StoryBoards Narratives

Leslie Li: She Calls It a Checkered Past

Leslie Li speaks about her feet placed in many worlds. An international citizen, author and filmmaker she speaks of a family history reaching fame, leadership, talent, ingenuity and ingenuity.

Message to the Future: Meryl Alcabes' Life Philosophy and Artistic Legacy

Meryl Alcabes – Jewish mom, grandmother, photographer, and painter speaksabout basic philosophies to share with future generations and things that carry meaning for her.

Barbara Jirsa: Building a Vision of Equality within Family Memories

Barbara Jirsa – Artist and administrator speaks about the development of herphilosophy in equal rights for women through conversations with her grandmother.

Pride Blooming in Loneliness: Shin Yu Pai's Cross

Shin Yu Pai - American essayist, poet, and visual artist. She is also the originatorof the podcast Ten Thousand things. Raised in an artistic environment she speaksabout mother daughter relationships, loneliness, pride, and female influences that includes female goddesses and female shamans.

From Story to Strength: An Interview with Diana Ma

Diana Ma–Chinese American Seattle author has published books for middle school andyoung adults. Her works feature Asian American heroes–In this episode, she isinterviewed by northwest poet, Arlene Naganawa

Harrison Vijay Tsui’s interview of Cheryll

Cheryll Leo-Gwin–Harrison Vijay Tsui interviews a 4th generation Chinese American artist/writer/administrator. Her work reflects the effect of the simultaneous Chinese Exclusion Acts in the US and Canada.

Al Spokoiny – Jews from Shanghai

Al Spokoiny – A man born in Shanghai to a Jewish family with roots in China for 3 generations. He narrates the life and times of this Jewish family from the holocaust to present day.

From Child Mother to Children’s Mother: Mrs. Chen Lan Wen on Childhood, Immigration and Sacrifice.

Known as Mrs. Chen, she shares her early life in China, transitions as animmigrant, sadness, isolation, and successes.

Lesley Jian: A Grandmother's Journey Through War, Famine, and Resilience

In this episode, Beijing-based guide Lesley Jian shares the powerful story of her grandmother, born in 1913 near the Yangtze River. Given away as a Tong Yangxi child bride, she survived poverty, war, famine, and the loss of multiple husbands, all while raising children across decades of upheaval.

A Foot in Two Worlds: Flo Oy Wong on Family, Female Roles, Art and Poetry

Award winning artist and poet Flo Oy Wong shares challenges of an 8-decades long journey as a Chinese American female working as an oral historian, artist, and poet. She shares stories of those who helped shape her long life in the arts.