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SUMMARY:Webinar: State of AAPIs in US and NYC Reports
DESCRIPTION:Unlock the Findings in our Live Webinar \nTo learn more about what comes next for AAPIs across NYC’s five boroughs and identify opportunities for collaboration\, join us for a webinar on Thursday\, August 6 at 8am PT/11am ET. Hosted by Shamina Singh\, TAAF Board Member and Founder and President of the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth\, we’ll dive into how to turn the findings into solutions. Kindly RSVP to events@taaf.org. \nTAAF Launches State of AAPIs Research Series to Shed Light on the Lived Experiences of AAPIs\nTAAF launched the State of AAPIs research series\, beginning with a national report to set a baseline of the lived experiences of AAPIs across the country and paired with a first-of-its-kind\, borough-level primary data analysis of AAPIs in New York City. TAAF will draw on these findings to convene leaders across sectors and drive solutions through the TAAF Cities initiative. \nThe State of AAPIs national report offers an in-depth look at how AAPIs are navigating economic insecurity\, safety concerns\, and feelings of belonging across the country. According to a nationally representative survey of 1\,500 AAPI adults:  https://taaf.org/our-work/state-of-aapis-national-report \n\n51% struggled to save money or build financial security in the past 12 months\, a figure that rose to 60% or higher among Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI)\, Vietnamese\, and Korean respondents.\n31% struggled to access safe and stable housing and 30% received government or community assistance in the past year\, with nearly as many (28%) reporting difficulty accessing those benefits.\nMore than half adopted avoidance behaviors\, such as carrying identification or avoiding certain places out of fear of bias from police or immigration officials\, rising to 62% among Vietnamese respondents.\n\nThe State of AAPIs New York City report presents a borough-level analysis of the experiences and needs of AAPIs in the city. TAAF surveyed 1\,400 AAPI residents across all five boroughs and found: https://taaf.org/our-work/taaf-nyc#state-of-aapis-report \n\n59% struggled to save toward a financial future\, and 50% worried about affording essentials like food\, housing\, and utilities\, in the past year.\nMore than 1 in 3 AAPIs (37%) experienced adverse treatment in the past year in their borough\, including: being insulted or called names; being harassed or threatened; being victim to physical attack; and being unfairly stopped\, searched\, questioned or abused by police.\nMore than 1 in 4 AAPIs said they faced challenges related to voting (27%)\, accessing immigration services (28%)\, and everyday communication due to language barriers (29%) in the past year.\n\n  \n 
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/webinar/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Report,Survey,Virtual
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260808
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260819
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SUMMARY:Chinatown Storytelling Festival 2026
DESCRIPTION:From August 8 to 18\, 2026\, Chinatown Storytelling Festival is back for its third year! This August\, look out for screenings at DCTV’s Firehouse Cinema\, workshops and presentations at Think!Chinatown’s Studio\, and walking tours in the neighborhood. Chinatown Records will also be launching their Radio Station on August 8th\, listen LIVE! Chinatown Storytelling Festival is here to cultivate the creation and viewership of projects featuring our under-told stories. The Festival celebrates stories from within the Chinatown community and informs our next generations of storytellers to come.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/chinatown-storytelling-festival-2026/
LOCATION:Multiple NYC locations
CATEGORIES:Arts and Cultural Programs,Festival,Hybrid,In Person,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260808T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260808T140000
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SUMMARY:Images of America: Chinese in Tehama County
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a webinar on Images of America: Chinese in Tehama County with Jessica Chew. During the California Gold Rush\, Red Bluff emerged as one of Northern California’s most important transportation hubs. Called the “head of navigation” on the Sacramento River\, travelers\, merchants\, miners\, loggers\, and agricultural workers journeyed here and continued north in California\, seeking their fortunes. Chinese immigrants established a thriving Chinatown that served as a center of economic development providing lodging for seasonal workers\, employment opportunities\, banking\, and correspondence services that linked laborers to their families in China. \nJessica will share insights from her research into her family history\, uncovering historical records\, newspaper archives\, family photographs and recording oral history interviews. She will describe how forgotten family stories were pieced together to illustrate the history of Red Bluff’s Chinatown. Her presentation will demonstrate how genealogy research can help bring forgotten communities back to life\, preserve stories before they are lost\, and reconnect families with a shared heritage spanning more than 150 years. \nDate: Saturday\, August 8\, 2026\, Time: 10:00 AM (US Pacific Time)/ 1PM EST \nVenue (online): Zoom \nJessica Chew is the founder of the Helen and Joe Chew Foundation and the only grandchild of Joe You Chew\, a Chinese American born in Red Bluff\, California’s Historic Chinatown in 1921. As a sixth generation Chinese American whose family immigrated to America in 1865 as herbalist’s physicians\, Jessica is dedicated to preserving and sharing the history of Red Bluff’s Chinatown and its importance as the last steamboat stop on the Sacramento River during the Gold Rush.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/24263/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:History,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260811T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260811T150000
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SUMMARY:Our Shared Legacy: The Power of Place In AAPI Advocacy Webinar
DESCRIPTION:This event will explore why historic preservation is an important policy issue for AAPI communities and how it connects to broader work across immigration\, civil rights\, housing\, health\, education\, and other issues. Attendees will learn about the federal policies and funding that support historic preservation\, current and emerging threats to these efforts\, and recent policy changes shaping the field. This educational event will highlight opportunities for coalition partners to engage in preserving and protecting AAPI histories\, communities\, and cultural heritage.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/our-shared-legacy-the-power-of-place-in-aapi-advocacy-webinar/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Virtual,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260813T190000
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SUMMARY:Asian American Forum: Pioneering Radio Program Reunion Panel
DESCRIPTION:A virtual panel discussion of former guests on the “Asian American Forum\,” a pioneering weekly radio program that aired on public radio in Connecticut from 1990 to 1996. Moderated by Edward Lim\, former Business Librarian at the University of Connecticut. \nThe Asian American Forum (AAF) was created and hosted by Dr. Paul Bock and Mrs. Phoebe Ten Yin Ho Bock\, and was the first Asian American college radio program on the East Coast. The collection represents vital oral history documenting Asian American perspectives primarily from the Northeast corridor\, with additional representation from Washington\, California\, Hawaii\, and other U.S. regions. Later in life\, the Bocks moved to Seattle and donated their collection of AAF episodes originally recorded on audio tape to the Wing Luke Museum. \nPresented by University of Connecticut and Wing Luke Museum. \nPresented online in a webinar format. No in-person seating. This presentation will be recorded.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/asian-american-forum-pioneering-radio-program-reunion-panel/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Radio,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260815T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260815T163000
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SUMMARY:Filipino Canadian Book Festival: Across the Page\, Across Canada: A Community Reading and Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a virtual community reading and conversation celebrating Filipino Canadian literature and diasporic storytelling.\n\n\nFacilitated by award-winning Filipino Canadian author Renato Gandia\, this special gathering brings together authors Clarissa Trinidad Gonzalez\, Chris Gatchalian and Mark Sy for readings and a thoughtful discussion about migration\, faith\, memory\, sexuality and belonging. \nRecently named the first Filipino recipient of the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers and winner of the Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize from PRISM international\, Gandia’s work offers a powerful meditation on the complexities of identity\, history and home. \nThrough featured readings and an open discussion\, we will reflect on how writing can connect communities across distance\, hold complicated histories and create space for recognition\, tenderness and possibility. \nTime: 12:30–1:30 p.m. PST\nFormat: Virtual panel with a live audience \nThis event will also be streamed live at the Museum of Vancouver. If you’d like to attend in person\, please RSVP here. To attend virtually\, please RSVP using this page!
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/across-the-page-across-canada-a-community-reading-and-discussion/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Book,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260816T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260816T160000
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SUMMARY:Eastwind Summer Book Club: Orphan Bachelors by Fae Myenne Ng(Virtual)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our second annual Summer Book Club where we’ll be discussing Fae Myenne Ng’s intimate and striking memoir Orphan Bachelors!\n\n\nJoin us for an heartfelt discussion on Orphan Bachelors\, the Fae Myenne Ng’s award-winning memoir on being a confession baby\, Chinatown daughter\, baa-bai sister\, caretaker of exotics\, literary balloon peddler\, and grand historian of a doomed American family. \nPlease RSVP for the Zoom link. This will be a virtual event\, so come in your comfiest clothes and have your favorite snacks on hand. We encourage you to finish the book before the event\, but you’re more than welcome to join us no matter how far you’ve read. We look forward to seeing you! \nThere is also a special book club sale for the book on our website. The paperback is $5 off for book club attendees! \nAbout the Book \nIn pre-Communist China\, Fae Myenne Ng’s father memorized a book of lies and gained entry to the United States as a stranger’s son\, evading the Exclusion Act\, an immigration law which he believed was meant to extinguish the Chinese American family. During the McCarthy era\, he entered the Confession Program in a failed attempt to salvage his marriage only to have his citizenship revoked to resident alien. Exclusion and Confession\, America’s two slamming doors. As Ng’s father said\, “America didn’t have to kill any Chinese\, the Exclusion Act ensured none would be born.” \nNg was her parents’ precocious first born\, the translator\, the bossy eldest sister. A child raised by a seafaring father and a seamstress mother\, by San Francisco’s Chinatown and its legendary Orphan Bachelors — men without wives or children\, Exclusion’s living legacy. She and her siblings were their stand-in descendants\, Ng’s family grocery store their haven. \nEach Orphan Bachelor bequeathed the children their true American inheritance. Ng absorbed their suspicious\, lonely\, barren nature; she found storytelling and chosen children in the form of her students. Exclusion’s legacy followed her from the back alleys of Chinatown in the 60s\, to Manhattan in the 80s\, to the high desert of California in the 90s\, until her return home in the 2000s when the untimely deaths of her youngest brother and her father devastated the family. A a child\, Ng believed her father’s lies; as an adult\, she returned to her childhood home to write his truth.Orphan Bachelors weaves together the history of one family\, lucky to exist and nevertheless doomed; an elegy for brothers estranged and for elders lost; and insights into writing between languages and teaching between generations. It also features Cantonese profanity\, snakes that cure fear and opium that conquers sorrow\, and a seemingly immortal creep of tortoises. In this powerful remembrance\, Fae Myenne Ng gives voice to her valiant ancestors\, her bold and ruthless Orphan Bachelors\, and her own inner self\, howling in Cantonese\, impossible to translate but determined to be heard.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/eastwind-summer-book-club-orphan-bachelors/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Book,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260816T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260816T193000
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SUMMARY:Model ShakesParody: A Comedy Night of Errors (Hybrid)
DESCRIPTION:Come see Shakespeare as skewered by one of the most acclaimed sketch comedy teams in New York (or come see Model Majority inspired by one of the most acclaimed playwrights in history\, depending on your point of view). \nModel Majority is proud to be a feature selection of the Little Shakespeare Festival\, brought to New York by Frigid NYC. With a festival theme of “ShakesPUNK”\, Model Majority’s talented writers and performers will bring a variety of hysterical comedy sketches inspired by the works of the Bard for a fun and memorable evening. \nFeaturing:\nVeronica Dang\nKevin Chew\nCarol Lee\nElijah Guo\nNicole Hendrickson\nAllie Sharma Nelson
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/model-shakesparody-a-comedy-night-of-errors-hybrid/
LOCATION:Under St Marks Theater\, 94 St Mark's Place\, New York\, NY\, 10009\, United States
CATEGORIES:Comedy,Hybrid,In Person,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260826T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260826T140000
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SUMMARY:Asian American Voter Survey 2026 Webinar
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a briefing on newly released findings from the 2026 Asian American Voter Survey\, the longest-running pre-election survey that focuses on how Asian Americans think about the election\, presidential candidates\, party identification\, key issues shaping their political engagement\, and more. This is our movement’s #YearOfAction \nPresented by APIAVote\, AAPI Data\, NCAPA
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/asian-american-voter-survey-2026-webinar/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Data,Survey,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260830T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260830T133000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260820T133007Z
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SUMMARY:Rethinking Mao and the Cultural Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Drawing on a new biography\, Bao Pu challenges received opinion on Jiang Qing\, Chairman Mao’s wife\, and her role in the Cultural Revolution. \n\n\nFull Talk Title: Rethinking Mao and the Cultural Revolution: Insights from a New Chronology of Jiang Qing \nFor non-Columbia affiliates\, registration is required to access the Morningside campus. After registering you will receive an email with a QR code that must be presented along with a valid government-issued ID (your name must match exactly the name registered for the event) at either the 116th Street & Broadway or 116th Street & Amsterdam gates for entry. Please register using a unique email address (one email address per registrant) by 4:00pm on Sept. 11 for campus access. \nNames will be submitted for QR codes 1-2 days prior to the event. Registrants will receive an email from CU Guest Access with the QR code before or on the day of the event. NOTE: You cannot access campus using the QR code from Eventbrite. \nSpeaker: Bao Pu\, Founder of New Century Press\, Hong Kong \nModerator: Andrew J. Nathan\, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science\, Columbia University \nJiang Qing (1914–1991)\, Mao Zedong’s wife for 38 years and a leading figure in the Cultural Revolution\, was purged after his death and officially blamed for much of its destruction. This talk drawing on renowned author Yu Ruxin’s new chronological biography\, challenges the official verdict and offers fresh insights into Mao’s thinking\, his intentions for the Cultural Revolution\, and how the political movement shaped modern China and continues to have major influences today. \nThis event is hosted by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/rethinking-mao-and-the-cultural-revolution/
LOCATION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute (located at the School of International and Public Affairs)\, 420 West 118th Street\, Room 918\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Virtual
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