HELLO AUNTIE, HELLO UNCLE:
CONVERSATIONS WITH OUR ELDERS
April 5, 2024 through February 23, 2025 in the New Dialogues Initiative Gallery
ABOUT THE EXHIBIT
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.
IN THE NEWS
'Hello Auntie, Hello Uncle' pays tribute to the elders in our lives, Grace Madigan, KNKX NPR Network, April 7, 2024
Wing Luke’s “Hello Auntie, Hello Uncle”: Elders past, present, and future, Andrew Hamlin, Northwest Asian Weekly, April 5, 2024
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