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SUMMARY:MOCA TALKS with Thomas S. Mullaney – The Chinese Computer: A Global History
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this captivating discussion that explores the dynamic interplay between culture and technology!\n\n\nRegister via Zoom \nPurchase The Chinese Computer \nThe Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) cordially invites you to join an insightful discussion with Thomas S. Mullaney\, Professor of Chinese History at Stanford University and author of The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age. This event will uncover the fascinating\, untold story of how the Chinese language overcame unparalleled challenges and revolutionized the world of computing. \nA standard QWERTY keyboard has a few dozen keys. How can Chinese—a language with tens of thousands of characters and no alphabet—be input on such a device? In The Chinese Computer\, Mullaney sets out to resolve this paradox\, discovering that the key to this seemingly impossible riddle has given rise to a new epoch in the history of writing—a form of writing he calls “hypography.” Based on fifteen years of research\, this pathbreaking history charts the beginnings of electronic Chinese technology in the wake of World War II and traces its many iterations to the present day. \nMullaney takes readers through the evolution of Chinese language computing technology\, highlighting the development of electronic Chinese input methods—software programs that enable Chinese characters to be produced using alphanumeric symbols—and their profound impact on the way Chinese is written. Along the way\, Mullaney introduces a cast of brilliant and eccentric personalities from IBM\, MIT\, the CIA\, the Pentagon\, the Taiwanese military\, and the highest ranks of the mainland Chinese establishment\, exploring the unexpected roles they played in developing Chinese language computing. He also illustrates how China and the non-Western world\, through the hypographic technologies they invented\, helped the Western computer overcome its inherent biases and achieve a meaningful presence in markets outside the Americas and Europe. \nThe conversation will be moderated by Herb Tam\, MOCA’s Curator and Director of Exhibitions. Join us for this captivating discussion that explores the dynamic interplay between culture and technology. \nAbout Thomas S. Mullaney \nThomas S. Mullaney is Professor of Chinese History at Stanford University and a Guggenheim Fellow. He is the author of The Chinese Typewriter: A History\, Where Research Begins\, and Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/moca-talks-with-thomas-s-mullaney-the-chinese-computer-a-global-history/
LOCATION:New York
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SUMMARY:Giant Robot: Thirty Years of Defining Asian-American Pop Culture by Eric Nakamura with Claudine Ko\, Ed Lin\, and Travis Louie
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the release of Giant Robot: Thirty Years of Defining Asian-American Pop Culture with a lively discussion between Giant Robot’s co-founder Eric Nakamura and journalist Claudine Ko\, writer Ed Lin\, and artist\, illustrator and author Travis Louie. \n 
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/https-www-nypl-org-events-programs-2024-10-23-giant-robot-thirty-years-defining-asian-american-pop-culture-eric/
LOCATION:NYPL Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL) New York Public Library\, 455 Fifth Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book,In Person,Panel
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SUMMARY:Strategy Summits: Organizations & Movements
DESCRIPTION:This series brings together movement leaders to discuss the  strategic questions facing the movement at this critical juncture.\n\n\nPanel Overview: The past 15 years have seen persistent and powerful uprisings and mass movements in the streets. With unrest likely to grow in the coming years\, it is critical that base-building organizations think strategically about what their role in these movements should be. This strategy summit revives a longstanding debate on the most effective means for making transformational change and the role of organizations in movement moments. Should organizations stand to the sidelines\, use the moment to bring in new members and develop leaders\, or put aside their own agendas in order to facilitate movement building? \n \nModerator:  \nLissy Romanow was formerly the Executive Director of Momentum\, a training organization dedicated to building social movement organizations for the 21st century. She was formerly a lead organizer with Neighbor to Neighbor\, an economic and environmental justice organization in Massachusetts\, and is a cofounder of IfNotNow. She is currently writing a book on the evolution of organizing methods in the U.S. \n \nMeet the Panelists: \nAsha Ransby-Sporn is a Chicago-based community organizer and writer who has helped build movement organizations\, led on both winning issue-based and political campaigns\, and is deeply committed to Black\, left social movements. She was a co-founder of Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100)\, served as Director of Organizing for anti-war youth organization Dissenters\, co-created a citywide mass organizing campaign to Defund the Chicago Police Department\, ran the South Side field program for Brandon Johnson’s winning mayoral campaign in 2023 with United Working Families\, was Deputy Director of the Bring Chicago Home ballot campaign\, served on the steering committee for the Uncommitted National Movement\, helped develop the pro arms embargo Not Another Bomb campaign and is now working to elect a movement leader to Chicago’s first ever elected School Board \n \nAhmad Abuznaid is a Florida-based attorney\, director of the coming documentary film “Shukran”\, and executive director of the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights. Prior to joining USCPR\, Ahmad co-founded the Dream Defenders\, serving as its legal & policy director and coo during his time there. Ahmad then went on to serve as the executive director of the National Network for Arab American Communities from 2017 to 2019. \n \nVincent Bevins is an American journalist and writer. From 2011 to 2016\, he worked as a foreign correspondent based in Brazil for the LA Times after working previously in London for the Financial Times In 2017 he moved to Jakarta and began covering Southeast Asia for The Washington Post and in 2018 began writing a book about Cold War violence in Indonesia and Latin America.His work has mostly focused on international politics\, the world economy\, and global culture.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/strategy-summits-organizations-movements/
LOCATION:New York
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SUMMARY:Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World: A Conversation with Claire Jean Kim
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. \nREGISTER \nAs the 2024 presidential election approaches and in the shadows of the COVID-19 pandemic\, 2020 uprisings for Black Lives\, and 2023 Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action\, Claire Jean Kim‘s Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World (Cambridge University Press\, 2023) offers us a historically-grounded and theoretically astute framework for analyzing and making sense of current US politics and racial formations. \nMichael Dawson praises\, “[a]n acute observer of the complicated racial dynamics of the twenty-first century U.S.\, Kim centers anti-blackness as critical for understanding the complex racial dynamics that continue to be central to shaping U.S. society and politics.”  \nJoin us for a virtual conversation on Kim’s groundbreaking book\, the upcoming election\, and Asian American racial positioning. Kim will be joined by Professor Mike Hoa Nguyen (NYU Steinhardt). \nThis discussion is one of our marquee events on “Asian/Pacific/American Prospects\,” with which we ask how A/P/A perspectives might provide compelling modes for confronting the many\, proliferating crises of concern to our communities\, and imagining futures beyond them. \nAccessibility note: This event will be hosted virtually on Zoom. A Zoom account\, internet access\, and a smartphone or computer is required. Closed captioning will be provided for all audio. If you have any access needs\, please email apa.rsvp@nyu.edu. \n  \nClaire Jean Kim is professor of Political Science and Asian American Studies. Her first book\, Bitter Fruit: The Politics of Black-Korean Conflict in New York City (Yale University Press\, 2000) is the recipient of the American Political Science Association’s Ralph Bunche Award for the Best Book on Ethnic and Cultural Pluralism and a Best Book Award from the American Political Science Association Organized Section on Race\, Ethnicity\, and Politics. Her second book\, Dangerous Crossings: Race\, Species\, and Nature in a Multicultural Age (Cambridge University Press\, 2015)\, is also the recipient of a Best Book Award from the American Political Science Association Organized Section on Race\, Ethnicity\, and Politics. Her third book\, Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World (Cambridge University Press\, 2023)\, was selected for NPR’s Books We Love list for 2023.  \nMike Hoa Nguyen is assistant professor of Education at NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture\, Education\, and Human Development and a faculty affiliate at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute and the Steinhardt Institute for Higher Education Policy. His research and teaching critically examine the benefits and consequences of racialized public policy instruments in expanding and/or constraining educational systems\, with a specific focus on how these dynamics shape access\, learning\, opportunity\, and success within and beyond schools for students of color.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/asian-americans-in-an-anti-black-world-a-conversation-with-claire-jean-kim/
LOCATION:Online event
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SUMMARY:Where is the PI in AAPI? Centering Oceania Histories in K-12 Classrooms
DESCRIPTION:This workshop sheds light on some of the many overlooked histories of Oceania\, or the Pacific Islands\, to recenter the “PI” in “AAPI.” This 90-min session will give an overview of U.S. Pacific Islander history\, covering topics of colonization and military intervention\, and interrogate the common misconstructions of the Pacific and its people. Participants will receive free Pacific Islander lesson plans to adapt these histories into their classrooms of different grade levels. \nFree and open to all. Professional Development hours awarded. \nThis event is brought to you by Teach Asian American Stories and AAPI New Jersey.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/where-is-the-pi-in-aapi-centering-oceania-histories-in-k-12-classrooms/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Grades K–5,High School,Middle School
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241025T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241025T193000
DTSTAMP:20240828T180516Z
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SUMMARY:British Bangladeshi Muslims in the East End
DESCRIPTION:Fatima Rajina discusses British Bangladeshi Muslim men and the changing landscape of their dress and language.\n\n\nPopular discourse around British Muslims has often been dominated by a focus on Muslim women and their sartorial choices\, particularly the hijab and niqab. Dr. Fatima Rajina takes a different angle and focuses on Muslim men\, examining how factors like the global war on terror influenced and changed their sartorial choices and use of language. Rajina’s new book denaturalises the ubiquitous and deeply problematic security lens through which knowledge of Muslims has been produced in the past two decades. \nBritish Bangladeshi Muslims in the East End offers an alternative reading of these communities and how their political subjectivities emerge. Drawing on historical events\, field research and existing academic work\, the book aims to address the multiple ways British Bangladeshi Muslim men and women create their relationship with dress and language. This book is the first to empirically examine how dress and language shape the identities of British Bangladeshi Muslims in the East End\, using in-depth analysis useful for anyone interested in the study of British Muslims broadly. While the book focuses on a specific Muslim community\, the emerging themes demonstrate the interconnectedness of Muslims locally and globally and how they manifest their identities through dress and language.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/british-bangladeshi-muslims-in-the-east-end/
LOCATION:Asian American / Asian Research Institute – CUNY\, 25 West 43rd Street\, Room 1000\, New York\, NY\, 10036\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241025T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241025T210000
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SUMMARY:South Asian Comedy: Laughing Lassi
DESCRIPTION:Watch some of the funniest South Asian American comedians from New York City as well from all around the U.S. and the world.  Every show also features a non-South-Asian guest performer\, just to keep the spice level under 5.  Our house shows at Broadway Comedy Club regularly feature New York’s best South Asian Comedians as seen on Netflix\, HBO\, Hulu and Comedy Central.  Also join us at the after-party to mingle and network! The location of the after-party is announced during the show.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/south-asian-comedy-laughing-lassi/2024-10-25/
LOCATION:Broadway Comedy Club\, 318 West 53rd Street\, New York\, NY\, 10019\, United States
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T123000
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SUMMARY:Public Tour of With a Single Step: Stories in the Making of America
DESCRIPTION:Join a MOCA educator for a public gallery tour of our core exhibition\, With a Single Step: Stories in the Making of America.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/public-tour-of-with-a-single-step-stories-in-the-making-of-america-2/
LOCATION:Museum of Chinese in America\, 215 Centre Street\, New York\, NY\, 10013
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T120000
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SUMMARY:Malikah Block Party!
DESCRIPTION:Enjoy live performances\, family-friendly fun\, and explore unique products\, art\, and treats by Muslim & SWANA artists and businesses!\n\n\n🎉 Join Us at the Malikah Block Party! 🎉 \n✨ October 26th | Celebrating Community\, Culture\, & Connection! \nCome out and experience a vibrant day filled with amazing Muslim & SWANA artists\, creators\, and small businesses! Enjoy live performances and discover unique products\, beautiful art\, and delicious pre-packaged food—there’s something for everyone to enjoy. \n📍 Partnering with @31staveopenstreet\, we’re taking over 31st Ave with live music\, good vibes\, and community energy you won’t want to miss. \nWe’re family-friendly and open to all. Plus\, it’s not just a party—it’s a fundraiser for the Astoria Halal Fridge and 31st Ave Open Street. Show up\, have fun\, and make a difference! \n💫 Free Admission—but if you’re feeling generous\, you can donate your ticket to support the cause! Bring your friends\, family and neighbors and let’s make some memories together. See you there!
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/malikah-block-party/
LOCATION:31st Avenue\, 31st Avenue\, Queens\, NY\, 11106\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T160000
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SUMMARY:Diwali Lights Up Asia Society 2024
DESCRIPTION:Diwali\, often known as the festival of lights\, is celebrated in South Asia\, by Hindus\, Sikhs\, Jains\, and Buddhists. It symbolizes the triumph of light over darkness\, knowledge over ignorance\, and hope over despair.  \nDiwali returns to Asia Society with colorful\, fun-filled\, and multi-sensorial afternoon\, presented in collaboration with The Culture Tree. \nOn October 26th\, 2024\, 1 p.m. – 4 p.m.\, join us to celebrate good fortune\, family\, and friendships. Enjoy music and dance performances\, storytelling\, and hands-on arts and crafts inspired by the holiday. \nMake sure to check out our special Diwali menu at Asia Society’s Leo Cafe for the occasion. 
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/diwali-lights-up-asia-society-2024/
LOCATION:New York
CATEGORIES:Non AAARI Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T160000
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SUMMARY:MOCACREATE: Cover of the Year! with Teaching Artist Yu Rong
DESCRIPTION:Ever wonder what it would be like to see yourself on the cover of a magazine? Design a magazine cover starring… you!
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/mocacreate-cover-of-the-year-with-teaching-artist-yu-rong-2/
LOCATION:Museum of Chinese in America\, 215 Centre Street\, New York\, NY\, 10013
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T200000
DTSTAMP:20240927T034846Z
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SUMMARY:Sparkles and Steps: Diwali 2024 x Aalokam
DESCRIPTION:Diwali fun for everyone with music\, dance\, food\, and shopping – it’s gonna be lit!\n\n\n🌟 Join Us for a Spectacular Diwali Celebration with Aalokam 🌟 \nThis Diwali\, we’re lighting up the night with an event that’s perfect for everyone—young and old alike! \n🗓️ Date: 26 October 2024⏰ Time: 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm📍 Location: Brooklyn Children’s Museum Rooftop \nCome and enjoy: \n✨ Sparklers!! \n✨ Delicious food and sweets to savor by Imlee Kitchen \n✨ A vibrant marketplace featuring South Asian vendors \n✨ A thrilling DJ night to dance the night away by DJ Tauba \n✨ Henna by Nidha \n✨ Dance workshop with Ankita Chachra \n✨ Exciting activities and games for all ages \nWhether you’re coming with family\, friends\, or on your own\, there’s something for everyone to enjoy. Let’s celebrate the Festival of Lights together with joy\, laughter\, and lots of fun! \n \nDress to dazzle and bring your festive spirit. We can’t wait to celebrate with you!
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/sparkles-and-steps-diwali-2024-x-aalokam/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Children’s Museum\, 145 Brooklyn Avenue\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11213\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T210000
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SUMMARY:A Night at the Opera in the Bamboo Garden 竹園裡的粵劇之晚
DESCRIPTION:Enjoy a guided Cantonese opera experience of the Legend of the Purple Hairpin 紫釵記 with translated bilingual supertitles!\n\n\nIn the hidden bamboo garden at 5 Essex St\, enjoy a guided Cantonese opera experience of the Legend of the Purple Hairpin 紫釵記 with translated bilingual supertitles. Cantonese opera performing artist\, Eliza (Pui Yan) will guide us through a three act journey about the love story of a female entertainer and poet\, played by seasoned Cantonese opera singers\, MeeMee Chin and Camille Yeung. Opera acts will be interwoven with interactive performances from dancer Ling Tang. \nPay-as-you-can to RSVP\, suggested donation of $10 is appreciated. \n— \nChinatown Arts Festival is a month-long festival produced by Think!Chinatown to celebrate the cultural richness of Manhattan’s Chinatown with musical and dance performances\, storytelling projects\, film screenings\, art exhibitions\, a block party\, and so much more! This series of cultural programs presents traditional Chinatown artists\, and emerging Asian American artists in context and dialogue with each other\, bringing the generations together and making connections with a wider arts audience. The festival also highlights cultural happenings presented by neighboring organizations and artists to increase awareness of Chinatown’s cultural assets. Learn more at thinkchinatown.org/artsfest \nThink!Chinatown is an intergenerational non-profit based in Manhattan’s Chinatown\, here to listen\, to respond\, and to build China­town’s capacities as a strong & vibrant immigrant neighborhood of NYC. Our mission is to foster intergenerational community through neighbor­hood engagement\, storytelling & the arts. We push from within our neighborhood to shape better policies and programs that define our public spaces\, to celebrate our cultural heritage\, and to innovate how our collective memories are represented. Learn more at thinkchinatown.org
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/a-night-at-the-opera-in-the-bamboo-garden-%e7%ab%b9%e5%9c%92%e8%a3%a1%e7%9a%84%e7%b2%b5%e5%8a%87%e4%b9%8b%e6%99%9a/
LOCATION:Bamboo Garden @5 Essex St\, 5 Essex Street\, New York\, NY\, 10002\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241028T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241028T200000
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SUMMARY:Six Paintings from Papunya: A Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the NYU Center for the Humanities. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU\, NYU Department of Anthropology\, NYU Department of Art History\, Grey Art Museum\,  and NYU Institute of Fine Arts. \n\n\nREGISTER \n\nAnthropologist Fred Myers and art critic Terry Smith are joined by curator Maia Nuku to discuss their new book\, Six Paintings from Papunya (Duke University Press\, 2024). \n \nIn the early 1970s at Papunya\, a remote settlement in the Central Australian desert\, a group of Indigenous artists decided to communicate the sacred power of their traditional knowledge to the wider worlds beyond their own. Their exceptional\, innovative efforts led to an outburst of creative energy across the continent that gave rise to the contemporary Aboriginal art movement that continues to this day. In their new book\, anthropologist Fred Myers and art critic Terry Smith discuss six Papunya paintings featured in a 2022 exhibition in New York. They draw on several discourses that have developed around First Nations art—notably anthropology\, art history\, and curating as practiced by Indigenous and non-Indigenous interpreters. Six Paintings from Papunya also includes a reflection by Indigenous curator and scholar Stephen Gilchrist\, who considers the nature and significance of this rare transcultural conversation. \n  \nAccessibility note: This venue has an elevator and is accessible for wheelchair users. If you have any access needs\, please email info@nyuhumanities.org. \n 
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/six-paintings-from-papunya-a-conversation/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square\, 5th Floor Conference Room\, 20 Cooper Square\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241030
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241031
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SUMMARY:Immigration & the 2024 US Election
DESCRIPTION:Presented by NYU Migration Network and the Office of the Provost. Co-sponsored the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. \nSCHEDULE & REGISTRATION \nAs the 2024 US Presidential Election approaches\, the NYU Migration Network presents a series of events on immigration and the election\, including a one-day conference on immigration policy; a virtual series on key issues including asylum\, borders\, mass deportations\, and prisons; and a comparative\, global discussion on immigration and electoral politics in the UK\, France\, Germany\, Greece\, and Argentina. \nAccessibility note: Please contact the NYU Migration Network with any questions or access needs. \n\nPhotograph by Peg Hunter. “Pilgrimage to End ICE Dentention\,” May 31\, 2022. CC BY-NC 2.0.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/immigration-the-2024-us-election/
LOCATION:Multiple\, See description for details\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241030T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241030T190000
DTSTAMP:20241028T034750Z
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SUMMARY:A Holistic Understanding of Our Nervous Systems Under Systemic Oppression
DESCRIPTION:**Rescheduled workshop**\n\n\n A Holistic Understanding of Our Nervous Systems Under Systemic Oppression \nIf we are awake to the world around us\, it’s clear that the conditions we live under are intense. With interlocking systems of oppression bearing down on us from multiple sides\, it’s impossible not to feel the effects on our bodies. How do we remain in the struggle for collective liberation without burning out? \nThis workshop is for anyone who wants to gain a deeper and more holistic understanding of the relationships between their own nervous system\, the collective nervous system\, and the systems of oppression we live in. \nThere will be a short presentation followed by guided reflection and collective resourcing. All donations for this workshop will go to Middle East Children’s Alliance @mecaforpeace \n \nOur instructor\, Melissa Anran Fan (she/they) is an expressive arts and somatics practitioner\, community organizer\, writer\, and cultural worker living in service of collective liberation. She holds a MA in Counseling Psychology and has additional training in somatic therapy\, ecotherapy\, and integrative change work. \nHer work is deeply influenced by Buddhism\, abolition\, revolutionary mothering\, and the earth. On a lifelong path of decolonization and living in integrity\, some of her current dreams involve imagining co-housing cooperatives\, reconnecting with her Chinese ancestry\, and building radical parenting communities. She lives in unceded Ohlone land in the East Bay of California and is a mama to twins.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/a-holistic-understanding-of-our-nervous-systems-under-systemic-oppression/
LOCATION:New York
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241101
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250501
DTSTAMP:20250313T115705Z
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SUMMARY:Art Exhibition: Avani Patel: Connection
DESCRIPTION:Connection is a solo exhibition by Avani Patel\, presented at Evercore’s New York City offices. \nExcerpt from Patel’s artist statement: \n“Art has been an integral part of my life since I was young. I used to go to the theater with my sister for her rehearsals and dance shows. Seeing the colorful costumes\, flowing dresses and festivity of these moments made me feel joyful; I felt as though the colors were speaking to me…I often draw and paint things that I see in my everyday surroundings\, personal experiences\, and memories. I use mark-making and repetition as tools to signify change in nature\, the passage of time\, and the retention and rejection of memory. My work often takes the form of visual studies and drawings that I work on for months as a time. This process helps me understand colors and patterns\, which then allows me to transfer my ideas to large-scale paintings and public projects.” \nFor inquiries\, please email info@cueartfoundation.org.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/art-exhibition-avani-patel-connection-2/
LOCATION:Evercore Partners\, 55 East 52nd St\, New York\, NY\, 10055\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibit,In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241101T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241219T170000
DTSTAMP:20250313T104326Z
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SUMMARY:Art Exhibition: Avani Patel: Connection
DESCRIPTION:Connection is a solo exhibition by Avani Patel\, presented at Evercore’s New York City offices. \nExcerpt from Patel’s artist statement: \n“Art has been an integral part of my life since I was young. I used to go to the theater with my sister for her rehearsals and dance shows. Seeing the colorful costumes\, flowing dresses and festivity of these moments made me feel joyful; I felt as though the colors were speaking to me…I often draw and paint things that I see in my everyday surroundings\, personal experiences\, and memories. I use mark-making and repetition as tools to signify change in nature\, the passage of time\, and the retention and rejection of memory. My work often takes the form of visual studies and drawings that I work on for months as a time. This process helps me understand colors and patterns\, which then allows me to transfer my ideas to large-scale paintings and public projects.” \nFor inquiries\, please email info@cueartfoundation.org.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/art-exhibition-avani-patel-connection/
LOCATION:Evercore Partners\, 55 East 52nd St\, New York\, NY\, 10055\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibit,In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241106T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241106T200000
DTSTAMP:20241105T210250Z
CREATED:20241029T210256Z
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SUMMARY:"Making or Faking Chinatown?" Curators Talk w/ Kerri Culhane & Yin Kong
DESCRIPTION:A conversation between architectural historian Kerri Culhane and urbanist Yin Kong\, moderated by Daniel McPhee of Urban Design Forum.\n\n\nJoin us for a thought-provoking conversation about the urban planning exhibition Making or Faking Chinatown? and cultural representation in Chinatown’s built environment between architectural historian Kerri Culhane and urbanist Yin Kong\, moderated by Daniel McPhee of Urban Design Forum. \n \nKerri Culhane is an independent public historian and board member of Think!Chinatown. Over the past 15 years\, Kerri’s work has focused on the past\, present\, and future of the immigrant neighborhoods of New York City’s Lower East Side\, Chinatown\, Little Italy and the Bowery. \nYin Kong 邝海音 is a founder and Executive Director of Think!Chinatown\, a community-based designer and curator living and working in Manhattan’s Chinatown. Think!Chinatown is the culmination of her work in urban design\, museum\, culinary & cultural instruction\, and community engagement. \nDaniel McPhee is Executive Director of the Urban Design Forum\, an independent membership organization confronting the defining issues facing New York City’s built environment. He produces programs and publications that showcase creative approaches to creating housing\, transportation\, open space\, and climate resiliency. \n \nABOUT THE EXHIBITION \nOn view through November 6\, 2024\, Making or Faking Chinatown? Representing People\, Place and Culture explores the unresolved debate around cultural representation in Chinatown’s built environment through extensive research\, photographs from Chinatowns across North America\, and artwork by artist John Lee. The exhibition is co-curated by T!C Director Yin Kong and architectural historian Kerri Culhane\, and designed with fwd | A+U\, Farzana Gandhi Design Studio\, and Pentagram as part of Van Alen Institute’s program Design Sprints.  \n \nABOUT THINK!CHINATOWN \nThink!Chinatown is a place-based intergenerational non-profit in Manhattan’s Chinatown\, working at the intersection of storytelling\, arts\, neighborhood engagement\, and creative placekeeping. We believe the process of listening\, reflecting and celebrating develops the community cohesion and trust necessary to work on larger neighborhood issues. By building strength from within our neighborhood\, we can shape better policies and programs that define our public spaces\, celebrate our cultural heritage and innovate how our collective memories are represented. T!C is the team powering the Chinatown Night Market\, Chinatown Block Parties\, Chinatown Arts Festival\, Chinatown Storytelling Festival\, Chinatown!Studio and more. Learn more at www.thinkchinatown.org
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/making-or-faking-chinatown-curators-talk-w-kerri-culhane-yin-kong/
LOCATION:Chinatown!Studio\, 1 Pike Street\, New York\, NY\, 10002\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241106T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241106T193000
DTSTAMP:20241101T060315Z
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SUMMARY:American Flygirl: The Pathbreaking Life of World War II Pilot Hazel Ying Lee
DESCRIPTION:Use code FLYGIRL24 for $10 discount. \nDuring World War II\, pathbreaker and patriot Hazel Ying Lee\, a young Chinese-American woman who had already broken stereotypes as a commercial pilot in China\, made history as the first Asian-American woman to join the Women Airforce Service Pilots\, also known as the WASPs. Repeatedly dismissed for both her gender and ethnicity\, Lee refused to be held back\, insisting on fighting—and ultimately giving her life—following her dream of flying. In discussion with historian K. Scott Wong\, biographer Susan Tate Ankeny takes us into the cockpit with this unsung American hero. \nSusan Tate Ankeny is a former teacher and the author of American Flygirl and The Girl and the Bombardier: A True Story of Resistance and Rescue in Nazi-Occupied France. K. Scott Wong (moderator) is the Charles R. Keller Professor of History at Williams College and the author or editor of multiple volumes on Asian-American history\, including Asian America: A Primary Source Reader. \n 
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/american-flygirl-the-pathbreaking-life-of-world-war-ii-pilot-hazel-ying-lee/
LOCATION:New York Historical Society\, 170 Central Park West\, New York\, NY\, 10024\, United States
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Hybrid,In Person,Virtual
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241107
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241110
DTSTAMP:20240825T234613Z
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SUMMARY:Shinnai Meets Puppetry: One Night in Winter & The Peony Lantern
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 7 at 7:30 pm\nFriday\, November 8 at 7:30 pm—Followed by an artist Q&A\nSaturday\, November 9 at 2:30 pm and 7:30 pm \nLimited seating. (Seating: General Admission) \nFollowing her highly popular run of SHEEP #1 at Japan Society in 2021\, NYC-based artist Sachiyo Takahashi/Nekaa Lab presents two whimsical and spooky tales: a heart-warming-then-wrenching fable on the friendship between a shapeshifting tanuki trickster and a lonely old man; and a classical Japanese ghost story to chill you to the bone. These stories were set by shinnai-bushi Grand Master Okamoto Bunya (1895-1996) to rustic\, lyrical storytelling music with shamisen accompaniment. Takahashi\, who has practiced shinnai-bushi under the authorized stage name of Okamoto Miya\, performs this expressive music while her collaborators Rowan Magee and Emma Wiseman animate these fantastical stories with original puppets and new puppetry techniques\, sure to enchant children and adults alike. (Recommended Age 8+) \nPerformed in English and Japanese with English supertitles. \n 
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/shinnai-meets-puppetry-one-night-in-winter-the-peony-lantern/
LOCATION:Japan Society\, 333 East 47th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10017\, United States
CATEGORIES:Theater
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241107T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241107T180000
DTSTAMP:20241104T034730Z
CREATED:20241104T034730Z
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SUMMARY:Election Community Circle
DESCRIPTION:Let’s gather to connect with ourselves\, hold space for one another\, and offer and receive care.\n\n\nJoin us to process the 2024 elections together. \nLet’s gather to connect with ourselves\, hold space for one another\, and offer and receive care. \nAll are welcome. ❤️ \nEvent Details: \n\nDate: Thursday\, November 7\, 2024\nTime: 5-6pm PT / 8-9pm ET\nLocation: Zoom\nOur facilitator\, Angela Kim\, is a visionary organizer and Kingian nonviolence trainer working towards a world where we have increased capacities to sit with our own and each other’s complexities. Angela stewards community containers where participants can share grief\, practice nonviolence skills\, and be co-opted into emergence inspired by the erotic\, the intuitive\, the divine\, and the other-than-human.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/election-community-circle/
LOCATION:New York
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241107T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241107T190000
DTSTAMP:20241024T104207Z
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SUMMARY:Beyond the Ballot: Asian Americans at Work and the 2024 Election Outcomes
DESCRIPTION:Join veteran journalist Richard Lui and political scientist Karthick Ramakrishnan for an insightful presentation of the Inclusion @ Work | Asian Americans risk report\, a groundbreaking study providing action-based metrics for Executive Leadership\, including on lawsuit likelihood\, revenue risk\, and retention\, of AANHPI professionals —insights often missing from traditional corporate surveys. During the program\, Richard and Karthick will not only present key findings but also lead a dynamic discussion on how companies can leverage these insights to enhance the workplace experience for Asian professionals. Additionally\, they will explore how political headwinds may shape the future of work in this demographic. \nThis program is designed for executive leaders\, HR professionals\, organizational strategists\, inclusion advocates\, and Asian professionals at all levels seeking to drive meaningful change within their organizations. \n***This event is free for corporate members and sponsors. Please use your company’s custom promo code during checkout.*** \n***This program will begin promptly at 6:00PM through 7:00PM. Join us afterward at the Asia Society Leo Bar to continue the conversation. One free drink at Leo Bar is included with each ticket.***
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/beyond-the-ballot-asian-americans-at-work-and-the-2024-election-outcomes/
LOCATION:Asia Society NYC\, 725 Park Ave\, New York\, NY\, 10021\, United States
CATEGORIES:Discussion,In Person,Professional Development
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241107T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241107T210000
DTSTAMP:20241101T060009Z
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SUMMARY:Dance: Work in Progress: The Stranger
DESCRIPTION:The Stranger sits at the intersection of dance and installation\, delving into the stories of immigrants and resident aliens in the United States across generations. Join us for a Work in Process of The Stranger on November 7 at Hi-ARTS. \n“Coming to the United States from China for high school\, my teenage years have been filled with questions about my place in both the U.S. and my motherland – frustration with the foreign language\, illusional strivings to fit in\, anger and helplessness in defending my identity or fears towards indeterminate visa application. Yet\, the above is only one piece of a larger story. I am curious about other immigrants’ stories\, and their complicated shared emotions: fear\, hope\, sorrow\, anger…The Stranger captures their stories and mine.” — Yang Sun \nYang Sun is an award-winning dancer\, choreographer\, and director\, working in the intersection of movement\, color\, and poetry. Her strong bond with movement begins with improvisation practices in the field\, cafeteria\, corridor\, riverbank\, and other non-traditional spaces. Growing up in China and finding her path in the U.S.\, Yang holds a Summa Cum Laude Bachelor of Arts in Theater and Dance from Amherst College. She is also an alum of the Trinity/LA MAMA Performing Arts Program in New York and the NUOVAX program in Torino\, Italy. Yang joins Hi-ARTS as a SKY LAB Resident\, a developmental residency designed to support artists engaging community in their practice. During her time in residence\, Yang will continue the development of The Stranger. Alongside her company collaborators\, she will engage with five non-dance immigrant community members to join her in the development and presentation of the work.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/dance-work-in-progress-the-stranger/
LOCATION:Hi-ARTS Studio\, 215 East 99th St\, New York\, NY\, 10029\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dance,In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241108T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241108T143000
DTSTAMP:20241107T080635Z
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SUMMARY:A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group Workshop: Karen Hui
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group. Hosted by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. \nREGISTER \nGraduate students are invited to join the next workshop hosted by the A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group featuring Karen Hui (CUNY Graduate Center). Hui will present\, “Anxious Futures: Middle Class Parenting in Shenzhen\,” a chapter from her dissertation\, which examines the politics and ethics of middle-class child-rearing in contemporary Shenzhen\, China\, and its relationship to national imaginaries of the future. \nThe A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group hosts monthly workshops for graduate students to foster interdisciplinary discussion and interdepartmental collaboration on each other’s research and interests in Asian/Pacific/American Studies. \nNYU campus access guidelines: This is an in-person event\, open to graduate students from NYU and nearby universities. Registration is required. Non-NYU guests may be asked to present a government-issued photo ID. NYU guests must present their NYU ID. \nAccessibility note: This venue has an elevator and is accessible for wheelchair users. There are single-stall\, all gender restrooms available. If you have any access needs\, please email apa.rsvp@nyu.edu. \n  \nAbstract \nIn the second chapter of her dissertation\, “Anxious Futures: Middle Class Parenting in Shenzhen\,” Karen Hui argues that the makings of a middle class subjectivity in Shenzhen is anchored by the particular narratives that emerge surrounding Shenzhen’s status as China’s first Special Economic Zone (SEZ). Following the lead of critical urban studies in Shenzhen that identify the SEZ as oscillating between “experiment” and “model”\, this chapter explores how these contradictory poles embedded in Shenzhen narratives are operationalized as key sites where the reproduction of the moral conditions of development (individualism\, hard work\, entrepreneurialism) happen. Through interviews with mothers who recount their experiences of moving to and working in Shenzhen between the late 1980s and early 2000s\, Hui examines how “generational” narratives of an early-reform Shenzhen emphasize a sense of opportunity and fairness encoded in market relations\, qualities that are formed in opposition to notions of guanxi (personal connections) and state power. Inheritors of these values\, middle class mothers struggle to reconcile these Reform narratives to the contemporary moment marked by growing anxiety around economic crisis. In particular\, this ambivalence places more pressure on mothers who are deemed primarily responsible for caring for and managing children. By  focusing on how mothers contrast their own migrant experiences to the futures their children will experience\, this chapter explores parental ambivalence towards China’s future validity\, and ultimately reveals how Shenzhen remains a central site for imagining Chinese nation-state futures. \n  \nPhotograph by Karen Hui.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/a-p-a-graduate-student-working-group-workshop-karen-hui/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square\, 3rd floor\, Room 372\, New York\, NY\, 10003
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241108T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241108T200000
DTSTAMP:20240927T041533Z
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SUMMARY:In-Store: Albert Abonado: Field Guide for Accidents w/ Jason Koo
DESCRIPTION:“Albert Abonado’s poems open us up to feast and to wonder.” —Chen Chen\, author of Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency\n\n\nEvent guidelines: \n\nAll attendees are strongly encouraged to wear a face mask at all times.\nTickets are limited to restrict capacity at our store\, and each ticket will include either a copy of the featured book or a $10 Books Are Magic gift card.\nAdditional copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.\nA signing will follow the talk.\nHome address is collected for contact tracing purposes; it will not be used otherwise.\nThe event will also be livestreamed for free here: https://youtube.com/live/oBDtKs7fzS8\nAs a reminder: If you are not feeling well\, please do not come to the event\, even if you have a ticket; email us and we’ll work it out.\n\nIf you have any questions regarding these guidelines or to request accessibility accommodations\, please contact eventhelp@booksaremagic.net. \n \nSELECTED BY MAHOGANY L. BROWNE FOR THE NATIONAL POETRY SERIES \nAn irreverent poetry collection that wrestles with questions of family\, mortality\, cultural history\, and identity from the Filipinx-American experience. \nBorn in the United States to Filipino immigrants\, poet Albert Abonado is no stranger to the language of periphery. Neither wholly “American” nor Filipino\, Field Guide for Accidents’s speakers are defined by what they are not: not white enough to be born in America\, not Asian enough to feel at home in the Philippines. Abonado’s poetry illuminates the strange and surreal in domestic routine\, suturing wounds of love\, grief\, and the contradiction of being Filipinx-American\, two identities bound with a hyphen that resists negation. What results is a growing exposure to a world mired in paradox. \nThe poems in Field Guide for Accidents experiment with the constraints of the poetic line\, shaping forms that exhume what tend to haunt us in the silence. In Field Guide for Accidents\, memory becomes augmented with the imaginary; suspicion collides with superstition\, while spirituality crosses paths with scientific fact. A mother returns to her son as a boat. A stew is prepared with blood yet masked as chocolate. The living eat with the dead in memories built like houses. Mythic\, bloodthirsty creatures in Pinoy folklore prey on an exhausted poet. Research conducted in hindsight provides new avenues to explore regret. \nFor many third-culture kids of the Asian-American diaspora\, there is no such thing as a success story for “fitting in.” What matters more is finding where you belong. Spooning images from hand to mouth\, the poems in Field Guide for Accidents struggle with what it means to consume and be consumed by American culture. \n \nAlbert Abonado is the author of Jaw (Sundress Publications). He holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars and has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. His writing has appeared in the Boston Review\, Colorado Review\, Poetry Northwest\, The Margins\, Hobart\, Waxwing\, Triquarterly\, and others. Albert currently teaches creative writing at SUNY Geneseo and the Rochester Institute for Technology. He is the former Director of Adult Programs at Writers & Books. \n \nJason Koo is a second-generation Korean American poet\, educator\, editor and nonprofit director. He is the author of four full-length collections of poetry: No Rest\, a winner of the Diode Editions Book Contest\, More Than Mere Light\, America’s Favorite Poem and Man on Extremely Small Island. His work has been published in Best American Poetry 2022\, Missouri Review\, Poetry Northwest\, Village Voice and Yale Review\, among other places\, and won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, Vermont Studio Center and New York State Writers Institute. He is an associate teaching professor of English and the director of creative writing at Quinnipiac University and the founder and executive director of Brooklyn Poets. For his work with Brooklyn Poets\, Koo was named one of the “100 Most Influential People in Brooklyn Culture” by Brooklyn Magazine.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/in-store-albert-abonado-field-guide-for-accidents-w-jason-koo/
LOCATION:Books Are Magic Smith\, 225 Smith Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11231\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241109T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241109T173000
DTSTAMP:20241015T194602Z
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SUMMARY:IAAC Literary Festival
DESCRIPTION:Get ready for a day filled with book readings\, author panels\, and literary discussions at the IAAC Literary Festival!
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/iaac-literary-festival/
LOCATION:International House\, 500 Riverside Drive\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
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SUMMARY:PAGE TURNER 2024: The AAWW Publishing Conference
DESCRIPTION:PAGE TURNER centers the work and experiences of writers of color\, and aims to demystify the often opaque business of publishing.\n\n\nThis fall\, we are thrilled to present PAGE TURNER: The Asian American Writers’ Workshop Publishing Conference\, a signature program that we’ll present in-person on Saturday\, November 9th\, at our event space in New York. For those unable to attend in person\, the event will be available via livestream for a discounted ticket price. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to msaleh@aaww.org for assistance if you are able to join in person but the ticket price is prohibitive. \nOur publishing conference will center the work and experiences of writers of color\, and aims to demystify the often opaque business of publishing and writing\, convening experts and authors across industries and genres to share candid insights\, advice\, and experiences. From the latest generation of literary debuts to queer voices in poetry\, AAWW invites conference attendees to explore deeply the craft of writing and publishing with an incredible lineup of panels featuring highly sought-after industry insiders. \nCheck out the conference schedule below! We will announce the lineup for each panel in the coming weeks: \n10:00 am – 10:30 am: Keynote Address \n10:45 am – 11:45 am: Disrupting the Narrative: The Future of Literary Criticism \nJoin Katie Yee\, Ismail Ibrahim\, Spencer Quong\, TD Tso\, and Vina Orden as they discuss what literary criticism looks like in the context of an ever-changing media and technological landscape. Panelists will unpack how narratives are crafted and consumed\, all while making a case for literature’s ability to challenge the status quo and inspire social transformation. \n12:00 pm – 1:00 pm: Resonant Verses: Craft\, Form\, and the Poetics of Kinship \nPoetry places a premium on the emotional\, often at the expense of narrative. How do we write to express emotions\, and not just represent ideas? From exploring the musicality of language to navigating the tension between form and freedom\, panelists Ayesha Raees\, Jan Henry Gray\, Sreshtha Sen\, and Jasmine Reid will discuss the craft techniques that elevate their work. They’ll also examine the role of personal and cultural narratives in shaping the forms their writings take. \n1:15 pm – 2:15 pm: Lunch Break \n2:30 pm – 3:30 pm: Undoing Genre: Emerging Voices From Across the Literary Spectrum \nAuthors Maddie Mori\, Nina Sharma\, noam keim\, and Karen Mok will discuss the distinct and often winding paths they each took toward publishing their work across poetry\, memoir\, and fiction. From navigating the complexities of finding the right literary agents to negotiating their first contracts\, the authors will share the highs and lows of their journeys. What were some similarities across the authors’ experiences? What were some differences? The discussion will also touch on how identity and representation played a role in shaping their publishing journeys\, offering a deeper look at the intersection of personal and professional challenges. To what extent were the similarities due to the general vagaries of publishing\, and to what extent were the differences influenced by the specific genres in which each writer published? Expect an engaging conversation that sheds light on the realities of breaking into the literary world as a debut author. \n3:45 pm – 4:45 pm: Behind the Covers: Labor Practices in Small Press Publishing \nJoin Tara Jayakar\, Meher Manda\, Jenna Hamed\, and Sunny Iyer as they discuss the inner workings of small presses that champion marginalized voices in American literature. The panelists will dive into the labor practices that shape the production of books in the small press world\, from the challenges of operating on limited budgets to the creative strategies used to amplify marginalized voices\, the panel will explore the often unseen labor behind publishing. Attendees will gain insights into the unique dynamics of small press publishing\, the ethical considerations of their practices\, and how these presses are instrumental in shaping the future of Asian American literature. \n5:00 pm – 6:00 pm: Agents & Editors Happy Hour \nWendi Gu\, Jade Wong-Baxter\, and Krithika Varagur will gather to meet and connect with emerging and aspiring writers. This special networking hour offers aspiring authors a unique chance to connect with industry professionals\, share their work\, and build valuable relationships. Whether your manuscript is complete or you’re still refining your craft\, this is your moment to explore the publishing world with support from experienced literary agents dedicated to amplifying Asian American voices. \n__ \nCOMMUNITY CARE & ACCESSIBILITY \nAt AAWW\, the safety and comfort of our community is our top priority. We invite you to practice intentionality and care in your behavior and language when engaging with our programs and with each other. Violence of any kind\, including but not limited to racism\, sexism\, homophobia\, transphobia\, ableism\, ageism\, class or casteism\, bigotry or bias toward religion or faith\, or any action or assault against marginalized identities\, is not tolerated. Those who bring harm to our community in person or online are not welcome\, and will be asked to exit the space. \nThe event will be livestreamed for those who cannot join us in person. For those joining us in person\, we are located on the 6th floor of 112 W 27th Street (between 6th and 7th Avenues)\, there is an elevator that will take you directly to our office. To protect our friends with chemical sensitivities\, AAWW is a fragrance-free space. Masks are required for audience members for all AAWW events; if you forget yours\, one will be provided for you. We have three commercial grade air purifiers\, and a quiet room in the back should you need some space from the crowd. We highly encourage all in person guests to take a COVID test at home prior to the event. If you have had COVID or have had known contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID in the 10 days prior\, we ask you tune in for the livestream instead. Please reach out to msaleh@aaww.org for additional accessibility requests\, including ADA accessible bathrooms\, chairs with added back support\, and beyond. This space is for YOU!
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/page-turner-2024-the-aaww-publishing-conference/
LOCATION:Asian American Writers’ Workshop\, 18 West 21st Street\, Suite 900\, New York\, NY\, 10010\, United States
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SUMMARY:Story Time with Raakhee Mirchandani
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning writer Raakhee Mirchandani join us for not one\, but TWO\, picture book readings at this special Story Time!\n\n\nIN-STORE EVENTSaturday\, November 9\, 11:00 AMStory Time: Raakhee Mirchandani presents Kamala Raised Her Hand AND Mama’s Roti \nAt this special Story Time\, join us for not one\, but two\, picture book readings by author Raakhee Mirchandani\, an award-winning writer. First\, we’ll dive into Kamala Raised Her Hand\, a picture book celebration of Kamala Harris—the first female\, Black\, and South Asian American person to be Vice President of the United States—from her childhood to her historic run for president. Then\, we’ll explore Mama’s Roti\, a powerful story about the life-giving force of roti—a round Indian flatbread—and where it comes from\, the people who grow it\, and what it symbolizes within two families\, inspired by the farmers’ protests in India. Join Mirchandani as she spotlights multiple important figures and cultures of the world around us.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/story-time-with-raakhee-mirchandani/
LOCATION:Greenlight Bookstore\, 686 Fulton Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11217\, United States
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SUMMARY:MOCACREATE: Totally Awesome Pop Art Lettering with Teaching Artist Yu Rong
DESCRIPTION:Whether you’re crafting bold headlines or playful bubble letters\, join us in channeling your inner designer and creating fonts that pop!
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/mocacreate-totally-awesome-pop-art-lettering-with-teaching-artist-yu-rong/
LOCATION:Museum of Chinese in America\, 215 Centre Street\, New York\, NY\, 10013
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