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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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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;VALUE=DATE:20250829
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260427
DTSTAMP:20260104T022118Z
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SUMMARY:Exhibit: Creating Kosher Chop Suey
DESCRIPTION:What happened when chop suey\, a Chinese dish with American roots\, encountered Jewish customers in New York at the turn of the century? A new Center for Women’s History installation in the Joyce B. Cowin Women’s History Niche sheds light on the vibrant\, gastronomic collaboration between two ethnic communities. From debates in the Yiddish press to the publication of  kosher Chinese cookbooks\, and from representations in fine art to restaurant ephemera\, the installation explores how Jewish and Chinese women\, with a shared love for food\, together introduced a new phenomenon in the 1960s: kosher Chinese cuisine. Curated by Shiyong Lu\, Mellon Foundation Predoctoral Fellow in Women’s History and Public History\, and Anna Danziger Halperin\, Director for the Center for Women’s History.  \nImage: Gifford Reynolds Beal (1879–1956). Chinese Restaurant #1\, ca. 1930. Oil on wood panel (reproduction). The New York Historical\, Gift of Charles H. Berman and Norman and Joanne Berman\, 2022.9
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/exhibit-creating-kosher-chop-suey/
LOCATION:New York Historical Society\, 170 Central Park West\, New York\, NY\, 10024\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibit,In Person
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250908
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251029
DTSTAMP:20250904T211952Z
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SUMMARY:Film Lab Launches Elevating Women in Entertainment Series
DESCRIPTION:Film Lab is launching a free podcast series that will run September 8 through October 28 designed to connect artists and creatives\, especially Asian American women\, with access to industry insiders\, mentorship and advice.  The series includes Sundance’s Jandiz Cardoso\, Erin Quill on arts and activism\, Dean John J. Chin of AAARI CUNY on the intersection of academia and entertainment and much more. \nThe free series premieres on Film Lab‘s YouTube Channel\, offering unfiltered advice and empowering stories from leading voices. \nThe schedule includes: \nJandiz Cardoso – Sundance Episodic Program Director9/8/25Eventbrite \nScott Foster – Co-Founder\, ScriptHopInterview: 9/10/25\, 10AMEventbrite \nAki Li – VP Sales & Marketing\, CrossingsTV9/12/25\, 12PMEventbrite \nErin Quill – Broadway Singer & Journalist9/22/25Eventbrite \nChristy Harst – CEO\, Building Doors VO9/29/25\, 4PMEventbrite \nJoe Tex – Producer & Co-Founder\, BATSU!Interview: 9/30/25\, 7PMEventbrite \nAndrea Louie – Arts & Activism AdvocateInterview: 10/9/25\, 5:15PMEventbrite \nDaniel Sakaya – COO\, CrossingsTVInterview: 10/21/25\, 5PMEventbrite \nDean John J. Chin – AAARI CUNY\nInterview: 10/28/25\, 4pm \n\n\n\n\n\n\nWith its focus on mentorship\, allyship\, and representation across race\, gender\, and genre\, Elevating Women in Entertainment serves both as a resource for creatives and a call to action for the industry. \nFollow the full series at YouTube.com/@filmlabinc. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/film-lab-launches-elevating-women-in-entertainment-series/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Virtual
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250912
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251012
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SUMMARY:Theater: The Porch on Windy Hill (with Discount)
DESCRIPTION:A4 discount with code ARTS20 for 20% off tickets! \nThe Porch on Windy Hill blends Appalachian\, Old Time and Bluegrass songs with a deeply personal\, contemporary story of discovery and reconciliation. The show follows Mira\, a biracial Korean American classical violinist\, and her folk-song-collector boyfriend Beckett as they escape pandemic isolation in Brooklyn and journey to the mountains of western North Carolina. When they unexpectedly reconnect with Mira’s estranged grandfather\, Edgar\, they uncover a tangled legacy of love\, loss\, and music—and discover the unforeseen harmony that can arise when generations and genres collide. \nThe Porch on Windy Hill: New York Premiere at Urban Stages \nWritten by SHERRY STREGACK LUTKEN\, LISA HELMI JOHANSON\, MORGAN MORSE\, and DAVID M. LUTKEN.\nConceived and Directed by SHERRY STREGACK LUTKEN.\nStarring TORA NOGAMI ALEXANDER\, DAVID M. LUTKEN\, and MORGAN MORSE.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/theater-the-porch-on-windy-hill-with-discount/
LOCATION:Urban Stages\, 259 West 30th Street (btw 7th and 8th Avenues)\, New York\, NY\, 10001\, United States
CATEGORIES:In Person,Theater
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250912
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260427
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SUMMARY:Exhibit: The New York Sari: A Journey Through Tradition\, Fashion\, and Identity
DESCRIPTION:The New York Sari showcases the deep influence that South Asians have had on the culture of New York City and how individuals have drawn strength from tradition while looking clearly towards a bolder future of inclusion and progress. \nThe New York Sari centers the sari as an essential part of the cultural fabric of New York City\, using it as a metaphor for the ways in which the individuals who wear and create saris have straddled tradition\, culture\, and modernity in their work\, art\, and lives. The exhibition tells the stories of who wears saris\, the relationship between saris and identities\, and how they’ve evolved over time. \nThe New York Sari showcases the deep influence that South Asians have had on the culture of New York City from the Gilded Age to the present day\, beginning with the little known history of Coney Island’s first theme park and culminating with the vibrant communities that are home to the South Asian diaspora today. Offering a unique history of migrant communities and gender in New York City\, the exhibition explores how individuals have drawn strength from tradition while looking clearly towards a bolder future of inclusion and progress.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/the-exhibit-new-york-sari-a-journey-through-tradition-fashion-and-identity/
LOCATION:New York Historical Society\, 170 Central Park West\, New York\, NY\, 10024\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibit,In Person
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250925
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251006
DTSTAMP:20251005T000917Z
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SUMMARY:Theater: From Trinity to Trinity
DESCRIPTION:Amaterasu Za\, New York’s only bilingual Japanese-English theater company\, presents the New York premiere of From Trinity to Trinity\, a powerful one-woman play based on the autobiographical writings of Kyoko Hayashi\, a survivor of the Nagasaki atomic bombing. The play follows Hayashi’s 1999 pilgrimage to the Trinity Site in New Mexico\, where the bomb that changed her life was first tested.\n\nPerformed by acclaimed actress Ako (Shogun\, God Said This\, Snow Falling on Cedars)\, this one-woman play is adapted from an English translation of Hayashi’s book by Eiko Otake (of Eiko & Koma). Ako’s performance—enhanced by evocative imagery and soundscape — offers an intimate yet universal meditation on trauma\, resilience\, remembrance\, and the stories nations tell themselves.\nOn August 9th\, 1945\, fourteen-year-old schoolgirl Kyoko Hayashi was sent to work at the Mitsubishi Munitions Factory and miraculously survived the blast only to endure radiation sickness and its painful after-effects for the next 73 years. Hayashi started writing in 1962 and became a leading literary voice for the Hibakusha\, those who survived the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. She published dozens of books\, articles\, stories\, and poems\, and won multiple literary awards. \nHer moving autobiographical short work\, From Trinity To Trinity\, about her 1999 pilgrimage to Trinity Site in New Mexico\, where the atomic bomb that would define her life was first tested\, was published in 2000 and translated into English by Eiko Otake of the performance artist duo Eiko & Koma (Station Hill Press\, 2010). In 2009\, Eiko reached out to the NY-based actress Ako (Shogun\, God Said This\, Snow Falling on Cedars\, and the founder of the Amaterasu Za theater company in NYC) suggested she perform it as a one-person play. It has been performed only twice\, in workshops at New York Theater Workshop in 2009 and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2010. They say that those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it\, but how you remember the past and whose eyes you are seeing it through are just as important. \nIn this\, the 80th anniversary year of the 1945 atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki\, which coincides with the anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camps throughout Germany that same year\, we are reminded of humanity’s boundless capacity for cruelty and destruction. Those who survived these catastrophes came away with perspectives that some expressed in art and others in literature or advocacy. Their voices were powerful\, and they deserve to be heard and even amplified again and again in this time when the news\, sadly\, seems to be filled once again with stories of violence\, indifference\, and nationalism. \n\nPerformed in English with Japanese subtitle translation.\nRunning time: approximately 45 minutes.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/theater/
LOCATION:HERE Theater\, 145 6th Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10013\, United States
CATEGORIES:In Person,Theater
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250925
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260330
DTSTAMP:20260104T022641Z
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SUMMARY:Exhibit: hapa.me: 25 Years of the Hapa Project
DESCRIPTION:In 2001\, artist Kip Fulbeck began traveling the country photographing multiracial individuals of all ages and walks of life. Fulbeck’s work sought to address in words and images the one question that Hapa people are frequently asked — What are you? After photographing more than 1\,200 people\, the project culminated in the landmark book and exhibition Kip Fulbeck: Part Asian\, 100% Hapa\, which toured throughout the U.S. A new exhibition Hapa.me — 25 Years of The Hapa Project\, revisits some of the original subjects two decades later. How do they look now? How have their views on their own identity changed? \nDerived from the Hawaiian word for “half\,” the word “hapa” has been embraced as a term of pride by many whose mixed-race heritage includes Asian or Pacific Islander ancestry. The exhibition comes at a time of increasing awareness and identification with being mixed race. The 2020 Census showed that 10% of the population identified as multiracial\, almost tripling from ten years before. In Hapa.me\, Fulbeck presents a nuanced portrait of change and growth within this broad identity by focusing on individual faces and voices. \nOriginating at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles\, this New York presentation will feature 30 portraits and responses of local subjects\, installed amidst a hand-painted mural that captures the beauty of being mixed. A central reading table encourages visitors to flip through Hapa.me artist’s books for a fuller archive of the project. This exhibition is a homecoming of sorts for Fulbeck: MOCA was one of the first museums to exhibit the Hapa Project and it has remained a fixture of our permanent exhibition which explores over 200 years of the experiences of Chinese in America. \nhapa.me: 25 Years of the Hapa Project and related programs are made possible with generous support from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs\, in partnership with the City Council; Bloomberg Philanthropies; and is funded by a grant from the New York City Tourism Foundation. \nAbout the Artist \nKip Fulbeck has exhibited and performed in over 20 countries and throughout the U.S. He is the author of six books including Part Asian\, 100% Hapa; Mixed: Portraits of Multiracial Kids; and Hapa.me – 15 Years of The Hapa Project\, and the exhibition artist of Perseverance: Japanese Tattoo Tradition in a Modern World. He teaches as a Distinguished Professor of Art at the UCSB\, where he received the Faculty Diversity Award and the Distinguished Teaching Award\, and has been named an Outstanding Faculty Member five times.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/exhibit-hapa-me-25-years-of-the-hapa-project/
LOCATION:Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA)\, 215 Centre Street\, New York\, NY\, 10013\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibit,In Person,Museum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250929T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250929T150000
DTSTAMP:20250905T121136Z
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SUMMARY:Strengthening Our Collective Action: Policy Insights & Innovations to Support AANHPI Communities
DESCRIPTION:2025 Has Been Devastating for AANHPI Communities. Here’s What Funders Need to Know.\nRegister \nOver this past year\, Asian American\, Native Hawaiian\, and Pacific Islander communities have faced increasing attacks. Massive federal budget cuts and spending freezes. Immigration enforcement targeting legal residents and students. The elimination of civil rights protections that took decades to build. \nAANHPI-serving organizations are operating in survival mode. Many face closure. \nJoin AAPIP\, NCAPA\, AAPI Data\, and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to discuss the current political landscape and what funders can do right now to support critical policy priorities that can ensure the safety and well-being of AANHPI communities. \nYou’ll hear:\nReal-Time Community Impact Data\nInsights from NCAPA’s newly released 100-Day Review documenting policy attacks across eight critical areas\, plus AAPI Data’s community surveys laying out immediate needs and priorities. \nProven Funding Strategies\nHear how the W.K. Kellogg Foundation approaches movement infrastructure investment during crisis moments\, with concrete models you can adapt. \nStrategic Action Steps\nLearn about specific funding opportunities\, partnership pathways\, and advocacy tools to support AANHPI community survival and resistance. \nKey Steps for Strengthening Collective Action\nFunders will gain clarity on how to: (1) separate the signal from the noise on federal policy actions\, (2) understand community opinions in real time\, and (3) build and sustain movement infrastructure with an emphasis on coordinated action on policy and narrative change. \nPanel:\nBonnie Kwon\, Policy Officer\, W.K. Kellogg Foundation\nGregg Orton\, National Director\, National Council of Asian Pacific Americans (NCAPA)\nKarthick Ramakrishnan\, Executive Director\, AAPI Data\nCourtney Chappell\, Vice President of Programs\, AAPIP (Moderator)
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/strengthening-our-collective-action-policy-insights-innovations-to-support-aanhpi-communities/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Virtual,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250929T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250929T173000
DTSTAMP:20250919T105937Z
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SUMMARY:Beyond Translation: Addressing the Needs of AAPI English Language Learners in NYC Schools
DESCRIPTION:The program will feature: \n\n\nA conversation with former ASAPer and ELL student\, Aqida Rama\, and community leaders about the unique challenges facing AAPI ELL students and families. \n\n\nThe official launch of our new case study which centers student perspectives that shed light on barriers AAPI ELL students may face and recommendations for how best to address them.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/beyond-translation-addressing-the-needs-of-aapi-english-language-learners-in-nyc-schools/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Education,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250929T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250929T210000
DTSTAMP:20250915T053951Z
CREATED:20250904T060453Z
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SUMMARY:Performance Art: Likenesses: Speaking with the Selves featuring Li-Ming Hu and Charmaine Poh.
DESCRIPTION:An evening of performances featuring Li-Ming Hu and Charmaine Poh.\n\n\nThe Goethe-Institut New York is pleased to present an evening of performances featuring Li-Ming Hu (b. 1987 in New Zealand\, lives in New York City) and Charmaine Poh (b. 1990 in Singapore\, lives in Berlin). These performances are held in conjunction with the exhibition\, Likenesses: Speaking with the Selves\, at the Goethe-Institut New York on view from September 24 to December 4\, 2025. \nPROGRAM \nLi-Ming HuCan It Be I’m Not Meant To Play This Part? (2024)\, performance\, video\, 30 min.Combining narration\, reenactment\, found footage\, karaoke\, animation and a sprinkling of augmented reality\, Li-Ming Hu’s Can It Be I’m Not Meant To Play This Part? explores representation\, identity and cultural production through the artist’s experiences as a professional actor and emerging artist\, in conversation with key moments in the history of Asian American theater.Works cited (in order of appearance): \n\nTrailer for the 2020 film Mulan\, directed by Niki Caro\n“Reflection\,” performed by Lea Salonga\, from Disney’s 1998 animated film Mulan (Wilder and Zippel).\nInterview with Lea Salonga\, Jonathan Pryce and Terry Wogan\, BBC\, 1989.\nPhotos of 1990 Miss Saigon protests by Corky Lee\nFinal scene of M Butterfly by David Henry Hwang\, directed by David Cronenberg\, starring Jeremy Irons. Music “Everything is Destroyed” by Howard Shore and a Casiotone cover of “Un Bel Di Vedremo” by Puccini (from his opera Madame Butterfly)\n\nCharmaine Pohin the shadow of the cosmic (2023)\, performance-lecture\, video\, 30 min.in the shadow of the cosmic is a performance-lecture exploring the multiplicity of the avatar. Expanding Poh’s YOUNG BODY series\, the character E-Ching is placed in conversation with vocal clones\, anime characters\, 3D influencers\, and other entities in a vast digital constellation. The performance-lecture traces a technological lineage from the East Asian economic miracle of the 1980s and ’90s and the emergence of techno-orientalism\, positing that the digital image of the East Asian femme body was borne at a confluence of these historical flows. Pertinent to the work is the recursive logic of Daoism\, in which image\, self and cosmology reverberate in endless loops. Combining video\, live performance and sound\, in the shadow of the cosmic is a call to re-open questions of being and becoming. \n\nMotion graphics: Jawn Chan\nAudio generation: Jawn Chan\, Ashley Hi\n3D animation: Brandon Tay\nMovement artists: Robyn Wong Min Xuan and Kay Yoon\nMusic (the track\, Mutualism): Anise\n\nLi-Ming Hu & Charmaine PohSomewhere In Between Asian and British (2025)\, performance\, 15 min.This collaborative performance takes the Singaporean accent as a point of departure. Poh\, Singapore-born\, and Hu\, whose mother is Singaporean\, explore topics ranging from typecasting and codeswitching to post-colonial politics and diasporic experiences.Somewhere In Between Asian and British is commissioned by the Goethe-Institut New York for the exhibition Likenesses: Speaking with the Selves.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/cpr-likenesses-speaking-with-the-selves-presented-by-goethe-institut-ny/
LOCATION:CPR – Center for Performance Research\, 361 Manhattan Avenue\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11211\, United States
CATEGORIES:In Person,Theater
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