Save Riverside Chinatown

*TOMORROW!* May 8 at 7PM - we hope to see you at Heritage House to hear Ching-In Chen read from their new book SHINY CITY inspired by work with the Save Our Chinatown Committee! With special guests Daniel Kuo and Chris Santiago. Event is free and open to the public!

SHINY CITY examines the “real” and imagined history of Riverside, California’s Chinatown, juxtaposed with a speculative shiny city of the global future. Word by word, syntax by syntax, Chen projects the essential and unrecorded voices of the Chinese immigrants who picked and packed fruit in Riverside’s citrus groves and worked as house servants in the late 1800’s through the 1930’s, as well as the travelers and inhabitants of “shiny city” as they navigate its accelerated process of growth and decay. Both experimental and narrative, these poems juxtapose found texts with a singular kind of imagining: through a wild love, and despite an incomplete and fragmented archive, SHINY CITY reconstructs its own kind of history with beauty that emerges from between the cracks.

Location: Heritage House, 8193 Magnolia Ave, Riverside, CA 92504

Thanks to our sponsors: Kundiman, Museum of Riverside, Inlandia Institute and UCR Writers Week

Join the Museum of Riverside's Moon Festival this Tuesday, Sept 17th! Storytelling by Barbara Wong, performances by Gió Nam Múa Lân (Southern Wind Lion Dance, 南風醒獅團), Chinese calligraphy demonstrations by Riverside’s Hua Xia Chinese School, mah-jongg games and a fun craft for all ages. EVENT IS FREE! Be sure to stop by our table and say hello! Moon cakes will be available for purchase. Parking is available across the street at the Family Service Association parking lot at 8172 Magnolia Avenue, and street parking is available. At Heritage House (8193 Magnolia Avenue, Riverside).