Upcoming Events
Saturday, May 1, 11am-2pm
Meet and Greet with Chinatown Community Development Center
We’ll be hanging out in Ross Alley this Saturday, May 1st, 11am-2pm for an IRL meet-and-greet at 41 Ross an art and community space run by @chinatowncdc & @cccsanfrancisco.
How it works:
- order a signed Chinatown Pretty book from @chinatowncdc. proceeds benefit their youth leadership programs.
- get it shipped or pick up at the meet-and-greet on May 1st in San Francisco
- roll through to say “nei hou” (hello), get any other copies signed, swap stories and of course, eat dim sum and say “nei hou” to Chinatown grandmas and grandpas
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Previous talks
Saturday, March 13th / 10:30am-12pm - Join us for a livestream round table with the Portland Chinatown Museum. Pre-registration is required.
Sunday, February 21st @ 10am PT - We’ll be doing a livestream Q&A from Bird & Beckett, an independent bookstore in Glen Park neighborhood in San Francisco. Books are available for in-store purchase at their shop at 653 Chenery Street. Jeremy Fish, SF artist and longtime friend of the project, will be moderating the Q&A. In addition to our shared love of Chinatown (he lives in nearby North Beach), we share Chronicle Books as our publisher. His book “O Glorious City: A Love Letter to San Francisco” documents 100 new works during his artist-in-residence at City Hall for the building’s 100th birthday. Watch it on Bird & Beckett’s Facebook and YouTube.
Thursday, November 19th @ 6pm PT Massy Books, co-presented by Youth Collaborative for Chinatown (YCC), Chinese Canadian Historical Society of BC (CCHSBC), Massy Arts Society, and Raincoast Books. The event was broadcasted from Cam Anh Deli in Oakland Chinatown.
Wednesday, November 11th @ 6pm PT with Bookshop West Portal. We’ll have a special guest, Dorothy Quock, who is included in our book! Watch the talk on Crowdcast HERE.
Wednesday, October 21st @ 7pm PT with Green Apple Books of San Francisco, moderated by Bonnie Tsui, author of American Chinatown: A People’s History of Five Neighborhoods and Why We Swim. Details HERE. Zoom link HERE.
Note: this event was originally schedule for 10/22, but has been moved to 10/21. We will be broadcasting live from Mister Jiu’s in San Francisco Chinatown.Saturday, October 17th @ 1pm PT with Eastwind Books of Berkeley and Oakland Asian Cultural Center. RSVP HERE to get the Zoom link. We recommend RSVPing so that you could partake in the conversation! We’ll be broadcasting from the Portland Chinatown Museum!
Mon 10/5 @6pm, PT with Book Soup of Los Angeles. Event details HERE. We’ll be Zooming in live from the iconic Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory in San Francisco Chinatown. They’re open everyday from 9am-5:30pm. Go there for a bit of fortune telling and Chinatown magic.
Tues 9/22 (release date) @4pm PT/ 7pm ET with the Tenement Museum of New York. Event details HERE. We’ll be Zooming in live from Mister Jiu’s, a restaurant in SF Chinatown. We invite you to order food and wine from their Jiu’s Ho Ho shop.