Past Youth Projects

Chinatown Youth Radio Project (CYRP)

In reaction to the closing of SINOCAST, a Cantonese radio station previously broadcasted in Boston, the CYRP served as a sounding ground in which youth and community members alike could air their concerns, opinions, and grievances while at the same time showcasing their talents and skills weekly on WMFO 91.5 FM, the Tufts University/Medford Community Radio Station. Their show will focus on the Greater Boston Asian community and general Asian American history, culture, and concerns.

Chinatown Banquet

A Chinatown Banquet is a multimedia, digital art and community planning project that includes urban history education, media production training, and civic engagement and dialogue to produce three prominent public expressions of the community.

The Banquet is creating: eight permanent LCD screens mounted along a new walking trail in Boston's Chinatown that allow visitors to interact with an on-going multimedia presentation about the neighborhood; a temporary exhibit at Dreams of Freedom of the International Institute of Boston that will examine and highlight the role of Chinese and Asian immigrants and Chinatown in Massachusetts; and an internet presence at: www.chinatownbanquet.org [1] where distant visitors and neighborhood residents alike can explore, in depth, the multiple facets that constitute the sense of place of Chinatown.

The Young Leaders Network (YLN)

The Young Leaders Network (YLN) was a youth driven initiative of the Asian Community Development Corporation. It was launched out of the recognition that youth lack the opportunity to intervene and participate, from a community development standpoint, in the Asian community of greater Boston. Through the YLN, ACDC utilized youth in the Chinatown community to gain a better sense of their power as young people, and give them an opportunity to make a change in their neighborhood.

The YLN provided an open forum for youth empowerment to create change in the Asian American community of greater Boston and to utilize the creativity and enthusiasm of young people to develop leadership skills while at the same time providing a network for social action and community development.  The YLN was composed of teenage youth either living in Chinatown or having strong connections to the community.