揭露曼哈顿唐人街几近遗忘﹑或鲜为人知的移民工人阶级斗争故事，也在抵抗那些对我们社区的文化、社会和政治抹杀。 这张地图上每个地点反映了唐人街居民为住屋正义、劳工权利、废除监狱制度、种族平等、文化保育和平等教育权而奋斗的生活经验。 此项目不是为了保护建筑物的外观，我们是为了保留大家与这个地方的集体回忆，希望当地小商户及社区中心继续运作，让租户能继续养家糊口。此项目还将重点介绍 CAAAV （亚裔反暴力联盟）的唐人街住客協會 (CTU) ，并向大家介绍CTU的组织历史和组织住客的“楼宇活动”。 此项目由唐人街艺术队创作。唐人街艺术队(CAB) 是由一群跨代的艺术家组成。 驱动我们的核心信念是相信我们的文化、物质和美学创作方式，可以推动社会变革。 CAB 由亚裔美国人和亚裔流散社群组成，他们是视觉艺术家、媒体制作人、作家、教育家和组织者，深深扎根于曼哈顿唐人街。 欢迎浏览网站了解更多信息：www.chinatownartbrigade.org