YiuYiu瑶瑶 aka Rochelle Hoi-Yiu Kwan

夏日傾情 Chinatown Block Party 2023

Chinatown Records 華埠錄音 x Lower Grand Radio

A time capsule that has taken decades to return home to where it all started, this is a mixtape created with my dad. Bringing together some of our favorites across the decades, we reach across from the records + youthful memories of the grownups table to the cds bumping + swapping at the kids table.

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Passed between us is a mixtape – where, starting in the 80s, anyone could be a dj, filling our homes, cars, living room karaoke parties, and dancefloors with our favorite songs. We start in 1979, San Francisco Chinatown - where dad first found songs that reminded him of the home he left behind in Hong Kong. Fast forward to 2023, New York Chinatown - where today they now play out at Chinatown Block Parties 夏日傾情, with his daughter behind the turntables and tearing up the dancefloor alongside friends + neighbors – just like he did here decades ago.

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About YiuYiu瑶瑶

YiuYiu 瑶瑶 is a cultural organizer, oral history educator, and DJ based on Lenape land in NYC's Manhattan Chinatown. She takes on her childhood name YiuYiu 瑶瑶 as an artist and DJ for Chinatown Records, a community effort to celebrate the breadth of music and history that comes with inherited family record collections. Alongside her family and neighbors, YiuYiu 瑶瑶 produces Chinatown block parties, sonic family histories, and listening sessions to foster intergenerational dance floors and memories as powerful acts of resistance and resilience. Chinatown Records is a homegrown community effort to celebrate the richness of music, memory, and history that comes with inherited family collections. Across close to 20 different collections spanning 1920’s-2000’s Chinese music and beyond from family, friends, and neighbors, Chinatown Records continues to grow as a community-powered, living archive. Chinatown Records is an ever-growing record of the people we love who bring all this music back to life with us. Rooted in deep listening and relationships, Chinatown Records imagines music as a familiar entry point and bridge for opening up conversation, sparking memories, and building connections across generations – starting right here at home with our loved ones.

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YiuYiu 瑤瑤（又名 Rochelle Hoi-Yiu Kwan）是一位文化組織者、口述歷史教育家兼 DJ，現居紐約曼哈頓唐人街的萊納佩人 (Lenape) 原住民領地上。以兒時乳名“YiuYiu-瑤瑤”代表「唐人街唱片」(Chinatown Records) 之專屬藝術家與DJ，這是一項社區活動，旨在頌揚繼承家族唱片收藏之音樂以及其歷史之廣度。YiuYiu瑤瑤與她的家人和鄰居們共同舉辦華埠街區派對、介紹「聲音家族史」以及聆聽課程，以培養代際間的舞池和記憶，作為一種強大韌性的抵抗行為。「唐人街唱片」是一個旨在頌揚家族傳承中所收藏的本土社區，包括豐富的音樂、記憶與歷史。在「唐人街唱片」中，擁有近 20 種不同的收藏，涵蓋1920年代至2000年代的中國音樂及來自家人、朋友及鄰居的音樂，不斷發展成為一個由社區所驅動的、活生生的檔案館。不僅如此，「唐人街唱片」更是一張不斷壯大的唱片，記錄了我們所愛的人們，將所有音樂帶回我們的生活中。除此，植根於深度聆聽與人際關係，「唐人街唱片」將音樂想像為一個熟悉的切入點和橋樑，用於開啟對話、激發記憶與建立跨代族群之間的聯繫——從家裡與我們所愛的人作為起點。

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About Chinatown Records

YiuYiu 瑶瑶 (aka Rochelle Hoi-Yiu Kwan)’s “Chinatown Records” is a homegrown community effort to celebrate the richness of music, memory, and history that comes with inherited family collections. Across close to 20 different collections spanning 1920’s-2000’s Chinese music and beyond from family, friends, and neighbors, Chinatown Records continues to grow as a community-powered, living archive. Chinatown Records is an ever-growing record of the people we love who bring all this music back to life with us. Rooted in deep listening and relationships, Chinatown Records imagines music as a familiar entrypoint and bridge for opening up conversation, sparking memories, and building connections across generations – starting right here at home with our loved ones.

 

Rochelle Hoi-Yiu Kwan (瑤瑤) 的 「唐人街唱片」是一個旨在頌揚家族傳承中所收藏的本土社區，包括豐富的音樂、記憶與歷史。在「唐人街唱片」中，擁有近 20 種不同的收藏，涵蓋1920年代至2000年代的中國音樂及來自家人、朋友及鄰居的音樂，不斷發展成為一個由社區所驅動的、活生生的檔案館。不僅如此，「唐人街唱片」更是一張不斷壯大的唱片，記錄了我們所愛的人們，將所有音樂帶回我們的生活中。除此，植根於深度聆聽與人際關係，「唐人街唱片」將音樂想像為一個熟悉的切入點和橋樑，用於開啟對話、激發記憶與建立跨代族群之間的聯繫——從家裡與我們所愛的人作為起點。

 

This performance is part of The Nine Suns Dance Garden
Co-presented by Edge on the Square and Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco  Supported by: Office of Economic and Workforce Development 

 

Partner: Chinese Culture Center.

Collaborators: Alex S (Lower Grand Radio), Connie Zheng, Ahn Lee