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SUMMARY:Japanese "Kimekomi" Traditional Doll-Making Workshop – Frog\, Owl & More
DESCRIPTION:For the September 6th class\, students can choose among the Frog\, Owl\, Jizo\, Daruma\, and Goldfish designs. \nShape silk and fabric into a stunning Japanese decorative doll\, one piece at a time. \nKimekomi is a traditional Japanese craft with deep cultural roots. Using a wooden base\, you tuck colorful silk and fabric into carved grooves to create a beautiful keepsake doll—no sewing required. In this hands-on workshop\, our instructor guides you step by step as you bring your own doll to life and take it home. \n\n\nThis class welcomes all skill levels—whether you are completely new to Japanese craft or have an artistic background. All materials are included. \nYour instructor\, Keiko Fukuda\, was born in Nagasaki and studied Pop Art in Tokyo. She has taught traditional Japanese crafts\, famous painting reproductions\, and printmaking across several countries\, and founded YUME CLOUD STUDIO in 2016. \nPLEASE NOTE: The class sign up deadline is 72 hours before the class begins. Cancellation after this period will NOT be refunded.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/japanese-kimekomi-traditional-doll-making-workshop-frog-owl-more/
LOCATION:RESOBOX East Village\, 91 East 3rd Street\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts and Crafts,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Talk Too Much 2026
DESCRIPTION:This year we’re going to discuss\n⭐️Our journey building community back home in Fuzhou\n⭐️ Manhattan Chinatown’s Changing Restaurant Industry\n⭐️ Chinatown and Immigration\n⭐️ Fuzhounese Artist Feature \nMark your calendars. Star speakers in the community will be announced soon\, along with a thoughtfully curated vendor market ❤️
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/talk-too-much-2026/
LOCATION:DCTV\, 87 Lafayette Street\, New York\, NY\, 10013\, United States
CATEGORIES:Discussion
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260906T160000
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SUMMARY:Film: The Crack (缝)
DESCRIPTION:Chinese Artists on the Edge brings together five landmark films that reveal the fertile exchange between contemporary art and Chinese cinema from the late 1980s through the turn of the twenty-first century. \nThe Crack (缝)\nLi Wake\, China\, 2000\, 101 min.\nIn Chinese with English subtitles. \nLong circulated only through underground screenings before its restoration by the Chinese Independent Film Archive\, Li Wake’s The Crack stands as one of the most significant rediscoveries of Chinese independent cinema. Drawing on his own experiences as a performance artist and contemporary artist\, this semi-autobiographical drama moves between 1966 and 1989\, tracing the psychological afterlives of two defining eras of modern Chinese history. Rejecting conventional realism in favor of a oneiric\, expressionist visual language\, Li constructs a world where ritual\, performance\, erotic obsession\, and historical memory collapse into one another. Arriving near the culmination of the first generation of Chinese independent filmmaking\, The Crack remains one of its boldest and most singular achievements. —Sam C. Mac \nA limited amount of complimentary tickets will be available to NYC college students with ID at the box office on the day of the screening.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/film-the-crack-%e7%bc%9d/
LOCATION:Asia Society\, 725 Park Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10021
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260906T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260906T180000
DTSTAMP:20260822T230146Z
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SUMMARY:Dumpling Making: Communal Cooking Experience
DESCRIPTION:More than a cooking class\, think a book club meets around your grandma’s dining table. \n​Inspired by my own family tradition of making dumplings with my now 97-year-old grandma\, each gathering celebrates connection\, storytelling\, and the art of Chinese cuisine. \n​Join us on Sept.6th at 3:00 PM at Welcome to Chinatown and it will be your last chance to try out our summer menu! \n\n​🎟️ Your Ticket Includes: \n​✨ A 3-hour communal dumpling-making experience – 1 meat + 1 vegetarian filling\, yes we’re making the dough from scratch\, but totally beginner friendly since you won’t be working alone:)\n✨ Assorted nostalgic Asian snacks while you fold\n✨ A three-course\, summer-themed menu featuring seasonal appetizers\, the dumplings you make\, and dessert\n✨ All tools and materials provided \n​We can’t wait to roll dough\, fold dumplings\, and share food stories together ❤️ Come solo or with friends or family! \n\n​Please plan to arrive 5-10 minutes early to get settled. We’ll allow a 5-minute grace period before starting. This event is for adults only\, but follow us for future family-friendly gatherings! \n​All sales are final\, though we’re happy to allow a one-time ticket transfer to other friends/family if you can’t make it. By registering\, you agree that photos from the event may be used for future marketing.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/dumpling-making-communal-cooking-experience/
LOCATION:Welcome to Chinatown\, 115 Bowery\, New York\, NY\, 10002\, United States
CATEGORIES:Food,Workshop
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260906T181500
DTSTAMP:20260810T012826Z
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SUMMARY:Film: The Paper (纸)
DESCRIPTION:Chinese Artists on the Edge brings together five landmark films that reveal the fertile exchange between contemporary art and Chinese cinema from the late 1980s through the turn of the twenty-first century. \nThe Paper (纸)\nDing Jiancheng\, China\, 1993\, 62 min.\nIn Chinese with English subtitles. \nFollowed by a Q&A with Ding Jiancheng. \nAdapted from a short story by Su Tong\, one of China’s foremost contemporary novelists whose fiction inspired Raise the Red Lantern\, Ding Jiancheng’s The Paper is one of the most visually distinctive Chinese films of its era. Centered on an elderly maker of paper effigies and the young boy drawn into his world\, the film treats paper as both subject and method\, drifting between literature and cinema\, dream and reality\, color and monochrome. The result is a film in a constant state of transformation\, rooted in craft\, materiality\, and storytelling. Long believed to survive only in a single 35mm release print\, the film was digitized by the Asian Film Archive in 2021\, making this remarkable debut feature newly accessible to audiences. —Sam C. Mac \nDigital restoration courtesy of Asian Film Archive. \nA limited amount of complimentary tickets will be available to NYC college students with ID at the box office on the day of the screening.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/film-the-paper-%e7%ba%b8/
LOCATION:Asia Society\, 725 Park Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10021
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260914
DTSTAMP:20260904T063729Z
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SUMMARY:Asian Pear Picking at Lee Orchard Garden
DESCRIPTION:Due to a late spring freeze\, our orchard has significantly limited amounts of our Asian pears across all varieties. We anticipate a very short season. As a result\, we highly recommend that you purchase your picking tickets in advance or pre-order boxed fruit at your earliest convenience. \nAsian pear varieties available: \n\nHosui\, 20th Century\, Hybrid (Described as Apple Pear/Hosui mix) – from September 3\nApple Pear – from September 10\n\n \nOrganic Chestnuts\, Organic Fresh Dates\, and Organic Pawpaws will be available starting mid-September. If you are interested\, please fill out the contact box here with your interest and preferred contact method. We will be collecting names and contacting in order of submission once the produce is ready. Please note availability is not guaranteed. \nPre-Order Reservation Fee: $5.00 per pre-order pick-up reservation. The pre-order reservation fee will be credited toward your purchase. Please respect your pick up date. Sorry\, no refunds for no-shows. \nStarting Thursday\, September 3:\nThursday – Sunday: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm\nMonday – Wednesday: Closed
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/asian-pear-picking-at-lee-orchard-garden/
LOCATION:Lee Orchard Garden\, 12 Nostrand Road\, Cranbury\, NJ\, 08512\, United States
CATEGORIES:Food,Small Business
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260908
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260916
DTSTAMP:20260901T012101Z
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SUMMARY:FREE Online Korean Class
DESCRIPTION:Ready to level up your Korean? Learn Korean. FREE & ONLINE! \nJoin KCCNY x King Sejong Institute Center USA for a 10-week Korean language program this fall. \n📚 Korean 1A & 1B | Beginner Levels\n📆 September 29–December 3\, 2026\n🕖 7–9 PM ET | Tuesdays\, Wednesdays\, or Thursdays | Meets once a week \n📅 APPLICATIONS OPEN\nSeptember 8 at 1 PM ET \n📩 SELECTION RESULTS\nSeptember 16 \n✅ WHO CAN APPLY?\n• 18+ and living in the U.S.\n• Complete the official King Sejong Institute Korean Level Test and submit your result and upload your result to the application form. \n⚠️ Space is limited! Applications are reviewed in the order received and may close early once enough applications have been received.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/26540/
LOCATION:Korean Cultural Center New York\, 122 East 32nd Street\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education,Language
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260908T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260908T113000
DTSTAMP:20260820T131539Z
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SUMMARY:Tai Chi with Pin Pin Su
DESCRIPTION:The ultimate mind and body workout involves slow\, fluid\, movements through postures of centuries-old Chinese Taoist martial arts. \n\n\nOverview \nThe ultimate mind and body workout involves slow\, fluid\, movements through postures of centuries-old Chinese Taoist martial arts. \nTai Chi with Pin Pin Su \nTai chi—the ultimate mind and body workout\, often described as “meditation in motion”—involves slow\, fluid\, continuous movements through formalized postures of centuries-old Chinese Taoist martial arts. \nFree and open to the public. Advance registration is encouraged. Walk-ups are welcome. The event will be canceled if it rains. The decision will be made by 5pm the day before and announced on @highlinenyc’s X feed. Registrants will receive an email if the event is canceled. \nPlease wear comfortable clothes and shoes to move around in. \nAbout the instructor \nPin Pin Su teaches tai chi in conjunction with qi gong\, with the philosophy that mind\, body\, and spirit are all interrelated. She combines her Eastern medicinal healing roots with a Western twist for an all-encompassing mind/body experience. When not in a classroom\, she has private patients that come to her for one-on-one expressive therapy. \nTai chi is part of our High Line Wellness programming\, designed specifically with older adults in mind. Adults of any age are invited to join the High Line to learn\, move\, have fun\, and connect with neighbors. Wellness activities\, educational sessions\, cultural engagements\, and other events are offered on and near the park\, in collaboration with local community-based organizations that serve older adults in Chelsea\, Hell’s Kitchen\, and on the West Side of Manhattan.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/tai-chi-with-pin-pin-su/
LOCATION:On the High Line at 30th Street & 10th Avenue\, 30th Street and 10th Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10001\, United States
CATEGORIES:Health & Wellness
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260908T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260908T190000
DTSTAMP:20260805T153647Z
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SUMMARY:Book Club: Eileen Chang’s Time Tunnel
DESCRIPTION:Join the China Books Review book club this September to discuss Time Tunnel: Stories and Essays by Eileen Chang\, tr. Karen S. Kingsbury (New York Review Books\, October 2025)\, a collection of previously untranslated stories from Eileen Chang’s literary career. \nThirty years after her death\, Time Tunnel reaffirms Eileen Chang’s place as one of the 20th century’s finest writers. Spanning the entirety of her career\, from 1940s Japanese-occupied Shanghai to Hong Kong under British colonial rule\, then her final decades in America\, these stories showcase Chang’s enduring ability to illuminate the inner lives of people dislocated by vast historic and cultural shifts. The intricacies of lifelong friendships\, the clipped hopes of lovers and the subtle contortions of gender politics unravel with the same virtuosic skill and nuance that catapulted her to fame with novellas such as Lust\, Caution and Love in a Fallen City. We owe a debt of thanks to Karen S. Kingsbury and Jie Zhang\, not only for translating these remarkable stories into English\, but for proving that with Eileen Chang\, there are no marginal texts\, only hidden gems. \nRegister your spot by RSVPing at the link to the top right of this page. The book club is free\, but seats are limited so secure yours now! We ask that all book club members purchase and read your own copy of the book in advance if you’re joining. \nThe China Books Review book club is a bimonthly series of spirited literary discussions with like-minded readers\, hosted by our editors and featuring introductory context before freewheeling debate. We meet five times a year (Jan\, Mar\, May\, Sep\, Nov) to discuss the latest literature and nonfiction from or on the Sinophone world. If you’d like to be added to our invite list to be notified of future book club sessions\, just email us at info@chinabooksreview.com.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/book-club-eileen-changs-time-tunnel/
LOCATION:Asia Society\, 725 Park Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10021
CATEGORIES:Book
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260908T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260908T190000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch | The Chinese Lady by Bo Wang
DESCRIPTION:Pre-purchase your copy of the featured title to guarantee your signed copy! This helps ensure that everyone who wants a book goes home with one\, in case we sell out at the event.\n\nABOUT THE BOOK \n\n\n\n\n\nBo Wang’s gorgeous and immersive debut historical novel immortalizes the life of the first Chinese woman to be brought to the United States in the 1800s. \nLittle Sparrow\, Julia\, Afong Moy\, Madame Moy\, The Chinese Lady\, were her many names . . . but her true name has been lost to time. \nIn 1834 Afong Moy was brought to New York by two merchants as a live exhibit. Rising to fame as the first Chinese female in the United States\, she became an oddity among curios as Americans marveled at the opportunity to observe her astonishing little feet\, broken and bound to resemble lotuses. \nAs the story moves from 1820s Canton to P.T. Barnum’s American Museum\, to Gold Rush San Francisco\, three women introduce us to her many names. Her mother calls her Little Sparrow and sells her to a captain who sails her to New York. The captain’s wife names her Julia and “graciously” treats her as her own. And when she is shunted off to P.T Barnum\, her fellow human exhibitions call her China. Eventually arriving in San Francisco’s Chinatown\, she will at long last claim her name and her own story. \nCombining archival research and brilliantly imaginative storytelling\, Bo Wang masterfully fills in history’s gaps to weave a powerful narrative of survival in the face of hardship\, tragedy\, and betrayal. Told through the eyes of those around her; mirroring her life as an object on display\, until we finally see the world through her own eyes. \n\n\n\n\n\n ABOUT THE AUTHOR \nBo Wang was born in Cincinnati to Taiwanese American parents. Her childhood was peppered with stories of the Monkey King alongside those of Frog and Toad. A graduate of Sycamore Public Schools\, Bo holds an A.B. in history and literature from Harvard College. She now lives in Boston with her family. The Chinese Lady is her debut novel. \nIN CONVERSATION WITH \nAlice Evelyn Yang is a Chinese American writer from Norfolk\, Virginia. Her debut novel\, A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing\, was selected by booksellers as an Indie Next and Indies Introduce pick and longlisted for the Women’s Prize. She is the recipient of the 2023 Jesmyn Ward Prize from Michigan Quarterly Review\, and her work has been published in MQR\, The Rumpus\, and the Asian American Writers Workshop’s The Margins\, among others. She earned her MFA from Columbia University. She currently lives in Brooklyn.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/book-launch-the-chinese-lady-by-bo-wang/
LOCATION:Yu and Me Books\, 44 Mulberry St.\, New York\, NY\, 10013\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book,Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260908T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260908T203000
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SUMMARY:Alison Nguyen: "Prior Occupants" Artist Talk & Special Screening
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the world premiere of Alison Nguyen’s High Line & CHANEL co-commission\, followed by a conversation with the artist. \n\n\nIn her compelling new film for High Line Originals\, co-commissioned with CHANEL Culture Fund\, Nguyen explores the obscure nuclear history of Westbeth Artist Housing’s building—the former headquarters for Bell Laboratories\, a research facility tied to the development of communication technologies and\, later\, the atomic bomb. Inspired by a severed fragment of the original High Line freight rail left embedded in Westbeth’s facade\, and the High Line’s own history of transformation\, Nguyen reflects on the historical narratives that persist—and those quietly erased—within sites of adaptive reuse. \nYou’re invited to the premiere of Nguyen’s new work Prior Occupants\, co-commissioned by High Line Art and CHANEL Culture Fund. Following the screening\, the artist will be joined in conversation by High Line Art Associate Curator\, Taylor Zakarin\, to discuss her practice and this exciting new work. \nPart of High Line Channel\, High Line Originals is High Line Art’s commissioning program for artists working in time-based media. This initiative invites emerging or underrecognized US-based artists\, nominated by a trusted group of contemporary curators\, to submit a proposal for a new video work that considers the context of the park in a meaningful way and will resonate with our diverse audience. \nHigh Line Originals launched in 2019 with Tourmaline’s Salacia\, which is now held in the Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection. Other past commissions include Onyeka Igwe’s The Miracle on George Green (2021)\, and Alicia Mersy’s NYC Wisdom (2024). In 2025\, High Line Art partnered with CHANEL Culture Fund\, and together co-commissioned Frank WANG Yefeng’s Groundless Flower – ཨ (2025). \nAbout the Artist: \nAlison Nguyen (b. 1986\, Wilmington\, Delaware) is a visual artist working across video\, installation\, performance\, and sculpture. Using approaches of speculative fiction\, documentary research\, and embodied performance\, Nguyen creates works that reconsider how narratives operate within the individual\, the institution\, the archive\, and within the politics of cultural memory. \nNguyen lives and works in New York\, New York. Solo screenings and exhibitions of her work have been presented at Storefront for Art and Architecture\, New York\, New York (2026); Art Basel Hong Kong Encounters\, Hong Kong (2025); Murmurs\, Los Angeles (2024); Museum of Modern Art\, New York\, New York (2023); MIT List Center for Visual Arts\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts (2023); and e-flux\, Brooklyn\, New York (2023). Nguyen has participated in group exhibitions and screenings at the Busan Biennial\, Busan\, South Korea (2026); Kunsthalle Mechelen\, Mechelen\, Belgium (2026); Vienna Secession\, Vienna\, Austria (2024); EMAP x Frieze Seoul Film\, Seoul\, South Korea (2024); National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea\, Seoul\, South Korea (2023); The Everson Museum\, Syracuse\, New York (2022); The Dowse Art Museum\, Lower Hutt\, New Zealand (2021); The International Studio & Curatorial Program\, Brooklyn\, New York (2019 & 2020); KAJE\, Brooklyn\, New York (2020); and Microscope Gallery\, Brooklyn\, New York (2017). \nShe has participated in film festivals around the world\, including Oberhausen International Film Festival\, International Shorts Online (2021); CPH:DOX\, Copenhagen\, Denmark (2021); Edinburgh International Film Festival\, Edinburgh\, United Kingdom (2021); Ann Arbor Film Festival\, Ann Arbor\, Michigan (2020); Open City Documentary Festival\, London\, United Kingdom (2019); Channels Festival International Biennial of Video Art\, Melbourne\, Australia (2019)\, and True/False Film Festival\, Columbia\, Missouri (2018); among others. \nNguyen has received residencies and fellowships from Pioneer Works\, New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Fellowship in Film/Video\, International Studio & Curatorial Program\, The Institute of Electronic Arts\, BRIC\, and Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Art Center. She was a 2023-2024 Studio Fellow at the Whitney Independent Study Program. \nPhoto Credit:\nAlison Nguyen\, Prior Occupants\, 2026 (still). Courtesy of the artist.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/alison-nguyen-prior-occupants-artist-talk-special-screening/
LOCATION:On the High Line at 14th Street\, 14th Street and 10th Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10014\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,Dance,Film
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260917
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SUMMARY:Christine Choy Retrospective
DESCRIPTION:Third World Newsreel (TWN) presents a major fall retrospective honoring Christine Choy\, co-founder of Third World Newsreel and an iconic figure in Asian American documentary. For over five decades\, Choy trained her camera on the people the official record overlooked: Chinatown’s garment workers and tenants\, incarcerated women\, Southeast Asian refugees\, families separated between North and South Korea\, and communities across the Mississippi Delta. The retrospective brings nine of her works (including newly preserved films) to the big screen\, continuing TWN’s “Preservation as Resistance” campaign which began with A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde that kicked off the year. The campaign demonstrates the importance of archival preservation during a time of systematic erasure. \nScreenings began in July\, via MoMA’s “Immigrant Nation” series\, and a tribute at the Asian American International Film Festival\, presented by Asian CineVision at the Asia Society on August 2. The retrospective runs September 9-13 at Anthology Film Archives and September 13-16 at DCTV’s Firehouse Cinema\, with additional venues to be announced as the program builds toward international distribution. \nSince Choy’s death in December 2025\, PBS’s POV has called her “a fearless storyteller and pioneering voice in Asian American cinema\,” and NYU Tisch Dean Rubén Polendo remembered her as “a triumphant force in documentary filmmaking.” JT Takagi\, Choy’s longtime collaborator and Executive Director of Third World Newsreel (TWN)\, said: “Christine helped build Third World Newsreel into a home for the stories the mainstream wouldn’t touch. Her work helped form our Asian American and American film history\, and her films have urgent things to say amid today’s anti-immigrant sentiment. Bringing them back to the screen is how we sustain her legacy of honest\, impactful storytelling about the communities the record overlooked.” In addition to her work at TWN\, Choy also co-founded Asian CineVision in 1975\, taught at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts\, earned an Academy Award nomination for Who Killed Vincent Chin?\, a Peabody Award\, and was inducted into the Library of Congress National Film Registry. The nine films in the retrospective span nearly two decades of Choy’s filmmaking\, they include: \nTeach Our Children (1972): A landmark of movement cinema\, Choy’s first film\, co-directed with Susan Robeson\, documents the 1971 Attica prison uprising from the point of view of the incarcerated rebels. Preserved thanks to the efforts of UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive\, MIAP alumna Pamela Jean Smith and Cinemalab. \nFrom Spikes to Spindles (1976): An early chronicle of New York Chinatown’s history and burgeoning activism. The film interweaves the history of Chinese immigration and racial oppression with the community’s efforts to organize. Preserved by BB Optics\, Inc with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF). \nInside Women Inside (1978): Through firsthand accounts from incarcerated women in New York and North Carolina\, the film offers an early and unflinching look inside U.S. women’s prisons. Preserved with support from NYWIFT Women’s Film Preservation Fund. \nTo Love\, Honor & Obey (1980): The film examines domestic violence across class and ethnic lines through the voices of survivors and the counselors who work with them. \nBittersweet Survival (1982): Co-directed with JT Takagi\, the film portrays Southeast Asian refugee resettlement in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. \nFei Tien: Goddess in Flight (1983): Adapted from Genny Lim’s play\, this fiction short traces an intergenerational friendship in New York Chinatown. \nMississippi Triangle (1984): Preserved in 2025\, the film portrays Black\, Chinese\, and white life in the Mississippi Delta through footage shot by three separate crews\, each representing the specific POV of the three respective communities portrayed. Preserved by BB Optics\, Inc. with the support of the National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF) and the New York Women in Film & Television’s Women’s Film Preservation Fund (WFPF). \nNamibia: Independence Now! (1985): Co-directed with Pearl Bowser\, the film documents Namibia’s anti-apartheid liberation struggle from exile. \nHomes Apart: Korea (1991): Made with JT Takagi\, the first U.S. project permitted to film in both North and South Korea\, it focuses on the 10 million family members separated by the DMZ. As tensions rise now in Asia\, the human cost of the still unresolved Korean War resonates. \nThe communities struggling for justice in Choy’s films\, from immigrants and refugees to incarcerated people\, offer crucial perspectives on historical movements whose struggles persist today. Themes of jingoism and exclusion remain woefully apt amidst elevated levels of anti-Asian hate crimes and intense militarized immigration policy. \nFor TWN\, preservation extends past the archive: the preserved films get projected now\, and audiences and partners carry them forward into classrooms and future bookings. Keeping Choy’s work in circulation continues the conversations her films began. \nThe Christine Choy Retrospective will launch with two newly preserved films\, “From Spikes to Spindles\,” preserved by BB Optics\, Inc. with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF) and the New York Women in Film & Television’s Women’s Film Preservation Fund (WFPF) and “Mississippi Triangle\,” preserved by BB Optics\, Inc with support from NFPF. Third World Newsreel’s archiving and preservation projects receive partial support from the New York State Council on the Arts’ Small Capital Improvement Grant for Arts and Culture. Lunette is co-presenting this retrospective with Third World Newsreel.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/christine-choy-retrospective/
LOCATION:Multiple venues
CATEGORIES:Film
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SUMMARY:China Institute Fashion Night (Sep. 9)
DESCRIPTION:Shanghai Qipao Runway Presentation: “Magnolia in Bloom\, Elegance in Motion” \n\n\nWelcome to China Institute Fashion Night\, hosted by China Institute of America — a celebration of fashion\, art\, and cultural exchange between East and West. \nWe hope you will join us for\nShanghai Qipao Runway Presentation:\n“Magnolia in Bloom\, Elegance in Motion” \nThe evening begins 5:30 PM check in\, followed by runway show\, and concludes with a cocktail party at China Institute’s beautiful venue in Manhattan’s Financial District. \nIndividual Seats: $150 \nSCHEDULE\n5:30 PM | Door Open\n6:00 PM | Runway\n6:30 PM – 8:00 PM | Cocktail Party and Collection Trunk Show \n\n\n\nFor questions\, please contact Jane Zhou at jzhou@chinainstitute.org.\nFor more information\, please contact Lisa Ye at lye@chinainstitute.org. \n 
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/china-institute-fashion-night/
LOCATION:China Institute of America\, 100 Washington Street\, New York\, NY\, 10006\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fashion
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260909T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260909T190000
DTSTAMP:20260731T112215Z
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SUMMARY:Offsite: Priya Parker: The Art of Fighting w/ America Ferrera
DESCRIPTION:"This is a life-giving book\, and Priya is the luminous and ingenious teacher we need." —Krista Tippett\, host of On Being\n\n\nEvent guidelines: \n\nBundled tickets include a signed copy of the featured book. Additional copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.\nHome address is collected for contact tracing purposes; it will not be used otherwise.\nThe event will also be livestreamed for free on YouTube: https://youtube.com/live/0VU_pqs8EUE\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 \nA paradigm-shattering exploration of how we fight and how we build healthy conflict\, from the author of The Art of Gathering. \nWe say we want community. Successful teams. High-performing colleagues and workplaces. Dynamic friend groups. Yet many of us don’t understand the crucial element we need to forge long-lasting communities in our lives: healthy conflict. \nIn The Art of Fighting\, Priya Parker explains that we can’t form and grow effective relationships without a fight. She rejects the idea that conflict is abnormal or that good groups don’t fight. All groups change and evolve; indeed\, it’s because people disagree that good groups flourish. \nAs she did in the now-classic The Art of Gathering\, Parker draws on her far-reaching experience as a conflict facilitator\, her own detailed research\, and real-world examples to lay out the ways that people can identify disputes\, determine how to address them\, and what to do if they are insurmountable. Whether people disagree in the boardroom or the locker room\, on a playground or in church\, online or in person\, conflict is a part of life\, and understanding healthy conflict and how to harness its power is more important than ever. The Art of Fighting is a vital primer to help all of us understand how to do that. \n \nPriya Parker is a conflict facilitator\, strategic adviser\, and the author of The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters. Trained in the field of conflict resolution\, Parker has worked on race relations on American college campuses and on peace processes in the Arab world\, southern Africa\, and India. A graduate of MIT\, the Harvard Kennedy School\, and the University of Virginia\, she lives with her family in Brooklyn\, New York. \n \nAmerica Ferrera is an Oscar ® -nominated and Emmy ® -\, Golden Globe ® – and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning actress\, director\, producer and activist. Ferrera starred as ‘Gloria’ in the record-breaking BARBIE\, for which she garnered an Academy Award nomination. A longtime activist\, Ferrera co-founded Harness\, a community of artists\, influencers and grassroots leaders leveraging art and storytelling to power change\, and co-leads Poderistas\, a digital lifestyle community and non-profit organization\, built to inspire\, inform and affirm the Latina community. Ferrera serves as a Global Goodwill Ambassador for the UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM)\, through which she champions safe migration\, women’s rights\, and civic engagement.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/offsite-priya-parker-the-art-of-fighting-w-america-ferrera/
LOCATION:First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn\, 119 Pierrepont Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260909T220000
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SUMMARY:The Namesake – 20th Anniversary Screening
DESCRIPTION:Prospect Park Alliance\, Fort Greene Park Conservancy\, and Rooftop Films announce Summer Movies in the Park\, presented by NewYork-Presbyterian. This free\, outdoor movie series in Prospect Park and Fort Greene Park takes place on Wednesday nights this summer\, with screenings on August 5th and August 12th in Prospect Park\, and August 26th and September 9th in Fort Greene Park. \nSeptember 9: The Namesake (PG-13) – 20th Anniversary Screening \n6:00 PM: Lawn Opens\n8:30 PM: Film Begins \nDirections: Fort Greene Park\, Central Lawn at Washington Park and Dekalb Avenue Entrance \nThe Namesake (PG-13)– 20th Anniversary Screening\nMira Nair | 2006 | US\, Japan\, India | 122 mins\nIn this film by Mira Nair\, based on the novel by Jhumpa Lahiri\, the Ganguli family maintain a delicate balancing act between honoring the traditions of their native India and blending into American culture after moving from Calcutta to New York. \nThe films will begin shortly after sundown; come early to picnic and enjoy pre-movie entertainment. Please note that the movie may be cancelled in the case of inclement weather. Attendees will be notified via Eventbrite and the Prospect Park and Fort Greene Park social media channels. \nThis series is presented through support of NewYork-Presbyterian.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/the-namesake-20th-anniversary-screening/
LOCATION:Fort Greene Park – Central Lawn\, Fort Greene Park\, Central Lawn\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260909T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260909T200000
DTSTAMP:20260811T005641Z
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SUMMARY:Aesthetic Intelligence: Building a New Generation of Global Brands
DESCRIPTION:In an era of rapid technological change and economic uncertainty\, a company’s identity has become one of its most valuable strategic assets. To succeed\, companies must do far more than command attention. They must inspire trust\, convey meaning\, create memorable experiences and forge lasting connections with customers. This program brings together two leaders in luxury and branding to explore the concept of Aesthetic Intelligence and discuss how Japan’s distinctive traditions of design\, craftsmanship\, and cultural heritage can serve as the foundation for a new generation of world-class brands. Through conversation and case studies\, participants will gain practical insights into how aesthetics can strengthen brand identity\, secure a competitive advantage\, and drive long-term business growth. \nAgenda\n6:30pm – 7:30pm: Discussion and Q&A\n7:30pm – 8:00pm: Networking Reception \nAdmission \nThis is a paid event with advance registration required. A designated number of tickets are available for free to our corporate members. (Corporate member code is required to register for the event. If you don’t know your corporate member code\, please contact corp-membership@japansociety.org.) Please note that seating is limited and on a first come\, first served basis.\n\n\nSpeakers Bio \nPauline Brown\nFounder and CEO\, Aesthetic Intelligence Group; Former Chairman\, LVMH North America \nPauline Brown is the Founder and CEO of Aesthetic Intelligence Group and former Chairman of North America for LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton. Over the course of a 30-year career\, she has built\, led\, and advised many of the world’s leading premium and luxury brands. At LVMH\, she provided regional leadership across 70 brands spanning fashion\, jewelry\, beauty\, wines and spirits. Previously\, she was a Managing Director at The Carlyle Group\, where she specialized in consumer and retail investments. Earlier in her career\, she held senior executive positions at Estée Lauder and Avon and began her career as a strategy consultant at Bain & Company. Today\, Pauline advises companies and executives through Aesthetic Intelligence Group\, hosts the weekly SiriusXM Business Radio program Aesthetic Intelligence: The Other A.I.\, and is the author of Aesthetic Intelligence (HarperCollins\, 2019)\, which examines how aesthetics drive consumer behavior\, brand value\, and business success. She has served on the boards of Moncler and Neiman Marcus Group and currently serves on the advisory board of the University of Pennsylvania Center for Neuroaesthetics. She holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and is a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute. \nMiyoko Demay \nExecutive Representative of World Monuments Fund Japan; Outside Director and the Member of Board\, Nintendo Co.\, Ltd.; North America Advisory Board\, The International House of Japan; Vice Chair\, The American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ) Women In Business Committee \nMiyoko Demay is a highly accomplished strategist and cultural catalyst with an exceptional career spanning global business and non-profit leadership. With a three-decade tenure at Tiffany & Co.\, she was a key figure in the company’s global operations. In senior roles such as President of Tiffany Japan and Vice President of Global Sales Operations in New York\, She led pivotal transformations in corporate strategy\, company culture and client engagement. Her current mission is on cultural preservation as the Japan Representative for the World Monuments Fund\, where she guides efforts to protect Japan’s tangible and intangible cultural heritage and build robust community partnerships. Beyond this\, Ms. Demay provides strategic counsel as an Outside Board Director for Nintendo. A recognized Dame Chevalier of the Ordre des Coteaux de Champagne\, she is deeply committed to diversity and mentorship\, inspiring and empowering leaders across industries. Ms. Demay is also the author of the recently published 自分を一生モノに磨く方法 (Refine Yourself into a Lifelong Masterpiece)\, which shares insights on leadership\, communication\, and professional growth drawn from her global executive career.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/aesthetic-intelligence-building-a-new-generation-of-global-brands/
LOCATION:Japan Society\, 333 East 47th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10017\, United States
CATEGORIES:Business,Discussion
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260909T210000
DTSTAMP:20260813T051214Z
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: BAD THINGS HAPPENED HERE by Moniza Hossain
DESCRIPTION:This supernatural horror follows twelve-year-old Sam to his unsettling family home in Singapore. Perfect for fans of R.L. Stine! \n\n\n\n\nWe’re honored to welcome Moniza Hossain to The Twisted Spine on September 9 to celebrate the release of Bad Things Happened Here! Moniza will be joined in conversation by Clay McLeod Chapman (DEVIL INSIDE). \nAbout BAD THINGS HAPPENED HERE: \nLonely twelve-year-old Sam Wells has never known his mother. So when his maternal grandmother calls with a plane ticket to Singapore\, he hopes the trip will give him the answers he’s been looking for. But his imposing family home isn’t what he expected. His grandmother is a stranger. Spiders crawl over impassible mounds of hoarded mementos. The house is such a labyrinth that Sam can barely make his way through the boxes\, let alone find out anything about his mom. \nUntil he meets her ghost\, frozen in time at age twelve. \nSomething terrible happened when Priya Malhotra was just a schoolgirl in Singapore. Something twisted enough to keep her trapped. Something that might be happening again. Children are going missing as they did decades before in Sam’s eerily unsettling neighborhood . . . and the closer Sam gets to the terrifying truth that lurks within the haunted\, abandoned factory where the original crimes occurred\, the more it seems that Sam will be the next to disappear. \nTo save himself\, he’ll have to untangle the mystery. But if he does\, will he lose his mom forever? \nAbout the speakers: \nMoniza Hossain is a Singaporean author of Bengali descent who writes children’s books inspired by her South Asian heritage. She has a Bachelor of Arts with Honours from the National University of Singapore\, and a Masters in English Literature from King’s College London. Her works include her debut picture book\, Street Puppy Masjid Cat\, and her sophomore picture book\, Ritu In The Sun. She also writes books for middle grade readers. She has a short story in the award winning anthology Being Ace\, and another in an anthology entitled The Beasts Beneath the Winds. She lives in Manchester with her husband. \nClay McLeod Chapman is the author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes\, Kill Your Darling\, Stay on the Line\, What Kind of Mother\, Ghost Eaters\, Whisper Down the Lane\, The Remaking\, and miss corpus\, story collections nothing untoward\, commencement and rest area\, as well as The Tribe middlegrade series: Homeroom Headhunters\, Camp Cannibal and Academic Assassins. \nEvent guidelines: \nEach ticket includes either a hardcover copy BAD THINGS HAPPENED HERE or a $15 Twisted Spine gift card. \nLimited additional copies of the books will be available for purchase at the event. \nA signing will follow the discussion.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/book-launch-bad-things-happened-here-by-moniza-hossain/
LOCATION:The Twisted Spine\, 306 Grand Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11211\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260909T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260909T210000
DTSTAMP:20260821T140258Z
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SUMMARY:Written Women: Lalleshwari
DESCRIPTION:Written Women is a monthly writers salon at Cordelia\, inviting you to respond to poems\, stories and myths written by and about women. \n\n\nEach month\, we’ll read and discuss a different text to inspire our own free-write session\, drawing from women’s stories of power\, madness\, sensuality\, tragedy\, queerness\, and insubordination. Time will be set aside at the end of each meetup for folks to share excerpts of what they’ve written. \nThis September\, we’ll read the work of Lalleshwari\, also known as Lal Ded\, a Kashmiri mystic from the early 14th century whose deceptivley simple verses deliver profound meditations on philosophy and spirituality\, all through the lens of the everyday. We’ll wander through her body of work\, crossing oceans\, riding horses\, and opening doors. Inspired by her contemplations on devotion\, destruction\, and bliss\, we’ll write our own pieces which reach to uncover the sacred in the mundane. \nWritten Women is led by poet\, movement artist and facilitator Katya Borkov. You can learn more about her work at http://www.everythingspills.studio\, or on instagram @everything.spills \nThis event is funded in part by Poets & Writers with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. \nPainting featured in the banner by Kanayalal S Raina.\n\nPhotograph courtesy of Rebecca Foltin
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/written-women-lalleshwari/
LOCATION:Cordelia\, 942 Bergen Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11238\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book,Book Reading,Discussion
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261110T220000
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SUMMARY:Ma-Yi Theatre Free FALL Playwriting Workshop with Lisa Sanaye Dring
DESCRIPTION:Ma-Yi Theatre Free FALL Playwriting Workshop with Lisa Sanaye Dring\n\n\nDue to the overwhelming response to our summer Free Playwriting Workshop\, Ma-Yi Theater Company is thrilled to announce two additional FREE playwriting workshops in Fall 2026\, taught by award-winning playwright Lisa Sanaye Dring\, author of SUMO and HAPPY FALL. \nCreated for Filipino American and AANHPI aspiring writers\, these workshops are open to writers who are ready to begin\, grow\, experiment\, or finally say: Yes. I’m writing the play. \nBoth classes are completely FREE and will offer participants a supportive\, rigorous\, and energizing space to explore the fundamentals of playwriting\, including character\, dialogue\, action\, structure\, theme\, and theatrical style. Through writing prompts\, discussion\, readings\, and feedback\, participants will generate new pages and develop their voices in community with fellow writers. \nThe first six sessions will meet online\, making the workshop accessible for working adults and busy schedules. The workshop will then culminate in an in-person showcase presentation\, where participants’ work will be brought to life by professional actors and directors. \nThis is more than a class. It is a chance to write\, dream\, build\, revise\, and hear your words leap off the page. \nFree. Online. Fun. Limited slots available. Register early. \nMondays 7pm-10pm – September 21 – November 9 \nor \nTuesdays 7pm-10pm – September 22 – November 10 \nFor more information: info@ma-yitheatre.org \nSpace is limited— signing up does not guarantee entry into class.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/ma-yi-theatre-free-fall-playwriting-workshop-with-lisa-sanaye-dring/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Hybrid,In Person,Theater,Virtual,Writing
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261025
DTSTAMP:20260911T215654Z
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SUMMARY:Maia Ruth Lee: Double Vision
DESCRIPTION:Tina Kim Gallery is pleased to present Double Vision\, Maia Ruth Lee’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. \nInterrogating migration as simultaneous perception\, Lee conditions identity within multiple histories\, temporalities\, and systems of knowledge. Lee’s exhibition takes its title from Homi K. Bhabha’s The Location of Culture. The migrant’s double vision simultaneously inhabits both the place left behind and the place occupied as the condition for a complete understanding of the migrant’s life. Double vision becomes both a metaphor and a new way of working memory as material. Across both gallery spaces\, Lee’s work expands and contracts image and sculpture\, memory and record. Forms stack\, unfold\, mirror\, and reassemble\, building identity as a continuous accumulation\, complicating the narrative of migration as one fixed point of origin. \nAnchoring the exhibition is a series of new paintings from Lee’s Bondage Baggage methodology. The suitcase is a generative metaphor where luggage becomes more than functional objects of transport. They are vessels where memory\, absence\, expectation\, and aspiration collide. \nLee’s double vision manifests as a physical experience\, with every form existing alongside another version of itself. New sculptures with latex layers preserve the form and surface imprint of the bound bundle after its contents are released. Video stills of the artist’s family are sewn onto the expandable 이민가방’s colossal luggage form. A newly commissioned video installation draws from Lee’s family archive\, incorporating home footage recorded by her parents in Nepal and Korea. \nDeeply rooted in the distinct architectural and visual language of New York City\, Lee revisits her steel glyphs from 2019–salvaged architectural fragments from the city. The assemblages occupy the space between word and sculpture\, an open-ended code that remains vaguely familiar\, yet stubbornly illegible. \nDouble Vision proposes history as a layered\, omnidirectional\, and omnitemporal experience even as it remains tethered to earthly forms. Mirrors\, suitcases\, sculptures\, textiles\, salvaged objects\, and paintings are sites of doubled perception. Memory folds into itself\, and the boundaries between past and present remain deliberately unresolved. Lee’s practice comprises an ever-expanding archive in a constant state of assembly\, stacking\, transporting\, translating\, and seeing. \nAbout the artist \nMaia Ruth Lee (b. 1983\, Busan; lives and works in San Francisco) has held solo exhibitions at Primary Nottingham (UK)\, Institute of Fine Arts\, New York University (NY)\, The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (CO)\, François Ghebaly Gallery (LA)\, and Mai 36 Galerie (CH). Lee has participated in numerous group exhibitions at institutions including Santa Barbara Museum of Art and Aspen Art Museum\, as well as the Sky High Farm Biennial 2025 (NY); Prospect 6.\, New Orleans; and the 2019 Whitney Biennial. Lee received a BFA from Hongik University and attended the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver\, Canada\, and is currently enrolled in a Masters in Migration Studies program at the University of San Francisco. Lee was the recipient of the Gold Art Prize in 2021 and the Rema Hort Mann grant in 2017. Her work is held in the permanent collections at the Whitney Museum of American Art\, Philadelphia Museum of Art\, and Syracuse University Art Museum.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/maia-ruth-lee-double-vision/
LOCATION:Tina Kim Gallery\, 525 W 21st St.\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,Art Exhibit
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261129
DTSTAMP:20260911T220300Z
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SUMMARY:John Pai - Meditation: Myth and Memory
DESCRIPTION:Gallery Hyundai is pleased to present “Meditation: Myth and Memory”\, an exhibition of Korean American sculptor John Pai\, a major force in the Korean American diaspora of the last half-century. The opening reception takes place on Thursday September 10\, 6-8pm at Gallery Hyundai New York Project Space. \nThis exhibition seeks to provide a space for meditation where myth and memory\, as in Pai’s world\, could be considered as companions—at times synchronous\, and at times on their own path\, but never stagnant. Centering around his two major series Heaven and Earth (2024) and Entropy’s Sirens (1997) trio\, it marks the first occasion the trio is presented as a group including two previously unseen pieces\, also accompanied by a selection of sculptures and drawings. \nNotably in the Heaven and Earth series\, a single point becomes a line\, then a form\, and appears to trail off to gesture to the space around it\, going past the artist’s agency and into another realm. This work manifests Pai’s guiding ethos\, where the artist’s mind (and the memories and ideas contained within the artist) inform his beginning but the work ultimately develops in conversation with the material and work’s own response. This conversational and improvisational method demonstrates Pai’s understanding that memories are not stable but shift with the everchanging present\, sometimes appearing closer to myth rather than reality. Completed when Pai was eighty-seven years old\, this grouping of sculptures reveal an artist in his maturity who still remains playful and deeply curious. \nPai is gaining heightened recognition for his indisputable contributions to sculpting with steel as well as his groundbreaking pedagogical methods since becoming the youngest appointed professor at Pratt Institute in 1965\, eventually becoming the director of fine art\, then chairman of the sculpture department\, a post he remained in for thirty-seven years. Referred to as “drawing in space\,” his signature use of numerous thin\, short steel rods with a hand-held welding tool reflected Pai’s active engagements with burgeoning movements in postwar New York such as the American Bauhaus and Neo-Avant-Garde. Pai’s sculptures are born out of a dynamic field of inquiry\, unbridled by discipline\, such as topology\, physics\, phenomenology\, and musical processes of improvisation. Following his major retrospective exhibition held in April 2024 at the Korean Cultural Center in New York called John Pai: Eternal Moment and his solo exhibition Shared Destinies at Gallery Hyundai in Seoul later that year\, this presentation is an opportunity for closer examination of Pai’s guiding ethos; a process of intimate surrender\, both with materials\, as well as his relationship to the world.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/john-pai-meditation-myth-and-memory/
LOCATION:Gallery Hyundai New York Project Space\, 529 W 20th St\, Room 6E\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,Art Exhibit
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260910
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270104
DTSTAMP:20260818T214831Z
CREATED:20260818T214831Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260818T214831Z
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SUMMARY:Celebrating Sixty Years of China Institute Gallery: 1966-2026
DESCRIPTION:Founded in 1966\, the China Institute Gallery has presented the history of Chinese art from antiquity to the present through superb and thought-provoking exhibitions. The masterworks featured in Celebrating Sixty Years of China Institute Gallery: 1966-2026 exemplify what has made the Institute’s exhibitions groundbreaking. From presentations of exquisite jades and bronze vessels\, to the symbolism of old trees\, to Chinese ceramics\, calligraphy\, and architecture—China Institute’s displays have consistently illuminated pathways to a deeper understanding of the culture of China.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/celebrating-sixty-years-of-china-institute-gallery-1966-2026/
LOCATION:China Institute Gallery\, 100 Washington Street\, New York\, NY\, 10006\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,Art Exhibit
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260910T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260910T200000
DTSTAMP:20260820T143631Z
CREATED:20260820T143010Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260820T143631Z
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SUMMARY:China Institute Fashion Night (Sep. 10)
DESCRIPTION:Featured Designers: WJX by Vanessa Ye\, Sandriver\, 人间烟火 by Amy Chu\, Isabelle.C \nWelcome to China Institute Fashion Night\, hosted by China Institute of America — a celebration of fashion\, art\, and cultural exchange between East and West. \n\n\nThe evening begins 5:30 PM check in\, followed by runway show\, and concludes with a cocktail party at China Institute’s beautiful venue in Manhattan’s Financial District. \nThis season\, China Institute Fashion Night will bring the runway to life with four extraordinary designers:WJX by Vanessa Ye\nSandriver\n人间烟火 by Amy Chu\nIsabelle.C \nIndividual Seats: $150SCHEDULE\n5:30 PM | Door Open\n6:00 PM | Runway\n6:30 PM – 8:00 PM | Cocktail Party and Collection Trunk Show \nFor questions\, please contact Jane Zhou at jzhou@chinainstitute.org.\nFor more information\, please contact Lisa Ye at lye@chinainstitute.org. \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/china-institute-fashion-night-2/
LOCATION:China Institute of America\, 100 Washington Street\, New York\, NY\, 10006\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fashion
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260910T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260910T203000
DTSTAMP:20260812T202355Z
CREATED:20260812T202354Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260812T202355Z
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SUMMARY:Screening and Panel Discussion of Daughter of Shanghai
DESCRIPTION:This 1937 film stars Anna May Wong and Philip Ahn in a thriller about a woman in San Francisco Chinatown trying to avenge her father’s murder committed by an illegal-immigrant trafficking gang. \nWong and Ahn were both born in the United States in 1905 and American citizens by birth. The film was highly unusual in featuring two Asian American leads in an era of “yellowface” when White actors typically played headline Asian characters. In 2006\, the Library of Congress selected Daughter of Shanghai for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry. \nThe screening of the 62-minute film will be followed by a panel discussion covering the making of the movie\, immigration and human trafficking\, and the stories of early Hollywood film icon Wong and of Ahn\, who was the son of famed Korean independence activist Ahn Chang-Ho. \nJudge Denny Chin and Professor Thomas Lee will be joined for the panel discussion by Jeff Yang\, author of The Golden Screen: The Movies That Made Asian America\, and Katie Gee Salisbury\, author of Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong. \nSpeakers \n\nJeff Yang:  Author of I Am Jackie Chan\, Once Upon a Time in China\, Eastern Standard Time\, RISE\, and THE GOLDEN SCREEN\nKatie Gee Salisbury: Author of Not Your China Doll\, a new biography of Anna May Wong\, Hollywood’s first Asian American movie star\n\nRemarks by \n\nHon. Denny Chin: Senior Judge\, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit\nLawrence W. Pierce Distinguished Jurist in Residence\, Fordham Law School\nCo-Director\, Center on Asian Americans and the Law\n\nModerated by \n\nProfessor Thomas Lee:  Leitner Family Professor of International Law\, Fordham Law School\, Co-Director\, Center on Asian Americans and the Law\n\nAgenda\n5:30 – 7:30 pm   Screening of Film & Panel Discussion\n7:30 – 8:30 pm Reception
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/screening-and-panel-discussion-of-daughter-of-shanghai/
LOCATION:McNally Theater\, Gabelli Business School\, 140 W 62nd St.\, First Floor\, New York\, NY\, 10023\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film,In Person,Panel
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ORGANIZER;CN="Center on Asian Americans and the Law - Fordham School of Law":MAILTO:asianamericanlaw@fordham.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260910T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260910T200000
DTSTAMP:20260825T033842Z
CREATED:20260825T024608Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T033842Z
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SUMMARY:Book Launch | To the Tune by Jee Leong Koh
DESCRIPTION:In To the Tune\, Jee Leong Koh asks Du Fu how poetry can take to the barricades\, discovering bracing answers from ordinary citizens\, media workers\, political organizers\, and protest songwriters. \nKoh’s new book juxtaposes a series of searching epistolary poems and a collection of poem-songs that forcibly and tentatively lurch into existence\, take on misguided titles\, and beg for music to set them chanting and marching. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nJee Leong Koh is the author of STEEP TEA (Carcanet)\, named a Best Book of the Year by UK’s Financial Times and a Finalist by Lambda Literary in the USA. His hybrid work of fiction\, SNOW AT 5 PM: TRANSLATIONS OF AN INSIGNIFICANT JAPANESE POET\, won the Singapore Literature Prize in English fiction. Originally from Singapore\, Koh lives in New York City\, where he heads the literary non-profit Singapore Unbound. He is also the Poetry Editor of the Evergreen Review. \nIN CONVERSATION WITH \nJerrold Yam is a corporate lawyer and the author of three collections\, most recently Intruder (Ethos Books). His poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner\, Third Coast\, Hayden’s Ferry Review and Washington Square Review. In 2024\, he won the Cheltenham Poetry Prize and was a 2024 Writer-in-Residence at the UK’s National Centre for Writing. \nBrad Vogel is author of the poetry collections FIND ME IN THE FERAL POCKETS and BROAD MEADOW BIRD. His poetry has been set to music by multiple composers. Brad founded & coordinates NYC Poets Afloat\, an annual residency & reading series aboard ships in New York Harbor\, as well as the annual Gowanus Dawn Reading\, part of the Brooklyn Book Festival (10th annual performance on September 25th!). He leads programs at Brooklyn Museum\, NYU\, & Center for Fiction. Brad also serves on the Walt Whitman Initiative board and as the Director of Special Projects at Judgy Baby\, a new creative hub in Gowanus.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/book-launch-to-the-tune-by-jee-leong-koh/
LOCATION:Yu and Me Books\, 44 Mulberry St.\, New York\, NY\, 10013\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book,Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260910T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260910T210000
DTSTAMP:20260901T011646Z
CREATED:20260901T011646Z
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SUMMARY:Celebrating John McLaughlin & Shakti
DESCRIPTION:Excited to announce our lineup for the September Concert & Jam! ✨ \n7:30 PM First Set – Anupam Shobhakar (double necked guitar)\, Avirodh Sharma (tabla)\, Swaminathan Selvaganesh (kanjira) \n8:00pm Second set: CELEBRATING JOHN MCLAUGHLIN & SHAKTI Featuring original music composed and inspired by the works of John McLaughlin\, while revisiting music selections from legendary Shakti albums of the 1970s and ‘beyond\,’ this group re-envisions McLaughlin’s masterpieces and celebrates his vibrant solo and ensemble work. \nLocation: Barzakh Cafe\, 147 Utica Ave\, Brooklyn\, NY
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/celebrating-john-mclaughlin-shakti/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Concert,Music
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260911
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260928
DTSTAMP:20260913T140004Z
CREATED:20260913T122525Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260913T140004Z
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SUMMARY:Guest House: Welcome Home
DESCRIPTION:Portraiture is as old as the pharaohs of Egypt. While mediums such as drawing\, painting\, and photography dominate the practice\, rendering a three-dimensional likeness yielded astounding work across centuries\, from the chiseled marble of the Renaissance to Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s sensuous sculptures. Unlike marble\, stone\, or bronze\, wax possesses a luminosity that makes it ideal for human approximation. In the last century\, the art of the wax figure has evolved from commercial spectacle into a medium for serious artistic exploration. \nBased in Zhongshan\, China\, and with three decades of experience\, the artist Zhou Xuerong has created more than 900 wax figures through her studio Grand Orient Wax Art. In her first U.S. exhibition\, Guest House: Welcome Home\, she depicts human figures\, each a work of original artistic interpretation\, engaged in six rituals that shape Asian life. With a nod to American photographer Gregory Crewdson’s staged tableaux exploring the ennui of suburban life\, Zhou zooms in and situates her protagonists in common domestic scenes: sipping tea\, practicing calligraphy\, inserting acupuncture needles\, cooking with a wok\, sharing a meal\, and playing the erhu\, a two-stringed fiddle. \nEach figure is dressed in a qipao\, a historical silhouette that originated as loose-fitting military gowns worn by nobles during the Qing Dynasty. At the turn of the 20th century\, Shanghai became a center of international trade\, influencing local tailors to draw on Western design to nip the qipao’s waistline\, narrow its skirt\, and lengthen its side slit. Today\, the dress’s form is a fixture in both Eastern and Western fashion. \nThe figures’ faces evoke familiar presences — cultural icons reimagined and transplanted into a room where their identity dissolves into ambiguity\, fluctuating between the everyday and the uncanny. They sit at a tea table\, lift a calligraphy brush\, pluck at a classical instrument\, and together pose a critical question at the heart of the artist’s commentary: what happens when one culture’s icons are transposed into the traditions of another? \nZhou’s quiet interiority of place and person is an inheritance made visible — for insiders\, a mirror; for outsiders\, a window. We must consider how Chinese culture\, once mocked and derided\, has traveled\, and now shapes a global imagination. Above all\, Guest House: Welcome Home is a cultural bridge. Zhou illuminates connection through an emotive stillness: a turned wrist\, a pursed lip\, a downward gaze. Her wax guests partake in ritual as a form of welcome and practice as a gesture of love. \nGuest House: Welcome Home is an original work of fine art and cultural commentary by Zhou Xuerong. The exhibition is not sponsored by\, affiliated with\, or endorsed by any individual to whom the sculptures may bear a resemblance. \nDates: Sep 11 2026 to Sep 27 2026\nTimes: 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/guest-house-welcome-home/
LOCATION:The Wang Contemporary\, 58 Bowery\, New York\, NY\, 10013\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260911
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260914
DTSTAMP:20260903T005028Z
CREATED:20260831T175548Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260903T005028Z
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SUMMARY:Who Killed Vincent Chin?
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a screening of “Who Killed Vincent Chin?” by Christine Choy & Renée Tajima as a part of The Christine Choy Retrospective\, with a special introduction by Shannon Lee of Asian American Arts Alliance (A4). \n“On a hot summer night in Detroit\, Ronald Ebens\, an autoworker\, killed a young Chinese-American engineer with a baseball bat. Although he confessed\, he never spent a day in jail. This gripping Academy Award-nominated film relentlessly probes the implications of the murder in the streets of Detroit\, for the families of those involved\, and for the American justice system. Not so much a documentary murder investigation as a meticulously constructed meditation on the race relations\, economic forces\, and failings of the American legal system that comprised the backdrop for the murder of a Chinese-American automotive engineer in Detroit in 1982\, WHO KILLED VINCENT CHIN? remains a stirring\, absorbing elegy for justice unserved. Drawing from interviews with Chin’s family and friends and Chin’s killer\, automotive assembly-line worker Ron Ebens\, along with a wealth of archival footage\, WHO KILLED VINCENT CHIN? paints a complex and tragically relevant portrait of an America roiled by socioeconomic unease\, the crisis of the automotive industry\, and the prevalence of xenophobia.” –NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL \nWhen: Friday\, September 11 at 6:45 PM (with introduction by Sharon Lee\, Editor at Asian American Arts Alliance) and Sunday\, September 13 at 8:30 PM\nWhere: Anthology Film Archives\, New York \nRestored by the Academy Film Archive and The Film Foundation\, in association with the Museum of Chinese in America. Restoration funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation\, with additional support provided by Todd Phillips.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/who-killed-vincent-chin/
LOCATION:Anthology Film Archives\, 32 Second Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:Activism,Film
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260911
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260918
DTSTAMP:20260818T232749Z
CREATED:20260818T231907Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260818T232749Z
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SUMMARY:Masaki Kobayashi’s KWAIDAN
DESCRIPTION:Japan\, 1964\nDirected by Masaki Kobayashi\nBased on a collection of folktales by Lafcadio Hearn\nStarring Tatsuya Nakadai\, Rentarô Mikuni\, Michiyo Aratama\, Misako Watanabe\nApprox. 183 min. \nRentarô Mikuni finds a skeleton at the feast when he adds a second wife; woodcutter Tatsuya Nakadai meets a strange woman in the snow; a blind biwa player gives a command performance for a spirit; an apparition appears in a cup of tea: four ghost stories by expat Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904). Kobayashi’s first color film\, with an eerie score.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/masaki-kobayashis-kwaidan/
LOCATION:Film Forum\, 209 W. Houston St.\, New York\, NY\, 10014\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260911
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261122
DTSTAMP:20260902T215808Z
CREATED:20260902T215710Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260902T215808Z
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SUMMARY:Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings
DESCRIPTION:Artists Space presents “Multiple Offerings”\, the first retrospective in twenty-five years dedicated to the groundbreaking work of the artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. She produced an expansive range of works comprising performances for film and video\, installation\, photography\, artist’s books (including her genre-defying book Dictée from 1982)\, and works on paper\, which will fill Artists Space’s entire first floor. In her lifetime\, Cha contributed to experimental art scenes in New York City\, San Francisco\, Paris\, and beyond. Her work has had a quietly profound influence on subsequent generations of artists. \nAfter emigrating from South Korea to the United States\, Cha enrolled at UC Berkeley in 1969\, where she studied art practice\, comparative literature\, and film. Keenly attuned to the active role that audiences play in the creation of meaning\, she prioritized nonlinear narratives to allow for more open-ended forms of interpretation—what she termed a method of “Multiple Telling with Multiple Offering.” This retrospective adopts her framework to allow for a range of entry points into the work\, guiding visitors through the themes—memory\, displacement\, and the mutability of language\, among others—that recur in Cha’s oeuvre. \nCha moved to New York City in 1980\, where she supported herself with several jobs while pursuing her artistic career. She worked as an administrative assistant in the European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, taught video art at Elizabeth Seton College in Yonkers\, and served as an editor at Tanam Press\, a publishing imprint dedicated to artists’ books that was founded by her friend and collaborator Reese Williams. \nOn November 5\, 1982\, Cha’s short but prolific career came to an end when she was murdered just weeks before her planned exhibition at Artists Space. At the time of her death\, Cha was producing a new photographic series inspired by her time working at the Met. Multiple Offerings presents that unfinished series of black-and-white prints alongside nearly one hundred artworks and archival materials from across her career\, highlighting the inventive\, playful\, and meditative methods of Cha’s practice.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/theresa-hak-kyung-cha-multiple-offerings/
LOCATION:Artists Space\, 11 Cortlandt Alley\, New York\, NY\, 10013\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,Art Exhibit
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