HELLO AUNTIE, HELLO UNCLE:
CONVERSATIONS WITH OUR ELDERS

April 5, 2024 through February 23, 2025 in the New Dialogues Initiative Gallery

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Hello Auntie, Hello Uncle: Conversations with Our Elders
April 5, 2024 through February 23, 2025
New Dialogues Initiative Gallery

Hello Auntie, Hello Uncle explores the many roles Elders play in our communities, celebrates their lives and achievements, and honors the wisdom gained with time. This exhibit elaborates on who an Elder can be and what a society that values and supports an Elder might look like.

In this exhibit, we celebrate the caregivers and community organizations that are making that world possible with first-hand community stories about living through many ages of time.

Art by Drag & Drop Creative

Masood and Aziza at Mount Rainier, 1983. Photo Courtesy of Maliha Masood

South Asian activists marching in the Pride parade with a purple banner that reads, “Gay South Asians – Trikone,” San Francsico, CA, 1986. Photo courtesy of The Outwords Archive

Kitty Tsui with her grandmother at her grandmother’s studio apartment in Chinatown, San Francisco, CA, 1977. Photo by Raisa Fastman. Photo Courtesy of The Outwords Archive

Medicine for Seattle's CID Neighborhood, Portraits of Aunties Sue Kay and Karen Akada Sakata, 2023
Monyee Chau & Jae Eun Kim
Acrylic on wood, linoleum block prints on fabric

For their 2023 artist residency at Flower Flower, artists Jae Eun Kim and Monyee Chau conducted interviews with Sue Kay and Karen Akada, elders who organize with Seattle Chinatown-International District’s CID Coalition, an organization whose mission is to build inter-generational, inter-cultural, community-based organizing for neighborhood resilience and collective power.

In these interviews, you can hear about personal histories with Seattle’s Chinatown International District, community organizing, food as medicine, and what we want the future of the CID to look like. Monyee and Jae Eun Kim then created portraits of each – portraits were painted by Monyee and frames were printed by Jae.

Scarlet Ritte on the pahu drum, 2019. Photo courtesy of Kapulei Flores

ICHS Mid Autumn Festival 2023. Photo Courtesy of ICHS

Elders with ICHS (International Community Health Services), 1980s. Photo by Dean Wong

EXHIBITION EVENTS

IT HAPPENED HERE SUMMER SERIES

An annual speaker series of activists, historians, and community advocates who embrace and share the C-ID’s history and steward its future

OPENING EXHIBIT RECEPTION

Special Guests celebrated the exhibit with a special program and reception on April 4, 2024. Become a Museum Member to get first invite to exhibition events!

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BEYOND THE EXHIBIT

OUTWORDS

OUTWORDS captures, preserves, and shares the stories of LGBTQIA2S+ elders to build community and catalyze social change. Learn more about milestones in queer history.

ORAL HISTORY COLLECTION

Wing Luke Museum Collections houses interviews and photos from community leaders, artists, and more!

For more information on collections materials, please visit our Wing Luke Museum Database

OUR READING LIST

Check out this curated list of additional readings about living through changes, learning from experience, taking on new responsibilities, passing on cultural traditions.

REFLECTIONS OF SEATTLE’S CHINESE AMERICANS

This publication by Wing Luke Museum contains 102 oral histories from Seattle-based Chinese Americans who carved a place for themselves in Seattle long before the “Asian American” identity emerged during the Civil Rights Movement.

AARP WASHINGTON

AARP is the nation's largest nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to empowering people 50 and older to choose how they live as they age.

ICHS

ICHS advocates for health as a human right and welcomes all in need of care regardless of health, immigration status or ability to pay. ICHS provides culturally and linguistically appropriate health and wellness services and promotes health equity for all.