Sat December 14, 2019
Chan Family Picnic
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at Chinese Historical Society of America (CHSA)
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Reading by playwright Eugenie Chan and composer Byron Au Yong with Bay Area performing artists.
Eugenie Chan Theater Projects and the Chinese Historical Society of America invite you to a reading of Chan Family Picnic, a rollicking new vaudeville about the mental health impact of America's legacy of anti-Asian legislation and sex trafficking on three generations of the playwright's Chinese American family.
Drawing on the history of her grandfather, a man caught between his studies as a Stanford medical student and his membership in a Chinatown gambling and prostitution guild in early 1900s San Francisco, Eugenie Chan layers original material with fragments of actual family documents to explore the world Chan's Grandfather knew - and made - one of high hopes and hard choices.
Gumdock Chan carried the unusual burden of both privileged and constricted circumstance. A Stanford grad and the son of a madam at a time when Chinese were intensely discriminated against, how did he make his way in the world? How did he reconcile his family's past, his future?
This program is part of the Chinese American: Health Legacy Series, highlighting health issues that have particular impact on Asian American communities.
Free - please RSVP - limited seating.
Presented by Eugenie Chan Theater Projects
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Eugenie Chan Theater Projects and the Chinese Historical Society of America invite you to a reading of Chan Family Picnic, a rollicking new vaudeville about the mental health impact of America's legacy of anti-Asian legislation and sex trafficking on three generations of the playwright's Chinese American family.
Drawing on the history of her grandfather, a man caught between his studies as a Stanford medical student and his membership in a Chinatown gambling and prostitution guild in early 1900s San Francisco, Eugenie Chan layers original material with fragments of actual family documents to explore the world Chan's Grandfather knew - and made - one of high hopes and hard choices.
Gumdock Chan carried the unusual burden of both privileged and constricted circumstance. A Stanford grad and the son of a madam at a time when Chinese were intensely discriminated against, how did he make his way in the world? How did he reconcile his family's past, his future?
This program is part of the Chinese American: Health Legacy Series, highlighting health issues that have particular impact on Asian American communities.
Free - please RSVP - limited seating.
Presented by Eugenie Chan Theater Projects
Reading by playwright Eugenie Chan and composer Byron Au Yong with Bay Area performing artists.
Eugenie Chan Theater Projects and the Chinese Historical Society of America invite you to a reading of Chan Family Picnic, a rollicking new vaudeville about the mental health impact of America's legacy of anti-Asian legislation and sex trafficking on three generations of the playwright's Chinese American family.
Drawing on the history of her grandfather, a man caught between his studies as a Stanford medical student and his membership in a Chinatown gambling and prostitution guild in early 1900s San Francisco, Eugenie Chan layers original material with fragments of actual family documents to explore the world Chan's Grandfather knew - and made - one of high hopes and hard choices.
Gumdock Chan carried the unusual burden of both privileged and constricted circumstance. A Stanford grad and the son of a madam at a time when Chinese were intensely discriminated against, how did he make his way in the world? How did he reconcile his family's past, his future?
This program is part of the Chinese American: Health Legacy Series, highlighting health issues that have particular impact on Asian American communities.
Free - please RSVP - limited seating.
Presented by Eugenie Chan Theater Projects
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Eugenie Chan Theater Projects and the Chinese Historical Society of America invite you to a reading of Chan Family Picnic, a rollicking new vaudeville about the mental health impact of America's legacy of anti-Asian legislation and sex trafficking on three generations of the playwright's Chinese American family.
Drawing on the history of her grandfather, a man caught between his studies as a Stanford medical student and his membership in a Chinatown gambling and prostitution guild in early 1900s San Francisco, Eugenie Chan layers original material with fragments of actual family documents to explore the world Chan's Grandfather knew - and made - one of high hopes and hard choices.
Gumdock Chan carried the unusual burden of both privileged and constricted circumstance. A Stanford grad and the son of a madam at a time when Chinese were intensely discriminated against, how did he make his way in the world? How did he reconcile his family's past, his future?
This program is part of the Chinese American: Health Legacy Series, highlighting health issues that have particular impact on Asian American communities.
Free - please RSVP - limited seating.
Presented by Eugenie Chan Theater Projects
show less
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Chinese Historical Society of America (CHSA)
965 Clay Street, San Francisco, CA 94108
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