PPS Presents: Seeing Providence Chinatown: A Walking Visit with Jeffrey Yoo-Warren

Join Jeffrey Yoo-Warren and the Providence Preservation Society for a walking visit to Providence’s Empire Street Chinatown, which existed until 1914.

Open to the public.

$15 PPS member// $20 general

Registration required.

On July 13, I’ll be leading a walking visit to Providence’s Empire Street Chinatown in relation to my Library of Congress project Hidden Portals. We’ll be visiting the places where Chinatown existed until 1914, and I’ll share a little about what I’ve learned about these homes, shops, and community members along the way. We’ll get to visit the virtual reconstructions of just a few of these sites through the Hidden Portals experience.

— Jeffrey Yoo Warren

Jeffrey Yoo Warren (he/him) is a Korean American artist educator, illustrator, community scientist and researcher in Providence, RI, whose recent work combines ancestral craft practices and creative work with diasporic memory through virtual collaborative worldbuilding. He has spent years creating collaborative community science projects which decenter dominant culture in environmental knowledge production. Jeff is an educator with Movement Education Outdoors and AS220, and part of the New Old art collective with Aisha Jandosova, hosting art-making and storytelling events with older adults; he is also the 2023 Innovator in Residence at the Library of Congress.  His current artistic practice investigates how people build identity and strength through their interactions with artifacts and histories, and the ways that objects can tell stories that people can be part of in the present.