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SUMMARY:Broadway: Maybe Happy Ending
DESCRIPTION:Emmy® and Golden Globe Award® winner Darren Criss (Little Shop of Horrors) returns to Broadway alongside Helen J Shen in the new romantic musical comedy MAYBE HAPPY ENDING.  A New York Times Critics’ Pick \nInside a one-room apartment on the outskirts of Seoul\, Oliver lives a happily quiet life\, listening to jazz records and caring for his favorite plant. But what else is there to do when you’re a Helperbot 3\, a robot that has long been retired and considered obsolete? When his fellow Helperbot neighbor Claire asks to borrow his charger\, what starts as an awkward encounter leads to a unique friendship\, a surprising adventure\, and maybe even…love? \nWinner of the Richard Rodgers Award\, MAYBE HAPPY ENDING is the offbeat and captivating story of two outcasts near the end of their warranty who discover that even robots can be swept off their feet. Helmed by visionary director and Tony Award® winner Michael Arden (Parade\, Once on This Island)\, with a dazzling scenic design by Dane Laffrey (A Christmas Carol) and book\, music\, and lyrics by the internationally acclaimed duo Will Aronson and Hue Park\, MAYBE HAPPY ENDING is a fresh\, original musical about the small things that make any life worth living.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/broadway-maybe-happy-ending/
LOCATION:Belasco Theatre\, 111 West 44th St\, New York\, NY\, 10036\, United States
CATEGORIES:In Person,Theater
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SUMMARY:Art Exhibition: Avani Patel: Connection
DESCRIPTION:Connection is a solo exhibition by Avani Patel\, presented at Evercore’s New York City offices. \nExcerpt from Patel’s artist statement: \n“Art has been an integral part of my life since I was young. I used to go to the theater with my sister for her rehearsals and dance shows. Seeing the colorful costumes\, flowing dresses and festivity of these moments made me feel joyful; I felt as though the colors were speaking to me…I often draw and paint things that I see in my everyday surroundings\, personal experiences\, and memories. I use mark-making and repetition as tools to signify change in nature\, the passage of time\, and the retention and rejection of memory. My work often takes the form of visual studies and drawings that I work on for months as a time. This process helps me understand colors and patterns\, which then allows me to transfer my ideas to large-scale paintings and public projects.” \nFor inquiries\, please email info@cueartfoundation.org.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/art-exhibition-avani-patel-connection-2/
LOCATION:Evercore Partners\, 55 East 52nd St\, New York\, NY\, 10055\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibit,In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250412T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250816T000000
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SUMMARY:Queens Night Market
DESCRIPTION:The Queens Night Market is a large\, family-friendly open-air night market in Queens\, featuring over 100 independent vendors selling merchandise\, art\, and food and featuring small-scale cultural performances\, all celebrating the rich cultural diversity and heritage of NYC and Queens. \nEvery Saturday from  4pm to midnight \nApril. 12 to  August 16  and  September 13 to October 25. 2025 \nWe’re located behind the New York Hall of Science in Flushing Meadow Corona Park in Queens NYC \n 
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/queens-night-market/
LOCATION:New York Hall of Science\, 47-01 111th St\, Corona\, NY\, 11368\, United States
CATEGORIES:In Person,Night Market
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250518T153000
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SUMMARY:Dance Workshop:  Rhythm & Seoul
DESCRIPTION:2025 What Can We Do? Awardee Dahyun Kim is pleased to present Rhythm & Seoul\, a free 90-minute workshop that celebrates Korean music and culture across contemporary and jazz genres. Anyone from beginners to experienced dancers are welcome! Kneepads and longsleeves recommended for floorwork classes. This event is appropriate for adults ages 18 and above. \nDance styles will alternate between \n\nContemporary (4/13\, 4/20)\,\nContemporary Floorwork (4/27\, 5/4)\, and\nJazz Funk(5/11\, 5/18).\n\nCost\nThis event is free and open to the public\, but RSVP is required. \nAbout Dahyun Kim\nDahyun Kim is a Seoul-born choreographer\, dancer\, and educator whose work bridges contemporary dance\, house\, and Korean traditional rhythms. With an MFA in dance from NYU Tisch and a passion for storytelling\, Dahyun explores themes of resilience and joy\, often rooted in Korean culture and history. Known for activating the inner child in dancers\, their choreography fosters curiosity\, play\, and cultural responsibility. Dahyun’s works\, including 흥|Joy and 초희|Chohui\, challenge stereotypes of East Asian culture by celebrating its dynamic and versatile nature. A leader and collaborator\, they aim to inspire dialogue and societal change through movement and shared narratives. www.dahyunkim.info
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/dance-workshop-rhythm-seoul/
LOCATION:Evolute Academia of New York\, 13708 Northern Blvd\, Queens\, NY\, 11354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dance,In Person
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SUMMARY:Theater:  RHEOLOGY
DESCRIPTION:The Bushwick Starr presents a co-production with HERE Arts Center and Ma-Yi Theater Company\nRHEOLOGY \nwritten and directed by Shayok Misha Chowdhury  in collaboration with Bulbul Chakraborty \nA boundary-pushing collaboration between mother and son\, Rheology is the newest work from Pulitzer Finalist and Obie Winner Shayok Misha Chowdhury \nIn Rheology\, Misha joins forces with his physicist mother\, Bulbul Chakraborty. Bulbul is obsessed with the mystery of sand: how it flows\, like a liquid\, but then jams into a solid. Misha is obsessed with his mother. But they’re running out of time. In this boundary-pushing new collaboration\, an artist son challenges his scientist mother to a high-stakes experiment. \nSPECIAL EVENTS:\n4/23 – Bushwick Community Night\n4/24 – HERE Night\n4/25 – AANHPI Community Night\n4/30 – Starr Member Night\nClosed Captioning (in English\, Spanish\, Mandarin and Bengali) on 4/23 and 5/1
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/theater-rheology/
LOCATION:Bushwick Starr\, 419 Eldert Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11237\, United States
CATEGORIES:In Person,Theater
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SUMMARY:Food Festival: Japan Fes NYC
DESCRIPTION:JAPAN Fes renowned as the world’s largest Japanese food festival\, with over 1\,000\,000 projected annual attendees and 2\,000 vendors\, we proudly host the world’s largest Japanese food festival. Every Fes is set in a different neighborhood of NYC\, introducing it to a slice of Japanese culture and cuisine. Our vendors have been featured in publications such as The New York Times\, Food Network\, and The Today Show as a testament to their dedication of serving the best representation of Japanese cooking. Come try the best of Japan! \nHOURS:10PM-6PM    Check website for updated dates and locations. \nApril 19 on the Upper West Side\nApril 20 in Chelsea\nApril 26 in Chelsea\nApril 27 in Astoria\nMay 4 on the Upper West Side\nMay 10 in Chelsea\nMay 18 in Park Slope\nJune 7 in Midtown West\nJune 15 in Park Slope\nJune 22 on the Upper West Side\nJune 28 in Midtown\nJuly 6 in Midtown East\nJuly 12 in Chelsea\nJuly 20 in Times Square\nAugust 3 on the Upper West Side\nAugust 9 in Greenwich Village\nAugust 24 in the East Village\nSeptember 6 on the Upper East Side\nSeptember 13 in Chelsea\nSeptember 20 on the Upper West Side\nOctober 5 in Chelsea\nOctober 18 in the East Village\nOctober 26 on the Upper West Side\nNovember 8 in the East Village
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/food-festival-japan-fes-nyc/
LOCATION:Multiple NYC locations
CATEGORIES:Festival,Food,In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250419T150000
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SUMMARY:Theater: Flood Sensor Aunty
DESCRIPTION:Flood Sensor Aunty is a play about how the best way to protect yourself from flooding and climate change is by knowing your neighbors.\n\n\nHalfway between really funny devised theater and community disaster prevention\, Flood Sensor Aunty is a play about how the best way to protect yourself from flooding\, climate change\, and despair is through knowing your neighbors. About a flood sensor working at her aunt’s chai store who really wants to be a movie star\, expect to leave nourished with bellies full of free (oat milk) chai\, laughs\, emergency management resources and materials\, and calls to action to activate community members about climate justice in your neighborhood. Written and directed by public artist and urban planner Sabina Sethi Unni\, this play is created in partnership with NYC Emergency Management\, Rebuild by Design\, the Waterfront Alliance\, the Billion Oyster Project\, Queens College\, the Wellesley College Theater\, Culture Push\, and more. \n\nSaturday\, April 19th at Snug Harbor\, Staten Island at 1:30 pm\nSunday\, April 20th at Travers Park\, Jackson Heights at 3 pm\nWednesday\, April 23nd at Queens College at 5 pm\nSaturday\, April 26th at Domino Square\, Williamsburg at 5 pm\nSunday\, April 27th at Orchard Alley Community Garden\, LES at 3 pm\n\n 
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/flood-sensor-aunty-at-travers-park/
LOCATION:Multiple NYC locations
CATEGORIES:In Person,Theater
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251012T170000
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SUMMARY:Food Festival: Dragon Fest NYC
DESCRIPTION:We are an annual outdoor Chinese food & culture festival with experiential activities\, tastings\, and market fairs that showcases the vibrant food\, art and cultural traditions from China. It is a cultural platform that connects people in New York to Chinese restaurants\, food vendors\, artists and local communities. \n\nApril 13 – Astor Place (Panda Day)\nApril 20 – 6th Ave (30th–31st St)\nMay 10 – 6th Ave (30th–31st St)\nMay 24 – Astor Place (Panda Day)\nJuly 20 – 7th Ave\, 56th–57th St\, (Panda Day)\nAugust 16 (night market) – Queens Blvd\, Forest Hills (Panda Day)\nSeptember 20 – Broadway (113th–114th St)\nOctober 4 – 4th Ave (12th–13th St)\nOctober 5 – 6th Ave (31st–32nd St)\nOctober 12 – Broadway (81st–82nd St)
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/food-festival-dragon-fest-nyc/
LOCATION:Multiple NYC locations
CATEGORIES:Festival,Food,In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250426T150000
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SUMMARY:NEA Big Read: Interior Chinatown Discussion and Writing Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Join us to explore themes in Interior Chinatown and begin your own scripted story inspired by the novel.\n\n\nThe Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) presents its 2024-25 NEA Big Read initiative\, featuring Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu\, a National Book Award winner. \nThis April\, join us for an engaging book discussion and writing workshop led by educator Alice Fung. This interactive program will explore literary appreciation and feature a dynamic writing activity inspired by the novel. Participants will discuss themes of family history\, the immigrant experience\, and storytelling as a means of addressing real-world challenges. All attendees will receive a FREE copy of Interior Chinatown. This event is open to all\, and no prior writing experience is required. \nCentered around the theme Where We Live\, MOCA has been hosting a series of free\, multidisciplinary public programs including talks and community events with artists\, performers\, and scholars. NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest. \nAbout Interior Chinatown \nWillis Wu doesn’t perceive himself as the protagonist in his own life: he’s merely Generic Asian Man. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son\, but always he is relegated to a prop. Yet every day\, he leaves his tiny room in a Chinatown SRO and enters the Golden Palace restaurant\, where Black and White\, a procedural cop show\, is in perpetual production. He’s a bit player here\, too\, but he dreams of being Kung Fu Guy—the most respected role that anyone who looks like him can attain. Or is it? \nAfter stumbling into the spotlight\, Willis finds himself launched into a wider world than he’s ever known\, discovering not only the secret history of Chinatown\, but the buried legacy of his own family. Infinitely inventive and deeply personal\, exploring the themes of pop culture\, assimilation\, and immigration—Interior Chinatown is Charles Yu’s most moving\, daring\, and masterful novel yet. \nAbout Charles Yu \nCharles Yu is the author of four books\, including his latest\, Interior Chinatown\, which won the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction\, was shortlisted for the Le Prix Médicis étranger\, and longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. He has received the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award\, been nominated for two Writers Guild of America awards for his work on the HBO series Westworld\, and has also written for shows on FX\, AMC\, Facebook Watch\, and Adult Swim. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in a number of publications including the New Yorker\, the New York Times magazine\, the Atlantic\, Wired\, Time and Ploughshares.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/nea-big-read-interior-chinatown-discussion-and-writing-workshop/
LOCATION:Museum of Chinese in America\, 215 Centre Street\, New York\, NY\, 10013
CATEGORIES:Book,In Person,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Author Talk: In Celebration of Outside Women
DESCRIPTION:Join AAWW for a celebration of Roohi Choudhry’s Outside Women\, featuring Mona Eltahawy and Yashica Dutt\n\n\nJoin AAWW for a powerful celebration of Roohi Choudhry’s incandescent debut novel Outside Women\, a sweeping\, century-spanning story of feminist resistance\, radical kinship\, and migrant solidarity. \nChoudhry will be joined by Mona Eltahawy (The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls) and Yashica Dutt (Coming Out as Dalit) for an evening of readings and conversation on building transnational feminist community and writing toward justice. Together\, these three writers—whose work has shaped movements across borders—will reflect on the themes of Outside Women: finding courage in sisterhood\, defying silence across generations\, and the revolutionary possibilities of standing together. \n__ \nSet in South Africa\, Pakistan\, and New York City\, Outside Women weaves together the lives of Sita\, an indentured laborer in 1890s Durban\, and Hajra\, a Pakistani scholar in exile a century later\, each forced to reckon with the cost of fighting for a stranger. Lyrical\, gripping\, and deeply tender\, Outside Women is “riveting… an incisive story of how change happens” (Publishers Weekly) and a radiant exploration of what it means to risk everything for liberation. \nDon’t miss this urgent and electric evening with three of the boldest feminist voices writing today. \n__ \nRoohi Choudhry was born in Pakistan and grew up in southern Africa. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan and is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship and residencies at Hedgebrook and Djerassi. She worked as a researcher in criminal justice reform and public health\, wrote for the United Nations\, and facilitates creative writing workshops for interfaith groups\, schools\, libraries\, and community organizations. Her stories and essays have appeared in Ploughshares\, Callaloo\, Longreads\, and the Kenyon Review. She lives in Brooklyn\, New York.\nFind out more at roohichoudhry.com. \nMona Eltahawy is a feminist author\, commentator and disruptor of patriarchy. Her latest book is an anthology on menopause she has edited called Bloody Hell! And Other Stories: Adventures in Menopause from Around the World. Her first book Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution (2015) targeted patriarchy in the Middle East and North Africa and her second The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls (2019) took her disruption worldwide. Her commentary has appeared in media around the world and she is founder and editor-in-chief of the newsletter FEMINIST GIANT. \nYashica Dutt is the award-winning author of Coming Out as Dalit\, an internationally acclaimed journalist and among the leading global voices on caste. Dutt’s work has been published in the New York Times\, Foreign Policy and The Atlantic\, and she has been featured on the BBC\, The Guardian and PBS Newshour. Her writing has been part of Pen America’s India at 75 anthology that featured prominent Indian writers looking back on India’s history in its 75th year of independence\, and a collection titled Our Freedoms: Essays and Stories from India’s Best Writers. Coming Out as Dalit was published in the South Asian subcontinent in 2019\, and a revised and the updated edition was released by Beacon Press in 2024. It is an enduring best-seller and is currently part of the curriculum in over 50 colleges and universities worldwide\, including Harvard University\, UC Berkeley\, and UC Davis. Dutt is currently working on her second book on caste in the United States\, also commissioned by Beacon Press. She graduated from Columbia Journalism School \n__ \nCOMMUNITY CARE & ACCESSIBILITY \nAt AAWW\, the safety and comfort of our community is our top priority. We invite you to practice intentionality and care in your behavior and language when engaging with our programs and with each other. Violence of any kind\, including but not limited to racism\, sexism\, homophobia\, transphobia\, ableism\, ageism\, class or casteism\, bigotry or bias toward religion or faith\, or any action or assault against marginalized identities\, is not tolerated. Those who bring harm to our community in person or online are not welcome\, and will be asked to exit the space. \nWe highly encourage all in person guests to take a COVID test at home prior to the event.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/in-celebration-of-outside-women/
LOCATION:Xenana Projects\, 154 Scott Avenue\, Studio 317\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11237\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book,In Person
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