VCS is excited about the First Light: AAPI Film Festival! To kick the event off, we are excited to announce five featured films screening on Saturday, September 26th ✨ 📅 Oct. 18 at 3:00 PM 📍telos.haus at 303 Ten Eyck St 🎬 First Winter Directed by Schantelle Alonzo (@Mishipiku) Ángel is a newly arrived immigrant […]
The 30-minute movement-based performance combines choreography from the Asian tradition of park dancing with US military parade sequences, Qigong, and gestures taken from pregnancy, childrearing, and sex work. Performed by an intergenerational ensemble to a score that layers Chinese nursery rhymes, traditional East Asian instrumentals, in utero recordings, and “Taps,” the piece proposes caregiving as […]
LEE WEONYOUNG 이원영 • 2025 • Fiction • 65 min 🎬 Muju Film Festival Choice 🗓️ Sunday, October 18 • 7:30 PM 📍 Korean Cultural Center New York (122 E 32nd Street, New York, NY 10016) * Intro and Q&A with LEE Weonyoung Synopsis A man who studies Mongolian history leads a simple but happy […]
Join us for the first-ever Smorgasburg Diwali: Festival of Bites in partnership with @browngirlmag! A two-day celebration of South Asian flavors, culture, and community — featuring guest vendors, specials from our resident vendors, and plenty of festive surprises 🎉 📍 Sunday, Oct 19 — Prospect Park • 11AM – 6PM Vendor Highlights 🍴: 🥪 Vada Pav […]
Join QPL Community Health for a discussion with NYU Professor Krishnendu Ray and NYC-based cook, journalist, and recipe developer Anikah Shaokat. Together, they’ll explore how food preserves culture, connects generations, and reflects the Bengali-American experience. Professor Ray is a leading scholar and the author of several books examining Bengali American food, South Asian cuisine, and […]
Happy Filipino American History Month! Many of us do not realize that Filipino American history is made throughout the year in everyday life. With the recent addition of Tagalog as a language required to be made accessible on voting ballots and voting instructions at NYC polling precincts, the Filipino community is now recognized by the […]
ABOUT THE BOOK From the award-winning author of Bestiary, three cousins are forced to complete an impossible and violent task set by a vengeful demon. Cousins Cindy, Yangyang, and Mandy’s hot, tedious summer unfolds in their grandmother’s hauntingly familiar house. Mandy, the eldest, seeks connection online and exchanges emails with a stranger. Yangyang, the youngest, retreats […]
Free concert for the public, featuring a jazz ensemble led by Stephanie Chou with erhu musician, Andy Lin. The first act will highlight jazz arrangements of Chinese folk songs and original compositions by Stephanie Chou. Followed by a screening of the silent film, “The Curse of Quon Gwon” accompanied by live music from the jazz […]
The Asia Game Changer Awards, launched by the Asia Society in New York in 2014, are designed to fill a vital gap, identifying and honoring true leaders who are making a positive contribution to the future of Asia. These awards are bestowed annually to individuals, organizations, and movements that have inspired, enlightened, and shown true […]
I’m thrilled and grateful to share that my solo show opens at Flohaus @flohaus_gallery next Wed. 10/21. I’d love for you to join me at the opening, 6-8pm. The show runs through 11/12, so please feel free to drop by anytime.
Join AAARI 10/21 for a co-sponsored online panel, ‘Asian American Studies Matters,’ hosted by the Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities – Brooklyn College/CUNY. This event brings together Asian […]
Join us for Mapping Queens: Building Artist-Run Spaces, a conversation highlighting artist-led spaces across Queens and the people creating them. Presented through the Queens Cultural Mapping Initiative, this panel will bring together artists and organizers behind artist-run spaces from across the borough to share how their spaces came to life, the communities they serve, and […]