Curating the Past – Documenting the Present – Imagining the Future
2026-08-23 / 16:00 – 18:00
Fortunes & Futures (3/3)
Curated Talks and Deep Dives into Wing Noodles: The Heart of Chinatown
This last talk focuses on community history, documentary filmmaking, and the power of storytelling.
Curator and filmmaker Karen Cho will reflect on the process of transforming nearly 130 years of history into the living exhibition “Wing Noodles – The Heart of Chinatown” as well as the process of capturing Wing Noodles’ final weeks of production and the future of Wing’s legacy in a forthcoming documentary film. Focusing on the era from 1964 onwards, where Wings occupied one of Chinatown’s most historic and iconic buildings, this presentation will also challenge us to reflect on how the past can inform the future for the Wing’s block of Chinatown.
With Karen Cho, documentary filmmaker + curator for the Wing’s exhibition