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Activists perform celebratory songs next to Chinatown’s Friendship Gate in response to the canceled plans to build the 76ers arena, Feb. 2.

‘People over profit, always:’ Block party celebrates ‘no arena’ in Chinatown

Hannah Pajtis, Features Editor February 5, 2025

Hundreds of members of the Philadelphia community gathered at Chinatown’s Friendship Gate at 10th and Arch streets Feb. 2 to celebrate the recent decision by the 76ers to abandon the construction of...

Eiko Otake’s exhibit, "I Invited Myself, vol III: A Body" at the Asian Arts
Initiative in Chinatown. PHOTO: HANNAH PAJTIS ’26/THE HAWK

Appreciating Asian identity through art

Hannah Pajtis November 15, 2023

The first thing I saw when I entered the Asian Arts Initiative building in Philadelphia’s Chinatown was a video of a woman in a white dress projected on the room’s walls. I soon discovered this woman...

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