Finding Belonging Amidst Neighborhood Development: A Case for the Arts in Boston’s Chinatown
The Pao Arts Center uses arts, culture, and creativity to promote social cohesion and community well-being in an ethnic enclave, Boston’s Chinatown. In the same neighborhood, luxury development may be disrupting the community’s close-knit social fabric and sense of a coherent cultural identity.
A team comprised of Tufts University researchers, Pao Arts center staff, and community residents investigated whether the Pao Arts Center remedies the effects of this displacement. Preliminary findings from the research will be presented.
By the end of this session, participants should be able to:
- Learn what the research team found about the effects of the Pao Arts Center
- Understand more about how to do a collaborative, interdisciplinary, community-based research study.
Presenters
Peter Levine, Academic Dean and Lincoln Filene Professor of Citizenship & Public Affairs
Jonathan Tisch College of Civic Life, Tufts University
Cynthia Woo, Director
Pao Arts Center, Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center (BCNC)
Discussant:
Giles Li, Senior Program Officer
Arts and Creativity, Barr Foundation
Details
Wednesday, October 7, 2020, noon-1:00PM
Online via Zoom (please register to receive the Zoom link and password).
Registration
All are welcome to attend. Please register here.
This event is provided free of charge, and was supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Award Number UL1TR002544. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH.