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December 2019
Cancelled-CantoMeet
This event has been cancelled due to Patrick Chew being ill. Join us at CHSA once a month to improve your Cantonese language abilities! You will have the chance to work with linguist Patrick Chew, as well as other members of the CHSA community. Cantonese speakers of all abilities are welcomed to join.
Find out more »CHSA Book Club
Join us at CHSA for book club meeting led by Janice Hom. We will finish discussing Edmund S. Wong’s Growing Up in San Francisco’s Chinatown: Boomer Memories from Noodle Rolls to Apple Pie. You can find the book in your local library or purchase it at CHSA’s Bookstore. No reservation necessary, just pay-as-you-wish as a donation to CHSA. Click here for the 2020 schedule for book club, as well as the list of future readings.
Find out more »“Chan Family Picnic”—Reading by Eugenie Chan Theater Projects
Eugenie Chan Theater Projects and the Chinese Historical Society of America invite you to a reading of Chan Family Picnic, a rollicking new vaudeville about the mental health impact of America's legacy of anti-Asian legislation and sex trafficking on three generations of the playwright's Chinese American family. Chan layers original material with actual family documents to explore the world Chan's Grandfather and great-uncle knew-and made-one of high hopes and hard choices. Eugenie Chan, playwright Byron Au Yong, composer Annie Elias, director…
Find out more »Free Docent Tour
CHSA now offers free regular museum docent tours once a month to visitors who want to learn more and engage with Chinese American history in the United States. Explore the museum's galleries with a trained docent, who will provide an in-depth explanation of the topics raised in our groundbreaking exhibition Chinese American: Exclusion/Inclusion. If you've always wanted to delve more deeply into the complex history of the Chinese in America, and how their experiences relate to present-day events, now is…
Find out more »January 2020
Free Docent Tour
CHSA now offers free regular museum docent tours once a month to visitors who want to learn more and engage with Chinese American history in the United States. Explore the museum's galleries with a trained docent, who will provide an in-depth explanation of the topics raised in our groundbreaking exhibition Chinese American: Exclusion/Inclusion. If you've always wanted to delve more deeply into the complex history of the Chinese in America, and how their experiences relate to present-day events, now is…
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