VCS is excited about the First Light: AAPI Film Festival! To kick the event off, we are excited to announce five featured films screening on Saturday, September 26th ✨ 📅 Oct. 18 at 3:00 PM 📍telos.haus at 303 Ten Eyck St 🎬 First Winter Directed by Schantelle Alonzo (@Mishipiku) Ángel is a newly arrived immigrant […]
The 30-minute movement-based performance combines choreography from the Asian tradition of park dancing with US military parade sequences, Qigong, and gestures taken from pregnancy, childrearing, and sex work. Performed by […]
LEE WEONYOUNG 이원영 • 2025 • Fiction • 65 min 🎬 Muju Film Festival Choice 🗓️ Sunday, October 18 • 7:30 PM 📍 Korean Cultural Center New York (122 E […]
Join us for the first-ever Smorgasburg Diwali: Festival of Bites in partnership with @browngirlmag! A two-day celebration of South Asian flavors, culture, and community — featuring guest vendors, specials from our […]
Join QPL Community Health for a discussion with NYU Professor Krishnendu Ray and NYC-based cook, journalist, and recipe developer Anikah Shaokat. Together, they’ll explore how food preserves culture, connects generations, and reflects the Bengali-American experience. Professor Ray is a leading scholar and the author of several books examining Bengali American food, South Asian cuisine, and […]
Happy Filipino American History Month! Many of us do not realize that Filipino American history is made throughout the year in everyday life. With the recent addition of Tagalog as […]
ABOUT THE BOOK From the award-winning author of Bestiary, three cousins are forced to complete an impossible and violent task set by a vengeful demon. Cousins Cindy, Yangyang, and Mandy’s hot, […]
Free concert for the public, featuring a jazz ensemble led by Stephanie Chou with erhu musician, Andy Lin. The first act will highlight jazz arrangements of Chinese folk songs and […]
The Asia Game Changer Awards, launched by the Asia Society in New York in 2014, are designed to fill a vital gap, identifying and honoring true leaders who are making […]
Join AAARI 10/21 for a co-sponsored online panel, ‘Asian American Studies Matters,’ hosted by the Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities – Brooklyn College/CUNY. This event brings together Asian Americanists in conversation about the place of AAPI studies curriculum in current K-12 and college classrooms. How can we encourage teachers and schools (K-12 to […]
Join us for Mapping Queens: Building Artist-Run Spaces, a conversation highlighting artist-led spaces across Queens and the people creating them. Presented through the Queens Cultural Mapping Initiative, this panel will […]
We invite you to an evening of books and humanitarian fundraising on October 21st. Throughout our publication season, we noticed our titles in conversation with another: A Beast Slinks Towards […]