CHSA EVENTS

Zhuangzi’s Butterfly Inception – Healing Sound and Art Performance

Saturday, February 4

6.00PM-9.00PM
CHSA Main Gallery
$15, free for CHSA Members

Other details

Tea, beer and wine will be available. Museum open late. Guests are invited to bring yoga mats and blankets to lay on to view the projection on the ceiling.
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PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

Xinye Lin combines CHSA’s historic classical Chinese opera recording of ZHUANGZI’s BUTTERFLY INCEPTION with a live Chinese zither performance alongside a stunning multi-channel visual projection and vocalization art piece. This immersive audio-video experience works to utilize all the senses in an active and interactive manner, depicting methods that heal the mind, spirit and soul. These inputs are tied to different human and environmental factors that include motion, emotion, scent, sound and mood.

Join CHSA for an evening of entertainment, food + drinks, history + culture, and healing + enchantment.

Xinye Lin Bio

Xinye Lin is an artist and designer who identifies with the Dong Chinese ethnic minority group, has a background in architecture and urban planning. She received her education at the Rhode Island School of Design and is a professional guzheng performer with 25 years of experience.

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Zhuangzi’s Butterfly Inception – Healing Sound and Art Performance

Saturday, February 5

3.00PM-4.00PM
CHSA Main Gallery
$ normal entrance price for museum. So it is free for members but costs $12 for all other people

Other details

Tea, beer and wine will be available. Museum open late. Guests are invited to bring yoga mats and blankets to lay on to view the projection on the ceiling.
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PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

Xinye Lin combines CHSA’s historic classical Chinese opera recording of ZHUANGZI’s BUTTERFLY INCEPTION with a live Chinese zither performance alongside a stunning multi-channel visual projection and vocalization art piece. This immersive audio-video experience works to utilize all the senses in an active and interactive manner, depicting methods that heal the mind, spirit and soul. These inputs are tied to different human and environmental factors that include motion, emotion, scent, sound and mood.

Join CHSA for an evening of entertainment, food + drinks, history + culture, and healing + enchantment.

Xinye Lin Bio

Xinye Lin is an artist and designer who identifies with the Dong Chinese ethnic minority group, has a background in architecture and urban planning. She received her education at the Rhode Island School of Design and is a professional guzheng performer with 25 years of experience.

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The Black Kung Fu Experience film screening, demonstration and question and answer featuring kung fu masters Sifu Donald Hamby and Sifu Troy Dunwood moderated by Justin Hoover.

Sunday, February 19

5.00PM-8.00PM
Great Star Theater
$15

Other details

Popup gift shop, beer, wine and other refreshments available.
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PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

Join CHSA to celebrate Black History Month as we expand on We Are Bruce Lee’s theme of social unity between Chinese and Black Americans. CHSA presents the film The Black Kung Fu Experience which focuses on how a group of African American pioneers became respected masters in a subculture dominated by Chinese and white men. In addition to the screening, this event features in person demonstrations and a Q&A with Sifu Donald Hamby, and Sifu Troy Dunwood. These two remarkable athletes and coaches will speak about their success as internationally recognized martial arts masters, their Chinese Kung Fu teachers, and what this practice means in relation to diversity, race and inclusion issues.

Sifu Donald Hamby has over 30 years of experience in the martial arts. He is known as one of Master Bucksam Kong’s most prominent students. He has also received private instruction under the present Hung Gar Grandmaster Lam Chun Fai, son of Great Grandmaster Lam Jo. He has appeared on major television shows such as “Ripley’s Believe It Or Not” and “More Than Human” on the Discovery Channel. Sifu Hamby was the first to have the 4 major books of Master Lam Sai Wing translated into English so that his legacy will be passed on to future generations. He has written numerous articles on Hung Gar that have appeared in some of the most prominent Kung Fu magazines.

Troy Dunwood has been a martial arts coach since 1979. He is based in Oakland, CA and travels to China often for training. He will be performing his martial art after the screening of the film and will participate in a Q&A with our guests.

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Drag Cabaret and Interactive Beverage Archive

Friday, March 3

6PM-9PM
CHSA
$15 entrance fee, and participation required and no-host bar, 75 seat capacity

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Seating is limited to RSVP is encouraged. One drink minimum and to get a drink you must provide a written recipe as a story for your own personal beverage to contribute to the archive.
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PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

The Middle Kingdom Under the Big Sky: A History of the Chinese Experience in Montana, Johnson focuses on telling the history of Chinese communities in the American West in their own words and through a global lens. Resistance and Activism Among Montana’s Historic Chinese Communities: Chinese residents were crucial to the settling and development of the Rocky Mountain region. Notably, Chinese migrants made up close to fifteen percent of Montana’s population in the late-19th century. Sadly, they faced frequent antagonism from non-Chinese neighbors and restrictive laws designed to limit their presence and ability to thrive in the American West. Instead of passively submitting to this mistreatment, Chinese Montanans fought for their rights, resisting hostility and oppression through ingenuity and community mobilization. Join historian Mark T. Johnson to learn how Chinese Montanans navigated daunting pressures while fighting for their rights and their position in society.

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