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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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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260910
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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260910
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
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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
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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260910T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260910T200000
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260910T210000
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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
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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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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260914
DTSTAMP: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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260911
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260918
DTSTAMP:20260818T232749Z
CREATED:20260818T231907Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260818T232749Z
UID:10003123-1789084800-1789689599@potluckasianamerica.org
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260911
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261122
DTSTAMP:20260902T215808Z
CREATED:20260902T215710Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260902T215808Z
UID:10003297-1789084800-1795305599@potluckasianamerica.org
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260911T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260911T203000
DTSTAMP:20260902T014017Z
CREATED:20260902T014017Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260902T014017Z
UID:10003270-1789153200-1789158600@potluckasianamerica.org
SUMMARY:Staged Reading of The Butterfly Agreement
DESCRIPTION:About the Play \nThis play is a contemporary reimagining of the classic Chinese folk romance The Butterfly Lovers. In a world where marriage comes with a price tag\, self-branding has become a means of survival\, and ideals are quietly shaped by capital\, the story of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai takes root again in Shanghai and New York in 2026. \nTo escape a marriage arranged by the Ma family\, Zhu Yingtai assumes a false identity and leaves for the United States\, where she meets Liang Shanbo\, a struggling scholar kicked out of his lab and now working as an Uber driver. Both hiding behind carefully constructed personas and both measured by the world around them\, they enter into a marriage under “The Butterfly Agreement\,” trading a green card for research funding\, only to discover a feeling that cannot be calculated or measured. \nHow do we find an inner sanctuary that cannot be bought\, sold\, or measured in a digital age where identities\, feelings\, and ideals are all quantified? \nAdmission & Reservation Details \nAdmission: Free & open to the public. Advance registration is strongly encouraged. \nSeating: First-come\, first-served based on advance registration. Walk-ins are welcome\, subject to seat availability on the evening of the performance. \nEntry Requirements: Please be prepared to present a valid state-issued ID / Photo ID at campus security upon entry. \nArrival: Please plan to arrive 10–15 minutes prior to the start of the reading (7:00 PM).
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/staged-reading-of-the-butterfly-agreement/
LOCATION:CUNY Graduate Center (Martin Segal Theatre)\, 365 Fifth Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016
CATEGORIES:Theater
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260911T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260911T210000
DTSTAMP:20260828T014921Z
CREATED:20260828T014921Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260828T014921Z
UID:10003248-1789153200-1789160400@potluckasianamerica.org
SUMMARY:Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise
DESCRIPTION:New 4K Restoration. The debut of animation studio Gainax (Neon Genesis Evangelion) and a seminal work of cel animation\, Hiroyuki Yamaga’s Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise launched a new generation of animators with its conceptual\, Promethean ambitions. Set on an alternate Earth in the kingdom of Honnêamise\, where space travel has not yet been achieved\, Bandai’s first foray into film production finds intrepid pilot Shirotsugh Lhadatt\, a member of the country’s oft-ridiculed space program\, making one last attempt to man a flight into space. Determined to reach the heavens despite corrupt political machinations and the looming shadow of war\, Lhadatt struggles to reconcile his mission with the ramifications of mankind’s progression to the stars. Featuring the talents of Hideaki Anno\, Yoshiyuki Sadamoto\, Mahiro Maeda and Hiromasa Ogura\, with music by Ryuichi Sakamoto\, Royal Space Force was envisioned as an art film\, with rich worldbuilding that countered the conventions of contemporaneous anime—an outsider work “to make anime fans reaffirm reality”. \nDir. Hiroyuki Yamaga\, 1987\, 119 min.\, DCP\, color\, in Japanese with English subtitles. With Leo Morimoto\, Mitsuki Yayoi\, Aya Murata.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/royal-space-force-the-wings-of-honneamise/
LOCATION:Japan Society\, 333 East 47th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10017\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260911T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260911T213000
DTSTAMP:20260903T004849Z
CREATED:20260815T210712Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260903T004849Z
UID:10003090-1789156800-1789162200@potluckasianamerica.org
SUMMARY:A+ Asian Comedy. Asian Stand Up Comedy in NYC's Broadway Theater District.
DESCRIPTION:NYC’s ultimate Asian stand up comedy show. Hilarious comedians as seen on Netflix\, HBO\, Hulu\, and TikTok. \n\nA+ Asian Comedy is the ultimate Asian stand up comedy show\, filled with the funniest Asian comedians New York City has to offer. Our comics can be seen on Netflix\, HBO\, and Comedy Central\, but nothing compares to seeing them perform live at the world famous Broadway Comedy Club. Tickets are limited\, so purchase yours now and enjoy the show! \nVenue Policy: \nA two-drink minimum applies (non-alcoholic options available). \n16 and older
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/a-asian-comedy-asian-stand-up-comedy-in-nycs-broadway-theater-district-23/
LOCATION:Broadway Comedy Club\, 318 West 53rd Street\, New York\, NY\, 10019\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260911T211500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260911T231500
DTSTAMP:20260828T015431Z
CREATED:20260828T015359Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260828T015431Z
UID:10003249-1789161300-1789168500@potluckasianamerica.org
SUMMARY:Mystery Screening
DESCRIPTION:Introduction by Jawni Han. Leave it up to chance and come watch a Sakamoto-affiliated picture\, presented on film. \n35mm. Approx. 90-120 min. \nPart of Music by Ryuichi Sakamoto\nSeptember 11—12
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/mystery-screening/
LOCATION:Japan Society\, 333 East 47th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10017\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260912
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260914
DTSTAMP:20260825T224842Z
CREATED:20260825T224810Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T224842Z
UID:10003225-1789171200-1789343999@potluckasianamerica.org
SUMMARY:Smorgasburg Presents Japan Meets Brooklyn: Matsuri
DESCRIPTION:🇯🇵 JAPAN MEETS BROOKLYN: MATSURI IS BACK! 🎌 \nTwo days\, two locations for a full weekend celebrating Japanese food\, art\, and culture at Smorgasburg. 🍜🍵✨ \nLocations:\nSeptember 12 – Williamsburg\nSeptember 13 – Prospect Park \nTaste your way through guest vendors + special menus from:\n🐙 @dokodemonyc – Japanese soul food + takoyaki\n🍵 @tokuyamatcha – Matcha specials + omusubi\n🍣 @momoyasoho – Crispy rice\n🍜 @kuuramen – Ramen + kakuni\n🍣 @sushibybou_ – Chef-crafted sushi\n🍧 @tonchinus – Kakigori\, Japanese shaved ice \nAnd there’s more to experience between bites:\n🎨 Portraits by @hiroshimasud\n🪀 Kendama workshop by @Japanklyn\n🍡 Free wagashi + workshops by @pekos_chokotto_wagashi\n🖌️ Live painting by @59moy\n✍️ Calligraphy art by @seicho.shodo in Williamsburg\n🖋️ Calligraphy workshop + pop-up by @taisan.nyc in Prospect Park \nTheres even more food vendors\, activities + surprises still to come!! 👀
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/smorgasburg-presents-japan-meets-brooklyn-matsuri/
LOCATION:Multiple NYC locations
CATEGORIES:Festival,Food
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260912T070000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260912T123000
DTSTAMP:20260728T201850Z
CREATED:20260728T201850Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260728T201850Z
UID:10002952-1789196400-1789216200@potluckasianamerica.org
SUMMARY:SACSS 5K Run/Walk
DESCRIPTION:Join the South Asian Council for Social Services (SACSS) for a fun and inspiring 5K Run/Walk on Saturday\, September 12\, at Kissena Park in Queens! \nPlease fill out the registration form above to be approved for the event – additional information is also available at the link. \nREGISTRATION IS NOT CONFIRMED UNLESS YOU FILL OUT THE FORM LINKED ABOVE. Thank you and looking forward to meeting you all! \nRunner Ticket: If you’d like to participate in the 5K Run/Walk\, please purchase a Runner ticket. Your registration includes a race bib\, event T-shirt\, wristband\, and food. \nSpectator Ticket: If you’d like to cheer on participants and enjoy the event without taking part in the 5K\, please purchase a Spectator ticket. Spectator tickets are available with or without food. \nThe South Asian Council for Social Services (SACSS) is a social service organization in NYC providing services and advocacy to more than 1 million underserved individuals annually\, with a focus on the South Asian community. SACSS’ core programs include a food pantry\, health care navigation services\, workforce development\, senior support\, English language-learning classes\, and more. More information about SACSS can be found at the attached link above.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/sacss-5k-run-walk/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Running
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260912T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260912T180000
DTSTAMP:20260819T150316Z
CREATED:20260819T150210Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260819T150316Z
UID:10003135-1789210800-1789236000@potluckasianamerica.org
SUMMARY:NY Indonesian & Vietnamese Food Bazaar
DESCRIPTION:*Come & join our Indoor Indonesian Food Bazaar*\n📅 *Saturday\, September 12\, 2026*\n📍 *8407 Broadway\, Elmhurst\, NY 11373*\n⏰ *12PM – 6PM* | FREE ENTRY \n*Bringing the _vibe_ of Indonesia through culinary* ✨\nRendang\, soto\, nasi uduk\, martabak\, es cendol — all your favorites under one roof. \nRain or shine\, we’re serving comfort\, community\, and nostalgia.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/ny-indonesian-vietnames-food-bazaar/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Food
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260912T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260912T190000
DTSTAMP:20260912T024651Z
CREATED:20260710T203616Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260912T024651Z
UID:10002834-1789214400-1789239600@potluckasianamerica.org
SUMMARY:Harajuku Market NYC
DESCRIPTION:A 1-day alternative j-fashion market event in NYC! \n\n\n\n\nCome join us for a day of celebrating Japanese alternative fashion and the communities who wear it! Featuring artists\, creators\, designers\, and attendees who love Lolita fashion\, Decora\, Jirai\, Gyaru\, and more. We want you to walk away with more J-fashion loving friends and maybe a new coordinate or two. \nWe encourage masking while indoors. \nThis event is free to the public but we ask you to RSVP to help us keep a count of attendees.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/harajuku-market-nyc/
LOCATION:Japan Village\, 934 3rd Avenue\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11232\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fashion,Market
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260912T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260912T160000
DTSTAMP:20260902T181558Z
CREATED:20260811T011413Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260902T181558Z
UID:10003067-1789218000-1789228800@potluckasianamerica.org
SUMMARY:2026 Tết Trung Thu – Mid-Autumn Festival
DESCRIPTION:Welcome all and mời tất cả to our Tết Trung Thu and Mid-Autumn Moon festival! \nWe will have fun games and activities along with food for everyone to enjoy! Bring parents\, kids\, friends\, and loved ones to celebrate one of our major Vietnamese holidays! We aim to celebrate and share Vietnamese culture to bring our communities together. \nJoin the Vietnam Heritage Center for a special event honoring the cherished family values and reunion spirit of the Mid-Autumn Festival. \nEvent Highlights: \n\nTraditional Vietnamese Food\nPlays\, Songs\, and Other Live Performances\nChildren’s Paper Lantern-Making Contest\nGames and Activities for Children\nMoon Cake-Making Classes for All Guests to Participate; Registration Is on a First-Come First-Served Basis\nFeaturing Select Food\, Drink\, and Craft Vendors\n\nEvent Details:\n🗓️ Date:\nSaturday\, September 12 \n⏰ Time:\n1:00 – 4:00 PM \n📍 Location:\nBrooklyn Botanic Ballroom\n555 Sterling Place\nBrooklyn\, NY 11238 \nTickets: \n🔸 Adults: $22\n🔸 Students*: $17\n🔸 Children (age 3-13): $11\n🔸 Children (age 2 and under): FREE🔸 Family Pass**: $50 \n*Student identification must be presented for admission. \n**Family pass includes 2 adults and 2 children (3-13 years old) at a discounted price. Worth up to $66. \nAll tickets include a meal and beverage.  \nPlease Note: Tickets will only be available on a pre-sold basis via our website. There will be no tickets sold at the door. Secure your spot early to ensure you don’t miss this delightful celebration!
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/2026-tet-trung-thu-mid-autumn-festival/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Festival,Food,Games
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260912T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260912T180000
DTSTAMP:20260831T173141Z
CREATED:20260831T173050Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260831T173141Z
UID:10003261-1789218000-1789236000@potluckasianamerica.org
SUMMARY:All Bengali Pop Up
DESCRIPTION:RBMC is extremely honored to present our all Bengali all star vendors for our first ever pop up. \nWith Bengali snacks\, desserts\, drinks\, clothing Henna\, jewelry\, and prints all done by Bengali artists. \nAnd a suprise fusion Bengali Onigiri with our good friends from @myrtlewombat and @stovetopsaj \nSaturday September 12th\, 1-6PM. \n(581 Myrtle Ave\, Brooklyn\, NY 11205) \nMenu: \n@stovetopsaj \nOnigiri stuffed with Jhura Mangsho\, a Bangladeshi-style beef infused with citrusy lime leaf and cooked down till tender with crispy bits. \n@padmapastry.co \nBhappa pittha cookie; brown butter cookie base with a gur & coconut filling topped with maldon salt. \nJhola gur & ginger cookies; jhola gur sourced straight from Bangladesh with fresh ginger and warm spices to create a deshi molasses & ginger cookie \nAmmur brownies; the brownies that started my mother’s business in Dhaka. \nA limited edition Xiān Nǎi Máshǔ cookies (black sesame mochi center with on deshi ghee cookie base); an ode to Bangladesh X @myrtlewombat \nBrownie Ice cream Sandwiches with vanilla ice cream & Nolen Gur caramel Swirl will also be available for creation! \n@kneadforspice \nLychee-Ginger Fizz \nGuava & chili salt Margarita Spritz \nDhoodh Cha \nFuchka shots \n@khon_studios writers workshop: \nPresenting the “Getting started with what you got”\nA beginner filmmaking class where we will go over production solutions for new and curious film makers \n@bhuibhu – prints\, stickers\, and clay accessories featuring Bengali foods and spices \n@itiseyeris – handworked Bangladeshi fusion jewelry\, accessories\, and more. \n@chobiakabychaity – henna artist and amazing graphic designer who did our poster \n@royalbengalmotorclub every single clothing piece we’ve ever made available for purchase.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/all-bengali-pop-up/
LOCATION:Myrtle Wombat\, 581 Myrtle Avenue\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Market
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260912T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260912T160000
DTSTAMP:20260912T024745Z
CREATED:20260824T051637Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260912T024745Z
UID:10003208-1789221600-1789228800@potluckasianamerica.org
SUMMARY:MOCACREATE: Hopping into the School Year with Teaching Artist Yu Rong
DESCRIPTION:Let’s hop into a great year of learning together. Today’s topic? The Rabbit on the Moon! Chinese legend says that there’s a Jade Rabbit living on the moon. Learn how the rabbit got to the moon\, and what it’s doing there\, by reading the legend here! Then join us on September 12th to make fun Jade Rabbit-themed headbands. Thinking about adding a real rabbit to your family? Our foster friends at Bunnies and Beyond will be joining us to share all about adopting a rabbit\, rabbit care\, and more! \nAbout Bunnies and Beyond\nBunnies and Beyond is an adoption and educational non-profit organization dedicated to the rescue\, proper care\, and ultimately\, the adoption of rabbits and guinea pigs commonly kept as pets. In addition to finding homes and medical care for animals that have been abandoned or surrendered\, Bunnies and Beyond also provides services in helping to bond rabbits with a partner rabbit\, for those looking to get a friend for their bun! Learn more and get involved at Bunnies and Beyond. \nPaint\, build\, craft\, and collage with us! Inspired by the museum’s exhibitions and local artists\, MOCACREATE explores different themes every month. MOCACREATE workshops are designed with families in mind\, but all are welcome! \nFree with admission! RSVP appreciated. MOCA Members should enter their promo code to access complimentary tickets. NYC residents can purchase pay-what-you wish tickets online or with our Visitor Services team.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/mocacreate-hopping-into-the-school-year-with-teaching-artist-yu-rong/
LOCATION:Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA)\, 215 Centre Street\, New York\, NY\, 10013\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,Workshop,Youth
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260912T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260912T153000
DTSTAMP:20260820T144000Z
CREATED:20260820T143805Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260820T144000Z
UID:10003158-1789225200-1789227000@potluckasianamerica.org
SUMMARY:SUZIK (Queens)
DESCRIPTION:South Korean company Force defies gravity in this street circus performance and NYC premiere. \n\nSuzik—the Korean word for verticality—is a Chinese pole performance that reimagines the vertical as a space of connection\, trust\, and collective movement. Three performers navigate the precarious heights of the pole\, entering a world where balance depends on the presence\, strength\, and care of others. \nAgainst the force of gravity\, Suzik explores a different way of moving upward: not through individual ascent\, but through shared momentum. The performers reach\, support\, and respond to one another\, transforming moments of risk into acts of trust and possibility. \nSuzik extends its exploration of connection beyond the pole itself\, transforming each public setting into a place of encounter and shared experience. As the performers reshape the vertical structure of the pole into a site of relationship and reciprocity\, the work invites audiences to imagine new ways of moving through the world together. \nABOUT THE FESTIVAL \nCitizen Arts International transforms New York City’s public spaces into vibrant stages for free international performance\, participatory art\, and cultural exchange. Bringing art into everyday life across the boroughs\, the festival fosters civic engagement and strengthens social connection. \nThe Citizen Arts International Festival is produced in partnership with Citizen Arts and Education and the Ukrainian Museum\, in affiliation with Social Practice CUNY\, with special thanks to the PhD Theatre + Performance Program at the CUNY Graduate Center. \nwww.citizenartsinternational.org \n@citizenartsinternational
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/suzik-queens/
LOCATION:Culture Lab LIC\, 5-25 46th Avenue\, Queens\, NY\, 11101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260912T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260912T170000
DTSTAMP:20260809T203419Z
CREATED:20260809T203419Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260809T203419Z
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SUMMARY:Reverberations: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening with artists Jesse Chun\, Na Mira\, Cici Wu\, and curator Victoria Sung. \nAAAinA is thrilled to present an evening of presentations and conversation with artists Jesse Chun\, Na Mira\, Cici Wu\, and curator Victoria Sung. This event is shared alongside the exhibition Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings\, which will open at Artists Space in New York City on September 11th. \nThis program highlights the contemporary interventions and commissions shared by the featured artists in the original presentation of the exhibition at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA). Artists will share reflections on their participation and their individual practices before joining a conversation moderated by Sung. \nMultiple Offerings is organized by the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) and curated by Victoria Sung\, Phyllis C. Wattis Senior Curator\, with Tausif Noor\, Curatorial Associate. The presentation at Artists Space is organized by Danielle A. Jackson with Nusheen Ghaemi. For more information on the exhibition please visit this link. \nBios: \n\n\n\nJesse Chun’s moving images\, concrete poems\, scores\, and activations intimately unravel the dominant compositions of language and legibility — invoking alternate semiotics and cosmologies of meaning\, time\, and infinitude. Chun’s first solo survey exhibition 시\, language for new moons was presented by the Seoul Museum of Art for the 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale. Chun’s work has been presented internationally at the Institute of Contemporary Art\, Los Angeles; Art Sonje Center\, Seoul; Thaddaeus Ropac\, Seoul; SculptureCenter\, New York; the Drawing Center\, New York\, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archives\, Berkeley (US); Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto (Canada); Whitechapel Gallery\, London (UK)\, among others. Chun was awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant (US\, 2020)\, and was an artist in residence at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) Korea (2024-25). Chun is represented by Commonwealth and Council\, Los Angeles. \nNa Mira works at the edges of perception. Recent and forthcoming projects have been presented at Museum of Modern Art\, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art\, Los Angeles; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Museum of Contemporary Art\, Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art\, Tucson\, Midway Contemporary Art\, Minneapolis; Art Sonje Center\, Seoul; and Kunsthalle Zurich; as well as the Made in LA Biennial\, SITE Santa Fe International Biennial\, Gwangju Biennale\, Venice Biennale\, Whitney Biennial\, and Performa Biennial. An Assistant Professor of Art at the University of California\, Irvine\, Wendy’s Subway published the first collection of Mira’s writing\, The Book of Na\, in 2022. \nCici Wu is a New York based artist who was born in Beijing and grew up in Hong Kong. Reducing filmmaking to its most humble and elemental components\, she creates drawings\, objects\, videos\, and installations which extend the imaginative and structural premises of cinematic language across a wide range of media. She has exhibited at major art events 36th Biennial de São Paulo (2025)\, Asian Art Biennale\, Taiwan (2024)\, and the 11th Seoul Mediacity Biennale\, South Korea (2021). Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at 47 Canal\, New York (2026\, 2021\, 2018); the Rockbund Art Museum\, Shanghai (2025)\, Scheusal\, Berlin (2024)\, Empty Gallery\, Hong Kong (2023\, 2019)\, Hordaland Kunstsenter\, Norway (2023); and has participated in group exhibitions at MoMA PS1 (2026)\, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (2026)\, Palais de Tokyo\, Paris (2025)\, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (2024)\, the Drawing Center\, New York (2023\, 2020)\, CAPC Musée d’art Contemporain de Bordeaux (2022)\, Para Site\, Hong Kong (2020\, 2018)\, among others. She has organized exhibitions and screenings at 99 Canal\, New York (2025)\, Giorno Poetry Systems\, New York (2024)\, M+\, Hong Kong (2023)\, among others. She will have her third solo exhibition on view at 47 Canal\, New York from September to November. \nVictoria Sung is the Phyllis C. Wattis Senior Curator at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA)\, where she oversees the museum’s long-standing MATRIX series of contemporary art and works with artists to create exhibitions\, publications\, and public programs. Recent projects include solo shows with Amol K Patil\, Lee ShinJa\, Sin Wai Kin\, Duane Linklater\, Kenneth Tam\, and Yee I-Lann. From 2015 to 2023\, Sung was a curator at the Walker Art Center\, Minneapolis\, where she organized survey exhibitions on Pacita Abad\, Siah Armajani\, and Theaster Gates\, among others. Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings\, the first retrospective on the artist in 25 years\, debuted at BAMPFA in January 2026 and opens at Artists Space in the fall. \nLight refreshments will be provided. \nImage credit: Installation view\, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings\, January 24–April 19\, 2026\, at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA)\, Berkeley\, CA. Photo: Chris Grunder.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/reverberations-theresa-hak-kyung-cha/
LOCATION:Asia Art Archive in America\, 23 Cranberry Street\, Ground Floor\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,Art Exhibit,Discussion
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SUMMARY:R.F. Kuang\, Taipei Story
DESCRIPTION:The acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author of Katabasis and Yellowface returns with her dazzling new novel. Taipei Story is a humorous and profoundly moving coming-of-age novel that grapples with grief\, language\, and culture shock. Don’t miss an afternoon of lively conversation as Kuang and author Hua Hsu (The New Yorker\, Stay True) delve into questions of identity\, memory\, and the pull of home across continents. Actress Havana Rose Liu (Bottoms\, Turner) will perform an excerpt from the novel. \nProduced in collaboration with Barnes & Noble \nAll tickets include a signed copy of Taipei Story (retail value $32). Following the event\, R.F. Kuang will personalize 1 book only for attendees (either the signed copy of Taipei Story received at the event\, or 1 book from her backlist). Attendees may take photos of the event\, however she will not pose for photos.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/r-f-kuang-taipei-story/
LOCATION:Symphony Space\, 2537 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book,Discussion
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SUMMARY:All Star Video / Adelic Penguins
DESCRIPTION:All Star Video\n『電子の拓本』 \nOpening with Ongaku Zukan era Ryuichi Sakamoto in a technological haze\, All Star Video breaks out into a series of interviews\, documenting “All Stars” of the New York arts scene—John Cage\, Allen Ginsberg and Charlotte Moorman among them—many of whom are interviewed by Sakamoto himself. Re-enacting Fluxus performances\, from cello concertos to a piano’s destruction\, and interspersed with musical interludes throughout\, Paik’s All Star Video pays an indelible tribute to the collaborative spirit of Fluxus and the avant garde. \nDir. Nam June Paik\, 1984\, 32 min.\, digital\, color\, in English and Japanese. With Ryuichi Sakamoto\, Allen Ginsberg\, Charlotte Moorman\, Laurie Anderson\, John Cage. \nAdelic Penguins \nCommissioned by Sony and performed live on a fourteen-story TV set aptly named the JumboTRON at the Expo in Tsukuba\, Adelic Penguins is a six-part video art mesh of diving penguins\, chroma key composites and propulsive rhythms. Sakamoto\, not merely credited with composing the music\, appears on screen dancing\, twirling and performing in the expanse of Fitzgerald and Garrin’s radiating\, polychromatic overdrive.  \nDir. Kit Fitzgerald\, Paul Garrin\, 1986\, 33 min.\, digital\, color\, in Japanese with English subtitles. \nPart of Music by Ryuichi Sakamoto\nSeptember 11—12
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/all-star-video-adelic-penguins/
LOCATION:Japan Society\, 333 East 47th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10017\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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SUMMARY:Riichi Mahjong Learn-and-Play
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our biweekly Riichi learn-and-play event. Beginners and veterans alike are welcome to come out and toss some tiles around! \nNote: We have recently moved to a new location\, 35 West 35th Street\, just one block down from our old location. If you’ve joined us before\, please make sure that you come find us at the correct address! \nJoin the USPML at Sparrow’s Nest Studio for our biweekly “learn and play” meetup! Maybe you’ve seen people playing mahjong in movies like Crazy Rich Asians\, or video games like the Yakuza series or Final Fantasy XIV. Maybe you’re already familiar with the game\, but are looking to grow your skills. This is your chance to jump in\, toss some tiles around\, and see what it’s all about. \nIf you’re a novice\, the first hour or two of the meetup will be our Riichi “Jumpstart” where our teachers will show you the ropes and make sure you’re comfortable getting started. If you’ve only played online or if you’re familiar with other styles of mahjong\, we can give you a quick rules and etiquette primer that will have you ready to play in no time. This meetup is a beginner-friendly and welcoming environment\, and we’re always happy to meet new players. \nInterested in more structured classes and lectures? Check out USPML’s other events – we’re always working on growing our selection of formal classes for both beginners and experienced players\, as well as unique ways to share the strategy and culture of mahjong. You can follow us on Instagram at @uspml or sign up for our newsletter.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/riichi-mahjong-learn-and-play/
LOCATION:Sparrow’s Nest Studio\, 35 West 35th Street\, 12th Floor\, New York\, NY\, 10001\, United States
CATEGORIES:Games
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SUMMARY:Tokyo Decadence
DESCRIPTION:Based on Ryu Murakami’s 1988 short story Topaz and lesser known than Hideaki Anno’s point-and-shoot adaptation of its sequel Love & Pop: Topaz 2\, Tokyo Decadence marks the fourth feature directed by the transgressive author behind Audition and In the Miso Soup. A murky descent into Tokyo’s seductive underworld of BDSM\, Murakami’s erotic drama whisks lovesick callgirl Ai (Miho Nikaido) between clients amid the empty spaces of high-rise lofts and dimly lit hotels in Tokyo’s nocturnal cityscape. Murakami formulates a bleak indictment of Japan’s bubble-era excess as Ai struggles to find purpose and meaning in catering to the degrading desires and hedonistic fantasies of an anesthetized elite. \nDir. Ryu Murakami\, 1992\, 113 min\, DCP\, color\, in Japanese with English subtitles. With Miho Nikaido\, Sayoko Amano\, Yayoi Kusama. \nPart of Music by Ryuichi Sakamoto\nSeptember 11—12
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/tokyo-decadence/
LOCATION:Japan Society\, 333 East 47th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10017\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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