AAPI NJ and Teach Asian American Stories invite adults and youths of all backgrounds to join us for a one-night-only community dinner and teach-in on birthright citizenship. Guided by Mindie Sobrinski, Teach Asian American Stories Fellow, we’ll learn that what’s on the table tells us who belongs at it. From Filipino sailors to Chinese laborers, […]
Join AAWW and SALGA NYC for a discussion on gender and performance, featuring Sandip Roy, Mayukh Sen, and Arun Venugopal!What does it take to be seen and what must be hidden to survive? In Chapal Rani, Sandip Roy resurrects the life of Chapal Bhaduri, the last great female impersonator of Bengali jatra theatre, whose art […]
Called “One of the leading figures in North America’s burgeoning Asian music scene. A global musical alchemist and cultural agent provocateur” by Songlines (UK), Sunny Jain is a composer, drummer, dhol player and thought leader. Sunny Jain’s Wild Wild East, encompasses a myriad facets of Jain’s identity and sonically paints the journey of his own family’s immigration story. He […]
NYC's ultimate Asian stand up comedy show. Hilarious comedians as seen on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, and TikTok. A+ Asian Comedy is the ultimate Asian stand up comedy show, filled with the funniest Asian comedians New York City has to offer. Our comics can be seen on Netflix, HBO, and Comedy Central, but nothing compares to […]
Celebrate Ramadan in the heart of Little Egypt with halal food, culture, and community at Malikah's 3rd Annual Ramadan Night Market! ✨ 🌙 Malikah’s NYC Ramadan Night Market returns for its third annual celebration, bringing our community together through food, culture, and connection. 📍 Join us on March 4th, from 6 PM to 10 PM, […]
Behind the headlines and geopolitics lies a rarely heard story, the lives of ordinary Americans who became part of China’s history. For decades, Professor William Brown traveled more than 200,000 kilometers across China and the United States to uncover letters, photographs, and memories of Americans who lived in China across generations — teachers, doctors, diplomats, […]
Siyan Wong’s paintings depict immigrant Chinese women working in garment factories, restaurants, homecare, and street vendors. Inspired by the immigrant dreams of a better life and the reality of survival in a dehumanizing economy, Wong notes that her paintings, “make the lives of Chinese women, and the working poor, visible while directing the viewers’ gaze […]
RIHAKU presents a special experimental edition of her projection mapping calligraphy performance, featuring live music by Yuko Kondo.In this intimate live event, traditional Japanese brushwork merges with light, movement, and live music. Ink becomes motion. Words become atmosphere.This preview performance serves as a creative laboratory — an exploration of rhythm, silence, and the living energy […]
Honoring the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund FUSONG, a new musical by Christine Toy Johnson and Cecilia Lin, tells the story of two Chinese women in two different centuries linked by their complicated destiny. As Fusong is kidnapped from her small village in China and thrown into the dark world of San Francisco’s Chinatown in […]
Chinese Americans in the Jim Crow South: From Sharecropping to Groceries explores the experiences of Chinese Americans who lived alongside African Americans during the 90 years of Jim Crow. Participants will explore how Chinese Americans labored in cotton fields and were positioned between Black sharecroppers and white plantation owners, occupying a unique and often precarious […]
Potluck Asian America is joining forces with the community-based Theater Takeover Tuesdays crew to support the new animated film Hoppers. Meet Karen Huie, the voice of Grandma Tanaka in Hoppers! […]
Join WNYC's Alison Stewart and writer Megha Majumdar for a live conversation about her newest book, A Guardian and a Thief, a finalist for the National Book Award. The New York Public Library and WNYC—two indispensable New York institutions—are partnering to host a book club that brings New Yorkers together and fosters community. The March title […]
Special guest speakers and ceremonial ladder raising by FDNY. The Designer for this historic memorial is Richard Joon Yoon, an architect and designer, professor at Pratt & NYC/Queens resident along w/ Uri Wegman. We’ll also be laying 146 flowers honoring the workers who died that day Location: Washington Place and Greene Street • NYC
Presented by the NYU Migration Network. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. REGISTER Held monthly over the semester, these public conversations bring together scholars, artists, and practitioners for cross-disciplinary exchanges to develop and refine understandings of migration and mobility, its histories, and its political stakes. With migration so sensationalized by much of the media, […]
In honor of Women’s History Month, the Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) invites you to an engaging conversation with historian Charlotte Brooks, Professor of History at Baruch College and the CUNY Graduate Center, on her new book, The Moys of New York and Shanghai One Family’s Extraordinary Journey Through War and Revolution. Through the remarkable story […]
Join us for a special fiction reading by New York State writer Min Jin Lee, author of Free Food for Millionaires and Pachinko, and a finalist for the National Book Award. This event, in memory of Marjorie Hecht Watson for Women’s History Month, will also feature a conversation with Julie Goodale, offering insights into Lee’s […]
Are there parts of our minds that are hidden from us? This question launched the Hidden Brain podcast ten years ago. Since then, Hidden Brain has helped millions of listeners accomplish their goals, improve their relationships, and develop a deeper understanding of their emotions. Now, host and creator Shankar Vedantam brings seven key insights from […]