The Creative

This arts campaign is our annual tradition of appealing to our closest community members for gifts to support our arts work.

Funds are used to support art and artists who explore elements, subjects, or themes inspired by Yale-China’s work at the intersection of Chinese and American cultures.

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“The work of Yale-China is instrumental to the City of New Haven’s cultural landscape.””

— Adriane Jefferson
Director of Arts, Culture, and Tourism, City of New Haven

What we’ve been up to this past year…

Now more than ever, we need your support.

Will you give a gift of any amount to Yale-China’s work so that we may continue to provide programs that build empathy, resilience, and understanding across greater New Haven and around the globe?

This past year, we developed a series of response initiatives across the organization to address the global pandemic.

We organized the donation of over 20,000 PPE to New Haven frontline responders at Yale New Haven Hospital when there was a shortage.
We created a wellness toolbox to support dialogue around mental health with tools designed by artists and culturally responsive clinical therapists.
We created an educator’s resource kit for building intercultural empathy with stories of Asian American experiences and interpreted creatively by artists.

Our three pillars of programs in health, education, and the arts empower people in interdisciplinary and complementary ways.

Help us continue to be responsive to our global community by supporting our work.

$30

Supports two hours of work for the Public Resources Fellow at the New Haven Free Public Library reactivating lifelines to the Chinese communities through art.

$50

Supports printing for K-12 classroom packets based on stories of Asian experiences.

$100

Supports a print + frame for a photography exhibit featuring our regions.

$250

Supports an Arts Fellow’s exploration of creative capital between Hong Kong and the United States.

“The Arts are showing up more and more as we humans continue to search for answers to big questions. ”

— Gordon Geballe
Associate Dean for Student International Engagement, Yale School of the Environment

“Art with its deeply humanist focus can create bonding among people. If Hong Kong artists are able to connect with like-minded colleagues and practitioners in the U.S., it will be a tremendous boost for their intellectual horizon and artistic creativity.”

— Helen Siu
Professor of Anthropology, Yale
Former Yale-China Trustee

“The arts speak to the issues of our time and allow cross-cultural communication, overcoming the boundaries of language and national politics to celebrate our shared humanity.”

— Joan Channick
Professor of Theater Management, Geffen School of Drama, Yale
Former Yale-China Trustee and Secretary

Quotes and inspirations about Yale-China’s work in the arts

Why we need your support now

I’m grateful to the Yale-China Association for organizing this community effort...

Every year, Lunarfest is an opportunity for us to celebrate the wonderful diversity of our city and region and to connect even from afar with our neighbors in the greater New Haven community and with friends around the globe. Throughout its history, Yale-China has fostered empathy and understanding between Chinese and American people.

During this most unusual time, we need empathy and understanding, hope and resilience, more than ever.

— Peter Salovey
President of Yale University

There’s a tremendous amount of emotion in music – from the notes themselves to what the musicians are trying to convey. To me, it has been very important to understand, because from that, I get a greater understanding about the individual, but also what the music is trying to say.

You can have one song with multiple interpretations based upon the musician and based upon the time and based upon what they think is the opportunity of what they’re trying to accomplish.

— Keith Churchwell
President of Yale New Haven Hospital

Yale-China’s “Midday Musical Moments” comes at a time when culturally responsive and preventive initiatives are much needed to help us connect with each other, enhance resilience, and provide support to community health and wellbeing.

— Vicki Poon
Yale School of Public Health MPH '00
Yale-China Service Internship Program '00

Lunarfest provides the only robust opportunity for the New Haven Free Public Library to... support New Haven’s Chinese community.

— Luis Chavez-Brumell
Deputy Director, New Haven Free Public Library

The Arts Activator Fellowship by Yale-China empowers me with knowledge — lighting people’s candles through art in the pursuit of human good.

— Ian Leung
Hong Kong Arts Centre
2019 HKETONY Arts Activator

The arts give us the deepest possibility for human expression and understanding.

As the world struggles to heal from isolation and inequities, we need artistic expression more than ever. As a source of joy and empathy, the arts build essential connections as we strive to find solutions to our most pressing human needs.

— Mary Lou Aleskie
Howard L. Gilman '44 Director
Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College