JPA Annual Performance Program: Japanese traditional dance, Yukata fashion show, Kagura, and the Big Three Bon Odori Festivals Japan Performing Arts, Inc.’s Autumn Free Public Program features “Discovery within Traditions […]
Long before KPop Demon Hunters, there was Gut, the Korean tradition of spirit-confronting performance, where music, dance, drama, ritual, and healing became one. This production of Gut: In Search of Life's Seasons offers a rare opportunity to experience the living cultural and spiritual heritage that inspired today's stories of demon hunters, performed by Jeongwook Park, […]
Burning is the searing examination of an alienated young man, Jongsu (Ah-in Yoo), a frustrated introvert whose already difficult life is complicated by the appearance of two people in his orbit: first, Haemi (newcomer Jong-seo Jun), a spirited woman who offers the romantic possibility, and then, Ben (Steven Yeun, The Walking Dead and Sorry to […]
🍁 FRIENDSGIVING LUNCH 2026 🍁 Good Food • Great Friends • Beautiful Memories As the year comes to an end, let's gather together to celebrate friendship, laughter, and all the wonderful memories we've shared. You're warmly invited to our Friendsgiving Potluck Lunch! 🧡 🍽️ POTLUCK STYLE Bring your favorite dish to share with everyone! Let's […]
From the critically acclaimed author of The Sense of Wonder and Craft in the Real World comes a deeply personal, poignant memoir, weaving together Salesses' multiple identities: adoptee, Asian American, husband, father, and, finally, widower. Matthew Salesses has spent his career writing about the power of storytelling, but he wasn’t prepared for the story of […]
In a bustling restaurant in both 1950s Vietnam and 1990s France, strangers gather to eat, drink, sing, argue, remember, and mourn. Across decades and continents, lives intersect as people reckon with exile, longing, and the lasting impact of history. Created by acclaimed director Caroline Guiela Nguyen, Saigon is an epic and deeply personal portrait of migration, memory, and belonging. […]
🧘🏽♀️💛 Move. Breathe. Connect. As 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. Apicha Community Health Center invites you to a series of 𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 𝗬𝗼𝗴𝗮 𝑪𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒔 + 𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒑𝒔, offered in both English and […]
This event is benefiting New Life Community Development Corporation, a 501c3 nonprofit serving low income individuals in Elmhurst and Corona. Doors open at 6:30! Join Min Jin Lee in conversation with Lucy Yu in the bestselling author’s very own hometown of Elmhurst, NY, to celebrate the arrival of her latest novel American Hagwon, and to fundraise for […]
MOCA x NYAFF Film Club is a quarterly program celebrating the brilliance and boldness of Asian and Asian American cinema. This series highlights films of historic and cultural significance under the theme Margin, spotlighting daring films that challenge the norm, rewrite narratives, and push boundaries. Each session is more than just a movie night—it’s an opportunity […]
Save the date! Join AAARI 12/11 for our 25th annual gala! Check our website for updated info on honorees and to purchase tickets, www.aaari.info.
A stone can mark a boundary. Or it can open one… Japanese-American musician Kaoru Watanabe and Lakota performance/visual artist Kite (Suzanne Kite) bring two inheritances together, asking what it means to seek ancestral guidance in a country built on forgetting. On Japanese drums, flute, koto, voice, violin, electronics and invented instruments, they weave a soundscape moving between meditative stillness […]
Join internationally acclaimed author Min Jin Lee for a special evening celebrating the release of her highly anticipated new novel, American Hagwon. From the bestselling author of Pachinko comes an epic, deeply moving saga that follows a Korean family across Seoul, Sydney, and California’s Orange County from 1992 to 2007. Through the lives of the […]