How do you tell stories of people who have been erased, silenced or live in the shadows?

Join Chronicling Resistance Fellows Katherine Antarikso and Lan Dinh on an in-depth tour of the exhibit as they share their experiences of researching in the archives to look for stories of Indonesian and Vietnamese immigration to the United States and layers of histories that connect events in the United States, Indonesia, and Vietnam. The tour will include opportunities to view archival items, community interviews, and art that Katherine and Lan feature in their current projects and explore how refugee resettlement programs failed immigrant communities, how refugees responded with resistance and resilence, and how those communities can create their own archives.

Friday, Jan. 20, 2023

3:30 pm (With Katherine; choose one time slot please -- this is a drop in event)

5:30 pm (With Katherine and Lan; choose one time slot -- this is a drop in event)

Parkway Central Library, 1st Floor (Meet in Heim Center)

Katherine Sarwopeni Antarikso (she/her) is an architect, artist, and activist. She was born in Jakarta, on the island of Java, Indonesia, and moved to the United States at the age of 10. Her unique upbringing is a driver of her many talents and expressions. As an architect, she is interested in issues of equity regarding the design of urban spaces. As a creative, she performs traditional Indonesian dance and writes poetry and essays centered on home, migration, and displacement themes. She is an activist for immigrants’ rights and is a founding member of Pejuang: Indonesian Social Justice Coalition.

Lan Dinh (she/her) comes from a family of Vietnamese refugees, farmers, and fisherfolk who resettled in West Philadelphia. She is the co-founder and Farm and Food Sovereignty Director at VietLead. She manages intergenerational farm and garden programs to reconnect diaspora high school youth to land, cultural resilience, and to reclaim their ancestral roots.

Chronicling Resistance: The Exhibition reveals what eight local activists, cultural organizers, and artists unearthed when they dug deeply into the same Philadelphia archives that have historically excluded their voices and perspectives. Through archival items, rare books, oral histories, and original artwork, Chronicling Resistance counters the systemic erasure of Black, Brown, and LGBTQ+ people from the historical record, breaks silences, and uncovers new ways of understanding and enacting resistance. See this dynamic and unique exhibition now through Jan. 31, 2023.

Chronicling Resistance has been generously supported by the Mellon Foundation and The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, with additional support and collaboration with the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries.