MOCA MIXOLOGY: Festive Cocktail HONG BAO with Eddy Buckingham of The Tyger
MOCA SPOTLIGHT SERIES: The Honorable State Senator Mae Yih
Welcome to MOCAKIDS Author Meet & Greet: Oliver Chin!
MOCAKIDS: Sugar Paint a Sweet New Year with Ms. Yan
Welcome to MOCAKIDS: La Mian for Longevity with Noodle Puller Peter Looi
Lunar New Year Family Festival Lion Dance Welcome!
Welcome to MOCAKIDS Author Meet & Greet: Michele Wong McSween
MOCA COOKS: Pan-Fried Noodles with Wilson Tang and Chef Julie Cole of Nom Wah Tea Parlor
MOCA FEST, the Museum of Chinese in America's monthlong celebration of Lunar New Year, has gone VIRTUAL!
MOCA TALKS: Chinese Almanac - Year of the Ox with Joanna C. Lee and Ken Smith
Before and after photos of Carvel at 53 Mott Street
MOCA ACT: Challenges to Building Arts and Culture Infrastructure
Winter Wonderlands in Honor of Ming Cho Lee
MOCAKIDS Storytime @ Home: Lon Po Po!
MOCA Spotlight Series: Calvin Tsao
MOCA Treasures on the Road: Houston Asian American Archive
MOCA Treasures on the Road: Unveiling the Untold Stories in the Chinese American Journey
MOCA Spotlight Series: William C. Louie
We hope you and your family are remaining safe and healthy during these difficult times. MOCA shares in the challenges, loss, and resilience of its community in recent months. As MOCA continues to rebuild from a devastating fire at its Collections site, MOCA stays committed to telling the untold stories of resilience, care, and community. MOCA’s moment to serve as a national anchor for Chinese American stories is now. MOCA is dedicated to the lasting legacy of inter-cultural dialogue where any individual might see their lives reflected through the remarkable stories of Chinese Americans.
We are therefore thrilled to invite you to our inaugural Spotlight Series launching today. Each month, this intimate and off-the-record virtual conversation will highlight the timely and distinctive narrative of a Chinese American icon and friend of MOCA. Through this conversation, MOCA hopes to shed light on the distinctive yet universally American journeys of these luminaries, touching upon key moments of personal trial and stratospheric success, all within a casual, inviting, and inspiring format.
We are honored to present our inaugural speaker as William C. Louie, one of the most acclaimed and recognizable architects worldwide, who joined Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates in 1977 and currently serves as Design Principal. In a career spanning nearly sixty years, Bill has shaped urban skylines with his bold and beautiful designs, including: the famed Infinity Tower in Sao Paulo, Brazil; the headquarters for the Chinese National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC), China Huaneng Group, in Beijing; Wheelock Tower in Shanghai; Hysan Place in Hong Kong; the Singapore Exchange Centre (SGX); the Daniel Patrick Moynihan U.S. Federal Courthouse in New York; Espirito Santo Plaza in Miami; the twin Ventura towers in Rio de Janeiro; and many others. Bill’s ascension from his humble beginnings in the back of his parents’ hand laundry in the Bronx to designing several of the world’s most iconic skyscr
Dragon Boat Family Festival: Making Taiwanese Style Zongzi (粽子) with Sophia!
MOCA is celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival 🐲 (端午节) with a whole week of festivities! Look out for different activities posted on our social media every day this week! Today, join Teaching Artist Sophia Hsu in making some Taiwanese style zongzi (粽子), one of the most beloved staples of the Dragon Boat Festival. These delicious sticky rice bundles wrapped in bamboo leaves will leave your stomach and heart filled with glee 😋!
Share your delicious creations with us @mocanyc on social media, DMing us, or emailing images to [email protected]. And check out Sophia’s tasty food blog! https://bit.ly/3kyPsqa
#dragonboatfestival #zongzi #museumfromhome #museumathome #projectsathome #chineseamerican #chinatown #immigration
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MOCA has launched the OneWorld COVID-19 collection that seeks to document and share the stories of Chinese Americans and the Chinese diaspora resisting coronavirus-fueled hate with incredible acts of compassion, generosity, and artistic and creative expression.
We welcome you to send us a write-up, photos, videos, audio, emails, texts and any other materials to [email protected] to share a story that you believe should be recorded. Help us continue to tell the stories of these extraordinary individuals and community groups.
Design a Sign with MOCACREATE at Home!
Chinatown is full of small and family-run businesses like restaurants, shops, and fruit markets. For this week’s MOCACREATE at Home 🎨🏠, learn about some of the businesses that are essential to New York’s Chinatown, create your own store sign to honor these businesses, and find out ways to support small businesses in your own community!
Share your finished projects with us by tagging #MOCACREATE and #MOCACREATEathome on social media, DMing us, or emailing images to [email protected].
@Chinatown Ice Cream Factory
@Pearl River Mart
#museumfromhome #museumathome #projectsathome #chineseamerican #chinatown #supportchinatown #supportblackbusiness #supportblackownedbusinesses
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MOCA has launched the OneWorld COVID-19 collection that seeks to document and share the stories of Chinese Americans and the Chinese diaspora resisting coronavirus-fueled hate with incredible acts of compassion and generosity.
We welcome you to send us a write-up, photos, videos, audio, emails, texts and any other materials to [email protected] to share a story that you believe should be recorded. Help us continue to tell the stories of these extraordinary individuals and community groups.
MOCA Teahouse Reading Club: Exploring the Model Minority Myth during Coronavirus
The MOCA Teahouse Reading Club, a monthly program organized in response to surging anti-Asian xenophobia and violence during the COVID-19 pandemic, launches on Tuesday, June 30. This discussion series hosted by MOCA’s education and exhibition departments—Nora Chen, Education Associate; Lauren Nechamkin, Director of Education; Andrew Rebatta, Associate Curator; Herb Tam, Curator and Director of Exhibitions, will help participants explore and understand Chinese and Asian American identity and history through discussions focused on selected key readings.
Teahouses are centers of community life, places to chat and share ideas. While we’re physically apart, we invite you to dialogue with us at our virtual teahouse. Read along and join the discussion over your favorite cup of tea. The first Reading Club gathering will be focused on exploring the model minority myth during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through these discussions, we hope to nurture a more nuanced dialogue around the issues and experiences we are facing in our current times and continue to build support and allyship across our communities.
MOCA COOKS–PRIDE EDITION: Thunder Tea Rice with Chef Simpson Wong
As Pride marches and celebrations have been moved online or canceled around the world, MOCA is unable to form a marching contingent with our community members this year to walk in the 2020 NYC Pride March. With this in mind, MOCA invites you to tune in to have an intimate chat with Chef Simpson Wong—proprietor of critically acclaimed restaurants such as Café Asean, Jefferson, and WONG. Chef Simpson will share stories about his incredible career as a proud queer Malaysian-Chinese American chef and teach you the art of cooking Thunder Tea Rice—a dish of Hakka origin is commonly found in hawker centers in South East Asia and Taiwan.
MOCA Forum: Asian American Allyship for Black Lives Matter—Part 1 Awareness
In observance of Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, on Friday, June 19th, MOCA cordially invites you to join us virtually in a two-part series to address Asian American allyship for Black Lives Matter. The first session is an inward examination of racism in Asian American communities with Gov. Gary Locke, Former Governor of Washington and Former Ambassador to China, and Prof. Frank H. Wu, President-Designate of Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY) and author of Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black & White. Moderated by Nancy Yao Maasbach, MOCA President, Gov. Locke and Prof. Wu will discuss issues around affirmative action, immigration, misperceptions, allyship, perpetual foreignness in light of the Black Lives Matter movement, current protests, and COVID-related racism. The second session will be held on Tuesday, July 14, which is an outward call to action with Precious Williams Owodunni, President of Mountaintop Consulting.
Express Yourself & Show Your Support with MOCACREATE at Home
With so much going on in our country and the world, this week’s MOCACREATE at Home 🎨🏠 offers some ideas of how we can share our thoughts and feelings with our neighbors and community through window art.
Share your finished projects with us by tagging #MOCACREATE and #MOCACREATEathome on social media, DMing us, or emailing images to [email protected].
#museumfromhome #museumathome #projectsathome #windowart #chineseamerican
MOCA COOKS: Malaysian-Style Turmeric Salmon with Chef Mei Chau of Aux Epices and Grace Young
Join us virtually to learn the art of cooking Malaysian-Style Turmeric Salmon with Chef Mei Chau, owner of Aux Epices in Manhattan's Chinatown and Grace Young, author of the award-winning cookbook Stir-Frying to the Sky's Edge. This virtual class covers all the steps you need to make a classic Malaysian turmeric-ginger paste. Once made it holds in the fridge or freezer and when combined with a little coconut milk makes a quick sauce for Malaysian Turmeric Salmon or shrimp and can even be used to marinate chicken. This is one of Mei’s most popular recipes and a foolproof way to enjoy moist and delicious salmon that’s super easy. Mei and Grace will also share some tips for handling lemongrass and turmeric and how to boost your immune system with spices.
While the turmeric paste is cooking, Mei will discuss her work with Welcome to Chinatown—a grassroots initiative to purchase and deliver meals from New York City's Chinatown restaurants to essential workers, and Grace will share her latest project “Coronavirus: Chinatown Stories” documenting what’s happening in Chinatown and her acclaimed “Wok Therapist” video, which just won the 2020 James Beard Media Award. This cooking party is facilitated by Herb Tam, MOCA Curator and Director of Exhibitions.
MOCAKIDS Storytime Is Almost Here!
WATCH OUT! 🐺👵 Our first virtual MOCAKIDS Storytime 📚🎶📖 is almost here! Join us tomorrow for a song, craft, and a special performance of Lon Po Po, adapted from Ed Young’s classic book.
Live via Zoom tomorrow, Thursday, May 28 at 4 P.M. EST! Pre-register for free here: https://bit.ly/3bS6qKF
#storytime #museumfromhome #museumathome
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At MOCA, stories and storytelling are incredibly important to our mission of preserving and presenting the history, heritage, culture and diverse experiences of people of Chinese descent in the United States. MOCA has launched the OneWorld COVID-19 collection that seeks to document and share the stories of Chinese Americans and the Chinese diaspora resisting coronavirus-fueled hate with incredible acts of compassion and generosity.
We welcome you to send us a write-up, photos, videos, audio, emails, texts and any other materials to [email protected] to share a story that you believe should be recorded. Help us continue to tell the stories of these extraordinary individuals and community groups.
This Memorial Day and APA Heritage Month, MOCA wishes to take a moment to remember and honor the military personnel of Asian and Pacific Islander ancestry who have died while serving in the U.S. Armed Forces.
At a time when anti-AAPI racism is rampant due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it's especially important now to remember that throughout American history people of Asian and Pacific Islander ancestry have sacrificed and died in the line of duty serving in the U.S. Armed Forces.
During this time of year in what has become an annual MOCA tradition, we'd be telling you the story of Hazel Ying Lee, one of only two Chinese-American women to fly as pilots in the U.S. military during World War II, who died in the line of duty.
However, this year due to MOCA's temporary closure in response to COVID-19, we're SHOWING you Hazel’s story by making the "Core Portrait" video about Hazel, usually only viewable in the Museum's permanent exhibition, available to you here on social media in honor of Memorial Day.
Video credit: Core Portrait video featuring original personal photographs, family letters, documents, newspaper articles, and memorabilia from the Hazel Ying Lee & Frances M. Tong Collection, donated by Hazel’s sister Frances M. Tong and filmmaker Alan H. Rosenberg.
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MOCA has launched the OneWorld COVID-19 collection that seeks to document and share the stories of Chinese Americans and the Chinese diaspora resisting coronavirus-fueled hate with incredible acts of compassion and generosity.
We welcome you to send us a write-up, photos, videos, audio, emails, texts and any other materials to [email protected] to share a story that you believe should be recorded. Help us continue to tell the stories of these extraordinary individuals and community groups.
#APAHM #memorialday #aapi #chinatown #chineseamerican #americanhistory #chinese #nyc #story #storytelling #history #asianamerican #MuseumFromHome #coronavirus #covi
MOCAKIDS Storytime Sneak Peek!
Does Pó Pó look weird to anyone else? 🤔 Find out what’s so different about Pó Pó at our first virtual MOCAKIDS Storytime 📚🎶📖! Join us for a song, craft, and a special performance of Lon Po Po, adapted from Ed Young’s classic book.
Live via Zoom on Thursday, May 28 at 4 P.M. EST! Pre-register for free here: https://bit.ly/3bS6qKF
#storytime #museumfromhome #museumathome
Every object tells a story and every home is like a museum, full of precious objects and memories. During this time when we're all WFH, we're inviting people to share a My MOCA Story video about one object in their life that means the most to them.
Today's My MOCA Story video comes from our dear friend Joanne Kwong @msjojokwong, president of the widely loved Asian-goods emporium Pearl River Mart @pearlrivermart and partner in our museum store MOCA Shop by Pearl River.
Watch Joanne’s My MOCA Story as she does a special “unboxing” of her treasured object.
Although MOCA Shop and Pearl River Mart's other locations are temporarily closed due to COVID-19, the online store is open at www.pearlriver.com.
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Tell us your story by following these 4 simple steps:
1) Start your video by saying "My MOCA Story is ... "
2) Describe the object
3) Tell people why you chose it
4) Share it with us by emailing [email protected].
We'll repost your video on our social media and show it in the Museum after we re-open.
So shoot a video, share your video, and follow us at @mocanyc.
#mymocastory #apahm #aapi #chinatown #chineseamerican #americanhistory #nyc #story #storytelling #history #MuseumFromHome #museum #asianamerican #shop #shopping #WFH
