2022 Asian Heritage Day
Celebration was on Wednesday, 5/25/22 at 6:00 pm Cleveland City Hall
Rotunda.Asian Liaison, Chia-Min Chen, opened the celebration with
words of thanks to many of the sponsors for the evening, and the
members of the Asian Liaison Advisory Board and the Asian Planning
Committee were asked to stand to be recognized. Ying Huang sang the
national anthem.
The new Community Relations Board Director, Angela Shute-Woodson
gave her remarks next, followed by Gia Hoa Ryan, the longest serving
board member serving the Community Relations Board Department. The
Director of City Planning, Joyce Pan Huang, was the keynote speaker.
Huang spoke her parents’ immigrant stories and about herself being
the 1st generation American-born Chinese. Huang also spoke about the
long history, generation after generation, of Asian immigrants who
have come and build their new homes in this country. Huang wanted
the audience to recognize how Asians have been in this country for
well over 100 years, and they are Americans. Then, Pastor Grady
Stevenson gave the benediction before the dinner buffet was served.
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Mark Zhang performed his magical Face Changing routine, weaving in
and around the audience. No one saw him removing his mask, yet the
Chinese Operatic expressions on Zhang’s face changed several times
right in front of the guests. Then, Hsa Win danced a traditional
Bagan dance that originated from (5th – 10th century). The
performance was so elegant that one of the guests cried because she
was so moved by the beauty of the dance. Lastly, Ying Huang, who
used to sing for Metropolitan Opera in Italy, sang “The More We Get
Together” with Chia-Min Chen trying to elicit the audience to
sing-along in this classic song that has been translated into many
languages around the world. The celebration was fun, and many people
made new friends because Chen had purposely arranged
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