Brookline's 2nd Annual AAPI Heritage Day [05/18/24]

The Brookline Asian American Family Network (BAAFN), the Brookline Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Community Relations, and Public Libraries of Brookline invite the Brookline Community to our Second Annual Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Celebration. The celebration focuses on AAPI stories and art, and features an author discussion, student performances and exhibits of student art work. There will also be food, puppet performances, arts & crafts, games, prizes, and more.

The AAPI Heritage Celebration event will take place on Saturday, May 18, 11AM to 3:00PM beginning at Hunneman Hall in the Brookline Village Library and culminating at Brookline Town Hall.

11:00am - 12:30pm at Hunneman Hall

This year our Featured Author is Vincent Yee, a BHS alum, local Author and the Creator of the World of Azen. Beginning at 11AM, hear how he wrote this fantastical 5-book series in 6 months and why portraying Asian American superheroes is so important with Special Guest Moderator, Stephanie Fan, a long time Brookline resident and advocate. Student Performances will follow the discussion and will include performances from Baker’s Fan Dance and KPop teams, the Triveni Dancers, the Brookline High School Popcorn Dance Club, and Guzheng, Hulisi and Chinese Drum performed by students from the Brookline Chinese School. Brookline Interactive Group will record these presentations and a video will be available for viewing afterwards.

12:30pm - 3:00pm at BrooklineTown Hall

Following the performances, we invite you to join us at Town Hall for various crafts, fun and food at Town Hall. Crafts will include Peace Cranes, coloring pages for younger participants, a Miyazaki themed booth with clay, calligraphy and more! Also featured will be the Puppet Showplace and Through Me to You Puppetry as well as Kamishibai, a form of Japanese Storytelling.

3:00 pm - 4:00pm at Hunneman Hall

Immediately following the annual AAPI Celebration, we welcome you to join the Public Libraries of Brookline for an hour-long concert celebrating the works of Rabindranath Tagore. Vocalist Maitreyee Chakraborty will sing Tagore’s compositions ornamented by the melodic movements of acclaimed sarodist Pt. Anirban Dasgupta. The duo will be accompanied by Hirak Modi on harmonium and Koushik Chakraborty on tabla. Translations of the lyrics will be displayed on screen. For more information about this concert visit: https://www.brooklinelibrary.org/events/event/songs-of-rabindranath-tagore/

For more information, or to request any accommodations or language access, please reach out to Caitlin Starr, Assistant Director in the Brookline Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Community Relations at [email protected] or at 617-730-2345

​Brookline's 2nd Annual AAPI Heritage Day

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