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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260319
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SUMMARY:Buddha and Shiva\, Lotus and Dragon
DESCRIPTION:In celebration of Asia Society’s seventieth anniversary\, Asia Society Museum presents Buddha and Shiva\, Lotus and Dragon: Celebrating 70 Years of Asia Society and the Rockefeller Legacy. \nDisplaying seventy of the finest examples of Asian art in the United States drawn from Asia Society’s permanent collection\, the exhibition showcases the extraordinary range of bronzes\, ceramics\, and metalwork thoughtfully assembled between the 1950s and the 1970s by John D. Rockefeller 3rd (1906-1978) and his wife Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller (1909-1992). John D. Rockefeller 3rd founded Asia Society in 1956 with the mission to promote greater knowledge of Asia in the United States; the bequest of the collection to Asia Society in 1979 underscores the Rockefellers’ conviction that an aesthetic encounter with great works of art promotes deep cross-cultural understanding. \nWith highlights including spectacular Buddhist and Hindu sculptures\, and rare Chinese\, Korean\, and Japanese ceramics\, Buddha and Shiva\, Lotus and Dragon celebrates historic achievements in Asian art spanning more than two millennia. The exhibition foregrounds the transformative power of faith and the catalyzing potential of international trade in the creation of great works of art across Asia. \nBuddha and Shiva\, Lotus and Dragon presents a special opportunity for museum visitors to experience the unparalleled quality of the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Thrid Collection at its home at Asia Society Museum in New York City.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/buddha-and-shiva-lotus-and-dragon/
LOCATION:Asia Society\, 725 Park Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10021
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibit
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260328
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261027
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SUMMARY:Japan Fes NYC 2026:  Japanese Food Festival
DESCRIPTION:JAPAN Fes\, one of the city’s most beloved street food events\, is returning to celebrate a major milestone: its 10th anniversary in New York City\, bringing dozens of Japanese food vendors to the streets for a full day of snacking\, sipping and exploring.  Each event typically runs from 10 am to 6 pm and pops up in neighborhoods across Manhattan\, Brooklyn and Queens. \nHere are the 2026 JAPAN Fes dates in NYC: \nMarch 28 in the East Village\nMarch 29 in Midtown West \nApril 4 in the Village\nApril 5 on the Upper West Side\nApril 11 in the East Village\nApril 12 in the East Village\nApril 18 in Morningside Heights\nApril 19 in Chelsea\nApril 25 in Chelsea\nApril 26 in Astoria\nMay\nMay 2 on the Upper East Side\nMay 3 on the Upper West Side\nMay 9 in Chelsea\nMay 24 in the Village\nMay 30 on the Upper East Side\nMay 31 in the East Village\nJune\nJune 6 in the East Village\nJune 7 on the Upper West Side\nJune 14 in the East Village\nJune 21 in Brooklyn\nJune 27 in Times Square\nJune 28 in Astoria\nJuly\nJuly 11 in Chelsea\nJuly 19 in Times Square\nAugust\nAugust 2 on the Upper West Side\nSeptember\nSeptember 12 in Chelsea\nSeptember 13 in Chelsea\nSeptember 19 on the Upper East Side\nSeptember 26 in Morningside Heights\nSeptember 27 on the Upper East Side\nOctober\nOctober 3 in the East Village\nOctober 10 in Astoria\nOctober 24 in the East Village\nOctober 25 on the Upper West Side
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/japan-fes-nyc-2026-japanese-food-festival/
LOCATION:Multiple NYC locations
CATEGORIES:Food,In Person
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260403
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270104
DTSTAMP:20260818T202009Z
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SUMMARY:Shu Lea Cheang\, LOVER LOVE
DESCRIPTION:LOVER LOVE\, a new commission for the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art by Shu Lea Cheang\, begins with a portal. A window is flung open and the gray wall of an apartment block dissolves into a turbulent\, overcast sky\, against which a smoky being is enveloped by a six-winged seraphim—an angel of the highest order. \nThis opening transition is both a gesture to Cheang’s longtime collaborator\, musician Aérea Negrot (1980–2023)\, who died by suicide\, and a marker of an entry into a hybrid space of documentation and imagination. For this film\, presented as a four-channel installation\, Cheang worked with eight intergenerational performers in Tucson\, Arizona\, all of whom contributed their own experiences\, narratives\, and dreams of and for trans and gender nonconforming life in today’s United States. \nThis collaboratively scripted film moves between physical and virtual space: between performances in a motel room\, a junkyard\, and city streets amid surrounding nature\, we can see desert plants blooming anthropomorphic appendages and souls escaping inhuman oppression to take transhuman flight. \nThe gallery’s four screens\, themselves portals to the film’s world\, can be shifted by viewers into and out of the path of each projector. Each movement triggers a segment of Negrot’s 2011 track “It’s Lover\, Love”—a dreamy\, minimalist meditation on the lingering traces of broken promises and vanished love. These aural and physical shifts create new compositions\, morphing the installation into an active landscape in which to navigate agency\, survival\, and intimacy in a time of escalating political precarity.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/shu-lea-cheang-lover-love/
LOCATION:The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art\, 26 Wooster Street\, New York\, NY\, 10013\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260502
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261217
DTSTAMP:20260818T202523Z
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SUMMARY:Bangladesh Not "Bhaangadesh"
DESCRIPTION:This exhibition explores how Bangladeshis in Bangladesh and beyond took actions during the 2024 mass uprisings against the quota system in place\, since 1972\, immediately after the birth of the country in 1971. Featuring articles such as printed international artworks by Bangladeshi artists\, handcrafted tools\, and relevant media\, the exhibition serves as a homage to learn\, reflect\, discuss\, and heal. \nBangladesh\, Not “Bhaangadesh” seeks to raise social (in)justice awareness through showcasing Bangladeshi artistic expression\, and persistent crimes against humanity from the summer of 2024–of government-implemented curfews\, with “shoot-on-sight” commands\, country-wide internet revoked\, houses raids\, innocent lives taken\, and unnecessary arrests made\, etc. After decades of corruption and nepotism\, Bangladeshi students stood up against the unjust quota system of prioritizing government positions rather than basing hiring on skill\, talent\, and merit–for descendants of ancestors prominent in the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/bangladesh-not-bhaangadesh/
LOCATION:King Manor Museum\, 150-03 Jamaica Ave\, Jamaica\, NY\, 11432\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,Art Exhibit
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260514
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270125
DTSTAMP:20260915T010618Z
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SUMMARY:Exhibition: Ed Young’s Bright Worlds
DESCRIPTION:For over 60 years\, Ed Young (1931–2023) invigorated the world of children’s books through intimate storytelling\, inventive artistry\, and potent emotionality. This first U.S. retrospective features original artwork from 15 of his most significant projects—focusing on works drawn from his personal story and Chinese folktales—alongside a selection of his sketchbooks\, family photos\, and personal effects. \nYoung achieved distinction as a beloved storyteller and illustrator who challenged younger audiences with pictorial and moral complexity. He was a towering figure in children’s literature\, reaching wide audiences while earning the field’s top honors. His retelling of the Chinese “Little Red Riding Hood\,” Lon Po Po\, introduced generations of children to Chinese folklore and won the Caldecott Medal; he also received two Caldecott Honors for earlier works. Across his career\, he garnered numerous accolades\, including multiple selections for The New York Times’ “10 Best Illustrated Children’s Books” list. \nThe exhibition traces Young’s family life in Shanghai\, where he was the fourth youngest of five children. As a teenager\, he and his brother were sent to live in Hong Kong to flee the civil war in China. He immigrated to America for college\, eventually earning an art degree from the ArtCenter School in Los Angeles\, and then moved to New York. “I set out with $20 borrowed money in my pocket to bet my life in New York City\,” he wrote. After being laid off from an advertising studio\, he submitted sketches to children’s book publisher Ursula Nordstrom\, who hired him to illustrate The Mean Mouse and Other Mean Stories (1962)\, launching a career that would span over 100 books. \nHis most memorable projects were deeply personal. Ed Young’s Bright Worlds guides viewers through key moments of his life and oeuvre with original artwork from The House Baba Built (2011)\, about his childhood in Japan-occupied Shanghai; Voices of the Heart (1997)\, exploring Chinese culture through the relationship between writing\, image and his lifelong tai chi practice; My Mei Mei (2006)\, on adopting his daughters; and Bright World (2024)\, a book published posthumously in China\, meditating on the cyclical nature of life. \n“So many of us grew up on Ed Young’s art and storytelling\,” said Herb Tam\, MOCA’s Chief Curator. “This exhibition will reveal what went into crafting masterworks of the children’s book form. Visitors will be enchanted by his fluent handling of media—from pastel and cut paper to pen\, ink\, and collage—and inspired by his story as a resourceful immigrant striving to make his mark in a creative field.” \n“As a father of three\, I’ve seen firsthand how children’s books shape the way we see the world\,” said Michael Lee\, MOCA’s President. “The imagery and storytelling stay with us—they become part of our family conversations\, our imaginations\, and even the way we share stories later in life. It’s a special honor to explore the life and mind of Ed Young\, whose work has inspired generations. Through this exhibition\, we not only celebrate his extraordinary achievements but also revisit how deeply his art was shaped by his journey as a Chinese American—reflecting his early life in China and the graceful balance he found as a lifelong practitioner of tai chi.” \nEd Young’s Bright Worlds is part of MOCA’s Luminaries for America250\, a yearlong celebration of Chinese American historymakers at the Semiquincentennial. For more about the Luminaries project\, visit https://www.mocanyc.org/2026/01/02/moca-luminaries-for-america250/ \nPhoto of Ed Young by Sean Kernan
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/exhibition-ed-youngs-bright-worlds/
LOCATION:Museum of Chinese in America\, 215 Centre Street\, New York\, NY\, 10013
CATEGORIES:Art,Book,Grades K–5
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260606
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260928
DTSTAMP:20260605T193304Z
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SUMMARY:Art Exhibit: Shared Lines: Asian American Stories on Route 66
DESCRIPTION:Route 66 might be the U.S.’s most famous highway. Traversing the country from Santa Monica\, CA to Chicago\, IL\, it’s been immortalized in songs\, books\, and movies. But along that iconic highway are stories that are far lesser known. \nWith a grant from the National Trust for Historic Preservation\, illustrator Sammy Yuen set out on a roadtrip to capture those stories. This exhibition — coinciding with Route 66’s 100th anniversary this fall — brings some of them to life. \nLike the stone guardian lions that appeared out of nowhere in Amboy\, CA\, a former ghost town purchased by Japanese American restaurateur and preservationist\, Albert Okura. The water towers in Kingman\, AZ that once supported operations of the railroad built by Chinese laborers. The Chinese American Museum of Chicago\, housed in an erstwhile tofu factory donated by Chinese immigrant and grocery magnate Raymond Lee. \n“This whole journey started with my first exhibition at Pearl River Mart\,” says Sammy. “Showing my new exhibition there brings it back\, full circle. I also like the idea of exploring Asian American communities outside of New York City’s Chinatowns. Beyond Manhattan and Flushing. Sometimes it’s just a strip mall or restaurants spread out in an area. But the stories of the people are often the same.” \nJoin us for the opening reception on June 6. Attendance is free but registration is appreciated. \n\nOn view June 6 through Sept. 27 in the Pearl River Mart gallery at 452 Broadway\nFree and open to the public every day from 11 AM to 7 PM\nLearn more in our interview with Sammy\n\nSpecial thanks to the National Trust for Historic Preservation\, who provided curation for this exhibition. \nThis exhibition is dedicated to Sammy’s father\, Sammy Yuen\, Sr. (1935 to 2026)\, for his unwavering support of the people he loved. \nAbout the Artist\nSammy Yuen is an artist\, illustrator\, designer\, writer\, and martial arts instructor. He is the recipient of multiple grants\, including awards from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council\, the National Trust for Historic Preservation\, and the Asian American Arts Alliance. His work has been exhibited at Pearl River Mart\, the Chinese American Museum of Chicago\, and Google Arts & Culture. He is currently developing a multi-generational picture book inspired by his family’s martial arts legacy. \nWith over 20 years of experience in the publishing industry\, he has created book covers — including more than 35 New York Times bestsellers — as well as marketing and advertising materials\, animated videos\, and social media assets. Across all of his work\, his goal is to tell stories that engage audiences and spark conversation.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/shared-lines-asian-american-stories-on-route-66/
LOCATION:Pearl River Mart Gallery – Soho\, 452 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10013\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,Art Exhibit
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260826
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261019
DTSTAMP:20260911T221336Z
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SUMMARY:Kim Bohie - TOWARDS: There Was Light
DESCRIPTION:“That a still surface can hold yesterday\, today\, tomorrow at once; that here\, there\, and elsewhere can meet in the same moment; that different times and spaces can unfold together on a single\, fixed plane—it still fills me with wonder.” —Kim Bohie\, July 2026 \nGallery Hyundai is pleased to present TOWARDS: There Was Light\, a solo exhibition by Kim Bohie (b. 1952)\, on view from August 26 through October 18. This exhibition marks Kim’s first solo exhibition in Korea since the Days at the Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art in 2022. It also brings her back to Gallery Hyundai for her presentation with the gallery in thirty-eight years\, following The Third Kim Bohie Solo Exhibition in 1988. TOWARDS: There Was Light surveys more than four decades of Kim’s sustained engagement with nature\, focusing on her exploration of light in painting. Featuring approximately thirty works\, the exhibition presents new paintings from the Towards series that depict the garden and sea of Jeju\, flowers\, fruits\, and her dog Leo\, and other landscapes intimately connected to the artist’s daily life alongside the monumental The Days (2022)\, recently shown in the Unlimited sector of Art Basel in Basel earlier this year. \nRather than simply perpetuating the traditions of Korean painting or adopting Western conventions\, Kim has developed a distinctive pictorial language that brings the materials and formal sensibilities of East Asian painting into dialogue with the chromatic fields and expanded scale of modern and contemporary painting. Working on canvas and hanji\, she repeatedly applies mixtures of traditional mineral pigments\, water\, and glue\, allowing color to slowly permeate and accumulate in translucent layers that create a depth particular to her work. Her figurative compositions bring together different experiences of time: the prolonged observation of nature\, the time in which a landscape settles into memory as an inner image\, and its eventual reconstruction. What matters in Kim’s work\, therefore\, is not simply what she depicts\, but how the time and sensations accumulated through looking and remembering re-emerge as landscape. Nature experienced at different moments and in different places converges on a single plane\, where past and present\, near and far\, observed landscape and inner image coexist within the same pictorial space. \nWithin this process\, light serves as both a sensory measure through which Kim perceives nature and a medium through which she registers its ceaseless passage and change. Shifting with the hours of the day and the seasons\, light renders the same garden or sea anew each time\, altering its colors\, contours\, and atmosphere. Kim has long attended to these subtle transformations\, holding them in memory before reconstituting them through her own perception and imagination on the painted surface. Her engagement with light predates her recent paintings of Jeju. As early as the 1970s\, she depicted dawn filtering through a forest and light shimmering across the surface of a river. Across the decades\, her subjects have encompassed deep greens under intense sunlight\, the sea and its horizon\, the waxing and waning moon\, and plants transformed by the seasons—nature continually remade by changing conditions of light. \nThe exhibition title TOWARDS: There Was Light alludes to the moment of creation when light first emerges from darkness and the world begins to take form. It resonates with Kim’s lifelong gratitude and reverence for nature\, while extending beyond spiritual symbolism to describe a fundamental condition of her painting: light enables her to perceive change and time in the natural world and to translate those perceptions into pictorial form. Just as light allows the colors and forms of the world to become visible\, Kim’s paintings begin with sustained attention to nature as it changes from one moment to the next. Her gaze carries within it different seasons and times\, places once encountered\, and innumerable living beings and fleeting moments\, accumulated as layers of memory and sensation. In this sense\, “There Was Light” refers not only to the light by which the world becomes visible\, but also metaphorically to that which summons the artist’s lived and remembered experience into the present tense of painting\, drawing disparate times and spaces into a single pictorial landscape. \nThe title also draws on Towards\, one of Kim’s principal bodies of work. Rather than implying arrival at a fixed destination\, “Towards” describes a way of looking that continually reaches beyond what is immediately present. Life on Jeju has drawn this attention ever closer to the world of her everyday surroundings. Palm trees\, flowers\, fruit\, and seeds from the garden she tends; the sea and horizon she encounters daily; and Leo\, the dog who remained by her side for many years\, have all entered her paintings. A gaze directed toward a single leaf or seed expands to encompass a tree and then the entire garden before opening outward toward the sea and beyond the horizon. Through this movement from part to whole\, from near to far\, minute forms of life and expansive landscapes emerge not as separate subjects but as different dimensions of a shared world. Just as Kim’s gaze moves from seed to garden\, garden to sea\, and from the smallest life before her toward what lies beyond the horizon\, her painting never settles into a single\, definitive landscape\, but continually looks beyond it. \nThe exhibition unfolds across three floors\, following these shifts in vision and transformations of light. On the first floor\, new paintings from the Towards series depict the flowers and plants of Kim’s garden\, her dog Leo\, the sea\, and the setting sun\, tracing a movement from the intimate world of the artist’s immediate surroundings toward more distant vistas. From the vivid colors of plants illuminated by sunlight to skies and seas suffused with the hues of dusk\, familiar places are continually transformed by changing light. On the second floor\, both the distance of Kim’s gaze and the scale of her painting expand. Open views of the sea extending beyond the horizon appear alongside close-up images of palm fronds and fruit\, as well as the monumental The Days (2022)\, first presented at the Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art in 2022 and shown again in the Unlimited sector of Art Basel in Basel earlier this year. The exhibition continues in the basement\, where the vivid chromatic register of daylight gives way to nature transformed by moonlight and the darkness before dawn. The palette contracts into black\, white\, and deep blue\, while mountains\, forests\, and waterways emerge through restrained contours and planes. Moving through the three floors\, viewers encounter the same world appearing and reappearing in different guises\, continually altered by light and time. \nTOWARDS: There Was Light moves beyond the familiar characterization of Kim Bohie as a painter of Jeju landscapes\, recognizing her as a significant figure who has expanded the formal legacy of Korean painting into a distinctly contemporary pictorial language and forged a singular trajectory within modern and contemporary Korean art. Shaped through prolonged observation\, memory\, and repetition\, nature in Kim’s paintings is not a fixed view but a living world that assumes a different appearance with every shift of light and time. Following the artist’s sustained attention to these transformations\, the exhibition reveals how a single\, still plane can hold different times and spaces\, memories and sensations at once. Here\, painting becomes a place from which to look again at the world we think we know and to turn our gaze beyond the visible\, toward worlds not yet seen.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/kim-bohie-towards-there-was-light/
LOCATION:Gallery Hyundai New York Project Space\, 529 W 20th St\, Room 6E\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,Art Exhibit
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260904
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260919
DTSTAMP:20260902T215023Z
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SUMMARY:Temporary Storage
DESCRIPTION:ETA Gallery is pleased to present “Temporary Storage”\, a duo exhibition featuring new works by Mi Chen and Yan Wang. Working through ceramic and language\, both artists create objects that demand to be seen before they are read\, deliberately keeping meaning in suspension. Where Wang stores memory and the absent body\, Chen stores language itself—holding and slowing text before it settles into sense. Together\, they arrive at a shared refusal to resolve\, approaching the concept from distinct directions. \nMi Chen’s practice centers on typography and the structural systems that carry it. In her new works\, punctuation loosens from language to become shape\, rhythm\, furniture\, or a wall to look at rather than through. By intentionally slowing the eye\, Chen keeps text half-visible\, allowing form to precede meaning. Working iteratively across two- and three-dimensional surfaces\, she creates conditions where familiar patterns shift\, break\, or loop—a sustained process of locating herself in relation to what she makes. \nYan Wang addresses what the body leaves behind. In the exhibition space\, porcelain pillows rest in a dim circle accompanied by a low-humming recording\, framing history not as surviving names\, but as the bodies that dreamed and vanished. Across ink\, paper\, and clay\, Wang’s objects carry the thickness of time\, the debris of a hometown\, and the ghost of a head on a pillow. She works toward release rather than a definitive statement\, offering an invitation to dream together rather than inherit a singular narrative. \n“Temporary Storage” highlights what an object can sustain without resolving: forms that simultaneously hold presence and loss\, store what cannot be surrendered\, and remain open as long as they are observed. \nOpening Reception September 4\, 2026 6–8 PM
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/temporary-storage/
LOCATION:Chinese American Arts Council / Gallery 456\, 456 Broadway\, 3rd Floor\, New York\, NY\, 10013\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,Art Exhibit
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260906
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260928
DTSTAMP:20260903T032659Z
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SUMMARY:Khudi Food Pop-Ups
DESCRIPTION:Khudi and Kaafi by Chaiguys host weekly Sunday pop-ups every Sunday in September on Ludlow Street\, featuring freshly baked Pakistani-inspired cookies and savory scrolls with new flavors dropping each week. \nDates: 9/6\, 9/13\, 9/20\, 9/27\nTime: 1:00 to 4:00 PM every Sunday
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/khudi-food-pop-ups/
LOCATION:Kaafi by Chaiguys\, 109 Ludlow St.\, New York\, NY\, 10002\, United States
CATEGORIES:Food
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260909
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260917
DTSTAMP:20260820T153540Z
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SUMMARY:Christine Choy Retrospective
DESCRIPTION:Third World Newsreel (TWN) presents a major fall retrospective honoring Christine Choy\, co-founder of Third World Newsreel and an iconic figure in Asian American documentary. For over five decades\, Choy trained her camera on the people the official record overlooked: Chinatown’s garment workers and tenants\, incarcerated women\, Southeast Asian refugees\, families separated between North and South Korea\, and communities across the Mississippi Delta. The retrospective brings nine of her works (including newly preserved films) to the big screen\, continuing TWN’s “Preservation as Resistance” campaign which began with A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde that kicked off the year. The campaign demonstrates the importance of archival preservation during a time of systematic erasure. \nScreenings began in July\, via MoMA’s “Immigrant Nation” series\, and a tribute at the Asian American International Film Festival\, presented by Asian CineVision at the Asia Society on August 2. The retrospective runs September 9-13 at Anthology Film Archives and September 13-16 at DCTV’s Firehouse Cinema\, with additional venues to be announced as the program builds toward international distribution. \nSince Choy’s death in December 2025\, PBS’s POV has called her “a fearless storyteller and pioneering voice in Asian American cinema\,” and NYU Tisch Dean Rubén Polendo remembered her as “a triumphant force in documentary filmmaking.” JT Takagi\, Choy’s longtime collaborator and Executive Director of Third World Newsreel (TWN)\, said: “Christine helped build Third World Newsreel into a home for the stories the mainstream wouldn’t touch. Her work helped form our Asian American and American film history\, and her films have urgent things to say amid today’s anti-immigrant sentiment. Bringing them back to the screen is how we sustain her legacy of honest\, impactful storytelling about the communities the record overlooked.” In addition to her work at TWN\, Choy also co-founded Asian CineVision in 1975\, taught at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts\, earned an Academy Award nomination for Who Killed Vincent Chin?\, a Peabody Award\, and was inducted into the Library of Congress National Film Registry. The nine films in the retrospective span nearly two decades of Choy’s filmmaking\, they include: \nTeach Our Children (1972): A landmark of movement cinema\, Choy’s first film\, co-directed with Susan Robeson\, documents the 1971 Attica prison uprising from the point of view of the incarcerated rebels. Preserved thanks to the efforts of UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive\, MIAP alumna Pamela Jean Smith and Cinemalab. \nFrom Spikes to Spindles (1976): An early chronicle of New York Chinatown’s history and burgeoning activism. The film interweaves the history of Chinese immigration and racial oppression with the community’s efforts to organize. Preserved by BB Optics\, Inc with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF). \nInside Women Inside (1978): Through firsthand accounts from incarcerated women in New York and North Carolina\, the film offers an early and unflinching look inside U.S. women’s prisons. Preserved with support from NYWIFT Women’s Film Preservation Fund. \nTo Love\, Honor & Obey (1980): The film examines domestic violence across class and ethnic lines through the voices of survivors and the counselors who work with them. \nBittersweet Survival (1982): Co-directed with JT Takagi\, the film portrays Southeast Asian refugee resettlement in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. \nFei Tien: Goddess in Flight (1983): Adapted from Genny Lim’s play\, this fiction short traces an intergenerational friendship in New York Chinatown. \nMississippi Triangle (1984): Preserved in 2025\, the film portrays Black\, Chinese\, and white life in the Mississippi Delta through footage shot by three separate crews\, each representing the specific POV of the three respective communities portrayed. Preserved by BB Optics\, Inc. with the support of the National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF) and the New York Women in Film & Television’s Women’s Film Preservation Fund (WFPF). \nNamibia: Independence Now! (1985): Co-directed with Pearl Bowser\, the film documents Namibia’s anti-apartheid liberation struggle from exile. \nHomes Apart: Korea (1991): Made with JT Takagi\, the first U.S. project permitted to film in both North and South Korea\, it focuses on the 10 million family members separated by the DMZ. As tensions rise now in Asia\, the human cost of the still unresolved Korean War resonates. \nThe communities struggling for justice in Choy’s films\, from immigrants and refugees to incarcerated people\, offer crucial perspectives on historical movements whose struggles persist today. Themes of jingoism and exclusion remain woefully apt amidst elevated levels of anti-Asian hate crimes and intense militarized immigration policy. \nFor TWN\, preservation extends past the archive: the preserved films get projected now\, and audiences and partners carry them forward into classrooms and future bookings. Keeping Choy’s work in circulation continues the conversations her films began. \nThe Christine Choy Retrospective will launch with two newly preserved films\, “From Spikes to Spindles\,” preserved by BB Optics\, Inc. with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF) and the New York Women in Film & Television’s Women’s Film Preservation Fund (WFPF) and “Mississippi Triangle\,” preserved by BB Optics\, Inc with support from NFPF. Third World Newsreel’s archiving and preservation projects receive partial support from the New York State Council on the Arts’ Small Capital Improvement Grant for Arts and Culture. Lunette is co-presenting this retrospective with Third World Newsreel.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/christine-choy-retrospective/
LOCATION:Multiple venues
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261110T220000
DTSTAMP:20260514T131339Z
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SUMMARY:Ma-Yi Theatre Free FALL Playwriting Workshop with Lisa Sanaye Dring
DESCRIPTION:Ma-Yi Theatre Free FALL Playwriting Workshop with Lisa Sanaye Dring\n\n\nDue to the overwhelming response to our summer Free Playwriting Workshop\, Ma-Yi Theater Company is thrilled to announce two additional FREE playwriting workshops in Fall 2026\, taught by award-winning playwright Lisa Sanaye Dring\, author of SUMO and HAPPY FALL. \nCreated for Filipino American and AANHPI aspiring writers\, these workshops are open to writers who are ready to begin\, grow\, experiment\, or finally say: Yes. I’m writing the play. \nBoth classes are completely FREE and will offer participants a supportive\, rigorous\, and energizing space to explore the fundamentals of playwriting\, including character\, dialogue\, action\, structure\, theme\, and theatrical style. Through writing prompts\, discussion\, readings\, and feedback\, participants will generate new pages and develop their voices in community with fellow writers. \nThe first six sessions will meet online\, making the workshop accessible for working adults and busy schedules. The workshop will then culminate in an in-person showcase presentation\, where participants’ work will be brought to life by professional actors and directors. \nThis is more than a class. It is a chance to write\, dream\, build\, revise\, and hear your words leap off the page. \nFree. Online. Fun. Limited slots available. Register early. \nMondays 7pm-10pm – September 21 – November 9 \nor \nTuesdays 7pm-10pm – September 22 – November 10 \nFor more information: info@ma-yitheatre.org \nSpace is limited— signing up does not guarantee entry into class.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/ma-yi-theatre-free-fall-playwriting-workshop-with-lisa-sanaye-dring/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Hybrid,In Person,Theater,Virtual,Writing
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260910
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261025
DTSTAMP:20260911T215654Z
CREATED:20260911T215539Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260911T215654Z
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SUMMARY:Maia Ruth Lee: Double Vision
DESCRIPTION:Tina Kim Gallery is pleased to present Double Vision\, Maia Ruth Lee’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. \nInterrogating migration as simultaneous perception\, Lee conditions identity within multiple histories\, temporalities\, and systems of knowledge. Lee’s exhibition takes its title from Homi K. Bhabha’s The Location of Culture. The migrant’s double vision simultaneously inhabits both the place left behind and the place occupied as the condition for a complete understanding of the migrant’s life. Double vision becomes both a metaphor and a new way of working memory as material. Across both gallery spaces\, Lee’s work expands and contracts image and sculpture\, memory and record. Forms stack\, unfold\, mirror\, and reassemble\, building identity as a continuous accumulation\, complicating the narrative of migration as one fixed point of origin. \nAnchoring the exhibition is a series of new paintings from Lee’s Bondage Baggage methodology. The suitcase is a generative metaphor where luggage becomes more than functional objects of transport. They are vessels where memory\, absence\, expectation\, and aspiration collide. \nLee’s double vision manifests as a physical experience\, with every form existing alongside another version of itself. New sculptures with latex layers preserve the form and surface imprint of the bound bundle after its contents are released. Video stills of the artist’s family are sewn onto the expandable 이민가방’s colossal luggage form. A newly commissioned video installation draws from Lee’s family archive\, incorporating home footage recorded by her parents in Nepal and Korea. \nDeeply rooted in the distinct architectural and visual language of New York City\, Lee revisits her steel glyphs from 2019–salvaged architectural fragments from the city. The assemblages occupy the space between word and sculpture\, an open-ended code that remains vaguely familiar\, yet stubbornly illegible. \nDouble Vision proposes history as a layered\, omnidirectional\, and omnitemporal experience even as it remains tethered to earthly forms. Mirrors\, suitcases\, sculptures\, textiles\, salvaged objects\, and paintings are sites of doubled perception. Memory folds into itself\, and the boundaries between past and present remain deliberately unresolved. Lee’s practice comprises an ever-expanding archive in a constant state of assembly\, stacking\, transporting\, translating\, and seeing. \nAbout the artist \nMaia Ruth Lee (b. 1983\, Busan; lives and works in San Francisco) has held solo exhibitions at Primary Nottingham (UK)\, Institute of Fine Arts\, New York University (NY)\, The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (CO)\, François Ghebaly Gallery (LA)\, and Mai 36 Galerie (CH). Lee has participated in numerous group exhibitions at institutions including Santa Barbara Museum of Art and Aspen Art Museum\, as well as the Sky High Farm Biennial 2025 (NY); Prospect 6.\, New Orleans; and the 2019 Whitney Biennial. Lee received a BFA from Hongik University and attended the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver\, Canada\, and is currently enrolled in a Masters in Migration Studies program at the University of San Francisco. Lee was the recipient of the Gold Art Prize in 2021 and the Rema Hort Mann grant in 2017. Her work is held in the permanent collections at the Whitney Museum of American Art\, Philadelphia Museum of Art\, and Syracuse University Art Museum.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/maia-ruth-lee-double-vision/
LOCATION:Tina Kim Gallery\, 525 W 21st St.\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,Art Exhibit
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260910
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261129
DTSTAMP:20260911T220300Z
CREATED:20260911T220300Z
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SUMMARY:John Pai - Meditation: Myth and Memory
DESCRIPTION:Gallery Hyundai is pleased to present “Meditation: Myth and Memory”\, an exhibition of Korean American sculptor John Pai\, a major force in the Korean American diaspora of the last half-century. The opening reception takes place on Thursday September 10\, 6-8pm at Gallery Hyundai New York Project Space. \nThis exhibition seeks to provide a space for meditation where myth and memory\, as in Pai’s world\, could be considered as companions—at times synchronous\, and at times on their own path\, but never stagnant. Centering around his two major series Heaven and Earth (2024) and Entropy’s Sirens (1997) trio\, it marks the first occasion the trio is presented as a group including two previously unseen pieces\, also accompanied by a selection of sculptures and drawings. \nNotably in the Heaven and Earth series\, a single point becomes a line\, then a form\, and appears to trail off to gesture to the space around it\, going past the artist’s agency and into another realm. This work manifests Pai’s guiding ethos\, where the artist’s mind (and the memories and ideas contained within the artist) inform his beginning but the work ultimately develops in conversation with the material and work’s own response. This conversational and improvisational method demonstrates Pai’s understanding that memories are not stable but shift with the everchanging present\, sometimes appearing closer to myth rather than reality. Completed when Pai was eighty-seven years old\, this grouping of sculptures reveal an artist in his maturity who still remains playful and deeply curious. \nPai is gaining heightened recognition for his indisputable contributions to sculpting with steel as well as his groundbreaking pedagogical methods since becoming the youngest appointed professor at Pratt Institute in 1965\, eventually becoming the director of fine art\, then chairman of the sculpture department\, a post he remained in for thirty-seven years. Referred to as “drawing in space\,” his signature use of numerous thin\, short steel rods with a hand-held welding tool reflected Pai’s active engagements with burgeoning movements in postwar New York such as the American Bauhaus and Neo-Avant-Garde. Pai’s sculptures are born out of a dynamic field of inquiry\, unbridled by discipline\, such as topology\, physics\, phenomenology\, and musical processes of improvisation. Following his major retrospective exhibition held in April 2024 at the Korean Cultural Center in New York called John Pai: Eternal Moment and his solo exhibition Shared Destinies at Gallery Hyundai in Seoul later that year\, this presentation is an opportunity for closer examination of Pai’s guiding ethos; a process of intimate surrender\, both with materials\, as well as his relationship to the world.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/john-pai-meditation-myth-and-memory/
LOCATION:Gallery Hyundai New York Project Space\, 529 W 20th St\, Room 6E\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,Art Exhibit
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260910
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270104
DTSTAMP:20260818T214831Z
CREATED:20260818T214831Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260818T214831Z
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SUMMARY:Celebrating Sixty Years of China Institute Gallery: 1966-2026
DESCRIPTION:Founded in 1966\, the China Institute Gallery has presented the history of Chinese art from antiquity to the present through superb and thought-provoking exhibitions. The masterworks featured in Celebrating Sixty Years of China Institute Gallery: 1966-2026 exemplify what has made the Institute’s exhibitions groundbreaking. From presentations of exquisite jades and bronze vessels\, to the symbolism of old trees\, to Chinese ceramics\, calligraphy\, and architecture—China Institute’s displays have consistently illuminated pathways to a deeper understanding of the culture of China.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/celebrating-sixty-years-of-china-institute-gallery-1966-2026/
LOCATION:China Institute Gallery\, 100 Washington Street\, New York\, NY\, 10006\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,Art Exhibit
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260911
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260928
DTSTAMP:20260913T140004Z
CREATED:20260913T122525Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260913T140004Z
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SUMMARY:Guest House: Welcome Home
DESCRIPTION:Portraiture is as old as the pharaohs of Egypt. While mediums such as drawing\, painting\, and photography dominate the practice\, rendering a three-dimensional likeness yielded astounding work across centuries\, from the chiseled marble of the Renaissance to Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s sensuous sculptures. Unlike marble\, stone\, or bronze\, wax possesses a luminosity that makes it ideal for human approximation. In the last century\, the art of the wax figure has evolved from commercial spectacle into a medium for serious artistic exploration. \nBased in Zhongshan\, China\, and with three decades of experience\, the artist Zhou Xuerong has created more than 900 wax figures through her studio Grand Orient Wax Art. In her first U.S. exhibition\, Guest House: Welcome Home\, she depicts human figures\, each a work of original artistic interpretation\, engaged in six rituals that shape Asian life. With a nod to American photographer Gregory Crewdson’s staged tableaux exploring the ennui of suburban life\, Zhou zooms in and situates her protagonists in common domestic scenes: sipping tea\, practicing calligraphy\, inserting acupuncture needles\, cooking with a wok\, sharing a meal\, and playing the erhu\, a two-stringed fiddle. \nEach figure is dressed in a qipao\, a historical silhouette that originated as loose-fitting military gowns worn by nobles during the Qing Dynasty. At the turn of the 20th century\, Shanghai became a center of international trade\, influencing local tailors to draw on Western design to nip the qipao’s waistline\, narrow its skirt\, and lengthen its side slit. Today\, the dress’s form is a fixture in both Eastern and Western fashion. \nThe figures’ faces evoke familiar presences — cultural icons reimagined and transplanted into a room where their identity dissolves into ambiguity\, fluctuating between the everyday and the uncanny. They sit at a tea table\, lift a calligraphy brush\, pluck at a classical instrument\, and together pose a critical question at the heart of the artist’s commentary: what happens when one culture’s icons are transposed into the traditions of another? \nZhou’s quiet interiority of place and person is an inheritance made visible — for insiders\, a mirror; for outsiders\, a window. We must consider how Chinese culture\, once mocked and derided\, has traveled\, and now shapes a global imagination. Above all\, Guest House: Welcome Home is a cultural bridge. Zhou illuminates connection through an emotive stillness: a turned wrist\, a pursed lip\, a downward gaze. Her wax guests partake in ritual as a form of welcome and practice as a gesture of love. \nGuest House: Welcome Home is an original work of fine art and cultural commentary by Zhou Xuerong. The exhibition is not sponsored by\, affiliated with\, or endorsed by any individual to whom the sculptures may bear a resemblance. \nDates: Sep 11 2026 to Sep 27 2026\nTimes: 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/guest-house-welcome-home/
LOCATION:The Wang Contemporary\, 58 Bowery\, New York\, NY\, 10013\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260911
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260918
DTSTAMP:20260818T232749Z
CREATED:20260818T231907Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260818T232749Z
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SUMMARY:Masaki Kobayashi’s KWAIDAN
DESCRIPTION:Japan\, 1964\nDirected by Masaki Kobayashi\nBased on a collection of folktales by Lafcadio Hearn\nStarring Tatsuya Nakadai\, Rentarô Mikuni\, Michiyo Aratama\, Misako Watanabe\nApprox. 183 min. \nRentarô Mikuni finds a skeleton at the feast when he adds a second wife; woodcutter Tatsuya Nakadai meets a strange woman in the snow; a blind biwa player gives a command performance for a spirit; an apparition appears in a cup of tea: four ghost stories by expat Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904). Kobayashi’s first color film\, with an eerie score.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/masaki-kobayashis-kwaidan/
LOCATION:Film Forum\, 209 W. Houston St.\, New York\, NY\, 10014\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260911
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261122
DTSTAMP:20260902T215808Z
CREATED:20260902T215710Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260902T215808Z
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SUMMARY:Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings
DESCRIPTION:Artists Space presents “Multiple Offerings”\, the first retrospective in twenty-five years dedicated to the groundbreaking work of the artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. She produced an expansive range of works comprising performances for film and video\, installation\, photography\, artist’s books (including her genre-defying book Dictée from 1982)\, and works on paper\, which will fill Artists Space’s entire first floor. In her lifetime\, Cha contributed to experimental art scenes in New York City\, San Francisco\, Paris\, and beyond. Her work has had a quietly profound influence on subsequent generations of artists. \nAfter emigrating from South Korea to the United States\, Cha enrolled at UC Berkeley in 1969\, where she studied art practice\, comparative literature\, and film. Keenly attuned to the active role that audiences play in the creation of meaning\, she prioritized nonlinear narratives to allow for more open-ended forms of interpretation—what she termed a method of “Multiple Telling with Multiple Offering.” This retrospective adopts her framework to allow for a range of entry points into the work\, guiding visitors through the themes—memory\, displacement\, and the mutability of language\, among others—that recur in Cha’s oeuvre. \nCha moved to New York City in 1980\, where she supported herself with several jobs while pursuing her artistic career. She worked as an administrative assistant in the European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, taught video art at Elizabeth Seton College in Yonkers\, and served as an editor at Tanam Press\, a publishing imprint dedicated to artists’ books that was founded by her friend and collaborator Reese Williams. \nOn November 5\, 1982\, Cha’s short but prolific career came to an end when she was murdered just weeks before her planned exhibition at Artists Space. At the time of her death\, Cha was producing a new photographic series inspired by her time working at the Met. Multiple Offerings presents that unfinished series of black-and-white prints alongside nearly one hundred artworks and archival materials from across her career\, highlighting the inventive\, playful\, and meditative methods of Cha’s practice.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/theresa-hak-kyung-cha-multiple-offerings/
LOCATION:Artists Space\, 11 Cortlandt Alley\, New York\, NY\, 10013\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,Art Exhibit
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260914
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270511
DTSTAMP:20260819T023556Z
CREATED:20260819T023258Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260819T023556Z
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SUMMARY:Teaching Asian American and Pacific Islander Histories Webinar Series
DESCRIPTION:As a valued friend of Foundations and Futures\, we cordially invite you to a free webinar series co-sponsored by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center\, UCLA Center X\, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT)\, and the National Education Association (NEA). The Teaching Asian American and Pacific Islander Histories Webinar Series will take place once a month on Mondays throughout the school year and will highlight chapters from the Foundations and Futures Multimedia Textbook. \nEach webinar session will take place via zoom on a Monday from 4:00-5:30 PM Pacific Time. \nSales end on Sep 14\, 2026 \nWebinar Schedule: \n\nSeptember 14\, 2026: We Are Here Because You Were There: Race\, Colonialism\, and Migration\nOctober 19\, 2026: Kānaka ʻŌiwi: Indigenous Hawaiian Identity\, Culture\, and Rebirth of the Sacred\nNovember 9\, 2026: Asian American Popular Culture: Representation\, Propaganda\, and the Media\nJanuary 11\, 2027: Asian American Exclusion: Aliens Ineligible to Citizenship\nFebruary 8\, 2027: Asian Americans in the US South: Labor\, Civil Rights\, and Identity\nMarch 8\, 2027: South Asian Americans before 1965: Stories of Perseverance\, Activism\, and Cultural Exchange\nApril 12\, 2027: Vietnamese American Experiences: Learning From Refugee Experiences\nMay 10\, 2027: Youth Organizing: Building Multiracial Solidarities\n\nSessions will feature a special guest presentation from one of the chapter authors. Two teachers will then present lesson plans and examples of use in their classrooms. \nYou can register for a webinar at this link: bit.ly/TeachingAAPI. On the Eventbrite link\, click “Check Availability” and select a session date and time. A pop-up with all the webinar sessions will appear and you can select all the sessions you would like to attend. You will receive a follow-up email with the Zoom link for each upcoming session.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/teaching-asian-american-and-pacific-islander-histories-webinar-series/
LOCATION:
CATEGORIES:Education,History
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260915
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260919
DTSTAMP:20260911T210429Z
CREATED:20260911T210427Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260911T210429Z
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SUMMARY:National Voter Registration Day
DESCRIPTION:It’s approaching that time of the year once again; National Voter Registration Day is almost here! \nThis year\, National Voter Registration Day falls on Tuesday\, September 15\, 2026. Join APA VOICE this week across NYC for 5 local community events to:\n✅ Register to vote\n✅ Check your voter status\n✅ Make your voting plan for the general election! \n🍿 Free goodies + resources at each event — come through\, bring a friend\, and get election ready 💪 \nTUESDAY SEPTEMBER 15\, 2026:\n📍Bronx Community College\n10AM – 1PM\n2155 University Ave\, Bronx\, NY 10453 \n📍Flushing YMCA\n10AM – 1PM\n138-46 Northern Boulevard\, Flushing\, NY 11354 \n📍Sunset Park\n3PM – 6PM\n6th Avenue &\, 44th St\, Brooklyn\, NY 11232 \n📍Patel Brothers\n5PM – 7:30PM\n37-27 74th St.\, Jackson Heights\, NY 11372 \nFRIDAY\, SEPTEMBER 18\, 2026\n📍Southern District Courthouse\n10:30AM – 12:30PM\n500 Pearl St\, New York\, NY 10007\, USA \nJoin us and #GetOutTheVote !
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/national-voter-registration-day/
LOCATION:Multiple NYC locations
CATEGORIES:Voting
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260916
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260920
DTSTAMP:20260903T054228Z
CREATED:20260902T220413Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260903T054228Z
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SUMMARY:Mom and I Go To The Temple
DESCRIPTION:Mom and I Go To The Temple — a one-man show by Michael Tay \n“Mom said we were just taking a simple trip to a temple hidden in the mountains of Malaysia.”\n“What she failed to mention was that this “temple” wasn’t quite what it seemed. As the journey grew stranger\, it became increasingly clear that mom knew far more than she was letting on – and that this wasn’t going to be a simple day of prayer.“\n“Based on a true story\, this is the tale of the most terrifying trip I’ve ever taken with my mother… and the reason I now ask a lot more questions before getting into the car.” \nContent Warning: suggestion of self harm \nFour nights only at The Tank (312 W 36th St)\, Sep 16-19\, 2026\, 9:30 PM\nTickets $20/$30/$40 in the intimate 56-seat theatre. \nBuy tickets → https://tickets.thetanknyc.org/EventAvailability?EventId=155801 \nAbout Michael:\nMichael Tay is a New York-based veteran screenwriter\, now making his NYC theater debut. A Columbia University MFA graduate in Screenwriting and Sundance alum\, his short film “Wet Season” screened at Sundance and won the Special Jury Prize at the Singapore International Film Festival and the Linda Mabalot New Visions Award. His TV writing was a finalist at the New York Festivals TV & Film Awards\, and his feature screenplay The Damned was optioned and presented at the 2024 Cannes Film Market. Before relocating to New York\, he wrote for Singapore television. Mom and I Go to the Temple is his first time stepping into the spotlight himself – and bringing his mother along for the ride. \nMichael Tay (performer + writer) | Eunice Lau (Director) | Augustus Loi (Producer)
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/mom-and-i-go-to-the-temple/
LOCATION:The Tank Theatre\, 312 W. 36 Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Theater
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260916
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260927
DTSTAMP:20260818T215029Z
CREATED:20260805T044221Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260818T215029Z
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SUMMARY:The Cherry Orchard
DESCRIPTION:Considered one of the great plays of the modern era\, Anton Chekhov’s final play about a family on the edge of ruin is radically reimagined by acclaimed director and dramatist Simon Stone\, who returns to the Armory following his blistering Obie-Award winning take on Federico García Lorca’s Yerma (2018). His refreshing adaptation resets the action from Russia to a rapidly transforming modern-day Seoul\, South Korea\, where the original noble siblings are now corporate heirs struggling to adapt to a world that has moved on without them\, suffocated by a rising middle class and wealthy self-made entrepreneurs. Caught between the past and the present\, hope and despair\, tradition and innovation\, the chaebol family is forced to grapple with the inevitable forces of change. \nJeon Do-yeon is well-known for her roles in You Are My Sunshine (2005) and Secret Sunshine (2007)\, for which she was awarded Best Actress at the 60th Cannes Film Festival and making her the first Korean actor to receive such recognition. The talented actress stars alongside Emmy-nominated actor Park Hae-soo of worldwide Squid Game fame as well as a stellar all-Korean ensemble cast in spontaneous\, immediate performances. Equal parts tragedy and comedy\, the story unfolds on a masterfully designed set by celebrated architectural designer Saul Kim that features a modern\, transparent glass house allowing audiences a voyeuristic peek into the characters’ private lives. An intimate\, bittersweet portrait that is deeply South Korean and yet universally moving\, this must-see reinterpretation is a timely reflection of loss\, change\, and social transformation. \nTickets start at $45 (including fees) \n🎟️ Special Offer for KCCNY followers!\n✨ Save 10% on tickets for all performances\n🎫 Use promo code: CHERRYKCCNY\n⏰ Offer valid through 11:59 PM (ET) on August 21\, 2026. Standard ticketing fees apply. \n🗣️ Performed in Korean with English captions. \nPhoto credit: Studio AL\, LG Arts Center
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/the-cherry-orchard/
LOCATION:Park Avenue Armory\, 643 Park Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10065\, United States
CATEGORIES:In Person,Theater
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SUMMARY:Tom Yum Week
DESCRIPTION:Something’s bubbling across New York 🌶️ \nTOM YUM WEEK\nSeptember 16–30\, 2026 \nA city-wide creative fest transforming Thai restaurants into creative spaces. Artists and creatives respond to special dishes\, signature food\, and drinks – creating multisensory experiences that go beyond the plate. \nEach collaboration takes a different form. \nSome live on the plate.\nSome on the wall.\nSome on a screen.\nSomewhere in between. \nOur first edition explores the theme YUM YUM YUM – inspired by the Thai idea of yum: to mix\, toss things around\, and somehow\, it usually comes together. \nYou can eat it.\nBut you might also watch it\, hear it\, read it\, or scan it. \nDifferent spots. Different mixes. One city-wide experiment. \n@charoenkrung_nyc\n@dockasianeatery\n@gigicurryandnoodlebar\n@godunknyc\n@katithaicuisinenyc\n@kru.bk\n@lalyn.nyc\n@luckybybar\n@narkaranyc\n@salathainyc\n@samyan.nyc\n@saolea.nyc\n@seathai_nyc\n@skyice_nyc\n@thaipavilion_nyc\n@vallatable\n@zabbputawn \nSeptember 16–30
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/tom-yum-week/
LOCATION:Multiple NYC locations
CATEGORIES:Food,Thai
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260916T180000
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SUMMARY:Blasian March Fundraiser
DESCRIPTION:Blasian March offers its first ever drag show! \nWe are fundraising for our upcoming book fair in Cleveland\, OH! Raffle prizes and line up to be announced! \nThe event is FREE with a suggested donation of $15. \nIt all goes down 6-10 PM at The Crown on 50 Bowery\, New York NY 10013. \nThe Blasian March Drag Show is made possible through our partners @naaraknyc and our fiscal sponsor @pifilmfestnyc
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/blasian-march-fundraiser/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Fundraiser
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260916T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260916T193000
DTSTAMP:20260806T011954Z
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SUMMARY:Technology and Storytelling: Ken Liu and The Passing of the Dragon
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a thought provoking evening with multi-award-winning speculative fiction author Ken Liu\, for the release of his new collection\, The Passing of the Dragon and Other Stories — which includes the provocative title story on why misinterpretations are impossible to avoid in art. \nRenowned for his genre-defining “silkpunk” epics and deeply moving short fiction like The Paper Menagerie\, Liu returns with thirteen new tales exploring what it means to be human in a world shaped by rapidly shifting technology. \nTickets: $20 Members\, $30 Nonmembers. Students and Seniors: Use coupon SENSTU at check out. \n\nThe Passing of the Dragon and Other Stories will be available for sale during the event. \n\nSpeakers\nKen Liu is an award-winning American author of speculative fiction. His collection\, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories\, has been published in more than a dozen languages. Liu’s other works include The Grace of Kings\, The Wall of Storms\, The Veiled Throne\, a second collection The Hidden Girl and Other Stories\, and the forthcoming Julia Z series. He has been involved in multiple media adaptations of his work\, including the short story “Good Hunting\,” adapted as an episode in Netflix’s animated series Love\, Death + Robots; and AMC’s Pantheon\, adapted from an interconnected series of short stories. “The Hidden Girl\,” “The Message\,” and “The Oracle” have also been optioned for development. Liu previously worked as a software engineer\, corporate lawyer\, and litigation consultant. He frequently speaks at conferences and universities on topics including futurism\, machine-augmented creativity\, the history of technology\, and the value of storytelling. Liu lives with his family near Boston\, Massachusetts. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlex Shvartsman (moderator) is the author of The Best of All Possible Planets (2026)\, Kakistocracy (2023)\, The Middling Affliction (2022)\, and Eridani’s Crown (2019). Over 150 of his stories and his translations from Russian have appeared in Analog\, Asimov’s Clarkesworld\, F&SF\, Nature\, Reactor\, Strange Horizons\, and several Year’s Best volumes. He won the WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction\, and was a three-time finalist for each the Canopus Award for Excellence in Interstellar Fiction and the BSFA Award. For a brief\, glorious moment one of his stories was in development as a live action TV series. He has edited nearly twenty anthologies\, including the long-running Unidentified Funny Objects series\, as well as The Digital Aesthete\, The Cackle of Cthulhu\, Humanity 2.0 and many more.. He has worked on many games and is presently the Narrative Director for Card Advantage Games\, working on the Reclusion video game.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/technology-and-storytelling-ken-liu-and-the-passing-of-the-dragon/
LOCATION:Asia Society\, 725 Park Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10021
CATEGORIES:Author Interview,Book,Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260916T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260916T203000
DTSTAMP:20260827T234549Z
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SUMMARY:Traces of Home Q&A Screening
DESCRIPTION:TRACES OF HOME opens in New York City on September 16 with a special Q&A screening featuring executive producers Melissa Barrera and Dena Takruri and director Colette Ghunim ❤️ \nIn her (DOC NYC Grand Jury Prize) award-winning debut feature film Traces of Home\, filmmaker Colette Ghunim embarks on journeys with her parents to find the ancestral houses they were forced to flee as children in Mexico and Palestine. Colette’s initial desire to heal her disconnect from her cultures and her parents reveals an internal quest to discover home within herself.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/traces-of-home-qa-screening/
LOCATION:Angelika Film Center\, 18 West Houston St\, New York\, NY\, 10012\, United States
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film
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