From Chinatown, With Love 2025

From Chinatown, With Love (FCWL) is an annual mutual aid program in partnership with the W.O.W. Project and Abrons Arts Center and in collaboration with lucky risograph and Midnight Project. By reimagining traditions like red envelope giveaways, FCWL brings together Asian American artists and Chinatown small businesses to combat gentrification and economic challenges through art and community engagement. Grounded in communal care, FCWL transforms individual struggles into a shared commitment to mutual growth and renewal.

For the Year of the Wood Snake’s fifth edition of From Chinatown, With Love, artists A Liang Chan, Mischelle Moy, Jia Sung, Stefanie Tam, Rose Wong, and Fiona Ye create custom red envelopes and stickers inspired by the 25 participating businesses and the transformative energy of the year of the wood snake.

Beginning on January 11, 2025 and while supplies last, patrons who spend $35 or more at participating businesses will receive a pack of 5 red envelopes with accompanying stickers that highlight these businesses’ creativity and resilience.

「來自唐人街，與愛同行」（From Chinatown, With Love，以下簡稱FCWL）是一個年度互助項目，由永安和計劃與Abrons藝術中心合作，並攜手lucky risograph和Midnight Project共同完成。此項目重新詮釋春節紅包贈送等傳統，以藝術為媒介，促進社區互動，凝聚亞裔美籍藝術家與華埠小企業的力量，以對抗士紳化及經濟挑戰。以社區關懷為基石，FCWL將個體的困境轉化為集體成長與復興的承諾。

在木蛇年的第五屆FCWL活動中，藝術家A Liang Chan、Mischelle Moy、Jia Sung、Stefanie Tam、Rose Wong和Fiona Ye聯手創作了靈感來自25家參與企業以及木蛇年變革力量的專屬紅包與貼紙。一組一套都充分展現著這些商家的創意與韌性。

Beginning on January 11, 2025 and while supplies last, patrons who spend $35 or more at participating businesses will receive a pack of 5 red envelopes with accompanying stickers that highlight these businesses’ creativity and resilience.

From Chinatown, With Love 2024

💌🧧Lucky’s Lunar New Year Valentines: The W.O.W. Project 🧧💌

From Chinatown, With Love 2024 - Celebrate Lunar New Year with lucky riograph x the W.O.W. Project!

We (The lucky family) have been taking this month of our LNY celebration to highlight and reflect on love and community care. We are asking our community to make a donation to the W.O.W. Project so that we can continue initiatives like FCWL in 2024 and onwards. With a donation of 8$ or more to the W.O.W. Projects, we will mail a small thank you packet with the contents below: (US Only)

1. Crab TV Thank You Riso Postcard（謝謝蟹）

2. Handwritten Thank You note in an FCWL Red Envelope from the 2024 calendar （紅包）

How to donate and redeem your thank you packet:

1. Donate via the link below (tax-deductible contribution) or Venmo: @amdachu

2. Fill out the form below with your name, email, and address! Make sure to provide the name, email, or Venmo handle you used for your donation so we can double-check!

3. Share and spread the word!

Abrons Arts Center and the W.O.W. Project have come together to celebrate the Year of the Wood Dragon with the fifth edition of From Chinatown, With Love, a Lunar New Year calendar illustrated by Amanda Chung, Banyi Huang, Clae Lu, Jen Louie, Anson Lee, and Joy Freund and designed by Wei Yun Chen. This year, the calendar provides much-needed mutual aid to 12 businesses that are within a 2-block radius of the Manhattan Detention Center construction site.

Visit one of the participating businesses and spend over $35 to receive a 2024 calendar! More info here.

In addition, we have put together a retrospective exhibit of the project at Abrons Art Center until 2/21! More info here.

“Have you heard of the Megajail in Chinatown?”

Written by Denise Zhou @dyzhou & Illustrated by Singha Hon @singha.hon
Translated by Banyi Huang, Di Wang @cropp_topp @seadyke
Printed by @luckyrisograph
🫂 Thank you to our friends and community members whose knowledge, perspective, and care added depth and clarity to this project: Aishvarya Arora, Angela Cai, Joy Freund, Yuki Haraguchi, Mei Lum, Joy Mao, Kale Mays, Juliet Phillips, Bran Roiger, lily bo shapiro, Mai Tran, Serena Yang 🫂