Memoir Writing Workshop with Curtis Chin

Join us for a memoir writing workshop with author Curtis Chin. Register for the event.

“Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant” is Curtis 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. Given the recent election in America, the topics are really quite relevant.

• Free and open to the public.
• CART live captioning will be available.

Please contact Karen Su at karensu@uic.edu with any questions or access requests.

Please also join us for a book reading and signing with Curtis later in the day.

About our guest:

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.

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.