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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250829
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260427
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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: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: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;VALUE=DATE:20251013
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260309
DTSTAMP:20260109T182331Z
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SUMMARY:Exhibit: Niyū Yūrk: Middle Eastern and North African Lives in the City
DESCRIPTION:The first-ever exhibition at The New York Public Library to explore the history of Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) immigration to NYC\, Niyū Yūrk highlights how the city has shaped the lives\, identities\, and creative practices of MENA communities\, artists\, and writers\, while celebrating their enduring contributions to the city’s cultural landscape and place in global culture. From Little Syria in Manhattan to Yemeni bodegas in Brooklyn\, from Armenian and Arab nightclubs along Eighth Avenue to community music festivals on Atlantic Avenue\, and from women’s activism and advocacy groups to experimental composers and playwrights like Halim El-Dabh and Reza Abdoh\, the exhibition shows how these rich stories are preserved within NYPL’s collections. \nNiyū Yūrk explores the often overlooked history of Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) immigration to New York City\, from the first waves in the late 19th century to the present. The exhibition highlights how New York City has shaped the lives\, identities\, and creative practices of MENA communities\, artists\, and writers. It also emphasizes their enduring contributions to the city’s cultural landscape and place in global culture. \nThrough an array of materials—including local newspapers\, rare books\, archival documents\, prints\, artists’ books\, photographs\, music records\, and film—the exhibition showcases how these voices have been preserved and presented. Niyū Yūrk creates a dynamic dialogue across time\, illustrating the evolving nature of MENA migration to the city as well as the Library’s role in documenting this history. While reflecting on new directions in collecting practices\, it also aims to address gaps in those practices and envision a more inclusive archival future. \nThis exhibition is organized by The New York Public Library and curated by Hiba Abid\, Curator for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/exhibit-niyu-yurk-middle-eastern-and-north-african-lives-in-the-city/
LOCATION:NYPL Stephen A. Schwarzman Building\, 42nd Street & 5th Avenue New York\, NY 10018\, 42nd Street & 5th Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibit,In Person
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251014
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251117
DTSTAMP:20251104T055152Z
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SUMMARY:Theater: Did You Eat? (밥 먹었니?)  with Discount
DESCRIPTION:DID YOU EAT? (밥 먹었니?)\nNew York Premiere\nWritten and Performed by Zoë Kim\nDirected by Chris Yejin\nMa-Yi Theater Company in residence at The Public Theater \nUSE CODE “EATMAYI” FOR $40 TICKETS TO “DID YOU EAT? \nDID YOU EAT? (밥 먹었니?) is Zoë Kim’s autobiographical journey through love’s many forms–how it’s learned\, given\, and reflected inward. In a nimble and tender solo performance\, Zoë shapeshifts into the souls of her family through a landscape of memories where tears and laughter collide. It’s not just a story\, but a reckoning—weaving through the textured threads of Korean/American identity\, belonging\, and healing. DID YOU EAT? (밥 먹었니?) is a poetic love letter to the inner child\, and hopefully yours too.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/theater-did-you-eat-%eb%b0%a5-%eb%a8%b9%ec%97%88%eb%8b%88/
LOCATION:Public Theater\, 425 Lafayette Street\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:In Person,Theater
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251101
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251215
DTSTAMP:20251210T194831Z
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SUMMARY:Theater: Laowang: A Chinatown King Lear  (with discount)
DESCRIPTION:Use PSCOMMUNITY for $25 tickets. Discount code is only valid on full priced regular tickets and cannot be applied to Member tickets or combined with any other offers. \nBy Alex Lin\nDirected by Joshua Kahan Brody \nWith Cindy Cheung\, Wai Ching Ho\, Amy Keum\, Jon Norman Schneider\, and Daisuke Tsuji \nDon’t mess with a Chinese grandma. \nWhen a high-rise developer threatens to buy out A-Poh’s successful Chinatown restaurant\, the martyr-complex matriarch gathers her three precious grandchildren from all corners of the country to plan their next mode of attack.   There’s just one problem – A-Poh’s memory is rapidly fading. What follows is a chaotic journey through reality\, myth\, and magic as A-Poh travels through now and the great beyond in a last-ditch effort to preserve what’s left of her family\, legacy\, and sanity. \nA caustic and imaginative spin on King Lear that explores the changing face of America’s Chinatowns and the fight to preserve a fading cultural memory. \nPlease join us for post-show talkbacks after the following performances: \n\nFriday\, November 14 at 7:00PM – Emerging API Artists in conversation with playwright Alex Lin with artists Jesse Jae Hoon\, Julia Izumi\, and Yilong Liu\nSaturday\, November 15 at 7:00PM – API Night: A Community Night and Talkback in collaboration with CAATA (the Consortium of Asian American Theater Artists)\nSunday\, November 23 at 2:00PM – Gentrification and Uplifting Small Businesses in Chinatown with Harry Trinh from Welcome to Chinatown and playwright Alex Lin\nTuesday\, December 2 at 7:00PM with the cast and creative team of Laowang
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/theater-laowang-a-chinatown-king-lear-with-discount/
LOCATION:59E59 Theater\, 59 East 59th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10022\, United States
CATEGORIES:In Person,Theater
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251106
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251124
DTSTAMP:20251104T063528Z
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SUMMARY:Theater: Ready For Company and Other Family Tales
DESCRIPTION:Ready For Company and Other Family Tales: a one-woman play about family and legacy. An inheritance of stories and unfinished quests from this Jewish-Japanese-American family tree. \nWith a complicated family history\, Kim excavates meaning from small remembered moments\, inherited souvenirs\, the oft-repeated family tales (as well silent secrets) left for her to unpack. Told with music\, movement and “show-and-tell” objects\, this one-woman journey of nostalgia and discovery portrays with humor the beautiful and enigmatic paths of immigration – and what we choose to carry forward. \nRefreshments will be served! \nTickets:\n$30 Adults\n$25 Students/Seniors\n$10 First ten tickets to every performance (limit 2 per person)\n$10 La MaMa Members \nPhoto credit: Malick Welli and Charlotte Brathwaite for Ready For Company and Other Family Tales. Courtesy of the artists and Kim Ima.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/ready-for-company-and-other-family-tales/
LOCATION:The Downstairs\, 66 East 4th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance,Theater
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251113T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251113T200000
DTSTAMP:20251113T102240Z
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SUMMARY:Vā Moana and Hawai‘i Futures
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. Co-sponsored by the Center for Collaborative Indigenous Research with Communities and Lands. \nA collaborative conversation between the artist Sean Connelly (2025 Artist-in-Residence)\, Professor Albert Refiti (Auckland University of Technology)\, and the audience. ‘Awa (kava) will be available for those who wish to partake. Connelly’s exhibition\, Hawai’i is not the United States\, but it is your Future\, will remain open during the program for special viewing hours. \nNYU campus access guidelines: This is an in-person event\, open to the public. Registration is required. Space is limited. \nAccessibility note: This venue is accessible for wheelchair users. There are all gender restrooms. If you have any access needs\, please email apa.rsvp@nyu.edu \n  \nAbout the Artists \nBorn and raised in Honolulu\, Sean Connelly is an artist and building practitioner working collaboratively across sculpture\, architecture\, film\, and cartography. Connelly’s practice engages deeply with grassroots interventions and supports Native liberation\, food sovereignty\, land justice\, and cultural resurgence centering ‘āina (Land / That Which Feeds). \nAs founding director of After Oceanic Built Environments Lab and the nonprofit Hawai‘i Nonlinear\, Connelly actively cultivates ancestral knowledge\, ecological insight\, and social justice to transform built environments into living archives of intergenerational healing. Collaborating closely with cultural bearers\, creative practitioners\, and Indigenous experts across Pae ‘Āina Hawai‘i (Hawaiian Islands)\, Connelly’s work contributes to a grassroots community of care\, actively shaping liberated oceanic futures. He is the 2025 Artist-in-Residence at the A/P/A Institute at NYU. \nLeali’ifano Dr. Albert Refiti is the leader in critical studies research on spatial design and architectural environments in the Pacific\, with a focus on material culture and ethnography on the subject. He advanced the discipline by creating a method of spatial exposition to examine the notion of vā (space) and wā (time) as central mechanisms to understand Pacific societies and their buildings\, artifacts\, and social system. \nRefiti practised architecture in Auckland (1990\, 1994-2002) and London (1991-1993) before beginning his academic career at Auckland University of Technology in 2002. He founded Vā Moana Research Cluster with Tina Engels-Schwarzpaul in 2012\, a successful platform setting the agenda for international research that engages Indigenous Pacific and Western thought to study Pacific notions of space. Based at Auckland University of Technology’s School of Art and Design\, Vā Moana has created a far-reaching network of international scholars whose research transforms ways of thinking about contemporary and customary Pacific understandings of the world\, by examining Indigenous Moana modes of producing space\, objects\, rituals\, and performance; develop new to promote discussion and publications from Pacific perspectives; focus on how Pacific concepts affect the production of space and the use of the built environment\, re-exploring and extending customary knowledge alongside academic discourse. \n  \n  \nImage: Photograph of Hawai’i is not the United States\, but it is your Future. Installation by Sean Connelly. ©Creighton: Courtesy of NYU Photo Bureau.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/va-moana-and-hawaii-futures-2/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square\, 3rd floor\, New York\, NY\, 10003
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251113T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251113T200000
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SUMMARY:Opening Reception: UNRESOLVED: A Playable Archive of Rage and Reckoning
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the opening reception of this exhibition from Risa Puno.\n\n\nWhat happens to rage if you’ve been taught to suppress or ignore it? And what if you could metabolize that rage in community with others? In UNRESOLVED: A Playable Archive of Rage and Reckoning\, part of Risa Puno’s ongoing Anatomy of Rage series\, the artist invites us to engage with this complex\, often taboo\, emotion through disarmingly playful experiences that spark conversation and connection. \nTHE WHEEL OF RECKONING AND RAGE is an interactive sculpture featuring two back-to-back spinners that pose raw\, revealing questions about how we process and respond to rage. One spinner asks what goes on inside your head when someone violates your dignity\, safety\, or sense of belonging. The other side asks what actions (or inaction) you take in response. \nSpin\, discuss\, and get real. Read what others have shared. Record your reflections and connect them to responses left by others on the gallery walls\, contributing to a living archive of shared experiences and emotional truths. \nUnresolved Rage Game is a collective storytelling experience inspired by tabletop role-playing games\, like Dungeons & Dragons. But instead of battling medieval monsters\, players navigate challenges inspired by real-life instances of racist or sexist microaggressions. Originally developed with Ran Xia during Soho Rep’s 2022-2023 Writer/Director Lab\, this raw\, vulnerable\, super-cringe (yet surprisingly fun!) exploration is designed to help Asian women and femmes process and unpack our various relationships with rage. \nThroughout the exhibition\, Puno will activate the gallery with in-person playtests of the latest version of Unresolved Rage Game specifically for Asian women and femmes\, as well as workshops for all identities to get curious about rage together. To learn more or to sign up for playtesting\, please visit: https://www.risapuno.com/rage \nAbout the Artist \nRisa Puno is an interactive installation artist who takes play seriously. She translates difficult topics — like social privilege\, data privacy\, or collective caretaking — into disarmingly fun experiences to help people connect more openly with one another. \nHer work is grounded in a pre-colonial Philippine ideology called kapwa that means “shared identity” or “shared humanity.” It’s the idea that we navigate through spaces with a community rather than alone\, and that we have a responsibility to care for others as we care for ourselves.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/opening-reception-unresolved-a-playable-archive-of-rage-and-reckoning/
LOCATION:Pearl River Mart Gallery – Soho\, 452 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10013\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibit,In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251113T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251113T200000
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SUMMARY:Always more to say
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation on Experimental Performance Art from Vietnam!\n\n\nOn Thursday\, 11/13\, collaborators Lumi Tan\, Anh Vo\, Đỗ Tường Linh and maura nguyễn donohue will discuss the research and conversations that have led to the development of their upcoming projects\, focusing on experimental performance art from Vietnam. In particular\, the group will share stories\, findings\, and images from their January 2025 trip to Hanoi and Saigon which informed an evolving discourse around the conditions of contemporary performance art in these two cities and beyond. \nAlways more to say kicks off a broader series of events\, including an editorial project with Movement Research and a series of programs with Performance Space New York. Movement Research Performance Journal Issue #62\, to be published in early 2026\, will be dedicated to experimental Vietnamese performance art\, with reflections from over fifteen artists and curators. The collaboration with Performance Space\, titled We Exist in the Ambivalence of those Motherfuckers\, will be held between January 18 – February 9\, 2026\, and features a residency and series of new performance works by Vietnamese artists. \nBios: \nLumi Tan is a curator and writer based in New York City. She is the curator for the 2026 Converge 45 city-wide exhibition in Portland\, Oregon\, and a curator for Focus at Frieze New York. From 2010 to 2022\, she was senior curator at The Kitchen in New York where she organized exhibitions and produced performances with artists including Kevin Beasley\, Meriem Bennani\, Gretchen Bender\, Abraham Cruzvillegas\, Autumn Knight\, Moor Mother\, Sondra Perry\, The Racial Imaginary Institute\, Tina Satter\, Kenneth Tam\, Danh Vo\, and Anicka Yi. Prior to The Kitchen\, Tan was guest curator at the Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Nord Pas-de-Calais in France\, director at Zach Feuer Gallery\, and curatorial assistant at MoMA/PS1. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times\, Artforum\, Frieze\, Mousse\, Cura\, numerous exhibition catalogs and university publications. She was the recipient of 2020 VIA Art Fund Curatorial Fellowship\, and has been visiting faculty at School of Visual Arts\, New York; Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College; and Yale School of Art. \nBased in Brooklyn and Hanoi\, Anh Vo is a Vietnamese choreographer and writer working in the expanded field of performance. Their practice mobilizes the naked body in its variations to make explicit the entanglement of power and apparitional forces that cut across flesh. Their work is situated in the unlikely lineage convergences between Downtown New York experimental performance\, Hanoi performance art\, and Vietnamese folk ritual practices. Vo is indebted to Miguel Gutierrez’s unapologetic queerness and amorphous excess\, Moriah Evan’s speculative commitment to the depth of interiority\, Tehching Hsieh’s existential sense of time\, and Ngoc Dai’s guttural sonic landscape of postwar Vietnam. Their formal training is in Performance Studies\, studying with esteemed theorists and practitioners at Brown University (BA) and New York University (MA). \nmaura nguyễn donohue is Chair of Dance and Director of MFA at Hunter College and has been making work and facilitating\, curating\, producing\, and leading public conversations in the US\, Asia\, and Europe for over 30 years. From 99-04\, as artistic advisor for Dance Theater Workshop’s Mekong Project\, maura facilitated residencies for AAPI and SE Asian artists in the US\, Thailand\, Cambodia\, and Vietnam. Most recently\, maura was 1 of 12 choreographers included in Dance History(s): Imagination as a Form of Study\, co-edited by thomas f. defrantz and Annie-B Parson. maura publishes through commissions from arts organizations such as MANCC\, Danspace Project\, DanceNYC and Gibney Dance\, in academic presses such as Scholar & Feminist Online\, Dance Studies Association\, and Women and Performance\, as well as at Culturebot. Ambivalent Selves: The Asian Female Body in American Concert Dance was published in Contemporary Directions in Asian American Dance and excerpts of When You’re Old Enough were in the original (1998) and the 25th anniversary (2023) edition of Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry and Prose. \nĐỗ Tường Linh is a curator\, art researcher\, and writer based between Hanoi (Vietnam) and New York City (United States). She holds a BA in Art History and Theoretical Criticism from the Vietnam University of Fine Arts and an MA in Contemporary Art and Art Theory of Asia and Africa from SOAS\, University of London\, supported by the prestigious Alphawood Scholarship. In 2025\, she completed an MA in Curatorial Studies at Bard College. Linh was part of the curatorial team of the 12th Berlin Biennial and is currently the Artistic Director of VCCA (Hanoi\, Vietnam) and Director of Nguyen Wahed Gallery (New York and London). Linh co-founded and is a member of Lunch Hour\, a New York based artist/curator collective exploring and critiquing the mythologies around authorship\, work\, and labor. Since 2005\, Linh has curated and contributed to exhibitions and projects across Vietnam\, Southeast Asia\, Europe\, and beyond. She was a research fellow with Site and Space in Southeast Asia (Power Institute\, University of Sydney\, funded by the Getty Foundation) and has participated in international programs including Le 18 Curatorial Residency (2024)\, Asia Cultural Council Research Fellowship (2023)\, Ljubljana Graphic Art Biennial (2019)\, Mekong Cultural Hub (2018–19)\, CIMAM Museum Workshop (2018)\, and Tate Intensive (2018). Her curatorial projects include Time Thrift (New York\, 2025)\, Means of Production (New York\, 2024)\, Revived Photo Hanoi (Hanoi\, 2023)\, Citizen Earth (Hanoi\, 2020)\, The Foliage 3 (VCCA\, Hanoi\, 2019)\, Geo-Resilience of the All-World (La Colonie\, Paris\, 2018)\, No War\, No Vietnam (Galerie Nord\, Berlin\, 2018)\, and SEAcurrents (London\, 2017). \n \nLight refreshments will be provided. \nAAAinA’s general programming and operations are funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts\, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council\, the Vilcek Foundation\, and other foundations and individuals.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/always-more-to-say/
LOCATION:Asia Art Archive in America\, 23 Cranberry Street\, Ground Floor\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
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SUMMARY:Author Talk: Eshani Surya: Ravishing w/ Roxane Gay (Hybrid)
DESCRIPTION:“As deep as girlhood friendship\, and as terrifying as beauty itself: Ravishing is a necessary novel for our times.” —Meg Elison\n\n\n\nThe event will also be livestreamed for free here: https://youtube.com/live/wzh0H1KjdXk\n\nEvent guidelines: \n\nEach ticket will include either a copy of the featured book or a $10 Books Are Magic gift card.\nAdditional copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.\nA signing will follow the talk.\nHome address is collected for contact tracing purposes; it will not be used otherwise.\nThe event will also be livestreamed for free here: https://youtube.com/live/wzh0H1KjdXk\nAs a reminder: If you are not feeling well\, please do not come to the event\, even if you have a ticket; email us and we’ll work it out.\n\nIf you have any questions regarding these guidelines or to request accessibility accommodations\, please contact eventhelp@booksaremagic.net. \nA brilliant and compelling debut\, Ravishing shines a light on the dark enticements of the beauty industry and how it capitalizes on our desire to be someone we are not. \nA provocative\, darkly surreal novel of two Indian American siblings caught in the clutches of a beauty tech company\, Ravishing is a searing portrait of the beauty industry’s dangerous ability to change people’s relationship to their bodies and the cult-like grip it has on youth. \nFor teenage Kashmira\, it’s painful to look in the mirror; she has her father’s face\, and every feature is a reminder of his abandonment. When a friend introduces her to Evolvoir\, a beauty product that changes users’ features\, Kashmira is quickly hooked on how it allows her to erase the triggers of her grief. Meanwhile\, at Evolvoir’s corporate offices\, Kashmira’s estranged brother Nikhil first sees the product as an opportunity to make a difference and a name for himself\, but is quickly mired in corporate complicity as reports surface of the product causing severe pain and persistent symptoms in some users. As chaos ensues\, Kashmira is hospitalized and must negotiate the constraints of her new reality\, while Nikhil uncovers a vicious truth that will force him to decide where his loyalties lie. \nPerfect for readers of Gold Diggers and You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine\, Ravishing is a visceral\, yet immensely tender\, coming-of-age story of two Indian American siblings caught in the clutches of a predatory beauty tech company\, providing an illuminating portrait of the complexities of growing up brown\, chronic illness\, and our relationship to ourselves. \n  \nEshani Surya is a chronically ill South Asian writer living in Philadelphia. She holds an MFA from the University of Arizona and is a 2023 finalist for the A.C. Bose Grant for Speculative Literature\, a 2022 Asian Women Writer’s Workshop mentee\, a 2022 Kenyon Review Writer’s Workshop scholarship recipient\, and a 2021 Mae Fellowship recipient. Ravishing is her first novel. \n  \nRoxane Gay is a writer\, editor\, and professor. She is the author of several bestselling books including Bad Feminist\, Hunger\, Difficult Women\, and Opinions A Decade of Arguments\, Criticism\, and Minding Other People’s Business. She is also the author of the Eisner Award winning World of Wakanda for Marvel and the editor of Best American Short Stories 2018. Her short stories and essays can be found in Harper’s Bazaar\, A Public Space\, McSweeney’s\, Tin House\, Oxford American\, American Short Fiction\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, and many others. She is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times and the editor of an eponymous imprint at Grove Atlantic. In 2018\, she won a Guggenheim fellowship. She is also the Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media\, Culture and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University-New Brunswick and working on several books and film and television projects. Her newsletter\, The Audacity\, is hosted at Substack.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/in-store-eshani-surya-ravishing-w-roxane-gay/
LOCATION:Books Are Magic Montague\, 122 Montague Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book,Hybrid,In Person,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Wendy Evans Joseph Lecture on Art and Architecture: Mel Chin
DESCRIPTION:Mel Chin | The Funk & Wag from A to Z\, 2012. Image courtesy Mel Chin \nThe annual Wendy Evans Joseph Lecture on Art and Architecture showcases artists whose work addresses the built environment\, and humanity’s impact on the earth and other living things. \n\n\n\nMel Chin will present his work in a public lecture\, followed by a conversation with architect Tei Carpenter. The event will include an audience question-and-answer session. \nMel Chin is a conceptual artist known for a broad range of approaches to artmaking\, including public initiatives realized through multidisciplinary\, collaborative teamwork and works which enlist science as an aesthetic component to elaborate complex ideas. Throughout his career\, Chin has developed a diverse portfolio of projects that employ artistic methods to not only address but intervene in urgent social\, political\, cultural\, and environmental landscapes. \nChin’s artworks include: \n\nFundred Project Prompted by a visit to New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina\, Chin initiated this campaign to raise awareness of childhood lead poisoning through the collaborative creation and dissemination of “Fundred Dollar Bill” drawings in schools\, arts institutions\, and civic settings across the country.\nIn the Name of the Place In 1995\, Mel Chin formed the GALA Committee\, a collective which conducted a two-year\, covert public art project on the television show Melrose Place\, creating and inserting conceptual and often subversive props into the popular primetime soap opera.\nThe Funk & Wag from A to Z This installation comprises 524 unique collages which re-edit images from Funk & Wagnall’s The Universal Standard Encyclopedia to pose contemporary and historical cultural critiques.\n\nSince the 1980’s\, Chin’s work has been exhibited in arts institutions around the world and installed across the United States through site-specific projects\, from the ongoing Revival Field\, a pioneering application of green remediation practices initiated in 1990\, to Unmoored\, a 2018 mixed reality experience located in Times Square that envisions a submerged future. Chin was one of the artists featured in the first season of the PBS Series Art of the 21st Century\, focused on the theme of “consumption.” His 40-year survey exhibition at the Queens Museum\, All Over the Place\, was named the best art exhibition of 2018 by Hyperallergic. \nChin is the recipient of numerous awards and grants\, including the MacArthur Fellowship in 2019\, his election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2021\, and the Hiroshima Art Prize in 2024. His work is included in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art\, The Menil Collection\, and the Whitney Museum of American Art\, among others. \nFollowing his presentation\, architect Tei Carpenter will join Chin in discussion. Carpenter is the founding director of Agency—Agency\, a New York City based architectural design practice specializing in cultural and public projects. In parallel to design work\, Carpenter is an assistant professor at the Princeton University School of Architecture and creates and leads participatory design and advocacy engagements\, with past partners including the Ali Forney Center and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Her project New Public Hydrant\, with Chris Woebken\, is held in MoMA’s permanent collection. \nFree for League members; $20 general admission.\nAdvance registration in required.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/wendy-evans-joseph-lecture-on-art-and-architecture-mel-chin/
LOCATION:Scholastic’s Big Red Auditorium\, 130 Mercer Street\, New York\, NY\, 10012\, United States
CATEGORIES:Interview
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SUMMARY:Asian C.E.O. Monthly [English] Standup Comedy Showcase 纽约英文脱口秀
DESCRIPTION:Asian C.E.O. – Chief Entertainment Officers\n\n\n\nAsian CEO is CrazyLaugh’s English comedy showcase that brings together the funniest Asian comics in NYC (with the occasional diversity hire\, because hey\, we’re inclusive like that). It’s a one-of-a-kind mix\, blending seasoned Asian comics with brave newbies trying stand-up in their second language. Who’s funnier? Honestly\, it’s a toss-up. But one thing’s for sure: you’ll laugh either way! \n\n\nTickets: $15+fee\nMinimum Purchase: One (2) Drink\, including both alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks \nShow time: 8:30pm\, Door opens: 8pm \n>Please arrrive on-time!< \nAge requirement: 21+ \nPlease arrive at least 15 min before show starts \nPlease note: \n* The performance will open for admission 30 minutes before scheduled start time and doors will close promptly at the start time. We reserve the right to deny entry to late guests. \n* Audience must enter with a ticket\, and minors are not allowed inside. \n* No recording\, video capturing\, and the use of flash photography \n\n\nFirst Overseas Chinese Standup Variety show is Here!\n \n🔥ChowFun StandUp & CrazyLaugh now on YouTube!🔥\nFull playlist: chowfun.crazylaugh.co \nDon’t worry we got English subs! \n\n\n\n\n\nWanna  for yourself? \nGo for it! With an 800-word script\, the stage is yours! \nNo previous experience required to perform at our open-mics. We welcome and encourage everyone\, especially if English is not your first language\, who crave for free expression to join us. \nOur CrazyLaugh editorial team provides all the assistance we can – script revisioning\, audition sessions\, acting classes\, expert training materials\, professional photography and videography. You too can become a star comedian! \nFor more information or to sign-up\, please contact us on Eventbrite or through WeChat . QR codes are listed below. \n\n\n\nAbout Us \nCrazyLaugh Comedy \nThe first Chinese Stand-up comedy club in NY\, NJ and DC with a simple goal to inspire the Asian community\, especially the first generation immigrants to find their voices and be their authentic selves. Together\, we laugh louder. \n \nCrazyLaugh \nA dynamic oversea Chinese culture content production platform. \nAt CrazyLaugh\, our mission is to inspire a shift in perspective\, transforming life’s twists and stress into moments of humor and laughter. We believe every challenge is a setup for a punchline\, and we’re dedicated to empowering everyone find theirs. Together\, we’re not just facing life’s ups and downs; we’re turning them into a shared journey of joy and community laughter. \n \nFor more information please visit crazylaugh.co \nContact: hi@crazylaugh.co \n—————————————————————— \nCrazyLaugh is affliated with P&Y Foudnation\, a 501(C)(3) non-profit organization \n \nCrazyLaugh保留拒绝为任何人服务的权利 \nCrazyLaugh reserves the right to refuse service to anyone
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/asian-c-e-o-monthly-english-standup-comedy-showcase-%e7%ba%bd%e7%ba%a6%e8%8b%b1%e6%96%87%e8%84%b1%e5%8f%a3%e7%a7%80/
LOCATION:St. Marks Comedy Club\, 12 St Marks Pl\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
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