Sampan talks with ‘Pip’ Lewis, the architect behind the award-winning Josiah Quincy Upper School ...
When funding for SNAP food and nutrition help for poor and struggling families was in jeopardy, community groups came ...
Walking back into Josiah Quincy Elementary School in mid-November felt familiar at first, but it took only a few steps to see ...
There’s something profoundly beautiful about a carefully constructed evocation of failure, despair, togetherness, and survival. When it’s unveiled sensitively, as it’s done so brilliantly in Ocean ...
Three generations of Filipino women tell how they got back to their roots after moving to the U.S. For Filipino American History month in October, Sampan, in collaboration with the University of ...
The notion of a doppelgänger in literature has been used for centuries, with varying degrees of success. Think of the ghost of Hamlet’s father, materializing to haunt the tortured Denmark Prince about ...
Fun Home is a beautiful queer memoir-musical about investigating one’s past and wrestling with the maddening slipperiness of memory. Based on Alison Bechdel’s award-winning graphic memoir, the story ...
Juk Sing stands out in the Boston music scene for their unique sound: The band’s specialty is Cantopop — a sub-genre of Chinese pop music originating from Hong Kong. “The golden age of Canto-pop was ...
Most people know Suzanne Lee for two things: her career in the Boston Public Schools system, and her work building organizations in Chinatown. Today, she is the president emeritus of the Chinese ...
When Chenlu Hou says her colorful, quirky and often wildly decorated clay sculptures are inspired by Chinese folk art and cut paper, it’s at first hard to believe. But then she sits down at her studio ...
Walk through Chinatown today, and you might see some colorful bilingual posters in the windows of upstairs apartments and ground-level businesses with slogans reading “Chinatown Is My Home, We Are ...
Directed by Weyni Mengesha and written by Ins Choi – who also stars as Appa in the performance – the play is about a Korean family-run corner store in Toronto. Although it is pleasant to see a ...