ABOUT ROOTS FINAL SHOWCASE 
Join Resist Recycle Regenerate fellows in celebrating their end-of-year art projects, a culmination of skills they have learned and shared through the series of community papermaking workshops. Incorporating handmade paper recycled from Lunar New Year confetti, these projects weave together and reflect on themes of lineage, personal/collective histories, and the role of art in centering women and resisting forces of erasure and invisibility. The RRR Fellows projects respond to questions of Chinese-American identity and heritage, contextualizing our lives within local and national histories of migration.
The afternoon will begin with a walk-in showcase and conclude with a conversation with the fellows about their experience being a part of the Resist Recycle Regenerate program as well as how they developed their projects from inception to implementation.
ABOUT RESIST RECYCLE REGENERATE 
Resist Recycle Regenerate seeks to draw lessons from the history of racial discrimination and exclusion against our Chinese immigrant community in order to address today’s exclusionary immigration policies. By drawing upon our collective past while reclaiming traditional cultural practices, we want to rekindle pride in our heritage while building women-centric intersectional and intergenerational solidarity. In fall 2017, we will launch into our year-long workshop series teaching six young women, ages 16-21, the crafts of papermaking and print making so that they may in turn lead workshops for the community throughout 2018. After the celebratory explosions of Lunar New Year fireworks in February 2018, together with a group of about 20-30 community volunteers, we will collect the discarded confetti fireworks – that are considered trash – to transform into paper pulp. This recycled paper will become the basis of the second part of the project, in which we will collaborate with Museum of Chinese in America to contextualize current political issues through the investigation of Chinatown’s history. Chinatowns across the US are deeply shaped by the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, and were forced to adapt as various waves of Chinese immigration ebbed and flowed due to changing legislation that effected quotas on Asian immigrants.
ABOUT THE RRR FELLOWS 
Ja Bulsombut  is a Thai-Chinese student from Bangkok. She is currently studying cultural studies at Sarah Lawrence College and is very passionate about film & poetry. She also paints. Ja joined the RRR project because she wanted to get more involved with the Chinatown community in Manhattan, especially with a grassroots organization like W.O.W. She is also interested in learning how to make paper and print.
Kristin Chang is a second-year student at Sarah Lawrence College and is originally from the San Francisco Bay Area. She joined RRR to connect with her lineage, incorporate ideas of resistance/migration/cultural ancestry in her writing and art, and to connect with a community of passionate art-makers and activists. Her interests include queer Asian media, spoken word poetry, and comics.
Jing Chen is an immigrant from Fuzhou, China. Jing decided to join the RRR Project primarily due to the many problems Chinese Americans are facing nowadays in the United States. Jing wants to contribute to the Asian American community as well as explore more aspects of Chinese culture that she might not have been aware of prior to joining the RRR Project team.
Melody Mok is an Asian-American with a hispanic background. As a fluent speaker of 3 languages (Spanish, English,and Chinese), Melody has learned that one of the most essential factors in achieving success is the ability to understand different cultures and interact with different backgrounds. Melody has joined the RRR Project in hopes of re-immersing herself in Chinese culture and making a difference by supporting the W.O.W Project's mission. Her interests include painting, fencing and swimming.
Lily Tang is a seventeen year old Chinese-American who has lived in Chinatown her whole life. Lily's interests are photography, film, design and literature. She joined the RRR Project because she thought it was a great way to incorporate her love for arts & crafts while contributing to the community that she loves. Lily also looks forward to learning as much as she can about every aspect of Asian-American history and culture because it is something she wants to major in in college.
Resist Recycle Regenerate is made possible in part by the Asian Women Giving Circle and with public funds from Creative Engagement, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. LMCC.net