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 […]
We invite you to an evening of books and humanitarian fundraising on October 21st. Throughout our publication season, we noticed our titles in conversation with another: A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing and Honey in the Wound both share themes of anti-imperialism and magical realism as a means to explore intergenerational trauma and the legacy of […]
Vietnamese Boat People is back at the Think!Chinatown Studio for the 7th Annual Story Slam—an evening of live storytelling, community, and connection. This year, VBP invites 5 storytellers to share around the theme “Code-Switch”. Come celebrate our brave storytellers and leave inspired to keep telling your own stories too. Story Slam is an annual program […]
At just 19 years old, the Taiwanese virtuoso has already established himself as one of the most extraordinary young ukulele artists in the world—and on Wednesday, October 21, he takes the stage at **The Cutting Room in New York City.** Feng first attracted worldwide attention at only 10 years old when his breathtaking performance of […]
Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist and guest editor of The Best American Short Stories 2026, Viet Thanh Nguyen (The Sympathizer), hosts our annual collaboration with one of the premier anthologies of contemporary American fiction. Come along on this spectacular journey of literature in performance and celebrate the achievements of established and emerging writers. With stories by Nathan […]
KIM DUKJOONG 김덕중 • 2025 • Fiction • 146 min 🎬 Special Screening 🗓️ Wednesday, October 21 • 7:00 PM 📍 Korean Cultural Center New York (122 E 32nd Street, New York, NY 10016) Synopsis Hyun-shik happens to meet Jee-yeon on the subway. The film begins with the story she tells him. Jee-yeon claims that […]
Na Zhong presents Three In conversation with Rachel Heng Wine reception to follow Na Zhong, writer, translator, and co-founder of Accent Accent, presents her debut novella Three, an expansive yet personal story of a prideful teacher, her husband, their quietly rebellious daughter, and a town changed by the breakneck pressures of modernization. "A story of recent China but also […]
Unsound, the Kraków-based avant-garde music festival, kicks off its 2026 season in NYC with an astonishing three-set evening of US premieres and Lincoln Center debuts. Japanese sound artist FUJI|||||||||||TA joins composer-performer Ka Baird for the North American premiere of the Unsound commission, Where Does Fire End?, which sculpts breath, pressure, and resonance into tactile sound […]
Join us for a special evening as we celebrate Asian Feminism in Horror! We're celebrating K-Ming Chang's new novel, NEEDLEMOUTH, with a special panel at The Twisted Spine! Join K-Ming Chang, Catherine Dang (WHAT HUNGER), Cassandra Khaw (FIND ME WHERE IT ENDS), and Jade Song (CHLORINE) as they discuss modern Asian Feminist perspectives in Horror. […]
Join us this October to celebrate the Festival of Lights in the heart of New York City while creating meaningful impact for women and children in rural India. Now in its 13th year, Diwali on the Hudson has become one of NYC's most anticipated Diwali celebrations! Each year brings together philanthropists, professionals, creatives, and changemakers […]
This year, MinKwon Center for Community Action will celebrate its 42nd anniversary with our gala, “Rooted In Community.” As we honor our past achievements and look towards our future, we […]
🏳️🌈 WE ARE NOT THE FIRST 🏳️⚧️ Celebrating the Legacy of South Asian LGBTQIA+ Activism and Community Building Long before hashtags and Pride month brand campaigns, queer and trans South Asians were organizing in living rooms, founding community groups, filing lawsuits, and fighting for the right to be seen. We stand on their shoulders. And […]