KQED s Eating Taiwanese in the Bay
is a series of stories exploring Taiwanese food culture in all of its glorious, delicious complexity. New installments to the series will run daily from May 19–28.
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cross from a few sheep bleating and baaing behind a fence, rainbow pride and Black Lives Matter flags softly wave in the wind. A “Stop Asian Hate” poster is propped against a wall. Around the corner, the property opens up to a 1.5-acre farm filled with trellises of bitter melon, rows of napa cabbage, and hoophouses holding dozens of other Asian herbs and vegetables. All signs, perhaps, that this is a farm with a strong sense of its own identity.
“Mapping our Stories” film series elevates BIPOC histories of Santa Monica
Apr. 12, 2021 at 6:00 am
Movie: The films from the local dance company are available to watch online. Courtesy photo
Inspired by the racial uprisings of the last year, Suárez Dance Theater is launching a film series shining a light on the often overlooked stories of Santa Monica’s Black, Indigenous, and Latinx community members.
The “Mapping our Stories” project is created in collaboration with filmmaker Leonardo Rivas and three groups of BIPOC performers, whose videos each highlight a different culture and area of the City. Chumash and Tongva poet and songwriter Jessa Calderon captures Santa Monica beach and Tongva Park; Black choreographer and performer Bernard Brown explores the Belmar Triangle; and Latinx dance collective Primera Generación highlights the Pico neighborhood.
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As Emotions Run High in Oakland Chinatown, a Dumpling Class Promotes Asian and Black Unity
The virtual fundraiser comes after a wave of attacks against elderly Asian people in the Bay Area
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Adrian Chang
When Oakland-raised cook Adrian Chang first saw the videos of the violent attacks against elderly Asian people in Oakland Chinatown that have circulated the internet in recent weeks, he felt enraged.
The wave of attacks, including a clip of a 91-year-old man getting shoved headfirst onto the pavement in broad daylight, felt personal for Chang, as they did for many Asian Americans. Just last month, he and Erin Wilkins, the proprietor of Herb Folk, an Asian-American herbalist shop in Petaluma, had launched a yearlong workshop series focused on Asian-American folk traditions and the use of food as medicine a deliberate effort to reclaim those practices’ Asian roots.
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Chang feeds his chickens in the backyard of his home in Occidental, Calif.Jessica Christian / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Erin Wilkins organizes herbs inside of her shop Herb Folk in Petaluma, Calif.Jessica Christian / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Herb Folk sells jars of broth herbs, which are also used in the virtual workshop.Jessica Christian / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
Growing up, Adrian Chang spent a lot of time in his grandfather’s Chinese apothecary in San Francisco’s Chinatown. The small shop on Washington and Waverly streets, Superior Trading, closed two years ago, but Chang recalls the floor-to-ceiling drawers holding dried cicadas, twigs, berries, tangerine peels and even seahorses.