What does it really mean to arrive somewhere new? For many immigrants, arrival is only the beginning. Echoes of Arrival: Becoming, a new iteration of the Museum of Chinese in America’s signature storytelling theater project, explores the complicated, often ongoing process of finding—and redefining—a sense of home.

Opening Friday, October 2nd at 7:00 PM, Echoes of Arrival: Becoming brings together seven immigrant performing artists with roots in Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia, Myanmar, Indonesia, Mexico, and Trinidad and Tobago. Through a combination of personal storytelling, music, and dance, the intimate performance looks at what happens after the initial act of migration: adapting to a new culture, navigating questions of identity and belonging, and figuring out which parts of your past to leave behind and which ones to carry forward.
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