Sat Oct 24, 6pm Class, 7:30 Performance at SDR Park Dance under the stars with sultry stylings of vocalist Annie YuRong Yu and jazz band led by Victor Lin. Swing dance instruction will be provided in Mandarin and English. Special swing DJ set by YiuYiu of Chinatown Records. The night starts off with a bilingual […]
LEE JUN SUP 이준섭 • 2026 • Fiction • 121 min 🎬 Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival Choice 🗓️ Saturday, October 24 • 7:30PM 📍 Korean Cultural Center New York (122 E 32nd Street, New York, NY 10016) Synopsis JAE-IN envies almost everything. That’s why she wants to be an actor. The art of acting […]
Join us for a storytime with author-illustrator Aram Kim, and her new re-telling of this popular Korean folktale! Event guidelines: RSVP is highly encouraged but not required. Additional copies of the event book will be available for purchase in-store. The reading will be followed by a book signing. As a reminder: If you are not […]
NISHIMONAI BON ODORI (Akita Prefecture) Nishimonai Bon Odori is a traditional Bon dance with a history of approximately 700 years, and it was registered as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2020. Akita Prefecture, located in the northern part of Japan, is well known throughout the country for producing delicious rice and sake. Because Akita […]
Join in for a free traditional Chinese dance class in Seward Park. Beloved dance teacher, Margaret Yuen will lead us through a warm up, get us moving to music, and teach us how to use traditional dance props like ribbons and fans. The Red Silk Dancers will give us a little performance! No experience needed. Just […]
Bestselling author Marie Lu is back with another exciting young adult fantasy novel Mortal Things. On a journey to save her best friend, Rose Lin Fairchild is forced to test her abilities against the gods and unravel the truth of the immortal world. How far is Rose willing to go? If you loved her Legend series, then you're […]
We all know cooks whose fingertips seem to infuse every meal with deliciousness. In Korean, that magic touch is called sohn-mat, or “hand taste”―but you don’t have to be born with it. Esther Choi picked hers up from her halmoni, or grandmother, who used her hands for everything from smearing cabbage with pepper paste to make […]
How can artists use their creative practice to respond to the moment, build solidarity, and support the communities they care about? Join us for an interactive workshop exploring the intersection of art, activism, and community-building with multidisciplinary artist and activist Perry Yung, co-founder of SLANT Performance Group. Inspired by the legacy of New York City’s […]
Celebrate both the closing of Chinatown Arts Festival and the opening of our MOONSquare group show with drinks and desserts at the Think!Chinatown Studio! To make this party extra special, we want you to take a trip down memory lane to gear us up for Think!Chinatown’s upcoming 10th birthday. Jump in to our live doodle […]
Join us for a timely conversation with NPR journalist Emily Feng on her groundbreaking new book Our Hearts Burned for Home: Uyghur Militants in Syria’s Civil War (Columbia Global Reports, October 2026), an extraordinary work of reportage tracing one of the most surprising and consequential stories to emerge from the global war on terror. Drawing on years of reporting […]
Brooklyn Kura launched in 2016 in Brooklyn, NY, breaking ground as New York’s first sake brewery. Over the past 10 years, Brooklyn Kura would provide sake education and awareness far beyond NYC and fundamentally change the trajectory of the American sake landscape. Tonight, Brandon Doughan, Co-Founder and Master Brewer of Brooklyn Kura, speaks about the […]
All original artwork for sale! Free RSVP! This art show expands on my ever evolving journey with grief and love through my fragmented memories. Remembering my shadows and trying to bring them to light while tending to myself with compassion was the inspiration for all of these pieces. There is such deep, profound love we […]