Festive Mid-Autumn Celebration Brings Asian Communities Together through Cultural Performances

Festive Mid-Autumn Celebration Brings Asian Communities Together through Cultural Performances

The news report describes CAAAV’s first Mid-Autumn celebration, which featured martial arts, folk music and dance, and songs performed in both English and Mandarin. To facilitate cultural exchange among different Asian immigrant communities, the festival also included Philippine and Indonesian performances. CAAAV used this event as a chance to promote its Language Access campaign. They demanded that the NYC Department of Housing Development and Preservation (HPD) offer Mandarin and Cantonese hotline services, which ideally should reduce barriers for Chinatown renters when reporting emergency housing maintenance issues.

World Journal

September 15, 2003

Source: Zhiyi Chen (陈芝怡), World Journal
Digitized by: Shutong Wu
Catalogued by: Laine Yu-Jing

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