20 Downtown News
January 31, 2011
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New Year Continued from page 13 It will be similar to the scenes glimpsed over the summer during the Chinatown Summer Nights gatherings. “These vendors are all juried in, so people will get traditional crafts and high-fashion items,” Yu said. Central Plaza will also be home to several food trucks. Over at West Plaza, people can check out a ping-pong tournament, sculpture demonstrations, face painting and Chinese arts and crafts. A more active option is “The Great Chinatown Hunt,” organized by Race/LA. The urban scavenger hunt, on Feb. 6 at 11 a.m., will pit teams of two to four players against each other in a three-hour competition to solve a series of clues around Chinatown.
A stage and booths will also be set up near the vacant Little Joe’s restaurant at 900 N. Broadway. “It’s exciting for us to be able to use that site and have everything more centrally located, and it’s in the heart of Chinatown,” Yu said. The 33rd annual Los Angeles Chinatown Firecracker Run will be a highlight of the second weekend. It includes a 5K and 10K run, a shorter race for kids 12 and under, and also bicycle events. While there are plenty of activities scheduled to celebrate the event, for many Chinese Americans like Gin, the new year is a time to celebrate with loved ones. “For me, the celebration is also about being with family, having a quiet dinner and looking forward to the next year,” he said. More information is at (213) 680-0243 or chinatownla.com. Contact Richard Guzmán at richard@downtownnews.com.
New Year at the Museum T
hose looking to add a little history to their Chinese new year celebration don’t have far to go. The Chinese American Museum, at 425 N. Los Angeles St. near Olvera Street, has several exhibits that touch on the Chinese American experience. The exhibit Dreams Deferred: Artists Respond to Immigration Reform, features work from 18 local artists exploring the topic of immigration. While the subject is often seen as an issue of Latinos in the United States, museum officials point to the fact that Asian Americans make up 40% of the undocumented population in the University of California system, with Chinese-American students representing the second largest number in that group. Also up at CAM is Remembering Angel
Island. The show commemorates the 100th anniversary of the opening of the notorious Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco. It processed more than 1 million immigrants, including 175,000 Chinese, before it was shut down in 1940. For a look back in time, check out Sun Wing Wo General Store and Herb Shop. The exhibition is a recreation of a store that was housed in the Garnier Building near Olvera Street in the 1890s. The actual store closed in 1948 and, while it primarily served the Chinese American community, it also had European, Japanese and Latino customers. The Chinese American Museum is at 425 N. Los Angeles St., (213) 485-8567 or camla.org. —Richard Guzmán
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