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SUMMARY:Talking Taiwan 2026 Fundraising Gala
DESCRIPTION:The theme of this year’s Talking Taiwan Gala is Celebrating Taiwanese Women in Music with the musical talents of:  \n\nZen Micheline Hung\, age 15 (Piano Prodigy\, Composer\, and Animal Activist)\, who started playing piano at three\, and earned her first honor at age six. When she was in the sixth grade her piano playing was featured in the song of a major recording artist. \nPaige Su (Harpist\, Singer & Composer)\, whose artistry defies categories. Her work has earned major recognition at the Golden Melody Awards and Golden Indie Music Awards in Taiwan. \nWen-Ting Wu (Drummer & Percussionist) known for her versatility and emotive expression. She has performed at prestigious venues like Jazz at Lincoln Center\, Smoke Jazz Club\, The Met Museum and Smalls Jazz Club.\n\n\nThere will also be an opening performance by the Rico Jones Trio. Jones is a six-time Downbeat Magazine Award winning tenor saxophonist and composer.\n \nOur emcee\, the hilarious and talented Vickie Wang (王宇平)\, will bring her signature wit and energy to guide us through the evening. Her monthly stand-up show Wang’s World Comedy takes place at Comedy Village in Times Square every second Thursday of the month. \n3 TICKETING TYPES: \n1) Full Talking Taiwan Experience [INCLUDES: Talking Taiwan Podcast Experience LIVE!\, Live Band Karaoke\, dinner & beverages + After Party at the Talking Taiwan Studio] \n2) Late Admission @ 6:4Opm Ticket [INCLUDES: Second Talking Taiwan Podcast Experience LIVE!\,  Live Band Karaoke\, beverages + After Party at the Talking Taiwan Studio **NOTE: Dinner is NOT Included] \n3) After Party @ 8:30pm Ticket [Held at the Talking Taiwan Studio\, INCLUDES: Live Band Karaoke\, beverages\, light snacks] NOTE: This ticket does NOT ALLOW ADMITTANCE to the Talking Taiwan Gala \nSCHEDULE OF EVENTS: \n5:00 pm Opening Jazz Set \n5:30 pm Opening and Greetings from the Talking Taiwan Team (Felicia Lin & Kaju Roberto) \n5:45 pm Talking Taiwan Podcast LIVE Interviews with Wen-Ting Wu\, Zen Micheline Hung + Musical Performances \n6:15 pm LIVE Band Karaoke Set 1 and Dinner begins \n6:40 pm Doors Open for Late Admission Ticket Holders \n6:45 pm Talking Taiwan Podcast LIVE Interview with Paige Su + Musical Performance \n7:15pm LIVE Band Karaoke Set 2 \n7:45 pm Raffle & Announcements \nThe Fun Continues at the After Party! \n8:30 pm After Party as LIVE Band Karaoke Continues at the Talking Taiwan Studio \nATTIRE: Elegant & Stylish
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/talking-taiwan-2026-fundraising-gala/
LOCATION:Eichholtz Manhattan\, 155 West 18 Street\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
CATEGORIES:Gala,Music
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SUMMARY:Emruz Festival: Music Dance Theater Visual Arts MENA-SWANA
DESCRIPTION:A three day festival in NYC featuring plays\, concerts\, and films by artists of Middle Eastern\, Southwest Asian\, and North African descent. \nMay 1st: A night rooted in Iranian and Afghan Traditional Music \n1) Of Roots and Colors is a concert-length musical project that explores the cultural geography of Greater Iran through sound\, memory\, and shared musical lineage. Drawing on regional repertoires from Khorasan and Tajikistan in the northeast\, to Fars in central Iran\, and the Bakhtiari\, Luri\, and Kurdish traditions of the Zagros mountains\, the project asks: how do music and oral tradition preserve historical connections across regions\, languages\, and borders\, even as political boundaries shift?\nAt its core\, this work treats music as a living archive. Each piece reflects a distinct regional identity—mode\, rhythm\, poetic language—while revealing deep structural and aesthetic affinities that point to common roots. By placing these traditions in dialogue within a single performance\, Of Roots and Colors highlights both cultural continuity and difference\, inviting the audience to hear Iran not as a monolith\, but as a vibrant\, plural soundscape shaped by centuries of exchange. The project comes to life through carefully curated arrangements that respect the integrity of each tradition while allowing for subtle interaction among them. The performance unfolds as a journey from east to west\, with spoken contextual framing that situates each musical segment historically and culturally. Improvisation plays a key role\, echoing the oral transmission practices central to these traditions and allowing the musicians’ lived experiences to shape the performance in real time.Inspired by ethnomusicological research\, fieldwork\, and long-term engagement with regional musicians\, Of Roots and Colors is envisioned as both an artistic and educational experience—one that fosters listening across difference and re-centers music as a bridge between communities\, histories\, and shared cultural memory. \nPerformers:\nSirvan Manhoobi: Oud\nRoxana Sarrafi: Vocalist\nMehrpouya Daneshvar: Clarinet \n2) And the Mountains Echoed will be a live\, intimate performance centered on the Afghan rubab\, inspired by the themes of memory\, separation\, and enduring connection explored in And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini. Rather than retelling the novel’s narrative\, the project will translate its emotional and psychological landscapes into sound—using music to explore how love\, loss\, and responsibility echo across generations and geographies.\nRooted in Pashto folk and Afghan classical traditions\, the performance will unfold through a series of improvisational movements. Melodic fragments will emerge\, repeat\, and transform\, mirroring the way memories are carried\, reshaped\, and preserved over time. The rubab will function as both melodic and rhythmic storyteller\, with its sympathetic strings and natural decay allowing resonance and silence to become active compositional elements. \nThe work will emphasize restraint and intimacy. Space\, breath\, and stillness will be treated as core musical tools\, inviting deep listening and reflection from the audience. Subtle rhythmic frameworks inspired by Afghan and Hindustani forms will support the melodic arc without overpowering it\, ensuring the rubab remains the central narrative voice. \nPresented with Emruz Festival\, And the Mountains Echoed will frame freedom as emotional and artistic openness—the freedom to hold complexity\, to honor inherited traditions while allowing them to evolve\, and to let a historical instrument speak vulnerably and honestly in the present. The performance will offer audiences a contemplative sonic space where personal and collective histories quietly resonate with one another. \nPerformers:\nSAHEL: Rubab\nShraman: Sitar\nDhruvin: Tabla \n3) A contemporary exploration of Persian music through original compositions and reimagined traditional material. Drawing from classical Persian forms\, regional influences\, and contemporary compositional approaches\, the program moves fluidly between intimate acoustic textures and more expansive ensemble writing. The music is shaped through varied instrumentation and evolving arrangements\, allowing melodic modes\, rhythmic structures\, and timbral colors to unfold in multiple dimensions. \nSantur serves as the central voice of the performance\, acting as a traditional instrument and a contemporary sound\, interacting with a flexible ensemble that may include strings\, winds\, percussion\, electronic elements\, or voice. Improvisation plays a key role\, creating moments of spontaneity and dialogue between musicians while maintaining a clear compositional framework. \nPerformers:\nHamidreza Maleki: Santour\nBehfar Bahadoran: Tar\nParisa Karimi: Kamancheh \nMay 2: Theatre\nThis evening of theater brings together three distinct works—a musical reading\, a short play reading\, and a fully staged theatrical piece—each exploring themes of displacement\, survival\, and hope. \n1) The night begins with a musical reading\, Cheeks Rosy From Slapping by PRETTY CRIME\, that blends storytelling and song to set the emotional tone. \n2) It is followed by a reading of Longest War by Humaira Ghilzai\, where two best friends\, Nargis and Pari\, stay connected across 7\,000 miles through a fragile WhatsApp call\, navigating life in America and Kabul under Taliban rule.Performers:\nAwesta Zarif\nSophia Tarin \n3) The evening culminates in KISMET by Didem Ruhi Karci and Talha Karci\, a two-person\, actor-driven play about a Turkish immigrant couple who unexpectedly find themselves on stage and begin performing their own journey from Istanbul to the U.S.–Mexico border. Using minimal props and direct address\, the piece moves between humor and heartbreak as it asks what it means to start over. Together\, these works offer a powerful\, multi-form portrait of migration\, identity\, and resilience. \nMay 3: Theatre and Music\nAn evening of theater and music offering distinct yet resonant theatrical forms—a modular\, multilingual experimental piece and a myth-based storytelling performance—each interrogating power\, truth\, and the politics of knowledge. \n1) Ceasefire Later! by Bazeed is a choreopoem built entirely from found and verbatim text\, tracing the narratives and propaganda surrounding the genocide in Gaza after October 7\, 2023. Structured in modules of varying lengths and performed in an order determined by the audience\, the piece unfolds as a fragmented collage of social media\, interviews\, movement\, and song\, resisting a fixed timeline and conventional theatrical form. \nPerformers:\nWaseem Alzer\nMette Loulou Von Kohl\nLour Yasin \n2) Following\, a solo piano performance by Niayesh Javaheri. \n3) Concluding the night with Testament of Bondar Bidakhsh by Bahram Beyzaie (directed by Nikta Sabouri) reimagines a Persian myth through the lens of naqqāli\, with two storytellers offering competing accounts of a king and his vizier. As Bondar’s invention—a world-seeing chalice meant for collective knowledge—becomes a tool of power and control\, the audience is positioned as witness and judge. Drawing parallels to contemporary technologies like AI and surveillance\, the piece explores who owns knowledge and how it is used. Together\, these works create a layered dialogue between past and present\, form and fragmentation\, storytelling and truth. \nPerformers:\nDario Ladani Sanchez\nAbraham Makani
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/emruz-festival/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Art Haus\, 24 Marcy Avenue\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11211\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,Dance,Festival,In Person,Music,Theater
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SUMMARY:Music Heavy Metal: AAU Aftershow - Raw Distractions w/ Real Asian Hate\, Quiz + Böil
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an Asian American Unity Aftershow at The Broadway with Raw Distractions w/ Real Asian Hate\, Quiz and Böil\n\n\n11PM Doors \n21+ \n$10
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/aau-aftershow-raw-distractions-w-real-asian-hate-quiz-boil/
LOCATION:The Broadway\, 1272 Broadway\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11221\, United States
CATEGORIES:In Person,Music
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SUMMARY:Music: Yut Chia & Friends
DESCRIPTION:Yut Chia is a New York–based violinist whose electrifying performances fuse classical virtuosity with modern pop\, dance\, and cinematic music. Recognized by leading DJs and producers such as Tiësto\, he is part of a new generation of artists reimagining what the violin can be. \nBlending classical elegance with the energy of today’s biggest hits\, Yut creates concerts that feel part symphony\, part festival. His performances have been featured in The New York Times and New York Daily News and on the stages of Carnegie Hall\, Madison Square Garden\, the Apollo\, and Lincoln Center\, among others. \nHe has performed for celebrities including Robert De Niro and Cyndi Lauper and appeared at major events such as NYC Pride and New York Fashion Week. Whether in concert halls\, festivals\, or intimate venues\, this is an unforgettable musical experience. \nYut will be joined by:  \n\nCarol Ma: Violin\nVinnie Keys: Keyboard\nHina Oikawa: Saxophone\n\nYut Chia is a Colombian violinist of Chinese descent\, who came to New York City at the age of three in pursuit of the American Dream. As a young child\, he was inspired by classical music that he heard and had always wanted to play the violin. However\, despite a lifelong interest in the violin\, he did not have the opportunity to start playing till the age of 12.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/music-yut-chia-friends/
LOCATION:Queens Public Library – Flushing Branch\, 41-17 Main Street\, Flushing\, NY\, 11355\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert,In Person,Music
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SUMMARY:Music with Slant: Lucky FM 2
DESCRIPTION:Slant returns to The Club to dig deeper and wider into the liminal space between past and present with Lucky FM 2. Through the underground radio’s telethon portal….Slant journeys through AANHPI histories with bamboo flutes\, drums\, and guitars telling stories of the Japanese-American concentration camps\, the International Hotel\, Vincent Chin\, and today. Performed viscerally through music\, dance\, and humor\, Slant finds unity amidst chaos in a celebration of community. \nSlant is the trio ensemble of Rick Ebihara\, Wayland Quintero\, and Perry Yung. In 1995\, Slant premiered Big Dicks\, Asian Men followed by other works through the 2000s that featured farcical themes punctuated by outlandish and poignant moments that audiences flocked to see at La MaMa and across the USA.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/music-with-slant-lucky-fm-2/
LOCATION:The Club (La Mama)\, 74A East 4th Street\, New York\, New York\, 10003
CATEGORIES:Activism,In Person,Music
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