88 East Fair

Dates:
Fri, September 30
Sat, October 1

@ 11AM - 7PM

Location:
East Broadway Mall
88 East Broadway
New York, NY 10002

A weekend fair celebrating Chinatown + our big, beautiful community. Come shop, play + immerse at East Broadway Mall.

Experiences

Meet Chinatown
Scavenger Hunt

  • Earn prizes for supporting Chinatown! Complete challenges and explore Chinatown to collect points. Points can be exchanged for prizes in our Rewards Marketplace!

    Featuring prizes from STAPLE, Fly By Jing, Krave Beauty, Diaspora Co, Dawang, Sublima Jewelry + SO much more.

    Learn more on how to play below!

Behind the Counter
Immersive Exhibition

  • Since 2020, Welcome to Chinatown has supported 200+ small businesses.

    Along they way, we’ve had the privilege of hearing the diverse stories of Chinatown and its entrepreneurs. Our experience will tell these stories through projections, audio interviews, and artifacts – you’ll transport into these unique small businesses and dive into their stories, leaving with a desire to explore further.

Made in Chinatown
Live Studio

with MKC Threads

  • We’re partnering with printers MKC to host a live embroidery shop! Made in Chinatown is Welcome to Chinatown’s pro-bono merch program for Chinatown small businesses. Come customize apparel with exclusive embroidery designs only available this weekend.

The Artist Alley

SUBLIMA 88 Concept Studio

with Sublima Jewelry

  • SUBLIMA 88 Concept Studio is SUBLIMA Jewelry's first shop meets jeweler's studio, a space paying homage to the most delightful memories and visceral experiences from Chinatown jaunts and Asian American culture which, if you know us, we are wont to canonize in gilded artful forms. We made boba into high-fashion jewelry, and now we're reimagining one of our favorite pastimes—yum cha—as a fun conceptual fashion experience, featuring wearable art hand made from recycled metals that turn your fondest cultural memories into iconic hardware for self-expression.

    Visitors can step into a jewelry-focused multiverse version of a Chinatown dim sum parlor

    Visitors can see a mini version of the SUBLIMA Jewelry studio, where Kelly designs and makes the jewelry prototypes by hand carving wax

    Customers can shop SUBLIMA Jewelry with a special 88 East Fair discount

    100% of net proceeds from sales of the Welcome to Chinatown x SUBLIMA Chinese Dragon Signet Ring will be donated to Welcome to Chinatown

    15% of proceeds from all other jewelry will be donated to Welcome to Chinatown

Dawang SS22 Collection

with Dawang

  • Established in 2018, DAWANG is a New York-based contemporary streetwear design brand that draws influences from East and West. Our inspiration is to invite people of all backgrounds to partake in the beauty of #ModernChinoiserie.

Chinese Food + Cookery

with Xiao Chi Jie + K.K. Discount Store

  • Come by the booth and grab a sample of Xiao Chi Jie’s best selling pork soup dumplings and tasty Chinese BBQ skewers (shaokao), and shop curated home + cookware from K.K. Discount Store.

    Xiao Chi Jie crafts authentic Chinese food that is made daily, flash frozen and delivered straight to your door for easy meals that are ready in 10 mins.

    K.K. Discount Store has been in business since 1990. It is not just another "mom and pop" store, it is a part of Chinatown. Residents in the local community have known KKDS for their assortment of products, great prices, and of course friendly services.

    Come early while supplies last! You can also purchase XCJ’s soup dumplings and Chinese BBQ skewers onsite to support small business with an exclusive Welcome to Chinatown discount and enjoy with your families and friends at home!

    @the_xcj

Community
House***

with Emily B Yang, Grand Tea & Imports, Sky Ting Yoga + more friends! (Ticketed)

  • Sign up for workshops and programming hosted by our friends.

    ***Scroll down for details, schedules + sign up forms.

    Explore our plans and vision for a Chinatown community space and small business innovation hub.

Friday Night
Mahjong Club

with Food New York! (Ticketed)

  • Food Mahjong Club's third mahjong tournament, held in support of Welcome to Chinatown, with Kiko Soirée and YiuYiu.

    Purchase tickets     HERE!

Community House

Workshops

Space is limited. We recommend purchasing tickets in advance.

Block
Printing

w/ Emily B. Yang

  • In this hands-on workshop, attendees will use soft rubber carving blocks to create an image with a message that is unique to them. Whether referencing a part of their own story or representing a cause that they believe in, the image will be printed onto a handkerchief along with other images that celebrate Chinatown's vibrant community. Participants will learn techniques for carving, inking the block, and transferring it onto paper and textile.

    All tools and materials will be provided. Students will get to keep the block and handkerchief they created in class as part of our Welcome to Chinatown community fair! Students should come to the workshop with some ideas about what they might want to carve. Designs celebrating Chinatown's community are encouraged!

  • Emily B. Yang is a block print artist and educator. Her work is centered around making speculative renditions of what future Asian American visual languages could look like. She playfully adapts traditional Chinese motifs and symbols to reflect upon how the Asian diaspora has adapted these motifs over time to form their own visual languages. She has hosted blockprint workshops at the New York Public Library, Hong Ning Housing for the Elderly and at Poster House. She is an adjunct professor at the Parsons School of Design, and graduated from the Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. She recently completed a block print residency this summer in Jaipur, India. Her block prints have been exhibited at institutions including the Royal Academy of Art in London and the Yale School of Architecture in New Haven, Connecticut; her work has been featured in The Strategist, and collected by Poster House.

  • Session 1: Saturday, 10/1 @ 12:30pm
    Session 2: Saturday, 10/1 @ 4pm

    Duration: 90 minutes

  • $50

Tea
Tasting

w/ Grand Tea
& Imports

  • Sip and listen along with us. Grand Tea and Imports has curated a group of four teas, all grown and crafted in their family's hometown of Taishan, China, to take you on a guided tea tasting and storytelling experience about the place that is considered the homeland to the earliest Chinese immigrants to the US. No experience necessary, tea enthusiasts and novices are all welcomed.

    Alice will brew four teas for folks to sample: Taishan Sijiu (Four Nine) County Black Tea, Taishan Wild Grown Cloud & Mist White Tea, Taishan Wild Grown White Cloud Tea, and the popular Tangerine Pu-erh tea. Light snacks will be provided with pairing suggestions to accompany each tea.

  • Grand Tea & Imports（好茶水 佛運玄）was established in 2006 after our founder, Mr. Liu, returned to China for the first time in 15 years. After many years away from home, he was able to reconnect with old friends like it was yesterday over many cups of tea.

    The trip inspired him to open a tea store that would allow Chinatown residents and visitors to relish in the flavor of his hometown and connect in appreciation of Chinese traditions, culture, and fine teas.

    Mr. Liu’s passion for importing small-batch teas and organizing tea culture events quickly earned him the reputation of “Teafucius” or “茶夫子”. Since our shop’s opening, his teas have been featured in dozens of local businesses and shared at neighborhood street fairs and cultural gatherings at the United Nations and the Asia Society.

    In 2011, Mr. Liu merged operations with Manpolo Trading (美佛轩), a Buddhism, Fengshui, and Folk Religion specialty store operating in Chinatown since 1990. Mr. Liu was able to revitalize the struggling business and expand its focus to providing distinctive, high-quality spiritual goods that would allow Chinese families to celebrate life’s important moments, such as: Lunar New Year festivities, wedding ceremonies, new business openings, and ancestral worship.

    Today, Grand Tea & Imports is a retail and cultural anchor in the Chinatown community. We supply authentic Chinese teas and goods to a broad range of customers including immigrant households across the East Coast, Chinatown visitors, and recognized businesses.

  • Session 1: Saturday, 10/1 @ 2:30pm
    Session 2: Saturday, 10/1 @ 6pm

    Duration: 60 minutes

  • $35


Meditation

w/ Sky Ting
Yoga

  • Coming Soon!

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  • Donation-based!

TICKETS

Why East Broadway Mall?

The East Broadway Mall sits below the Manhattan Bridge, in a significant but overlooked area of Chinatown. The Mall is a center of commerce in Chinatown, especially for the neighborhood’s Fuzhounese immigrant community. The Mall and its small businesses have been facing uncertainty for years.

Remnants of the bustling commerce center of the past endure. But the building is bursting with untapped potential.

We invite you to enter the space with us, and take in the immense, raw potential we see for the future of Chinatown.

Together, we will keep Chinatown open for generations to come.

Scavenger Hunt

How to Play

Complete tasks + explore Chinatown to collect points. Points can be exchanged for prizes in our Rewards Marketplace!

Earn prizes for supporting Chinatown!

  • Stop by the Meet Chinatown booth at 88 East Fair to pick up a scavenger hunt card.

  • Shop, experience and explore Chinatown and earn points along the way. Once you’ve completed your tasks, head back to 88 East Fair.

  • Tally up your points and exchange them for prizes and raffle entries in our Rewards Marketplace!

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