Thanks to Quilian for helping with the photography!
Missed taking a picture of it earlier, but all the elderly residents of Chinatown who came also immediately stormed the periodicals section, pulled out all the chairs and the newspapers and started reading. It was really cool!
Winding down...for the first hour or so there were about 200 people
Not that you can really tell from the photographic evidence, but this is the lion dance to kick things off; the Mayor and like fifty other politicians arrived on cue at the same time and had to wait in the street.
This kid is like, 'stop taking pictures, you strange woman'
Very cute...
The kids at the opening spontaneously took over the kids' pod
INSERT! is a student group at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design.
We are designing a temporary library insert in a storefront in Boston's Chinatown. The Chinatown Storefront Library program will target elderly residents, teens and pre-K/ K-age children, who are projected to be the heaviest users of an eventual Chinatown Branch Library. TEAM Marrikka Trotter* Quilian Riano*
Stephanie Tam Julian Bushman-Copp Mo Lee Dan Hui Trevor Patt Andrew Thomas Shelby Doyle Jungmin Nam Theresa Hwang Matthew Swaidan