Across the country, Southeast Asian refugee and immigrant communities face devastating deportation impacts. Decades after families resettled in the United States as refugees, thousands remain vulnerable to removal because of old criminal convictions, many tied to the challenges of poverty, trauma, and lack of support. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the end of […]
As the holiday season approaches, NCAPA is holding a series of community calls on holding difficult conversations with loved ones and community members. The purpose of these events is to equip and prepare attendees to approach difficult conversations strategically in order to effectively address sensitive or controversial topics. At this community call, attendees will hear […]
Panelists: Jacqueline Lem, VP of Business Planning at Starz Rachel Savage, Agent at United Talent Agency Gabe Jenkinson, VP of Strategy & Business Development at Entertainment Media Ventures Caroline Vanstrom, Producer at Cut To AIM is Asian Americans in Media (AIM). Our mission is to serve Asian Americans in the media and entertainment industry by building and empowering our communities, […]
Join H. M. Zafer for a workshop on harnessing the generative and emancipatory power of scripture! This is a two-part workshop, scheduled over two dates - Tuesday, 9/23, and Wednesday, 9/24 - between 6pm and 9pm ET each day. Workshop registration covers both dates. Please reach out to msaleh@aaww.org for assistance if you are able […]
Photographer Pok Chi Lau traces Toishanese diaspora across the Americas, revealing resilience, migration, and cultural memory through images $10 General Admission | $5 Student and Senior Admission | Free for MOCA Members The Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) invites you to a captivating conversation with artist and photographer Pok Chi Lau. For more than […]
Join the discussion on lung cancer in Asian American women and learn about what resources are available at Kaiser Permanente. Please join us on Thursday, November 6, 2025 , from 3:30 pm EST / 12:30pm PST for a discussion between Internal Medicine physician Dr. Amanda Chang alongside Thoracic Surgeon Dr. . Jeff Velotta and Pulmonologist […]
Presented by the NYU Critical Racial Anti Colonial Study Co-Lab. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, NYU Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, and NYU Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies. REGISTER Edited by Wazhmah Osman and Robert D. Crews, Decolonizing Afghanistan: Countering Imperial Knowledge and Power (Duke University Press, 2025) is the first […]
Get ready to be blown away by the incredible short films at KAFFNY 2025 - it's going to be a cinematic experience like no other!Kodak Blues by Caleb Jiyong Chong 24:47After being left in an empty house by her parents, a Korean-American college girl must find what to do for the rest of her summer […]
A film screening of Deann Borshay Liem’s documentary “Geographies of Kinship” and a conversation among Rosemarie Peña and Deann Borshay Liem Deutsches Haus at NYU, the University of Cologne North America Office, the German Research Foundation (DFG) North America, and the German Center for Research and Innovation (DWIH) New York present “Adoption and Re-Kinning” as […]
Salman Rushdie, longtime friend of 92NY’s storied literary community, returns to our stage for a reading and conversation with Daniel Kehlmann about The Eleventh Hour — a supremely inventive new collection about survival, death, and what comes into focus at the proverbial eleventh hour of life. Awarded the Best of Booker for his seminal debut, Midnight’s Children — honoring […]
KAFFNY 2025 Feature documentary film screening for 'Attachment Project' follow by Q&A with director Joy DietrichAttachment Project Joy Dietrich 1:27:12Three foreign-born adoptees of various ages attempt to forge stronger ties with their American families with the help of novel, sometimes controversial therapies. Shot over a decade by one of the subjects, an adoptee filmmaker, the […]
In Performing Chinatown: Hollywood, Tourism, and the Making of a Chinese American Community (Stanford University Press, 2024), historian William Gow argues that Chinese Americans in Los Angeles strategically used their performances in both Hollywood films and Chinatown tourist attractions to influence perceptions of race and national identity during the Chinese Exclusion Era. Drawing on oral […]