Chinatown Fridays: Lunar New Year Potluck at Red’s Place (SF)

🥡Chinatown Friday: Potluck @ Red’s Place w/ special guest Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya @alonglastname

🥡 Friday, January 20th 7pm-9pm

We can’t wait to see you at our January Chinatown Friday as we celebrate the Lunar New Year. We’ll be doing a potluck at Red’s Place, so bring a dish from a restaurant in Chinatown or homemade that means something to you and let’s talk food!

We’ll be joined in conversation with special guest artist Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya @alonglastname. Amanda is a multidisciplinary artist and through color, composition, and code, she invites audiences into new worlds filled with wonder and belonging. Amanda’s currently working on a new project called Let the Future Speak, a collaborative community-rooted work that seeks to explore how the past can reach its hands out to shape our present and how we can collectively reimagine our shared futures. The artist hopes to gather groups of 15-20 participants—in order to elicit the sharing of profound, heartfelt stories for the archive. She will record these sessions with participants’ permission. The archive will feature prominently and shape the participatory installation of “Let the Future Speak”, which will unveil in 2024.

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SCHEDULE

7:00pm: Event Starts

7:00pm – 7:20pm: Guests to pick up takeout if they haven’t brought anything

7:25pm: Guest Speaker Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya Takes the Floor

7:50pm: Time to Eat

9:00pm: Event Ends

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More about Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya

Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist, educator, and activist. The daughter of immigrant parents, Amanda grew up in the kitchens of their Thai restaurants in Atlanta, GA. She saw first-hand the power of inviting folx into unfamiliar worlds as a way to build bridges, community, and belonging. Her Thai and Indonesian heritage along with her background as a woman in STEM has led to a broad body of work, including large-scale murals, augmented reality (AR) experiences, 3D printed sculptures, and participatory installations. By making the invisible, visible, she’s challenging viewers to rethink the world around them and revealing the depth, resilience, and beauty of marginalized communities – creating art that is impossible to ignore.

Amanda’s explorations of feminism, science, and community have reclaimed space in museums and galleries, at protests and rallies, on buildings, highway tunnels, and subway corridors, as well as on the mainstage of two TED conferences. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, the Guardian, and on the cover of TIME magazine. In 2020-2021, she was artist-in-residence with the NYC Commission on Human Rights and her work has been acquired into the permanent collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Museum of the City of New York and the Library of Congress.

More about “Let the Future Speak”

“Let the Future Speak” is a collaborative community-rooted work by artist Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya that seeks to explore how the past can reach its hands out to shape our present and how we can collectively reimagine our shared futures. The piece will evolve from a Civic Practice Residency funded in part by the SF Asian Art Museum, during which the artist will partner with a coalition of AAPI-serving nonprofits and orgs to facilitate listening sessions, workshops and roundtables with community members. She will develop a community archive of AAPI voices, sounds, and stories from across the Bay Area over the next year.

The artist hopes to gather groups of 15-20 participants—in order to elicit the sharing of profound, heartfelt stories for the archive. She will record these sessions with participants’ permission. The archive will feature prominently and shape the participatory installation of “Let the Future Speak”, which will unveil in 2024.

To get a sense for Amanda’s work and social practice check out: GATHER—A series of monuments and rituals at Lincoln Center and her public art campaigns that have uplifted Asian Americans in communities across the United States.