JAPAN Fes renowned as the world's largest Japanese food festival, with over 1,000,000 projected annual attendees and 2,000 vendors, we proudly host the world's largest Japanese food festival. Every Fes is set in a different neighborhood of NYC, introducing it to a slice of Japanese culture and cuisine. Our vendors have been featured in publications […]
We are an annual outdoor Chinese food & culture festival with experiential activities, tastings, and market fairs that showcases the vibrant food, art and cultural traditions from China. It is […]
What happened when chop suey, a Chinese dish with American roots, encountered Jewish customers in New York at the turn of the century? A new Center for Women’s History installation in the Joyce B. Cowin Women’s History Niche sheds light on the vibrant, gastronomic collaboration between two ethnic communities. From debates in the Yiddish press […]
Please join author Tony Tulathimutte as we discuss his collection of short stories Rejection : Fiction. Booksigning to follow Q&A. From the Whiting and O. Henry–winning author of Private Citizens (“the first great millennial novel,” New York Magazine), an electrifying novel-in-stories that follows a cast of intricately linked characters as rejection throws their lives and relationships into chaos. Tony is author […]
Join AAWW for Alpha Beta Blah, a new reading series that removes the secret from secret society! The 2025 AAWW Margins fellows present “Alpha Beta Blah”, a new reading series that invites writers to come frat out with the fellows. The inaugural reading will take place on September 2nd at 7 pm ET. Readers must […]
Please join Thirdworld Newsreel and the Documentary Forum at CCNY for talk on sound recording and making films with documentary filmmaker and sound mixer Emily Strong.
A4 brings together Asian diasporic artists from experimental/countercultural music scenes and community leaders to discuss the lack of access Asian diasporic communities have to countercultural arts. Artists in the diaspora, especially those who work within experimental and countercultural scenes, often challenge traditional boundaries of genre and aesthetics. In doing so, they often look inward towards […]
Quarterly screenings & conversations on Asian and Asian American cinema in collaboration with New York Asian Film Festival *The film is rated R. MOCA x NYAFF Film Club is a quarterly program celebrating the brilliance and boldness of Asian and Asian American cinema. This series highlights films of historic and cultural significance under the theme […]
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface discusses her highly anticipated new novel Katabasis, where academic rivals team up for a magical road trip through Hell. Join us for a sharp, funny, and unmissable evening with R. F. Kuang about ambition, magic, and what it takes to survive grad school... and the underworld. In conversation with Alice Sola Kim at 7PM and Weike […]
A deadpan, wildly imaginative collection of stories that slices clean through the mundanity and absurdity of modern life, An Oral History of Atlantis is the newest collection of short stories from Ed Park, the author of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize–winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Same Bed Different Dreams. In this utterly original collection, […]
"In the world of food, Yasmin Khan is a beacon of humanity and light." —Hetty Lui McKinnon Event guidelines: Each ticket will include either a copy of the featured book or a $10 Books Are Magic gift card. Additional copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event. A signing will follow […]
A futuristic sci-fi play in NYC—robots, memory cubes, and a society that forgot what it meant to be human. Synopsis/ Five AI researchers from the Human Research Institute discover a mysterious Memory Cube buried in a long-forgotten Gold Vault beneath Manhattan. It contains something unimaginable: a living record of human consciousness from the year 2051. […]