May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, as well as National Historic Preservation Month! Join us at the Museum and learn how efforts are underway all over California to preserve past and present Chinatowns.
Our panel of experts will discuss the importance of saving these community hubs of tradition and culture, and remembering the legacies of Chinatowns past.
Guest speakers
- Jack Ding - Sonoma City Council member and former Mayor
- David Lei - Chinese Historical Society Board Member David Lei,
- Bill Roop - from Archaeological Resources
- Dr. Thomas Whitley - Professor, Director of the Anthropological Studies Center at Sonoma State University, and member of Petaluma's Historic and Cultural Preservation Committee.
Free admission - Reservations required here.
Download - Program flyer in PDF / PNG
The Petaluma Old Chinatown Memorial Park Ad Hoc Committee is a grassroots initiative, bringing together Chinese American scholars, genealogists, culinary artists, filmmakers, healers, students, and local residents.
Support for Petaluma Chinatown Unearthed and related programming is generously provide by:
- City of Petaluma
- Asian American Alliance of Marin
- Asian American Pacific Islander Coalition of North Bay
- Japanese American Citizens League
- Minami Tamaki LLP
- NBC Bay Area
- Von Chan DDS
- Frank Chong
- Petaluma River Park Foundation.
Chinese Pioneers is an exhibit by the California Historical Society and touring through Exhibit Envoy.
Institutional support provided by San Francisco Grants for the Arts and Yerba Buena Community Benefit District.
The Henry Mayo Newhall Foundation supported the first 6 bookings of this exhibition.
