- Today, we're playing intergenerational mahjong
in the Chinatown International District,
here in Union Station.
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- We're in collaboration with the Wing Luke Museum
and then the Seattle Office of Planning
and Community Development to help activate this space.
[tiles clacking and shuffling]
-Teaching mahjong 101, 13 tile, Hong Kong style.
-I think at the heart of it, you just need a set and four people
who want to learn and play.
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-One of my favorite parts of this event is being
able to teach new players and see the moment in their
brain where the game clicks and they start to get familiar
with the different tiles and the texture of
playing together.
-Oh, again!
-Dang! We're getting hustled.
We're getting hustled.
-Social clubs have been popping up in Seattle.
We already know we're playing at our senior centers,
we're playing in the library, playing in the public.
What if we all played together and built community together?
-As a Filipino American, mahjong is one of my major cultural
touchstones and how I connect with my culture and build
community around my identity, especially here in the CID and Seattle.
-It's been really special in the last few months to really see
different mahjong organizations in Seattle come together.
-Everybody wants to connect and teach each other.
-You might not know the characters when
they're on the scene.
-These are from Taiwan, so they're a little longer.
A lot of us grew up in homes that played mahjong.
-I used to play with my grandpa growing up as a kid.
And now he has dementia, and so mahjong
is one of the only times where he gets that clear brain
and can really focus and be in rhythm with me.
So it holds a special place in my heart.
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-We're trying to make it feel like home.
I mean, there's everything but karaoke on a laser disc.
but there's activities for the kids, there's snack
breaks, we have people talking and laughing and cheering.
[applause and cheering]
And just sharing stories and making that one-on-one
moments of human connection.
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-That's all for this episode of CityStream.
But before we go, a quick reminder that Green Lake has so
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I'm Lindsay Cohen and Otis, last words?
He'll just sit here and look cute.
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