Chinese History Museum 14th Anniversary Celebration | SF

Submitted by the Event Organizer

CHSA is celebrating the 14th anniversary of the museum’s opening at their permanent home in the Julia Morgan-designed Chinese YWCA building at 965 Clay Street in San Francisco with a full day of programs. Doors open at 11 am; program begins at 12:30 pm.

2015 Chinese Historical Society Anniversary
Saturday, November 7, 2015 | Noon to 4 pm
Chinese Historical Society, 965 Clay St, San Francisco
FREE, but an RSVP is requested.

2015 highlights include:

• live music performance by Francis Wong, Karl Evangelista, Yangqin Zhao & Deszon Claiborne;
• film screening of Canton Army in the High Sierras produced by Loni Ding;
• the current exhibitions Underground Chinatown: Racism at the Fair & Evolution of the Qipao Part III: Turning Heads
• a special tribute in memory of Him Mark and Laura Lai, on the occasion of Him Mark Lai’s birthday on November 1st.
• anniversary cake and light refreshments

At the 2015 celebration they will unveil the new “Voices From the Railroad” exhibit kiosk, featuring video interviews of Chinese railroad worker descendants on an interactive display. This new kiosk is part of “Work of Giants: Chinese Railroad Worker Project,” a CHSA initiative to recover stories about Chinese railroad workers who were instrumental in building the First Transcontinental Railroad.

They are also pleased to welcome Glenn Lym, who will present “The First 4 Decades of Lim Lip Hong,” a preview of his upcoming documentary film about his paternal great grandfather – Lim Lip Hong – who was a Chinese Railway Worker. With the Transcontinental Railroad completed, Lim Lip Hong remained in Nevada and the mid American West for a decade before returning to San Francisco by the late 1870’s. He married and settled on a ranch 5 miles south of Chinatown in The Potrero neighborhood. There were many reasons for Chinese not to settle outside Chinatown at that time. How and why Lim Lip Hong settled in the Potrero is the subject of Glenn Lym’s upcoming, 7th documentary.

For CHSA’s November 7th event, Glenn will preview the short, first part of his documentary that covers the first 40 years of Lim Lip Hong’s life, mirroring the experiences of many early immigrant Chinese in America. They will follow with a short question and answer period.

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