Free nonpartisan workshops for Asian American, South Asian, and Pacific Islander community groups. Experienced lawyers will help community leaders and Asian Americans, South Asians, and Pacific Islanders understand: • their rights in the election • how to obtain language assistance • typical voting problems and how to cure deficiencies. Attorneys will also cover the legal […]
Join us for readings by Jennifer Baker, Irene Hsu, Benedict Nguyễn, Jasmine Reid, Tony Tulathimutte, Ryan Lee Wong, and Ruth Minah Buchwald!The Asian American Writers' Workshop is proud to host lactose intolerant (@lactoseintolerantnyc), an anti-clout monthly reading series featuring writers of color in NYC. Join us for readings by Jennifer Baker, Irene Hsu, Benedict Nguyễn, […]
According to APIA Vote and TargetSmart, Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders have had the largest increase in voter registration of any racial group in the country from January to June, compared to the same time back in 2020. This statistic alone is enough to expect AANHPI voters to have an impact on this […]
Following April’s successful performance of Comfort Girl, Stephanie brings her band back to Joe’s Pub for a performance of entirely different material! Stephanie Chou is a composer/saxophonist/singer who blends influences from her Chinese heritage with Western jazz and pop to create a bracingly original sound. Tonight’s show will feature live premieres of newly-written material and […]
Join us for this captivating discussion that explores the dynamic interplay between culture and technology!Register via ZoomPurchase The Chinese ComputerThe Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) cordially invites you to join an insightful discussion with Thomas S. Mullaney, Professor of Chinese History at Stanford University and author of The Chinese Computer: A Global History of […]
Join us to celebrate the release of Giant Robot: Thirty Years of Defining Asian-American Pop Culture with a lively discussion between Giant Robot's co-founder Eric Nakamura and journalist Claudine Ko, writer Ed Lin, and artist, illustrator and author Travis Louie.
This series brings together movement leaders to discuss the strategic questions facing the movement at this critical juncture.Panel Overview: The past 15 years have seen persistent and powerful uprisings and mass movements in the streets. With unrest likely to grow in the coming years, it is critical that base-building organizations think strategically about what their […]
Presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. REGISTER As the 2024 presidential election approaches and in the shadows of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 uprisings for Black Lives, and 2023 Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action, Claire Jean Kim‘s Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World (Cambridge University Press, 2023) offers us a historically-grounded and theoretically astute […]
This workshop sheds light on some of the many overlooked histories of Oceania, or the Pacific Islands, to recenter the “PI” in “AAPI.” This 90-min session will give an overview of U.S. Pacific Islander history, covering topics of colonization and military intervention, and interrogate the common misconstructions of the Pacific and its people. Participants will […]
Fatima Rajina discusses British Bangladeshi Muslim men and the changing landscape of their dress and language.Popular discourse around British Muslims has often been dominated by a focus on Muslim women and their sartorial choices, particularly the hijab and niqab. Dr. Fatima Rajina takes a different angle and focuses on Muslim men, examining how factors like […]
Watch some of the funniest South Asian American comedians from New York City as well from all around the U.S. and the world. Every show also features a non-South-Asian guest performer, just to keep the spice level under 5. Our house shows at Broadway Comedy Club regularly feature New York’s best South Asian Comedians as […]
Join a MOCA educator for a public gallery tour of our core exhibition, With a Single Step: Stories in the Making of America.