If you are navigating to the Pao Arts Center via GPS driving directions, please use address 66 Hudson Street, Boston rather than the building's street address on Albany Street, which would lead you onto the Mass Pike. Street parking should be available nearby, and there is a parking garage on Hudson Street.
If you are travelling via public transportation, the Pao Arts Center is a 5-7 minute walk from the Chinatown or Tufts Medical Center stops on the Orange Line, or a 10 minute walk from Boylston on the Green Line.
About Pao Arts Center
Through arts, culture, and education, the Pao Arts Center brings together community members across generations to reclaim a critical piece of Chinatown history and to create healthy families and vibrant communities. In partnership with Bunker Hill Community College, Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center opened the Pao Arts Center in 2017 to be Chinatown’s first community-based arts center and Boston’s newly dedicated Asian American and Asian immigrant cultural space. The Pao Arts Center sits on a historically significant piece of land, Parcel 24, where hundreds of Chinatown residents were displaced in the 1960s in order to build a highway onramp. The reclamation of this land as a place to celebrate and explore Asian culture represents a powerful shift towards community-oriented development in the face of rapid change.
Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center empowers Asians and new immigrants to build healthy families, achieve greater economic success, and contribute to thriving communities by providing a broad range of innovative and family-centered programs and services to more than 8,000 children, youth, and adults every year.