Thur., May 22, 7:00 P.M. | Fri., May 23, 7:00 P.M. | Sat., May 24, 3:00 P.M.

General Admission: $20* | MOCA Members: $15**

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To celebrate AANHPI Heritage Month, the Museum of Chinese in America is proud to present Echoes of Arrival, a powerful collection of immigrant stories. Through intimate performances blending storytelling, music, and dance, the cast shares their poignant first encounters with the United States and the bittersweet reality of leaving their homelands behind.

These personal narratives illuminate the courage, resilience, and complexities of building a new life far from where their roots began. Echoes of Arrival offers a heartfelt glimpse into the immigrant experience, honoring those whose journeys are woven into the ever-evolving legacy of New York City.

Echoes of Arrival is an excerpt from MOCA’s oral history street performance project, Catching Silhouettes, an immersive production inviting audiences into Chinatown to experience stories brought to life through dance, music, and narrative.

ABOUT the Artists

Shan Y. Chuang

Shan Y. Chuang, a talented queer artist from Taiwan, excels in acting, singing, dancing, and choreography. A proud graduate of Circle in the Square’s Musical Theater program, Shan was awarded a City Artist Corps Grant to create 10 Years In The Making, 10 Years Of Me. Her work has been recognized at PhysFestNYC ‘25 and Prelude Festival ‘23. With over a decade of performances in NYC, Shan’s work explores themes of LGBTQIA+ identity, social justice, and self-discovery through the language of dance. She has collaborated with MOCA and LINKED Dance Theatre on several productions and is currently a member of New York Chinese Cultural Center and NYC Queer Playback Theater. IG @shanychuang & https://www.shanychuang.com/

Timmy Ong

Timmy Ong (he/him) is a Malaysian theatre artist based in NYC. Timmy enjoys working on new material, and has originated leading roles in new works. Selected credits: Steve Hadley in Project: Library, Procopio in The Sacrifice of Cassamba Becker (Off-Broadway), Lamont in Mr. Holland’s Opus: A New Musical (world premiere), Harriet in Isabel, Yuan Fan-Shen in Dress in Code, and Prince Edward V in Richard III. He also writes/creates theatrically, often under his writing partnership, The Green-Eyed Monster Project. Commissioned works include: Second Chances, Soul Food, Parabola Loco, This Is All I Have, and En Route to Flowww. Recently selected as a Fellow of The Performance Project at University Settlement. MFA: The New School. Big thanks and many hearts to Dennis for the opportunity and trust! https://timmyong.com IG: @timmy_ong

Jeremy Rafal

JEREMY RAFAL was born in the Philippines, raised in Hawaii, and now based in New York City as an actor, musician, writer, director, and educator.  He was last seen in Heart Strings (The Atlantic Theater), Maple and Vine  (Constellation Stage and Screen),The King & I (Interlakes Theatre), and at MOCA’s production of Double Happiness and Fly Me Away. His own solo show The Boy from Bantay will be going to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this summer of 2025. TV credits include FBI, Raising Kanan, I’d Kill for You, among others. He has also appeared in films and several commercials. As a writer, his play Where Voices Linger was a 3rd runner up in the Kingsman Playwright Contest and his short film Exit 15 has won several accolades at film festivals including Best Dramatic Short, Best Actor, Best Screenplay, and an Audience Award. Besides being an actor-musician, Jeremy is also into linguistics, jump roping, and CrossFit as a certified CF-L1 trainer. IG @thatonepinoyguy

Fang Tseng

Fang (She/Her) is a versatile performer and director from Taiwan, currently based in New York City. She is a member of the grant-winning Taiwanese performance group ISLANDERS and a resident dancer at the New York Chinese Cultural Center. Fang works across a variety of projects, including musicals, plays, clowning, dance, music videos, and voiceovers in both Taiwan and the US. Her selected credits include Mulan the Musical (Singapore tour), Starry Memory (National tour in Taiwan), War+Lovers (Theater Row), Islanders3 (Gibney Theater), Bliss Street (Theatre for the New City), Drunk Shakespeare: Twelfth Night (Boozy Bards Production), and Siguete Moviendo (Jorge Alberto’s music video).
IG: @fang_nytw

Jiemin Yang

Jiemin is a Chinese-American choreographer and performer born in China and based in Queens. He holds a MA in Contemporary Dance from the London Contemporary Dance School and a BS from Macaulay Honors College. Jiemin’s work has been recognized with Queens Arts Fund: New Work Grant ’24 from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Artists in Queens Grant ’24 from Flushing Town Hall, and multiple grants from the Queens Council on the Arts. His short dance film Wo/我 has won awards from the DisOrient Asian American Film Festival of Oregon ’22 and the Queens World Film Festival ’22. Jiemin was honored as Artist of Exceptional Merit ’22 by the Asian American Arts Alliance and has been a resident artist of the CUNY Dance Initiative at Queens College/Kupferberg Center for the Arts from 2021-2022. He is a ECS 2025 fellow with Mare Nostrum Elements at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center.

*All ticket sales are final. Unfortunately, we are unable to issue refunds under any circumstances at this time. This ticketing policy is not intended to create barriers based on financial status but rather to ensure the sustainability of our practice—allowing us to compensate artists while keeping our events accessible and welcoming to everyone.

**MOCA members are required to present their MOCA ID at check-in.