Welcome To Chinatown

APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED: Apply to be a Lunar New Year Fair #vendor by 12/13! Have you ever wanted to introduce a product, test your marketing appeal, get your feet wet in retail, or share your subject matter expertise with the community? We want to hear your vendor stall ideas! Apply: https://lnkd.in/eTGmy-TP Core to Welcome To Chinatown’s mission is bolstering #smallbusinesses and #entrepreneurs – our open call is aimed to uplift entrepreneurs and provide a platform to showcase their work while also giving you an opportunity to gain experience and insights to grow your business. Gotham Park

To further celebrate Women’s Entrepreneurship Day, Amplify Her Foundation is continuing its 2024 Grantee Partner Spotlight, with organizations that are supporting WOMEN’S ENTREPRENEURSHIP, by expanding access to resources, skillbuilding, and networks designed to help women business owners succeed. Next up: ?? Welcome To Chinatown, an organization amplifying and addressing the critical needs of Manhattan’s Chinatown community and its API women entrepreneurs, through a robust offering of community and capacity building initiatives, grants, and resources. Hear directly from Welcome to Chinatown Co-Founder & CEO Victoria Lee, on how Amplify Her Foundation’s grant is growing targeted programming for women. Photo Credit for Yu And Me Books: Jordan Ji #amplifyherfoundation #ifshecanmakeithere #womensleadership #nycwomen #womenentrepreneurs

To further celebrate Women’s Entrepreneurship Day, Amplify Her Foundation is continuing its 2024 Grantee Partner Spotlight, with organizations that are supporting WOMEN’S ENTREPRENEURSHIP. To learn more about Amplify Her Foundation grantee partner, Welcome To Chinatown’s work to address the critical needs of Manhattan’s Chinatown community and its API women entrepreneurs, check out this video and visit their website: welcometochinatown.com #amplifyherfoundation #ifshecanmakeithere #womensleadership #nycwomen #womenentrepreneurs

Calling #smallbusiness owners and #entrepreneurs – applications are now open for our 2025 Lunar New Year fair with?Gotham Park! Back by popular demand, this year we’re partnering with?Gotham Park?to bring our weekend fair to the newly opened space downtown, from February 6-9 2025. Have you ever wanted to introduce a product, test your marketing appeal, get your feet wet in retail, or share your subject matter expertise with the community? We want to hear your vendor stall ideas! Apply: https://lnkd.in/eTGmy-TP Core to Welcome to Chinatown’s mission is bolstering small businesses and entrepreneurs – our open call is aimed to uplift entrepreneurs and provide a platform to showcase their work while also giving you an opportunity to gain experience and insights to grow your business.

I penned an open letter to our Welcome To Chinatown followers after a difficult week. It’s my heartfelt reflection on loss, resilience, and the importance of curiosity and compassion in a divided world. We’re doubling down on our commitment to listen and respond to what our community truly needs. Excerpt is below and I hope you'll check out the full letter at https://lnkd.in/eTn6vGn8 "I spent last week reflecting. During moments when I could find clarity, my mind took me back to the Persian proverb, “This too shall pass.” In 2011, I felt a deep sense of loss for the first time after my grandfather passed away. I struggled to process my overwhelming sadness, lashing out at those around me because I felt alone. A few days later, I found myself unexpectedly moved to tears from a simple handwritten card that read, “This too shall pass.” The bad, and good, moments are ephemeral. As I think about what the future holds in a deeply divisive society, our curiosity, compassion, and duty cannot be ephemeral if we want to drive the change we want to see. I want to see a Chinatown that's not only a gateway for opportunity but also a vibrant community where businesses and people thrive together. A place where our cultural heritage remains a source of strength, and innovation ensures our resilience for future generations. A continued source of inspiration and model for coalition building, empowering other communities to come together to drive meaningful change. Is this lofty? Yes. Is this unattainable? Absolutely not. If we focus on change at the local level, we will have the ability to inspire and influence those around us in tangible and visible ways. Yes, Donate to organizations that are mission and value aligned. Volunteer your time and skills to organizations that need capacity (but don’t be discouraged if they take a while to respond. The organizations that need capacity are slower to respond because they’re rolling up their sleeves). Shop with your values. Buy local and support minority owned businesses as much as possible. And most importantly, Be Curious. Ask questions to people you don’t often ask. Explore the “why” behind how something works or doesn’t work, and embrace the opportunity to learn from them. Only when we are curious, can we display authentic kindness and empathy."

Join Welcome To Chinatown and Squarespace for a free, web building workshop at #TheHub on 11/19! Workshop details: ?? The workshop will begin with a quick introduction session led by the Squarespace team ?? Our Squarespace reps will offer 1:1 mentorship sessions, answering all your questions about building and optimizing a website. ?? This event is open to all experience levels, and you do not need to have a Squarespace-hosted website to attend. Given the hands-on nature, we only have space for a few businesses so RSVP asap to hold your spot. Register: https://lnkd.in/eCCEF_Hr Thank you Monica Bi and Laura Caudill for helping us build this event!

Come for the conversation, stay for community gathering (and the spring rolls)!?Join us for a chat led by Christine W., author of the new cookbook:?The Vibrant Hong Kong Table. Christine will be joined by food writer Cathy Erway?and?Local Roots NYC?founder?Wen-Jay Ying?to talk about food and cooking for the upcoming holidays – from hosting tips and ways to eat local, seasonal and plant-based, to childhood reflections and dishes for an Asian-American holiday table. Tickets: https://lnkd.in/e4kdKnbs

Starcycle and Asian Founders Club present: Founders Embracing Failure: A Conversation on Resilience Join us for an evening filled with thoughtful conversation and delicious snacks as our panelists share the ups and downs of their founding journeys, and the hard-earned lessons from experiencing and embracing failure. ??? November 7 (Thursday) ?? 6:30 PM - 9 PM ?? Lower Manhattan (Chinatown) Meet the Panelists: Jaclyn Siu:?Co-founder, CEO @ Starcycle | 3x Founder Jason Patel:?Co-founder @ Open Forge AI | Founder, Transizion (acquired) Akshaya D.:?CEO @ Spellbound | Thiel Fellow | Forbes 30 Under 30 | Founder, Nova (acquired) Moderated by Jessica Shen, founder of Asian Founders Club A big thank you to: ?? Welcome To Chinatown,?for hosting us at their brand new Small Business Innovation Hub ?? Popadelics, MìLà, and Jumo, our food and drink sponsors for the night RSVP ?? https://lu.ma/8uqnumar

We’re so excited to partner with?Carnaby Fair?to host our #NYC X #HongKong Artist Exchange! In the first part of this exchange, we’re currently hosting?Karen Chankalun, a Hong Kong-based neon artist that focuses on preserving and processing the art-making of neon, to NYC. Inspired by the strong neon identity of Hong Kong she has traveled around the world to study the art and science and neon. In the following chapter, Welcome to Chinatown will send an artist deeply influenced by Chinatown’s culture to Hong Kong with the goal to showcase what makes Manhattan’s Chinatown unique to the Hong Kong community. Is it our grit? Our street style? We want to share the distinct characteristics that define our neighborhood and its cultural impact. You can view Karen Chankalun's work at The Hub (115 Bowery). Learn more about the exhibition and our artist exchange: https://lnkd.in/ev7jTcPf

These past few months witnessing the incredible support for New Wave, Elizabeth Ai's documentary on resilience, creativity, and rebellion within the Vietnamese diaspora, has brought me an unexpected sense of healing and optimism. Earlier this month, AZN AMERICANA hosted a Book Release Party at Welcome To Chinatown for New Wave: Rebellion and Reinvention in the Vietnamese Diaspora, the companion book to New Wave Documentary by Elizabeth Ai. Sponsored by Yao King and Welcome To Chinatown, the night featured a heartfelt Q&A with writer and performer Jezz Chung and Elizabeth Ai. Thank you to WE ARE CHIMMI, Kookies by Brina, Mai Vino Mai Vu, and to our sponsor Yao King for helping make this special evening possible and for uplifting Vietnamese voices and art and to everyone who came out to support ??