Thank you for joining us for Chinatown with Hannia Cheng, presented by Luminato’s Creative Current and created by Tea Base.
Chinatown with Hannia Cheng
Available from July 7, 2021
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Join us at Cecil Community Centre to pick up your pamphlet with the full walking map and to begin the tour.
Pamphlet pick-up open hours
Wednesday, July 7 @ 3PM – 8PM EST
Thursday, July 8 @ 3PM – 8PM EST
Friday, July 9 @ 3PM – 8PM EST
Saturday, July 10 @ 10AM – 8PM EST
Sunday, July 11 @ 10AM – 8PM EST
Cecil Community Centre Address
58 Cecil Street,
Toronto, Ontario
M5T 1N6
Can’t make it during pamphlet pick-up hours? Download your own copy of the pamphlet here.
How to participate
Access the audio tour below.
This experience is about 90 minutes in length, we recommend that you bring water and sunscreen. To best enjoy this walk, we also suggest that you bring some cash with you and one item from your fridge, but these objects are optional!
A note from Tea Base
We put a lot of love into this FREE experience, so all we ask is that you support Chinatown in return.
Chinatown is a very cash oriented economy. If you have the means, please bring $20-40 in cash with you for a fuller experience.
Here is our dreamy grocery list for the Chinatown Community Fridge in Chinese (simplified + traditional), Vietnamese, and English: GroceryListPosts.pdf
Make sure you bring water and stay hydrated during the audio adventure!
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What to expect
Let’s talk about how T’karonto’s downtown Chinatown is not a monolith, and more than a tourist destination; an active community, home to many, and full of stories.
Join Hannia Cheng, co-founder of Tea Base and founding member of Friends of Chinatown Toronto (FOCT), as they take you on a 90-minute podcast style adventure through Chinatown filled with artistic interventions, interviews, and interactive prompts.
Informed by the historical and global contexts in the evolution of Chinatowns in Western cities, this audio experience takes a deep look into the complexities of migration, displacement, and assimilation that happen across generations and Turtle Island. It is only through recognizing the multiplicity of downtown Chinatown can we collectively imagine its speculative futures.
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About Tea Base
Tea Base is a curious community arts space tucked away in Tkaronto/Toronto’s Chinatown Centre Mall. With the mission of making accessible space for intergenerational activists and artists who support social justice movements in and around Chinatown, Tea Base develops solidarity across marginalized groups through relationships, joy, and collaboration.
Sharing the same name, Tea Base is also a grassroots collective of queer artists, organizers, and cultural facilitators. We promote community engagement by hosting events, cultural programming, exhibitions, and workshops related to issues of displacement and healing for the “Asian diasporas”.
