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CWBC vOYAGE SECOND lEG - SAIlING FROM RICHMOND TO COYOTE POINT, WITH BAY BRIDGE AND SF SkYlINE IN THE BACkGROuND January 2015 MARKETPLACEcontrac osta .com 21 event in an amazing video on their website, but the journey doesn’t end there. Yung plans to culminate this experience in a transmedia art installation at the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, set to be unveiled in 2015. The exhibit is set to be very unique—including a surroundsound experience of what it sounds like to be on the boat, photos, videos and mapping, though nothing is finalized just yet. Yung expects this to be just the beginning. “We would like to use that exhibit as a jumping off point to bring the exhibit to other venues,” she said. “This is a really significant piece of history and more people should know about it.” For our part of the story, Point Molate in Richmond, just north of the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, is the former location of a major Chinese shrimp camp. “There’s quite a movement to preserve Point Molate going on right now,” said Yung. “The Richmond Museum of History collaborated in some of that exploration of Chinese history there, but a lot of people in Richmond aren’t aware of that history.” It is the communal focus that Chinese Whispers aims to attract. “Once we research material we also collaborate with and engage local communities to really reclaim this part of their local heritage,” she explained. “Our goal is very interactive; what we’ve found is that the more we engage with the community about it the more people share stories.” Their recent sailing expedition already sparked some conversation to reveal stories that were hidden in the memories of the local residents who can still remember this industry, or knew someone who did. Yung hopes for even more of that moving forward. “As the Bay Area continues to grow and change, local history becomes something that falls by the wayside,” she said. “I think that by sharing this history with local communities it amplifies their understanding of who they are today, how their community got to be where it is today, and also how their history can actually enrich their future.” For updates on Chinese Whispers: Bay Chronicles, and for information on their many other projects, visit www.chinesewhispers. org or email stories@chinese-whispers.org. By Matt Larson CWBC PuBlIC EvENT AT THE CRANEWAY PAvIlION - AuDIENCE GATHERS FOR A ON DECk TOuR OF THE GRACE QuAN


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