Mar 4 2025

Curtis Chin Book Reading and Signing

March 4, 2025

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Location

Richard J. Daley Library

Address

801 S. Morgan St., Rm. 1-470, Chicago, Select

Join us for a book reading and signing with Curtis Chin, author of "Everything I learned, I learned in a Chinese Restaurant."

"Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant" is Chin’s story about growing up Asian in Detroit and coming out to his working-class immigrant family, all set against the Reagan Revolution of the ‘80s, AIDS, and his family's popular Chinese restaurant.

Curtis Chin is a co-founder of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop in New York City. Chin served as the nonprofit’s first Executive Director. He went on to write comedy for network and cable television before transitioning to social justice documentaries. Chin has screened his films at over 600 venues in twenty countries. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Chin has received awards from ABC/Disney Television, New York Foundation for the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, and more.

Curtis Chin will also offer
A Memoir Writing Workshop
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
12:30-1:45 p.m.
UIC Taft Hall, Room 215
826 S. Halsted St.

Both events are free and open to the public with in-person and Zoom options. CART live captioning will be provided.

Books from Restoried Book Shop will be on sale.

Light refreshments will be served.

Please contact Karen Su: karensu@uic.edu for more information.

Presented by the UIC AANAPISI Initiative and co-sponsored by the UIC Asian American Resource and Cultural Center, Asian American Student Academic Program, Gender and Sexuality Center, Global Asian Studies Program, Library, and Women’s Leadership and Resource Center, and off-campus co-sponsors Invisible to Invincible (i2i): Chicago API Pride, and Restoried Book Shop.

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Contact

Jennifer M. Jackson

Date posted

Feb 24, 2025

Date updated

Feb 24, 2025

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