Broadway: Maybe Happy Ending
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 […]
$74 – $311
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Events for May 22, 2025
All Day
Exhibit: “The Monkey King in Chinatown” by AAPI Comic Book and Graphic Novel Artists
The Monkey King is the epitome of tricksterdom. First appearing in the 14th-century Chinese novel, “Journey to the West,” the character born as Sun Wukong embodies rebellion, individualism, and daring. […]
Free
New York Asian Arts Festival
Featured
Multiple NYC locations
This May, the first-ever New York Asian Arts Festival (@nyasianartsfestival) takes over the city with a month-long celebration of Asian American creativity. Anchored by a group exhibition in SoHo and a citywide calendar of hands-on art classes and community events, NYAAF spotlights the artists, storytellers, and cultural spaces shaping Asian American art today. Rooted in […]
Free – $130
NYC Chinatown Restaurant Week®!
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Multiple NYC locations
Chinatown Restaurant Week®! May 19-24 Welcome to Chinatown is hosting Chinatown Restaurant Week® (May 19-24), featuring 18 participating businesses.We’re spotlighting the flavors, stories, and innovation behind of Chinatown’s restaurants. Dine […]
Free
Music: SLANT: Lucky FM
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The Club (La Mama)
74A East 4th Street, New York
Tuning in to the frequencies of ancestors and heroes, the SLANT Performance Group is back to rile things up with a dynamic evening of nostalgic works and new material in Lucky FM. Lucky FM is performed by the trio ensemble’s signature style of humor and drama with live guitars, bamboo flutes, percussion, movement, and storytelling […]
$30
Ig (Water) – Aquatic Ecosystem Dance that Codified Living Tradition of the Philippines
Experience the natural beauty of the Philippine archipelago through dance, depicting the ebb and flow of oceans, still lakes, waterfalls, and rivers. Kinding Sindaw immerses participants in the rich ecosystem of these waters, using intricate footwork and body movements to embody traditions from the Meranao, Maguindanao, Tboli, and Taosug peoples. The dances share rituals and […]
$20
Ongoing
Queens Night Market
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 […]
Free
Food Festival: Japan Fes NYC
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 […]
Free
Food Festival: Dragon Fest NYC
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. April 13 – Astor Place (Panda Day) […]
Free
Teach-in: Community-Facing Approaches to Disinformation
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Zoom
Virtual Event
Please join the Asian American Disinformation Table for a teach-in focusing in on the case studies from our recently released landscape report, Where Do We Go From Here? Asian Americans, Diaspora, and Disinformation. This teach-in will explore case studies from Viet Fact Check and Asian Americans Advancing Justice on their community-facing approaches to fighting disinformation. […]
Free
Rooted Across Borders: Immigration Rights for Pacific Islanders Webinar
Virtual Event
Join us next Thursday, May 22nd, for Rooted Across Borders: an important discussion on immigration rights for our Pacific Islander community. We’ll be joined by speakers from Pasifika advocates and […]
Free
NY City Council District 38 Candidates’ Forum
This candidate forum for City Council District 38, with Alexa Aviles and Ling Ye, will be held on Thursday, May 22nd from 6 PM to 8 PM at the Beit El-Maqdis Islamic Center at 6206 6th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11220 (R train to 59th Street; B64 or B9 bus to Bay Ridge & 6th Ave). […]
Free
The Art of Gaman with Nancy Beck (Virtual)
On Thursday, May 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM there will be a presentation about Arts & Crafts of Japanese Americans Incarcerated during WWII. This virtual talk will be given by the Essex Library Association only on Zoom. It will be presented remotely by Nancy Beck, Secretary/Treasurer of the Japan Society of Fairfield County. For details and to […]
Free
Barbara Demick’s Daughters of the Bamboo Grove Book Launch with Emily Feng
Join us for an evening with acclaimed journalist and author Barbara Demick for the book launch of her latest work, Daughters of the Bamboo Grove. In Daughters of the Bamboo Grove, prizing winning author and National Book Award finalist Barbara Demick, embarks on a journey following the lives of Fangfang and Shuangjie — twins separated at birth — and the extraordinary efforts to […]
$15 – $25
Publishing as Trans* and Asian / Diasporic Practice
A Conversation and Call for Pitches with Jeannine Tang and Wong Binghao (Bing)On May 22, Jeannine Tang and Wong Binghao (Bing) will have a hybrid conversation at Asia Art Archive in America to share and reflect upon their ongoing project focusing on trans* and Asian/diasporic publishing practices in contemporary art. This program will reflect upon […]
BOTH/AND: Five AAPI Writers on the Intersection of Mental Health & Identity
A panel discussion hosted by Hyeseung Song, author of Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl P&T Knitwear is pleased to welcome Hyeseung Song to lead a discussion with Hannah Bae, Prachi Gupta, Helen Rho, and Nina Sharma on artmaking and mental health for AAPI writers and artists, with a Q&A following the conversation. . […]
$7.18
Chinatown Welcome Gateway Artist Information Session: Cultural Placekeeping
Think!Chinatown is hosting an info session for NYCEDC’s Chinatown Connections: Chinatown Welcome Gateway project.
Kevin Nguyen: Mỹ Documents
Hybrid Event
In his second novel, Mỹ Documents, Kevin Nguyen follows four Vietnamese cousins whose lives are upended after a terrorist attack incites a government crackdown that targets their community through mass internment of Vietnamese-American citizens. Nguyen relies on the history of Japanese internment, the Vietnam War, and more recent immigrant detention to imagine a not-entirely-implausible near […]
Free
MOCA PERFORMS – Echoes of Arrival
To celebrate AANHPI Heritage Month, the Museum of Chinese in America is proud to present a powerful collection of immigrant stories.