Revive SF Chinatown

New Year, New Us!

Dear Community,

We have decided to rebrand to be more inclusive of surrounding AAPI neighborhoods and communities.

2021: ReviveSFChinatown has brought people back into Chinatown by patronizing the businesses during the pandemic. We’ve developed strong ties with each other, the business owners, the locals and Chinatown leaders and activists. It’s safe to say we’ve left our mark in this historical space. We will continue to be present in Chinatown and strengthen our relationship with the community.

2022: We’re committed to the growth of our movement and hope to bring our energy to the SUNSET, the RICHMOND, VISITACION VALLEY and Ocean Ave.

“Dear Community” is a letter to our beloved AAPI family. It represents our dreams, hopes and visions for our community. We are taking charge of our own narrative and you can be a part of this story.

Sincerely,
Dear Community Family

We can’t do this without you- Follow our new ig page, come to an event and tell a friend!
(we will still be responding to dms and comments on the ReviveSFChinatown account and gmail in the upcoming month)

Dear Community,

To keep everyone safe from Omicron, we decided that it’s best to cancel this event. However, businesses are suffering from the lack of holiday traffic combined with the new variant. If you can do so safely, we’d encourage you to stop by a Chinatown bar with one or two friends and help them keep their doors open. ♥️ Stay tuned for an announcement from us on the 1st of 2022- Happy New Year! 🎊

ReviveSFChinatown Family

•Save the Date•

We are having a rally on January 28, 2022 at 11AM to commemorate the 1 year anniversary of grandpa Vicha Ratanapakdee’s death. Please show up if you can in solidarity and support of his family and his legacy ♥️

Location TBD

♥️ ꜱᴀᴠᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴀᴛᴇ ♥️

Psssst- we have something exciting brewing for 2022. Stay tuned.

#2022

𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗦𝗙 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭 𝗡𝗬𝗘 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘆

It’s been a crazy ass year, guys. CRA-ZY. But also the most rewarding, loving, fun, energy charging, confidence building year.
2021 reminded us how resilient we can be when we have community. Thank you for tuning in for our journey and thank you to those who consistently show up to our events. How fitting that 2021 NYE lands on a Friday. Come wrap up the year with friends, community, good vibes, and Chinatown. CHINATOWN FRIDAYS, BABY.

20% of the night’s proceeds from 10PM-12AM will be donated to our movement- so let’s BRING IT. By it we mean your friends, your tolerance, your best hype man/ woman 🥂 (We love you 3000 !!)

DM or email us to rsvp or if you want to help set up and decorate 🎊

We’ll be there to kick start the holi-YAY season🎄🎅🧑‍🎄 Come check out the holly jolly trolley with curated performances unique to Chinatown 🚋

Yooooo our brother is having his album release celebration.
Sometimes you meet someone and you just know they’re family. We all know it’s not easy to choose that creative life when you come from an Asian household. Come out to support this SF Chinatown native 💗🎵

Saturday 12/18
6-8pm
Lion’s Den

Sunday 12/12 we will be cleaning the streets with and - along with many great neighborhood orgs!

Excited to meet and mingle with everyone. Spots are full 😐 but we’ll see you around Chinatown and North Beach. (We better not see you littering)

Our beloved Revive SF Chinatown family member, Tam Ngo, will be screening her documentary RISING FROM THE FALL this Saturday 12/11 at the Clarion.

"Rising From The Fall" is a documentary interview film about Vietnamese Americans creating dialogue between old and new generation to understand the struggles that both are facing. The interview will be about the journey of coming to America or growing up in America and sharing stories of the Vietnam war.”

Come out to meet the boss ladies behind this project: and @ and to learn and listen to the voices of the older generation.

Ticket link in bio ⬆️

Join us on Sunday 12/12 for a Chinatown/ North Beach clean up!

Did you sign up for this 🄲🄷🄸🄽🄰🅃🄾🅆🄽 🄵🅁🄸🄳🄰🅈 yet?! 🥡

We will be dining at Hong Kong Claypot Restaurant this Friday :)

Link in bio in sign up! ⬆️

Flyer: Joe Mitchell
pc: Mitchell Tong .makin.mitch

Chinatown Supper Together 3

On this day we braved the rain and anticipated the worst- that no one would show up and we’d have to eat 30+ people’s worth of food split between our 10 person person team (ok, maybe that would’ve been the the silver lining)

But we still hoped for the best and showed up early at Reds in high spirits. Then the emails of cancellation came trickling in. We got nervous, but the pre-event excitement still rang through. Then one by one, the attendees started coming in, shaking off the rain and smiling because they were happy to finally be indoors.

We spent the day walking through the brewing storm from stop to stop and huddling in the various spaces of Chinatown. Did you know that laughter warms you up? The energy, genuine curiosity and positive attitude made this Chinatown Supper Together one of our best yet. What a superstar group of attendees and volunteers. 10/24- the day community prevailed! Take that, rain.

Agenda

- Painted Peking opera masks at reds with spring rolls from Golden Star
- Presentation and Magic Girl showroom tour at Clarion followed accompanied by mochi balls from Broadway Dim Sum and tea from Vital Tea
- Dinner at Hunan House
- Performance by Hennessy Williams

Thank you for coming out just for us. Thank you, Reds, for continuously being our saving grace- rain or shine 💗

And Chinatown? 我爱你❤️

pc: Mitchell Tong

TelHi Halloween 5k run recap🏃🏻‍♀️ 🏃🏻‍♂️ These little nuggets in their costumes were too cute!

Ｈｅｌｌｏ

We’re still here 💅 We took a break from Chinatown Fridays to take care of bizznizz and to tighten up operations.

We will have ☝️ Chinatown Friday in November (11/12) and ☝️in December (12/03)

We have reopened the mobilize sign up page. Come hang out before you go home to visit family for the holidays 💗

Recharged ⚡️ after this weekend’s events.

Chinatown Halloween Kids’ Block Party was a success! Teamwork makes the dream work and the organizing team was able to pull this off in two weeks.

☺️☺️☺️Excited for the next event. 💗💗💗

🎃Next community event 🎃

𝙃𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙁𝙖𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙮 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙏𝙚𝙡𝙃𝙞 𝘾𝙤-𝙤𝙥 (𝙏𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙝 𝙃𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝘾𝙤𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙉𝙪𝙧𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙎𝙘𝙝𝙤𝙤𝙡)

🗓 𝗦𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗢𝗰𝘁 𝟯𝟬 𝟵:𝟬𝟬𝗮𝗺

📍 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘀𝘆 𝗙𝗶𝗲𝗹𝗱, 𝗦𝗮𝗻 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼

Time to branch out and share our ReviveSFChinatown mission with surrounding communities 💛

We will be doing outreach and spreading the ReviveSFChinatown energy with the parents and students of on Oct 30 and would love your support.

Please dm or comment if you would like to help table on this day! You can also email us at [email protected]

Happy (almost) Halloween! 🍬 🍭 🍫

🎃 𝓒𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓪𝓽𝓸𝔀𝓷 𝓗𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓮𝓷 𝓚𝓲𝓭𝓼’ 𝓑𝓵𝓸𝓬𝓴 𝓟𝓪𝓻𝓽𝔂

🗓 Saturday 10/23 from 11AM-3PM

📍 800 Grant Ave, San Francisco

Come join the festivities and engage with the community: free pumpkin patch, special performances, games and activities. Let’s kick off this HOLI-YAY season with a 🎉

Chinatown Fridays will be returning indoors starting THIS WEEK 10/15

Link in bio to sign up ⬆️

Winter is coming 🌧 🥶

🟢Come check out the Joy on Joice this Saturday October 16 from 11-4PM!

🟪We will be tabling alongside , so come visit for fun activities and treats!

🟡This event will celebrate AAPI creatives and community- a lot of exciting vendors and performers to check out.

❤️ We are honored to be invited and welcomed into this positive space- thank you and for dreaming up and organizing this block party- LET’S GO.

Back for thirds, baby:

CHINATOWN SUPPER TOGETHER 3

SUNDAY October 24 at 3:30pm

• New restaurants
• New friends
• New surprises
• New special programs
✅ Same 💥 energy ⚡️

Email [email protected] to sign up and learn more!

We love our Chinatown Friday family 💗

Last night:

New friends ✔️
Passionate people ✔️
✨ energy ✔️
Food & stories ✔️

When the master photographer isn’t here and we miss a whole table of people 📸 🤦🏻‍♀️

Don’t forget, we also have a weekly dinner gathering to support local businesses in Chinatown- CHINATOWN FRIDAYS. We’ve had 20+ dinners and celebrated numerous birthdays with our new family.

DM for link to sign up!

Happy Mid Autumn Moon Festival everyone!
This past Sunday we hosted our second Chinatown Supper Together- a small business revitalization program in collaboration with . We had the honor of sharing our awesome Chinatown space with an engaging group of attendees.

AAPI creatives and merchants featured on that day’s agenda included:

-Marc Pomerleau (local superstar tour guide)
-Vital Tea Leaf (local must visit Chinatown destination)
-The Magic of Chin Chin (AAPI magician)
-Spicy Shrimp (Toisanese and Cantonese Cuisine)

BIG THANK YOU again for our superstar volunteers Amelia, Juliette, Donna, Jonathon, Grace, Shahira and Colby- you guys absolutely crushed it!! We could not have done it without you. Stay tuned to sign up for the next Chinatown Supper Together.

Our first event with CREAA (Chinese Real Estate Association of America) was a success! We are so fortunate to be connected with Gogo (CREAA Board member) and Dennis (CREAA Vice President).

CREAA Missions:
1. Provide opportunities for good networking among our members.
2. Bring together real estate licensees and other individuals interested in the Chinese real estate community.
3. Exert beneficial influences upon the real estate profession and related interest.
4. Initiate useful programs that benefit our members.
5. Encourage and promote the professional growth of our members.
6. Undertake projects for the betterment of our community.
Our missions align as we both focus on connecting the Chinese American community, promoting local businesses, and and building up the younger generation. We will be collaborating on future fun af networking events so consider reaching out to learn shout the next one! 💗

Also a HUGE shout out to , flagship of all Revive SF Chinatown events since our first Chinatown Friday 😂 We love you, Cuong and Jerry! The regulars and staff at the oldest bar in Chinatown ALWAYS makes this a welcoming hangout spot.

Our first event with CREAA (Chinese Real Estate Association of America) was a success! We are so fortunate to be connected with Gogo (CREAA Board member) and Dennis (CREAA Vice President).

CREAA Missions:

1. Provide opportunities for good networking among our members.
2. Bring together real estate licensees and other individuals interested in the Chinese real estate community.
3. Exert beneficial influences upon the real estate profession and related interest.
4. Initiate useful programs that benefit our members.
5. Encourage and promote the professional growth of our members.
6. Undertake projects for the betterment of our community.
Our missions align as we both focus on connecting the Chinese American community, promoting local businesses, and and building up the younger generation. We will be collaborating on future fun af networking events so consider reaching out to learn about how to get involved for the next one! 💗

Also a HUGE shout out to , flagship of all Revive SF Chinatown events since our first Chinatown Friday 😂 We love you, Cuong and Jerry! The regulars and staff at the oldest bar in Chinatown ALWAYS makes this a welcoming hangout spot.

Join us this Sunday August 29 for a mural unveiling to HONOR • CELEBRATE • COMMEMORATE the life of grandpa Vicha Ratanapakee.

January 28, 2021- what happened on this day activated the Asian American community to speak up and fight back.

Our community is here to serve as a space of healing and positivity. If you would like to attend this event and don’t want to go alone please DM us or email us at [email protected] We are here - you are not alone!

Excited fo share with everyone our next event with Chinese Historical Society of America. Founded in 1963, CHSA’s mission is to preserve and share Chinese American history through public exhibitions and educational programs.

Program description:

CHSA presents Vinyl from the Vault, a virtual audio tour of our archival collection of vinyl records that explore the ways in which racism saturates every aspect of American life, including popular music. Sound is a powerful visual medium in how we contextualize, understand, and engage with others, and we often forget how it impacts us. But through this racialized landscape, Chinese Americans have had to figure out ways to create spaces to challenge those types of stereotypes by literally being on the stage, singing, dancing, and performing in ways that subvert the racial politics of the time. We will be examining early-20th century Orientalist music and the roots of the creation of otherness in American popular culture.

Join us for an online listening party streamed via Twitch, on Fault Radio's channel, with a live presentation by Krystyn R. Moon, author of Yellowface: Creating the Chinese in American Popular Music and Performance, 1850s-1920s. Afterward, there will be music played by a live DJ, turning our listening party into a virtual dance party!

Program schedule:
6-7pm talk with author Krystyn R. Moon
7-9pm happy hour with music from DJ Microtone of KALX FM

To tune in to this free event, please email or DM us for the Twitch link.

This program is a collaboration with Fault Radio and in partnership with Revive SF Chinatown.

Asian Political Club Mixer from last night hosted by Brian Quan of CADC.

“The Chinese American Democratic Club is committing to rebuilding an AAPI coalition to advance AAPI issues, equity, and access in SF.”

Thank you Chinese American Democratic Club for giving us a chance to share and spread the word about our movement and mission on how to revitalize SF Chinatown.

It was an honor to meet members Ed Lee Democratic Club, Rose Pak Democratic Club, Richmond District Democratic Club, and SWANA (South West Asian North African) Democratic Club and learn about what these young activists are working on to combat AAPI hate.