Shadow Puppet Theater was a community project centered on “what do you do to sweep away evil?” Emily held public programs and workshops, teaching paper cutting and shadow puppetry. Participants made their own puppets and devised short plays based on memories, practices, traditions, or imaginaries about how they sweep away evil. These recorded plays were featured in a month-long storefront window installation at Wing on Wo & Co.

Books, Texts & Forgotten Narratives made space for exploring traditional Chinese calligraphy and bookbinding from a queer perspective. Through a series of public programs, Vincent addressed the erasure of queer people, and the burning of queer and trans narratives and the burying of their lives. Throughout the residency, he focused on reimagining and rewriting narratives to include those erased from history as a central theme.

Changing Faces explored the questions: who are you and who am I? How am I seen and how would I like to be seen? What does it mean to change faces to survive? What does it mean to change faces to thrive and find peace? Through public programs, Singha focused on portraiture, self-portraiture, and mask making – to encourage participants to create new types of images of themselves and find agency in those images.

百家衣 Bai Jia Yi (“Hundred Families Robe”) was a collaboration with the Chinatown community. Joy invited the community to co-create a quilt and garment revolving on themes of grief, community, and the garment history of Chinatown. By transforming these tangible and intangible contributions, she created a physical record of the community’s moment of reflection, and co-created an embodiment of the community’s hopes for the future.