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SUMMARY:Laughing Lassi – The #1 South Asian Stand-Up Comedy Show in New York City!
DESCRIPTION:Laughing Lassi brings the funniest South Asian comedians from NYC and around the world to one stage. \n\n\nAfter four years of sold-out shows\, we’re kicking off 2026 with a killer lineup and fresh programming. \nGET YOUR TICKETS NOW! \nLaughing Lassi is New York City’s premier South Asian stand-up comedy show\, featuring the best Desi and Indian-American comedians from NYC and beyond. \nAs featured in TimeOut NYC\, The New Yorker\, and India Tribune\, this monthly comedy event has become a must-see cultural experience\, a place where laughter meets identity\, storytelling\, and community. \nWhether you’re South Asian or simply love smart\, diverse humor\, Laughing Lassi promises a night of non-stop laughter and unforgettable energy. Each lineup features top comedians who have performed on Comedy Central\, Netflix\, and major festivals around the world. \n📅 When: Doors open at 6:15 PM | Show starts 7:00 PM sharp (no “Brown Time” here!)\n📍 Where: Midtown Manhattan – Convenient NYC location\n🍸 Venue Policy: 2-drink minimum (alcoholic & non-alcoholic options available) \nJoin hundreds of fans who’ve made Laughing Lassi a monthly tradition for celebrating South Asian talent and NYC comedy. \nThe show is in English\, welcoming audiences of all backgrounds. Perfect for a night out with friends\, family\, or coworkers. \n🎟️ Tickets: Shows sell out fast\, grab yours now!\n💬 Follow Us: IG @LaughingLassi | Medium @LaughingLassi | TikTok @LaughingLassi \n🚨 Important Information\nLineups are subject to change due to last-minute cancellations.\nTickets cover the main show (7:00 PM – 8:30 PM)\, not your drinks.\nRefunds available up to 24 hours before the event; no refunds on the day of or after the show as we have limited seating. \nJoin us at Laughing Lassi to celebrate South Asian talent and experience a comedy show like no other. Don’t miss your chance to be part of NYC’s most talked-about South Asian comedy event. \n\n\n 
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/laughing-lassi-the-1-south-asian-stand-up-comedy-show-in-new-york-city-14/
LOCATION:Broadway Comedy Club\, 318 West 53rd Street\, New York\, NY\, 10019\, United States
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SUMMARY:Mutated Romance
DESCRIPTION:A HALF MUTANT OPERA where music speaks louder than words. She studies mitochondria. Then one of them walks into her life. \n\n\n\n\nA one-act chamber musical-theater performance\, written by Mikiko Miyakawa whose recording career began in Japan with an album produced by Haruomi Hosono. \nThe musicians themselves portray the characters while performing live. At times\, their instruments speak in place of words. \nWhen a mysterious salesman Luca enters the life of Shannon\, a scientist and composer\, a story unfolds around a mitochondrial mutation\, groundbreaking discovery and scientific rivalry. \nCan music save a fragile life that was never meant to be seen? \nOptional:\nTokyo-inspired Zen-style meditation\, accompanied by live music. \nA complimentary wine tasting featuring labels by a Japanese artist behind this production’s artwork. \nFeaturing POWDERED SUGAR \n\nPiano — Mikiko Miyakawa\nViolin — Carol Ma\nSaxophone — Paul-Alexandre Meurens\nPercussion — Brynna Gritter Kenneke\nVocals — Mylene Juan
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/mutated-romance/
LOCATION:Tenri Cultural Institute\, 43A W 13th St\, New York\, 10011
CATEGORIES:Music,Performance
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SUMMARY:AAPI Dance Festival: Day 1
DESCRIPTION:Asian American Arts Alliance (A4) and Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company are pleased to present the AAPI Dance Festival\, featuring three compelling sets of performances by AAPI choreographers and dancers staged across two days. Day 1 will feature dynamic performances from Jiva Dance\, Vivake Khamsingsavath\, KAŌS (directed by 2026 Jadin Wong Fellow Nikaio Bulan Sahar Thomashow)\, and Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company. \nThe AAPI dance festival is an annual celebration of dance and choreography that highlights the artistry and innovation of choreographers of Asian descent\, presented as part of the Dance Managers Collective’s Association of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP) showcase. \nThe AAPI Dance Festival is made possible with support from the CJ Huang Foundation\, Howard Gilman Foundation\, Mertz Gilmore Foundation\, Nai-Ni Chen Dance Foundation\, National Endowment for the Arts\, New Jersey Cultural Trust\, New Jersey State Council on the Arts\, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs\, New York State Council on the Arts\, and individual donors like you. \nThis event is ticketed and open to the public. Admission to one performance is $25. Receive a discount when you attend all three performances with a full-festival pass for $50. \nOpening remarks by Lisa Gold and Andy Chiang \n“The Four Horsemen” by Jiva Dance\nThe apocalypse\, reimagined as the lives of women. “The Four Horsemen” maps conquest\, war\, famine\, and death onto four female protagonists\, their stories moving from despair toward defiant hope. Blending Bharatanatyam\, Sanskrit poetry\, and a commissioned score\, Jiva Dance brings Indian classical dance thrillingly into the present. \n“Portal” by Vivake Khamsingsavath\nVivake debuted in 2013\, with a cast of 10\, and reviews that read “Darkly Alluring”\, “Sensuous energy”\, “Super smooth Gotham-movers”. Returning to stage 14 years later\, Vive and an ensemble of 9 new dancers aspire to capture a world that revisits the past and ventures upon the aftermath of the lived-in human experience. \n“On Your Sleeve” by KAŌS\nEmbodying the quiet tenderness of Filipino family histories\, this work lingers in the space where love and grief fold into one another. It listens for memories held in the body\, passed hand to hand\, generation to generation\, until they no longer belong to one person but to all of us. \n“Song of the Phoenix” by Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company\nExperience a dynamic journey across diverse cultural landscapes\, from the bustling modern metropolis to the ancient tribal lands. This showcase program celebrates tradition\, innovation\, and the enduring human spirit through four signature works from the Nai-Ni Chen Dance:\n“Whirlwind\,” “Reflection of a Ripple\,” “Shadow Force\,” and “Dance of the Golden Snake.”
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/aapi-dance-festival-day-1/
LOCATION:Ailey Citigroup Theater\, 405 W 55th St.\, New York\, NY\, 10019\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dance
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SUMMARY:AAPI Dance Festival: Rising Stars
DESCRIPTION:Asian American Arts Alliance (A4) and Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company are pleased to present the AAPI Dance Festival\, featuring three compelling sets of performances by AAPI choreographers and dancers staged across two days. Rising Stars will feature dynamic performances from Jiemin Yang\, Chisato Fujii\, DRWN\, Samanvita Kasthuri\, Chia-Ying Kao Dance\, and Ah-Molla Dance Collective (AMDC). \nThe AAPI dance festival is an annual celebration of dance and choreography that highlights the artistry and innovation of choreographers of Asian descent\, presented as part of the Dance Managers Collective’s Association of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP) showcase. \nThe AAPI Dance Festival is made possible with support from the CJ Huang Foundation\, Howard Gilman Foundation\, Mertz Gilmore Foundation\, Nai-Ni Chen Dance Foundation\, National Endowment for the Arts\, New Jersey Cultural Trust\, New Jersey State Council on the Arts\, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs\, New York State Council on the Arts\, and individual donors like you. \nThank you to production community partner Queensboro Dance Festival for their support at the Rising Stars showcase at City Center. \nThis event is ticketed and open to the public. Admission to one performance is $25. Receive a discount when you attend all three performances with a full-festival pass for $50. \n“Portraits of the Moon” (Excerpt) by Jiemin Yang in collaboration with dancers\n“Portraits of the Moon” traces the ache of separation and hope of reunion through movement\, live testimony\, and original music. Drawing on Chang’e’s myth\, classical poetry\, and immigrant memory\, this dance work follows the moon’s pull across distance—a luminous thread connecting memory\, family\, and homeland. \n“hello !” Chisato Fujii\nA newborn emerges from her mother’s womb and meets a world that is raw\, vivid\, and intensely fresh. Through the pains and sorrows of living\, the vitality of youth\, and the body that carries her\, she discovers the joy of existence and celebrates the wonder of being alive. \n“gunwale” by DRWN\ngunwale: the top edge of the hull of a boat. The sound composition\, “Untitled\,” was created by Jasmine Hastings and Conor Elmes of Clitoris\, based in Drogheda\, Ireland. \n“Ghungroo” by Samanvita Kasthuri\n“Ghungroo” is a confrontation of the need for Samanvita to create her own path as an Indian Contemporary dancer. This piece takes inspiration from her experiences as an Indian classically trained dancer in the Contemporary dance community\, which is predominantly made up of trained Western concert dancers. “Ghungroo” takes you on a journey of introspection\, loss\, confusion\, joy\, community\, and finally\, a discovery of love. \n“Fugue for Shadow and Bone” by Chia-Ying Kao Dance\nA startlingly intimate solo\, “Fugue for Shadow and Bone” traces what the body remembers when language fails. Gestures inherited across generations surface and dissolve\, carried by a live score from bassist/composer Giacomo Merega. The work will make its U.S. premiere following its November 2026 performances at The 4th Kyoto International Butoh Festival and JOGONIN International Art Festival. \n“초희|Chohui” by Ah-Molla Dance Collective (AMDC)\n“초희|Chohui” is an evocative dance work inspired by the life of Heo Nanseolheon\, a pioneering Korean poet and artist whose brilliance was constrained by the expectations of her time. Blending contemporary movement\, Korean traditional aesthetics\, and visceral storytelling\, “초희|Chohui” celebrates her legacy through themes of artistry\, womanhood\, resilience\, and freedom.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/aapi-dance-festival-2/
LOCATION:New York City Center\, Studio 5\, 131 W 55th St.\, New York\, New York\, 10019
CATEGORIES:Dance
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SUMMARY:AAPI Dance Festival: Day 2
DESCRIPTION:Asian American Arts Alliance (A4) and Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company are pleased to present the AAPI Dance Festival\, featuring three compelling sets of performances by AAPI choreographers and dancers staged across two days. Day 2 will feature dynamic performances from KAŌS (directed by 2026 Jadin Wong Fellow Nikaio Bulan Sahar Thomashow)\, Parul Shah Dance Company\, YY Dance Company\, and Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company. \nThe AAPI dance festival is an annual celebration of dance and choreography that highlights the artistry and innovation of choreographers of Asian descent\, presented as part of the Dance Managers Collective’s Association of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP) showcase. \nThe AAPI Dance Festival is made possible with support from the CJ Huang Foundation\, Howard Gilman Foundation\, Mertz Gilmore Foundation\, Nai-Ni Chen Dance Foundation\, National Endowment for the Arts\, New Jersey Cultural Trust\, New Jersey State Council on the Arts\, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs\, New York State Council on the Arts\, and individual donors like you. \nThis event is ticketed and open to the public. Admission to one performance is $25. Receive a discount when you attend all three performances with a full-festival pass for $50. \nOpening remarks by Lisa Gold and Andy Chiang \n“PSYWAR” by KAŌS\n“PSYWAR” brings audiences into the world of the Aswang\, shedding light onto forgotten histories while emphasizing how propaganda has the power to rewrite realities. The immersive thriller explores weaponization of culture and surviving as Filipino genderfluid entities in a time where transness/brownness are openly villainized. \n“all that lies” by Parul Shah Dance Company\n“all that lies” disrupts inherited narratives surrounding South Asian diasporic female identity. Moving across myth\, migration\, and contemporary life\, the work confronts exotic fantasies that shaped Indian dance in America alongside ongoing expectations of “purity” placed on women within South Asian tradition. Through choreography and spoken word\, Shah offers personal counter-narratives. \n“ELSEWHERE” by YY Dance Company\nELSEWHERE is a 70-minute\, full-length dance work that received its world premiere as part of 92NY’s 2025 Women Move the World season. Featuring an original score\, and 8 dancers\, ELSEWHERE was the third piece in a trilogy series exploring humanity\, connection\, and the search for meaning. ELSEWHERE is considered by the choreographer to be the fullest and most developed expression of FoCo Technique combining complex physical movement and musicality with diverse Asian folk traditions—including influences from China\, Indonesia\, Thailand\, India\, and South Korea—centered within a contemporary dance framework. \n“Song of the Phoenix” by Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company\nExperience a dynamic journey across diverse cultural landscapes\, from the bustling modern metropolis to the ancient tribal lands. This showcase program celebrates tradition\, innovation\, and the enduring human spirit through four signature works from the Nai-Ni Chen Dance:\n“Whirlwind\,” “Reflection of a Ripple\,” “Shadow Force\,” and “Dance of the Golden Snake.”
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/aapi-dance-festival-day-2/
LOCATION:Ailey Citigroup Theater\, 405 W 55th St.\, New York\, NY\, 10019\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270206T111500
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SUMMARY:Free Yoga Classes
DESCRIPTION:🧘🏽‍♀️💛 Move. Breathe. Connect. \nAs the 𝒔𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆\, taking care of your health can look like making time to slow down\, move your body\, manage stress\, and be in community with people who understand you. \nApicha Community Health Center invites you to a series of 𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 𝗬𝗼𝗴𝗮 𝑪𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒔 + 𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒑𝒔\, offered in both English and Bangla. Yoga can support physical and mental well-being through gentle movement\, breathing\, rest\, and mindfulness – and these workshops are also a space to connect with your neighbors\, friends\, and community. \nAt Apicha CHC\, we believe health care goes beyond the exam room. Alongside 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒕𝒉 𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒊𝒄𝒆𝒔\, we are creating welcoming spaces where community members can care for their bodies and minds\, build connection\, and feel supported. \nWhether you are completely new to yoga or already practice\, everyone is welcome. No experience needed -just come as you are. ✨ \n📅 Workshops will be held on the 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗦𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵 from 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 through 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟳\, beginning Saturday\, November 7. \n🧘🏽 Yoga mats and supplies will be provided\n🥤 Refreshments will be available\n🧸 A kid’s corner with activities will be available for families \n𝗥𝗦𝗩𝗣𝘀 are now open! Tinyurl.com/apichayoga\n➡️ 𝗥𝗦𝗩𝗣 through the link in our bio.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/free-yoga-classes-4/
LOCATION:Apicha Community Health Center – Jackson Heights-Queens\, 82-11 37th Avenue\, Queens\, NY\, 11372\, United States
CATEGORIES:Health & Wellness,Yoga
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