Celebrating Chinese New Year & Jazz at Chan???s Restaurant
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Saturday, January 28, 5:30pm
Chan???s Fine Oriental Dining (267 Main St., Woonsocket, RI 02895)
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Museum of Work & Culture Embarks on Moveable Feast at Chan???s Restaurant
(WOONSOCKET, R.I.) ??? The public is invited to join the Museum of Work & Culture as it celebrates Chinese New Year by recognizing Rhode Island institution Chan’s Fine Oriental Dining???s legacy of jazz with its premiere ???Moveable Feast??? event.
On Saturday, January 28, the MoWC will host an evening at Chan???s beginning at 5:30pm with a talk by Dr. Tom Shaker, co-author of A Treasury of Rhode Island Jazz and Swing Musicians. Shaker will discuss the history of Rhode Island???s jazz clubs and the legendary musicians and quirky artists who hail from the state.
The talk will be followed by a buffet Chinese dinner with complimentary beverage and a performance by Rhode Island jazz pianist and songbird Debra Mann. Mann will be celebrating the 90th birthday of legendary Brazilian jazz artist Antonio Carlos Jobim with Brazilian musician Nanny Assis.
Tickets for the event are $50 and are available for purchase at the MoWC or online at http://www.shopmowc.com/. For more information, please contact the MoWC at (401) 769-9675.
A Moveable Feast is a series of bi-monthly programs celebrating holidays throughout the year with food, entertainment, and a history lesson at restaurants in Northern Rhode Island. It is presented as part of the Rhode Island Historical Society???s Relishing R.I., a yearlong look at the state???s rich and diverse culinary history.
About the Museum of Work & Culture
The interactive and educational Museum of Work & Culture shares the stories of the men, women, and children who came to find a better life in Rhode Island???s mill towns in the late 19th- and 20th centuries. It recently received a Rhode Island Monthly Best of Rhode Island Award for its SensAbilities Saturdays all-ability program.
About the Rhode Island Historical Society
Founded in 1822, the RIHS is the fourth-oldest historical society in the United States and is Rhode Island???s largest and oldest historical organization. In Providence, the RIHS owns and operates the John Brown House Museum, a designated National Historic Landmark, built in 1788; the Aldrich House, built in 1822 and used for administration and public programs; and the Mary Elizabeth Robinson Research Center, where archival, book and image collections are housed. In Woonsocket, the RIHS manages the Museum of Work & Culture, a community museum examining the industrial history of northern Rhode Island and of the workers and settlers, especially French-Canadians, who made it one of the state???s most distinctive areas.