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Artist and Designer Tuan Tran - "Mẹ Earth: Past, Present, Future" Recycled Art Exhibition

Linh Bui

Mar 2, 2023

Artist and Designer Tuan Tran - "Mẹ Earth: Past, Present, Future" Recycled Art Exhibition

Tuan Tran is an artist and fashion designer born in Nha Trang, Vietnam. He immigrated to the United States in 1975 at 13 and resided in San

Chopsticks Alley

Sep 26, 2022

Season II: A Group Exhibition With Chopsticks Alley Art and Triton Museum of Art

Season II: A Group Exhibition with Chopsticks Alley Art and Triton Museum of Art opened on Sunday, September 25, 2022. Exhibition will be...

Making Meaning of the Past by Going Back to Vietnam to Live.

Joseph Nguyen

Sep 26, 2022

Making Meaning of the Past by Going Back to Vietnam to Live.

When I was 21, I "discovered" Vietnam. Let us ignore that Vietnamese culture had existed for thousands of years before me, that...

America Has Become More Diverse and Inclusive, Yet at Times It’s Gotten More Intolerant and Hateful

De Tran

Sep 16, 2022

America Has Become More Diverse and Inclusive, Yet at Times It’s Gotten More Intolerant and Hateful

Hate crimes against Asian-Americans have skyrocketed since the pandemic. The political theatrics around Covid hasn’t been helpful.

How has Anti-Asian Racism and Discrimination Affected Me as a Vietnamese American?

Samantha Tran

Jul 27, 2022

How has Anti-Asian Racism and Discrimination Affected Me as a Vietnamese American?

Racism has been a heavy topic for many decades. It is the belief that humans are divided by ethnicity and skin color. Racism can affect...

Filipino Representation in American Pop Culture

Crystal Sipin

Mar 5, 2022

Filipino Representation in American Pop Culture

It’s one thing to watch the Filipino channel on your TV but there’s quite a different sentiment to seeing Filipinos represented in...

Redefining What It Means to Be a: Mestiza

Crystal Sipin

Feb 11, 2022

Redefining What It Means to Be a: Mestiza

How funny is it to think that one word can be used to define more than one thing? A “block” could describe a piece of material used for...

Crystal Sipin

Dec 5, 2021

The “Family” in Filipino

What constitutes a family? Some may argue that your family consists solely of your immediate family--your parents, your siblings, and...

Vietnamese American Service Center Now Open: Meet Architect Thang Do

Harleen Kaur

Nov 30, 2021

Vietnamese American Service Center Now Open: Meet Architect Thang Do

On October 23, 2021, Santa Clara County opened the first facility of its kind in the United States, the Vietnamese American Service...

Harleen Kaur

Oct 13, 2021

Interview with Jumdropz

When doing my research for my interview with artist Eric Bui, I stumbled upon his shop where I saw bright and colorful pieces made by an...

Harleen Kaur

Sep 7, 2021

The History Behind Son Mai

Sơn Mài, or also known to the west as lacquer painting, is a form of painting that was revived and made a unique form in the 1930’s in...

ARTventure Down the Mekong, Chopsticks Alley Art’s First Art Book

Harleen Kaur

Sep 6, 2021

ARTventure Down the Mekong, Chopsticks Alley Art’s First Art Book

The wait is over! Chopsticks Alley Art’s first ever book project, ARTventure Down the Mekong, is releasing today on Labor Day! ARTventure...

Esther Young

Sep 1, 2021

CreativiTEA Artists in March 2021

Setlist: Asela Lee Kemper - Poetry Twitter: @AselaLeeK Instagram: @thesakuraink EJ Villanueva - Music Instagram: @ejvaleros Ashley Hin -...

Chopsticks Alley

Sep 1, 2021

Summer Eggplant Tacos

This recipe aired during our finale episode on May 26. For more vegan recipes by Mina Gates, follow her on Instagram at @acurioushelping....

Chopsticks Alley Pinoy Editors

Aug 28, 2021

Chopsticks Alley Pinoy Editors’ Reading List

In 1974, Frank Chin, Jeffery Paul Chan, and Lawson Inada edited and published “Aiiieeeee! An Anthology of Asian-American Writers,”...

Upcoming Event: Chinatown Music Festival

Zachary Anderson

Aug 15, 2021

Upcoming Event: Chinatown Music Festival

For the first time, the Manilatown Heritage Foundation partnered with the Chinese Cultural Center of San Francisco to bring back the...

Asian-owned company LOUPN launches Asian-designed jewelry line

Dina Klarisse

Jul 29, 2021

Asian-owned company LOUPN launches Asian-designed jewelry line

In a Los Angeles studio in late June, jewelry designer Benjamin Holtrop, launched and celebrated the release of his “Be Water Summer...

Nathalie De Los Santos

Jul 19, 2021

Author Interview: Karla Comanda

Karla Comanda (she/they) is a poet, editor, translator, educator, and arts administrator. Her work has appeared in Contemporary Verse 2,...

National Youth Poet Laureate: Alexandra Huynh

Harleen Kaur

Jul 16, 2021

National Youth Poet Laureate: Alexandra Huynh

Chopsticks Alley got to sit down with our nation’s New National Youth Poet Laureate (NYPL) over Zoom to hear her journey of winning the...

Dina Klarisse

Jul 9, 2021

AAPI Feature: Jhumpa Lahiri

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri is a first-generation Bengali American who writes about the spaces in between. Her short...

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