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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260204
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260914
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SUMMARY:Noguchi’s New York
DESCRIPTION:In 1922\, Isamu Noguchi first moved to New York—a city that would remain his on-again\, off-again home for the remainder of his life. Though he was an avid traveler who built meaningful connections and temporary homes around the world\, Noguchi always returned to New York. It was here that he created some of his most iconic artworks and imagined countless others. \nThis exhibition examines Noguchi’s deep and dynamic relationship with New York City\, exploring how its material\, cultural\, social\, and political landscape indelibly transformed his artwork and thinking\, and how he in turn transformed the city. It also highlights Noguchi’s unflagging attempts to give back by sculpting communal spaces for exploration and play—efforts often thwarted\, most notably by the influential NYC Parks Commissioner Robert Moses. \nNoguchi’s New York encompasses more than 50 works\, including sculptures\, project models\, photographs\, and archival materials. The exhibition also brings to life Noguchi’s visions for unrealized playgrounds and playground equipment through a series of hand-painted animated films by Jack Cunningham and Nicolas Ménard of Eastend Western. \nOrganized on the 40th anniversary of The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum\, this exhibition celebrates the Museum itself as one of Noguchi’s most profound gifts to this city he called home. \nPhoto credit: Isamu Noguchi\, 1980
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/noguchis-new-york/
LOCATION:Noguchi Museum\, Noguchi Museum\, 9-01 33rd Rd\, Astoria\, NY 11106\, USA\, Astoria\, NY\, 11106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,Art Exhibit,Photography
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260319
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270128
DTSTAMP:20260818T200949Z
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SUMMARY:Buddha and Shiva\, Lotus and Dragon
DESCRIPTION:In celebration of Asia Society’s seventieth anniversary\, Asia Society Museum presents Buddha and Shiva\, Lotus and Dragon: Celebrating 70 Years of Asia Society and the Rockefeller Legacy. \nDisplaying seventy of the finest examples of Asian art in the United States drawn from Asia Society’s permanent collection\, the exhibition showcases the extraordinary range of bronzes\, ceramics\, and metalwork thoughtfully assembled between the 1950s and the 1970s by John D. Rockefeller 3rd (1906-1978) and his wife Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller (1909-1992). John D. Rockefeller 3rd founded Asia Society in 1956 with the mission to promote greater knowledge of Asia in the United States; the bequest of the collection to Asia Society in 1979 underscores the Rockefellers’ conviction that an aesthetic encounter with great works of art promotes deep cross-cultural understanding. \nWith highlights including spectacular Buddhist and Hindu sculptures\, and rare Chinese\, Korean\, and Japanese ceramics\, Buddha and Shiva\, Lotus and Dragon celebrates historic achievements in Asian art spanning more than two millennia. The exhibition foregrounds the transformative power of faith and the catalyzing potential of international trade in the creation of great works of art across Asia. \nBuddha and Shiva\, Lotus and Dragon presents a special opportunity for museum visitors to experience the unparalleled quality of the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Thrid Collection at its home at Asia Society Museum in New York City.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/buddha-and-shiva-lotus-and-dragon/
LOCATION:Asia Society\, 725 Park Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10021
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibit
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260328
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261027
DTSTAMP:20260327T140040Z
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SUMMARY:Japan Fes NYC 2026:  Japanese Food Festival
DESCRIPTION:JAPAN Fes\, one of the city’s most beloved street food events\, is returning to celebrate a major milestone: its 10th anniversary in New York City\, bringing dozens of Japanese food vendors to the streets for a full day of snacking\, sipping and exploring.  Each event typically runs from 10 am to 6 pm and pops up in neighborhoods across Manhattan\, Brooklyn and Queens. \nHere are the 2026 JAPAN Fes dates in NYC: \nMarch 28 in the East Village\nMarch 29 in Midtown West \nApril 4 in the Village\nApril 5 on the Upper West Side\nApril 11 in the East Village\nApril 12 in the East Village\nApril 18 in Morningside Heights\nApril 19 in Chelsea\nApril 25 in Chelsea\nApril 26 in Astoria\nMay\nMay 2 on the Upper East Side\nMay 3 on the Upper West Side\nMay 9 in Chelsea\nMay 24 in the Village\nMay 30 on the Upper East Side\nMay 31 in the East Village\nJune\nJune 6 in the East Village\nJune 7 on the Upper West Side\nJune 14 in the East Village\nJune 21 in Brooklyn\nJune 27 in Times Square\nJune 28 in Astoria\nJuly\nJuly 11 in Chelsea\nJuly 19 in Times Square\nAugust\nAugust 2 on the Upper West Side\nSeptember\nSeptember 12 in Chelsea\nSeptember 13 in Chelsea\nSeptember 19 on the Upper East Side\nSeptember 26 in Morningside Heights\nSeptember 27 on the Upper East Side\nOctober\nOctober 3 in the East Village\nOctober 10 in Astoria\nOctober 24 in the East Village\nOctober 25 on the Upper West Side
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/japan-fes-nyc-2026-japanese-food-festival/
LOCATION:Multiple NYC locations
CATEGORIES:Food,In Person
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260403
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270104
DTSTAMP:20260818T202009Z
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SUMMARY:Shu Lea Cheang\, LOVER LOVE
DESCRIPTION:LOVER LOVE\, a new commission for the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art by Shu Lea Cheang\, begins with a portal. A window is flung open and the gray wall of an apartment block dissolves into a turbulent\, overcast sky\, against which a smoky being is enveloped by a six-winged seraphim—an angel of the highest order. \nThis opening transition is both a gesture to Cheang’s longtime collaborator\, musician Aérea Negrot (1980–2023)\, who died by suicide\, and a marker of an entry into a hybrid space of documentation and imagination. For this film\, presented as a four-channel installation\, Cheang worked with eight intergenerational performers in Tucson\, Arizona\, all of whom contributed their own experiences\, narratives\, and dreams of and for trans and gender nonconforming life in today’s United States. \nThis collaboratively scripted film moves between physical and virtual space: between performances in a motel room\, a junkyard\, and city streets amid surrounding nature\, we can see desert plants blooming anthropomorphic appendages and souls escaping inhuman oppression to take transhuman flight. \nThe gallery’s four screens\, themselves portals to the film’s world\, can be shifted by viewers into and out of the path of each projector. Each movement triggers a segment of Negrot’s 2011 track “It’s Lover\, Love”—a dreamy\, minimalist meditation on the lingering traces of broken promises and vanished love. These aural and physical shifts create new compositions\, morphing the installation into an active landscape in which to navigate agency\, survival\, and intimacy in a time of escalating political precarity.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/shu-lea-cheang-lover-love/
LOCATION:The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art\, 26 Wooster Street\, New York\, NY\, 10013\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260502
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261217
DTSTAMP:20260818T202523Z
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SUMMARY:Bangladesh Not "Bhaangadesh"
DESCRIPTION:This exhibition explores how Bangladeshis in Bangladesh and beyond took actions during the 2024 mass uprisings against the quota system in place\, since 1972\, immediately after the birth of the country in 1971. Featuring articles such as printed international artworks by Bangladeshi artists\, handcrafted tools\, and relevant media\, the exhibition serves as a homage to learn\, reflect\, discuss\, and heal. \nBangladesh\, Not “Bhaangadesh” seeks to raise social (in)justice awareness through showcasing Bangladeshi artistic expression\, and persistent crimes against humanity from the summer of 2024–of government-implemented curfews\, with “shoot-on-sight” commands\, country-wide internet revoked\, houses raids\, innocent lives taken\, and unnecessary arrests made\, etc. After decades of corruption and nepotism\, Bangladeshi students stood up against the unjust quota system of prioritizing government positions rather than basing hiring on skill\, talent\, and merit–for descendants of ancestors prominent in the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/bangladesh-not-bhaangadesh/
LOCATION:King Manor Museum\, 150-03 Jamaica Ave\, Jamaica\, NY\, 11432\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,Art Exhibit
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260514
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270125
DTSTAMP:20260915T010618Z
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SUMMARY:Exhibition: Ed Young’s Bright Worlds
DESCRIPTION:For over 60 years\, Ed Young (1931–2023) invigorated the world of children’s books through intimate storytelling\, inventive artistry\, and potent emotionality. This first U.S. retrospective features original artwork from 15 of his most significant projects—focusing on works drawn from his personal story and Chinese folktales—alongside a selection of his sketchbooks\, family photos\, and personal effects. \nYoung achieved distinction as a beloved storyteller and illustrator who challenged younger audiences with pictorial and moral complexity. He was a towering figure in children’s literature\, reaching wide audiences while earning the field’s top honors. His retelling of the Chinese “Little Red Riding Hood\,” Lon Po Po\, introduced generations of children to Chinese folklore and won the Caldecott Medal; he also received two Caldecott Honors for earlier works. Across his career\, he garnered numerous accolades\, including multiple selections for The New York Times’ “10 Best Illustrated Children’s Books” list. \nThe exhibition traces Young’s family life in Shanghai\, where he was the fourth youngest of five children. As a teenager\, he and his brother were sent to live in Hong Kong to flee the civil war in China. He immigrated to America for college\, eventually earning an art degree from the ArtCenter School in Los Angeles\, and then moved to New York. “I set out with $20 borrowed money in my pocket to bet my life in New York City\,” he wrote. After being laid off from an advertising studio\, he submitted sketches to children’s book publisher Ursula Nordstrom\, who hired him to illustrate The Mean Mouse and Other Mean Stories (1962)\, launching a career that would span over 100 books. \nHis most memorable projects were deeply personal. Ed Young’s Bright Worlds guides viewers through key moments of his life and oeuvre with original artwork from The House Baba Built (2011)\, about his childhood in Japan-occupied Shanghai; Voices of the Heart (1997)\, exploring Chinese culture through the relationship between writing\, image and his lifelong tai chi practice; My Mei Mei (2006)\, on adopting his daughters; and Bright World (2024)\, a book published posthumously in China\, meditating on the cyclical nature of life. \n“So many of us grew up on Ed Young’s art and storytelling\,” said Herb Tam\, MOCA’s Chief Curator. “This exhibition will reveal what went into crafting masterworks of the children’s book form. Visitors will be enchanted by his fluent handling of media—from pastel and cut paper to pen\, ink\, and collage—and inspired by his story as a resourceful immigrant striving to make his mark in a creative field.” \n“As a father of three\, I’ve seen firsthand how children’s books shape the way we see the world\,” said Michael Lee\, MOCA’s President. “The imagery and storytelling stay with us—they become part of our family conversations\, our imaginations\, and even the way we share stories later in life. It’s a special honor to explore the life and mind of Ed Young\, whose work has inspired generations. Through this exhibition\, we not only celebrate his extraordinary achievements but also revisit how deeply his art was shaped by his journey as a Chinese American—reflecting his early life in China and the graceful balance he found as a lifelong practitioner of tai chi.” \nEd Young’s Bright Worlds is part of MOCA’s Luminaries for America250\, a yearlong celebration of Chinese American historymakers at the Semiquincentennial. For more about the Luminaries project\, visit https://www.mocanyc.org/2026/01/02/moca-luminaries-for-america250/ \nPhoto of Ed Young by Sean Kernan
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/exhibition-ed-youngs-bright-worlds/
LOCATION:Museum of Chinese in America\, 215 Centre Street\, New York\, NY\, 10013
CATEGORIES:Art,Book,Grades K–5
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260606
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260928
DTSTAMP:20260605T193304Z
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SUMMARY:Art Exhibit: Shared Lines: Asian American Stories on Route 66
DESCRIPTION:Route 66 might be the U.S.’s most famous highway. Traversing the country from Santa Monica\, CA to Chicago\, IL\, it’s been immortalized in songs\, books\, and movies. But along that iconic highway are stories that are far lesser known. \nWith a grant from the National Trust for Historic Preservation\, illustrator Sammy Yuen set out on a roadtrip to capture those stories. This exhibition — coinciding with Route 66’s 100th anniversary this fall — brings some of them to life. \nLike the stone guardian lions that appeared out of nowhere in Amboy\, CA\, a former ghost town purchased by Japanese American restaurateur and preservationist\, Albert Okura. The water towers in Kingman\, AZ that once supported operations of the railroad built by Chinese laborers. The Chinese American Museum of Chicago\, housed in an erstwhile tofu factory donated by Chinese immigrant and grocery magnate Raymond Lee. \n“This whole journey started with my first exhibition at Pearl River Mart\,” says Sammy. “Showing my new exhibition there brings it back\, full circle. I also like the idea of exploring Asian American communities outside of New York City’s Chinatowns. Beyond Manhattan and Flushing. Sometimes it’s just a strip mall or restaurants spread out in an area. But the stories of the people are often the same.” \nJoin us for the opening reception on June 6. Attendance is free but registration is appreciated. \n\nOn view June 6 through Sept. 27 in the Pearl River Mart gallery at 452 Broadway\nFree and open to the public every day from 11 AM to 7 PM\nLearn more in our interview with Sammy\n\nSpecial thanks to the National Trust for Historic Preservation\, who provided curation for this exhibition. \nThis exhibition is dedicated to Sammy’s father\, Sammy Yuen\, Sr. (1935 to 2026)\, for his unwavering support of the people he loved. \nAbout the Artist\nSammy Yuen is an artist\, illustrator\, designer\, writer\, and martial arts instructor. He is the recipient of multiple grants\, including awards from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council\, the National Trust for Historic Preservation\, and the Asian American Arts Alliance. His work has been exhibited at Pearl River Mart\, the Chinese American Museum of Chicago\, and Google Arts & Culture. He is currently developing a multi-generational picture book inspired by his family’s martial arts legacy. \nWith over 20 years of experience in the publishing industry\, he has created book covers — including more than 35 New York Times bestsellers — as well as marketing and advertising materials\, animated videos\, and social media assets. Across all of his work\, his goal is to tell stories that engage audiences and spark conversation.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/shared-lines-asian-american-stories-on-route-66/
LOCATION:Pearl River Mart Gallery – Soho\, 452 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10013\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,Art Exhibit
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260826
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261019
DTSTAMP:20260911T221336Z
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SUMMARY:Kim Bohie - TOWARDS: There Was Light
DESCRIPTION:“That a still surface can hold yesterday\, today\, tomorrow at once; that here\, there\, and elsewhere can meet in the same moment; that different times and spaces can unfold together on a single\, fixed plane—it still fills me with wonder.” —Kim Bohie\, July 2026 \nGallery Hyundai is pleased to present TOWARDS: There Was Light\, a solo exhibition by Kim Bohie (b. 1952)\, on view from August 26 through October 18. This exhibition marks Kim’s first solo exhibition in Korea since the Days at the Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art in 2022. It also brings her back to Gallery Hyundai for her presentation with the gallery in thirty-eight years\, following The Third Kim Bohie Solo Exhibition in 1988. TOWARDS: There Was Light surveys more than four decades of Kim’s sustained engagement with nature\, focusing on her exploration of light in painting. Featuring approximately thirty works\, the exhibition presents new paintings from the Towards series that depict the garden and sea of Jeju\, flowers\, fruits\, and her dog Leo\, and other landscapes intimately connected to the artist’s daily life alongside the monumental The Days (2022)\, recently shown in the Unlimited sector of Art Basel in Basel earlier this year. \nRather than simply perpetuating the traditions of Korean painting or adopting Western conventions\, Kim has developed a distinctive pictorial language that brings the materials and formal sensibilities of East Asian painting into dialogue with the chromatic fields and expanded scale of modern and contemporary painting. Working on canvas and hanji\, she repeatedly applies mixtures of traditional mineral pigments\, water\, and glue\, allowing color to slowly permeate and accumulate in translucent layers that create a depth particular to her work. Her figurative compositions bring together different experiences of time: the prolonged observation of nature\, the time in which a landscape settles into memory as an inner image\, and its eventual reconstruction. What matters in Kim’s work\, therefore\, is not simply what she depicts\, but how the time and sensations accumulated through looking and remembering re-emerge as landscape. Nature experienced at different moments and in different places converges on a single plane\, where past and present\, near and far\, observed landscape and inner image coexist within the same pictorial space. \nWithin this process\, light serves as both a sensory measure through which Kim perceives nature and a medium through which she registers its ceaseless passage and change. Shifting with the hours of the day and the seasons\, light renders the same garden or sea anew each time\, altering its colors\, contours\, and atmosphere. Kim has long attended to these subtle transformations\, holding them in memory before reconstituting them through her own perception and imagination on the painted surface. Her engagement with light predates her recent paintings of Jeju. As early as the 1970s\, she depicted dawn filtering through a forest and light shimmering across the surface of a river. Across the decades\, her subjects have encompassed deep greens under intense sunlight\, the sea and its horizon\, the waxing and waning moon\, and plants transformed by the seasons—nature continually remade by changing conditions of light. \nThe exhibition title TOWARDS: There Was Light alludes to the moment of creation when light first emerges from darkness and the world begins to take form. It resonates with Kim’s lifelong gratitude and reverence for nature\, while extending beyond spiritual symbolism to describe a fundamental condition of her painting: light enables her to perceive change and time in the natural world and to translate those perceptions into pictorial form. Just as light allows the colors and forms of the world to become visible\, Kim’s paintings begin with sustained attention to nature as it changes from one moment to the next. Her gaze carries within it different seasons and times\, places once encountered\, and innumerable living beings and fleeting moments\, accumulated as layers of memory and sensation. In this sense\, “There Was Light” refers not only to the light by which the world becomes visible\, but also metaphorically to that which summons the artist’s lived and remembered experience into the present tense of painting\, drawing disparate times and spaces into a single pictorial landscape. \nThe title also draws on Towards\, one of Kim’s principal bodies of work. Rather than implying arrival at a fixed destination\, “Towards” describes a way of looking that continually reaches beyond what is immediately present. Life on Jeju has drawn this attention ever closer to the world of her everyday surroundings. Palm trees\, flowers\, fruit\, and seeds from the garden she tends; the sea and horizon she encounters daily; and Leo\, the dog who remained by her side for many years\, have all entered her paintings. A gaze directed toward a single leaf or seed expands to encompass a tree and then the entire garden before opening outward toward the sea and beyond the horizon. Through this movement from part to whole\, from near to far\, minute forms of life and expansive landscapes emerge not as separate subjects but as different dimensions of a shared world. Just as Kim’s gaze moves from seed to garden\, garden to sea\, and from the smallest life before her toward what lies beyond the horizon\, her painting never settles into a single\, definitive landscape\, but continually looks beyond it. \nThe exhibition unfolds across three floors\, following these shifts in vision and transformations of light. On the first floor\, new paintings from the Towards series depict the flowers and plants of Kim’s garden\, her dog Leo\, the sea\, and the setting sun\, tracing a movement from the intimate world of the artist’s immediate surroundings toward more distant vistas. From the vivid colors of plants illuminated by sunlight to skies and seas suffused with the hues of dusk\, familiar places are continually transformed by changing light. On the second floor\, both the distance of Kim’s gaze and the scale of her painting expand. Open views of the sea extending beyond the horizon appear alongside close-up images of palm fronds and fruit\, as well as the monumental The Days (2022)\, first presented at the Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art in 2022 and shown again in the Unlimited sector of Art Basel in Basel earlier this year. The exhibition continues in the basement\, where the vivid chromatic register of daylight gives way to nature transformed by moonlight and the darkness before dawn. The palette contracts into black\, white\, and deep blue\, while mountains\, forests\, and waterways emerge through restrained contours and planes. Moving through the three floors\, viewers encounter the same world appearing and reappearing in different guises\, continually altered by light and time. \nTOWARDS: There Was Light moves beyond the familiar characterization of Kim Bohie as a painter of Jeju landscapes\, recognizing her as a significant figure who has expanded the formal legacy of Korean painting into a distinctly contemporary pictorial language and forged a singular trajectory within modern and contemporary Korean art. Shaped through prolonged observation\, memory\, and repetition\, nature in Kim’s paintings is not a fixed view but a living world that assumes a different appearance with every shift of light and time. Following the artist’s sustained attention to these transformations\, the exhibition reveals how a single\, still plane can hold different times and spaces\, memories and sensations at once. Here\, painting becomes a place from which to look again at the world we think we know and to turn our gaze beyond the visible\, toward worlds not yet seen.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/kim-bohie-towards-there-was-light/
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:20260904
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260919
DTSTAMP:20260902T215023Z
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SUMMARY:Temporary Storage
DESCRIPTION:ETA Gallery is pleased to present “Temporary Storage”\, a duo exhibition featuring new works by Mi Chen and Yan Wang. Working through ceramic and language\, both artists create objects that demand to be seen before they are read\, deliberately keeping meaning in suspension. Where Wang stores memory and the absent body\, Chen stores language itself—holding and slowing text before it settles into sense. Together\, they arrive at a shared refusal to resolve\, approaching the concept from distinct directions. \nMi Chen’s practice centers on typography and the structural systems that carry it. In her new works\, punctuation loosens from language to become shape\, rhythm\, furniture\, or a wall to look at rather than through. By intentionally slowing the eye\, Chen keeps text half-visible\, allowing form to precede meaning. Working iteratively across two- and three-dimensional surfaces\, she creates conditions where familiar patterns shift\, break\, or loop—a sustained process of locating herself in relation to what she makes. \nYan Wang addresses what the body leaves behind. In the exhibition space\, porcelain pillows rest in a dim circle accompanied by a low-humming recording\, framing history not as surviving names\, but as the bodies that dreamed and vanished. Across ink\, paper\, and clay\, Wang’s objects carry the thickness of time\, the debris of a hometown\, and the ghost of a head on a pillow. She works toward release rather than a definitive statement\, offering an invitation to dream together rather than inherit a singular narrative. \n“Temporary Storage” highlights what an object can sustain without resolving: forms that simultaneously hold presence and loss\, store what cannot be surrendered\, and remain open as long as they are observed. \nOpening Reception September 4\, 2026 6–8 PM
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/temporary-storage/
LOCATION:Chinese American Arts Council / Gallery 456\, 456 Broadway\, 3rd Floor\, New York\, NY\, 10013\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,Art Exhibit
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260905
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260908
DTSTAMP:20260830T131215Z
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SUMMARY:Korea Festa 2026\, Labor Day Edition
DESCRIPTION:Korea Festa is returning to Huntington\, NY\, Labor Day weekend\, September 5\, 6\, & 7\, 2026; 12:30 pm to 7 pm\, daily. Our Festa location is only a 5-minute walk from the Huntington Long Island Railroad (LIRR) station. Free parking is available (limited spots\, first-come\, first-served). \n\n\nWe’re bringing a beloved menu of Korean dishes\, bites\, and desserts\, along with handmade non-alcoholic drinks\, Korean games and activities for the kids\, K-beauty consultations and products for your glow-up\, live entertainment outside\, and plenty of photo-friendly spots for that perfect Instagram post. (Jeez\, we’re out of breath) \nKorea Festa also features hype dance performances\, K-Pop dance classes\, and even an old-fashioned Korean popped rice maker that’ll blow your toupee off. \nWe have a “Kimchi Cooking Show” where we show you how to make this Korean staple and give you a brief history on its significance to Korean—and now global—culture. \nOh! And don’t forget to try on a traditional Korean dress or suit\, aka “hanbok”\, for that old-world fit. (snap a photo keepsake while you’re at it) \nLocation: Mahanaim\, 300 Nassau Road\, Huntington\, NY 11743
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/korea-festa-2026-labor-day-edition/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Festival
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260906
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260928
DTSTAMP:20260903T032659Z
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SUMMARY:Khudi Food Pop-Ups
DESCRIPTION:Khudi and Kaafi by Chaiguys host weekly Sunday pop-ups every Sunday in September on Ludlow Street\, featuring freshly baked Pakistani-inspired cookies and savory scrolls with new flavors dropping each week. \nDates: 9/6\, 9/13\, 9/20\, 9/27\nTime: 1:00 to 4:00 PM every Sunday
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/khudi-food-pop-ups/
LOCATION:Kaafi by Chaiguys\, 109 Ludlow St.\, New York\, NY\, 10002\, United States
CATEGORIES:Food
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260907
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260914
DTSTAMP:20260904T063729Z
CREATED:20260825T220702Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260904T063729Z
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SUMMARY:Asian Pear Picking at Lee Orchard Garden
DESCRIPTION:Due to a late spring freeze\, our orchard has significantly limited amounts of our Asian pears across all varieties. We anticipate a very short season. As a result\, we highly recommend that you purchase your picking tickets in advance or pre-order boxed fruit at your earliest convenience. \nAsian pear varieties available: \n\nHosui\, 20th Century\, Hybrid (Described as Apple Pear/Hosui mix) – from September 3\nApple Pear – from September 10\n\n \nOrganic Chestnuts\, Organic Fresh Dates\, and Organic Pawpaws will be available starting mid-September. If you are interested\, please fill out the contact box here with your interest and preferred contact method. We will be collecting names and contacting in order of submission once the produce is ready. Please note availability is not guaranteed. \nPre-Order Reservation Fee: $5.00 per pre-order pick-up reservation. The pre-order reservation fee will be credited toward your purchase. Please respect your pick up date. Sorry\, no refunds for no-shows. \nStarting Thursday\, September 3:\nThursday – Sunday: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm\nMonday – Wednesday: Closed
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/asian-pear-picking-at-lee-orchard-garden/
LOCATION:Lee Orchard Garden\, 12 Nostrand Road\, Cranbury\, NJ\, 08512\, United States
CATEGORIES:Food,Small Business
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260908
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260916
DTSTAMP:20260901T012101Z
CREATED:20260831T173745Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260901T012101Z
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SUMMARY:FREE Online Korean Class
DESCRIPTION:Ready to level up your Korean? Learn Korean. FREE & ONLINE! \nJoin KCCNY x King Sejong Institute Center USA for a 10-week Korean language program this fall. \n📚 Korean 1A & 1B | Beginner Levels\n📆 September 29–December 3\, 2026\n🕖 7–9 PM ET | Tuesdays\, Wednesdays\, or Thursdays | Meets once a week \n📅 APPLICATIONS OPEN\nSeptember 8 at 1 PM ET \n📩 SELECTION RESULTS\nSeptember 16 \n✅ WHO CAN APPLY?\n• 18+ and living in the U.S.\n• Complete the official King Sejong Institute Korean Level Test and submit your result and upload your result to the application form. \n⚠️ Space is limited! Applications are reviewed in the order received and may close early once enough applications have been received.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/26540/
LOCATION:Korean Cultural Center New York\, 122 East 32nd Street\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education,Language
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260908T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260908T113000
DTSTAMP:20260820T131539Z
CREATED:20260820T045109Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260820T131539Z
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SUMMARY:Tai Chi with Pin Pin Su
DESCRIPTION:The ultimate mind and body workout involves slow\, fluid\, movements through postures of centuries-old Chinese Taoist martial arts. \n\n\nOverview \nThe ultimate mind and body workout involves slow\, fluid\, movements through postures of centuries-old Chinese Taoist martial arts. \nTai Chi with Pin Pin Su \nTai chi—the ultimate mind and body workout\, often described as “meditation in motion”—involves slow\, fluid\, continuous movements through formalized postures of centuries-old Chinese Taoist martial arts. \nFree and open to the public. Advance registration is encouraged. Walk-ups are welcome. The event will be canceled if it rains. The decision will be made by 5pm the day before and announced on @highlinenyc’s X feed. Registrants will receive an email if the event is canceled. \nPlease wear comfortable clothes and shoes to move around in. \nAbout the instructor \nPin Pin Su teaches tai chi in conjunction with qi gong\, with the philosophy that mind\, body\, and spirit are all interrelated. She combines her Eastern medicinal healing roots with a Western twist for an all-encompassing mind/body experience. When not in a classroom\, she has private patients that come to her for one-on-one expressive therapy. \nTai chi is part of our High Line Wellness programming\, designed specifically with older adults in mind. Adults of any age are invited to join the High Line to learn\, move\, have fun\, and connect with neighbors. Wellness activities\, educational sessions\, cultural engagements\, and other events are offered on and near the park\, in collaboration with local community-based organizations that serve older adults in Chelsea\, Hell’s Kitchen\, and on the West Side of Manhattan.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/tai-chi-with-pin-pin-su/
LOCATION:On the High Line at 30th Street & 10th Avenue\, 30th Street and 10th Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10001\, United States
CATEGORIES:Health & Wellness
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260908T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260908T190000
DTSTAMP:20260805T153647Z
CREATED:20260805T153647Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260805T153647Z
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SUMMARY:Book Club: Eileen Chang’s Time Tunnel
DESCRIPTION:Join the China Books Review book club this September to discuss Time Tunnel: Stories and Essays by Eileen Chang\, tr. Karen S. Kingsbury (New York Review Books\, October 2025)\, a collection of previously untranslated stories from Eileen Chang’s literary career. \nThirty years after her death\, Time Tunnel reaffirms Eileen Chang’s place as one of the 20th century’s finest writers. Spanning the entirety of her career\, from 1940s Japanese-occupied Shanghai to Hong Kong under British colonial rule\, then her final decades in America\, these stories showcase Chang’s enduring ability to illuminate the inner lives of people dislocated by vast historic and cultural shifts. The intricacies of lifelong friendships\, the clipped hopes of lovers and the subtle contortions of gender politics unravel with the same virtuosic skill and nuance that catapulted her to fame with novellas such as Lust\, Caution and Love in a Fallen City. We owe a debt of thanks to Karen S. Kingsbury and Jie Zhang\, not only for translating these remarkable stories into English\, but for proving that with Eileen Chang\, there are no marginal texts\, only hidden gems. \nRegister your spot by RSVPing at the link to the top right of this page. The book club is free\, but seats are limited so secure yours now! We ask that all book club members purchase and read your own copy of the book in advance if you’re joining. \nThe China Books Review book club is a bimonthly series of spirited literary discussions with like-minded readers\, hosted by our editors and featuring introductory context before freewheeling debate. We meet five times a year (Jan\, Mar\, May\, Sep\, Nov) to discuss the latest literature and nonfiction from or on the Sinophone world. If you’d like to be added to our invite list to be notified of future book club sessions\, just email us at info@chinabooksreview.com.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/book-club-eileen-changs-time-tunnel/
LOCATION:Asia Society\, 725 Park Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10021
CATEGORIES:Book
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260908T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260908T190000
DTSTAMP:20260825T033926Z
CREATED:20260817T043012Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T033926Z
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SUMMARY:Book Launch | The Chinese Lady by Bo Wang
DESCRIPTION:Pre-purchase your copy of the featured title to guarantee your signed copy! This helps ensure that everyone who wants a book goes home with one\, in case we sell out at the event.\n\nABOUT THE BOOK \n\n\n\n\n\nBo Wang’s gorgeous and immersive debut historical novel immortalizes the life of the first Chinese woman to be brought to the United States in the 1800s. \nLittle Sparrow\, Julia\, Afong Moy\, Madame Moy\, The Chinese Lady\, were her many names . . . but her true name has been lost to time. \nIn 1834 Afong Moy was brought to New York by two merchants as a live exhibit. Rising to fame as the first Chinese female in the United States\, she became an oddity among curios as Americans marveled at the opportunity to observe her astonishing little feet\, broken and bound to resemble lotuses. \nAs the story moves from 1820s Canton to P.T. Barnum’s American Museum\, to Gold Rush San Francisco\, three women introduce us to her many names. Her mother calls her Little Sparrow and sells her to a captain who sails her to New York. The captain’s wife names her Julia and “graciously” treats her as her own. And when she is shunted off to P.T Barnum\, her fellow human exhibitions call her China. Eventually arriving in San Francisco’s Chinatown\, she will at long last claim her name and her own story. \nCombining archival research and brilliantly imaginative storytelling\, Bo Wang masterfully fills in history’s gaps to weave a powerful narrative of survival in the face of hardship\, tragedy\, and betrayal. Told through the eyes of those around her; mirroring her life as an object on display\, until we finally see the world through her own eyes. \n\n\n\n\n\n ABOUT THE AUTHOR \nBo Wang was born in Cincinnati to Taiwanese American parents. Her childhood was peppered with stories of the Monkey King alongside those of Frog and Toad. A graduate of Sycamore Public Schools\, Bo holds an A.B. in history and literature from Harvard College. She now lives in Boston with her family. The Chinese Lady is her debut novel. \nIN CONVERSATION WITH \nAlice Evelyn Yang is a Chinese American writer from Norfolk\, Virginia. Her debut novel\, A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing\, was selected by booksellers as an Indie Next and Indies Introduce pick and longlisted for the Women’s Prize. She is the recipient of the 2023 Jesmyn Ward Prize from Michigan Quarterly Review\, and her work has been published in MQR\, The Rumpus\, and the Asian American Writers Workshop’s The Margins\, among others. She earned her MFA from Columbia University. She currently lives in Brooklyn.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/book-launch-the-chinese-lady-by-bo-wang/
LOCATION:Yu and Me Books\, 44 Mulberry St.\, New York\, NY\, 10013\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book,Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260908T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260908T203000
DTSTAMP:20260820T153423Z
CREATED:20260820T153017Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260820T153423Z
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SUMMARY:Alison Nguyen: "Prior Occupants" Artist Talk & Special Screening
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the world premiere of Alison Nguyen’s High Line & CHANEL co-commission\, followed by a conversation with the artist. \n\n\nIn her compelling new film for High Line Originals\, co-commissioned with CHANEL Culture Fund\, Nguyen explores the obscure nuclear history of Westbeth Artist Housing’s building—the former headquarters for Bell Laboratories\, a research facility tied to the development of communication technologies and\, later\, the atomic bomb. Inspired by a severed fragment of the original High Line freight rail left embedded in Westbeth’s facade\, and the High Line’s own history of transformation\, Nguyen reflects on the historical narratives that persist—and those quietly erased—within sites of adaptive reuse. \nYou’re invited to the premiere of Nguyen’s new work Prior Occupants\, co-commissioned by High Line Art and CHANEL Culture Fund. Following the screening\, the artist will be joined in conversation by High Line Art Associate Curator\, Taylor Zakarin\, to discuss her practice and this exciting new work. \nPart of High Line Channel\, High Line Originals is High Line Art’s commissioning program for artists working in time-based media. This initiative invites emerging or underrecognized US-based artists\, nominated by a trusted group of contemporary curators\, to submit a proposal for a new video work that considers the context of the park in a meaningful way and will resonate with our diverse audience. \nHigh Line Originals launched in 2019 with Tourmaline’s Salacia\, which is now held in the Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection. Other past commissions include Onyeka Igwe’s The Miracle on George Green (2021)\, and Alicia Mersy’s NYC Wisdom (2024). In 2025\, High Line Art partnered with CHANEL Culture Fund\, and together co-commissioned Frank WANG Yefeng’s Groundless Flower – ཨ (2025). \nAbout the Artist: \nAlison Nguyen (b. 1986\, Wilmington\, Delaware) is a visual artist working across video\, installation\, performance\, and sculpture. Using approaches of speculative fiction\, documentary research\, and embodied performance\, Nguyen creates works that reconsider how narratives operate within the individual\, the institution\, the archive\, and within the politics of cultural memory. \nNguyen lives and works in New York\, New York. Solo screenings and exhibitions of her work have been presented at Storefront for Art and Architecture\, New York\, New York (2026); Art Basel Hong Kong Encounters\, Hong Kong (2025); Murmurs\, Los Angeles (2024); Museum of Modern Art\, New York\, New York (2023); MIT List Center for Visual Arts\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts (2023); and e-flux\, Brooklyn\, New York (2023). Nguyen has participated in group exhibitions and screenings at the Busan Biennial\, Busan\, South Korea (2026); Kunsthalle Mechelen\, Mechelen\, Belgium (2026); Vienna Secession\, Vienna\, Austria (2024); EMAP x Frieze Seoul Film\, Seoul\, South Korea (2024); National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea\, Seoul\, South Korea (2023); The Everson Museum\, Syracuse\, New York (2022); The Dowse Art Museum\, Lower Hutt\, New Zealand (2021); The International Studio & Curatorial Program\, Brooklyn\, New York (2019 & 2020); KAJE\, Brooklyn\, New York (2020); and Microscope Gallery\, Brooklyn\, New York (2017). \nShe has participated in film festivals around the world\, including Oberhausen International Film Festival\, International Shorts Online (2021); CPH:DOX\, Copenhagen\, Denmark (2021); Edinburgh International Film Festival\, Edinburgh\, United Kingdom (2021); Ann Arbor Film Festival\, Ann Arbor\, Michigan (2020); Open City Documentary Festival\, London\, United Kingdom (2019); Channels Festival International Biennial of Video Art\, Melbourne\, Australia (2019)\, and True/False Film Festival\, Columbia\, Missouri (2018); among others. \nNguyen has received residencies and fellowships from Pioneer Works\, New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Fellowship in Film/Video\, International Studio & Curatorial Program\, The Institute of Electronic Arts\, BRIC\, and Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Art Center. She was a 2023-2024 Studio Fellow at the Whitney Independent Study Program. \nPhoto Credit:\nAlison Nguyen\, Prior Occupants\, 2026 (still). Courtesy of the artist.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/alison-nguyen-prior-occupants-artist-talk-special-screening/
LOCATION:On the High Line at 14th Street\, 14th Street and 10th Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10014\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,Dance,Film
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260909
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260917
DTSTAMP:20260820T153540Z
CREATED:20260818T214237Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260820T153540Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260909T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260909T200000
DTSTAMP:20260820T142911Z
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SUMMARY:China Institute Fashion Night (Sep. 9)
DESCRIPTION:Shanghai Qipao Runway Presentation: “Magnolia in Bloom\, Elegance in Motion” \n\n\nWelcome to China Institute Fashion Night\, hosted by China Institute of America — a celebration of fashion\, art\, and cultural exchange between East and West. \nWe hope you will join us for\nShanghai Qipao Runway Presentation:\n“Magnolia in Bloom\, Elegance in Motion” \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. \nIndividual Seats: $150 \nSCHEDULE\n5:30 PM | Door Open\n6:00 PM | Runway\n6:30 PM – 8:00 PM | Cocktail Party and Collection Trunk Show \n\n\n\nFor questions\, please contact Jane Zhou at jzhou@chinainstitute.org.\nFor more information\, please contact Lisa Ye at lye@chinainstitute.org. \n 
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/china-institute-fashion-night/
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:20260909T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260909T190000
DTSTAMP:20260731T112215Z
CREATED:20260731T112215Z
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SUMMARY:Offsite: Priya Parker: The Art of Fighting w/ America Ferrera
DESCRIPTION:"This is a life-giving book\, and Priya is the luminous and ingenious teacher we need." —Krista Tippett\, host of On Being\n\n\nEvent guidelines: \n\nBundled tickets include a signed copy of the featured book. Additional copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.\nHome address is collected for contact tracing purposes; it will not be used otherwise.\nThe event will also be livestreamed for free on YouTube: https://youtube.com/live/0VU_pqs8EUE\nAs a reminder: If you are not feeling well\, please do not come to the event\, even if you have a ticket; email us and we’ll work it out.\n\nIf you have any questions regarding these guidelines or to request accessibility accommodations\, please contact eventhelp@booksaremagic.net. \n \nA paradigm-shattering exploration of how we fight and how we build healthy conflict\, from the author of The Art of Gathering. \nWe say we want community. Successful teams. High-performing colleagues and workplaces. Dynamic friend groups. Yet many of us don’t understand the crucial element we need to forge long-lasting communities in our lives: healthy conflict. \nIn The Art of Fighting\, Priya Parker explains that we can’t form and grow effective relationships without a fight. She rejects the idea that conflict is abnormal or that good groups don’t fight. All groups change and evolve; indeed\, it’s because people disagree that good groups flourish. \nAs she did in the now-classic The Art of Gathering\, Parker draws on her far-reaching experience as a conflict facilitator\, her own detailed research\, and real-world examples to lay out the ways that people can identify disputes\, determine how to address them\, and what to do if they are insurmountable. Whether people disagree in the boardroom or the locker room\, on a playground or in church\, online or in person\, conflict is a part of life\, and understanding healthy conflict and how to harness its power is more important than ever. The Art of Fighting is a vital primer to help all of us understand how to do that. \n \nPriya Parker is a conflict facilitator\, strategic adviser\, and the author of The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters. Trained in the field of conflict resolution\, Parker has worked on race relations on American college campuses and on peace processes in the Arab world\, southern Africa\, and India. A graduate of MIT\, the Harvard Kennedy School\, and the University of Virginia\, she lives with her family in Brooklyn\, New York. \n \nAmerica Ferrera is an Oscar ® -nominated and Emmy ® -\, Golden Globe ® – and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning actress\, director\, producer and activist. Ferrera starred as ‘Gloria’ in the record-breaking BARBIE\, for which she garnered an Academy Award nomination. A longtime activist\, Ferrera co-founded Harness\, a community of artists\, influencers and grassroots leaders leveraging art and storytelling to power change\, and co-leads Poderistas\, a digital lifestyle community and non-profit organization\, built to inspire\, inform and affirm the Latina community. Ferrera serves as a Global Goodwill Ambassador for the UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM)\, through which she champions safe migration\, women’s rights\, and civic engagement.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/offsite-priya-parker-the-art-of-fighting-w-america-ferrera/
LOCATION:First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn\, 119 Pierrepont Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260909T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260909T220000
DTSTAMP:20260829T031407Z
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SUMMARY:The Namesake – 20th Anniversary Screening
DESCRIPTION:Prospect Park Alliance\, Fort Greene Park Conservancy\, and Rooftop Films announce Summer Movies in the Park\, presented by NewYork-Presbyterian. This free\, outdoor movie series in Prospect Park and Fort Greene Park takes place on Wednesday nights this summer\, with screenings on August 5th and August 12th in Prospect Park\, and August 26th and September 9th in Fort Greene Park. \nSeptember 9: The Namesake (PG-13) – 20th Anniversary Screening \n6:00 PM: Lawn Opens\n8:30 PM: Film Begins \nDirections: Fort Greene Park\, Central Lawn at Washington Park and Dekalb Avenue Entrance \nThe Namesake (PG-13)– 20th Anniversary Screening\nMira Nair | 2006 | US\, Japan\, India | 122 mins\nIn this film by Mira Nair\, based on the novel by Jhumpa Lahiri\, the Ganguli family maintain a delicate balancing act between honoring the traditions of their native India and blending into American culture after moving from Calcutta to New York. \nThe films will begin shortly after sundown; come early to picnic and enjoy pre-movie entertainment. Please note that the movie may be cancelled in the case of inclement weather. Attendees will be notified via Eventbrite and the Prospect Park and Fort Greene Park social media channels. \nThis series is presented through support of NewYork-Presbyterian.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/the-namesake-20th-anniversary-screening/
LOCATION:Fort Greene Park – Central Lawn\, Fort Greene Park\, Central Lawn\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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SUMMARY:Aesthetic Intelligence: Building a New Generation of Global Brands
DESCRIPTION:In an era of rapid technological change and economic uncertainty\, a company’s identity has become one of its most valuable strategic assets. To succeed\, companies must do far more than command attention. They must inspire trust\, convey meaning\, create memorable experiences and forge lasting connections with customers. This program brings together two leaders in luxury and branding to explore the concept of Aesthetic Intelligence and discuss how Japan’s distinctive traditions of design\, craftsmanship\, and cultural heritage can serve as the foundation for a new generation of world-class brands. Through conversation and case studies\, participants will gain practical insights into how aesthetics can strengthen brand identity\, secure a competitive advantage\, and drive long-term business growth. \nAgenda\n6:30pm – 7:30pm: Discussion and Q&A\n7:30pm – 8:00pm: Networking Reception \nAdmission \nThis is a paid event with advance registration required. A designated number of tickets are available for free to our corporate members. (Corporate member code is required to register for the event. If you don’t know your corporate member code\, please contact corp-membership@japansociety.org.) Please note that seating is limited and on a first come\, first served basis.\n\n\nSpeakers Bio \nPauline Brown\nFounder and CEO\, Aesthetic Intelligence Group; Former Chairman\, LVMH North America \nPauline Brown is the Founder and CEO of Aesthetic Intelligence Group and former Chairman of North America for LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton. Over the course of a 30-year career\, she has built\, led\, and advised many of the world’s leading premium and luxury brands. At LVMH\, she provided regional leadership across 70 brands spanning fashion\, jewelry\, beauty\, wines and spirits. Previously\, she was a Managing Director at The Carlyle Group\, where she specialized in consumer and retail investments. Earlier in her career\, she held senior executive positions at Estée Lauder and Avon and began her career as a strategy consultant at Bain & Company. Today\, Pauline advises companies and executives through Aesthetic Intelligence Group\, hosts the weekly SiriusXM Business Radio program Aesthetic Intelligence: The Other A.I.\, and is the author of Aesthetic Intelligence (HarperCollins\, 2019)\, which examines how aesthetics drive consumer behavior\, brand value\, and business success. She has served on the boards of Moncler and Neiman Marcus Group and currently serves on the advisory board of the University of Pennsylvania Center for Neuroaesthetics. She holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and is a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute. \nMiyoko Demay \nExecutive Representative of World Monuments Fund Japan; Outside Director and the Member of Board\, Nintendo Co.\, Ltd.; North America Advisory Board\, The International House of Japan; Vice Chair\, The American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ) Women In Business Committee \nMiyoko Demay is a highly accomplished strategist and cultural catalyst with an exceptional career spanning global business and non-profit leadership. With a three-decade tenure at Tiffany & Co.\, she was a key figure in the company’s global operations. In senior roles such as President of Tiffany Japan and Vice President of Global Sales Operations in New York\, She led pivotal transformations in corporate strategy\, company culture and client engagement. Her current mission is on cultural preservation as the Japan Representative for the World Monuments Fund\, where she guides efforts to protect Japan’s tangible and intangible cultural heritage and build robust community partnerships. Beyond this\, Ms. Demay provides strategic counsel as an Outside Board Director for Nintendo. A recognized Dame Chevalier of the Ordre des Coteaux de Champagne\, she is deeply committed to diversity and mentorship\, inspiring and empowering leaders across industries. Ms. Demay is also the author of the recently published 自分を一生モノに磨く方法 (Refine Yourself into a Lifelong Masterpiece)\, which shares insights on leadership\, communication\, and professional growth drawn from her global executive career.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/aesthetic-intelligence-building-a-new-generation-of-global-brands/
LOCATION:Japan Society\, 333 East 47th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10017\, United States
CATEGORIES:Business,Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260909T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260909T210000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: BAD THINGS HAPPENED HERE by Moniza Hossain
DESCRIPTION:This supernatural horror follows twelve-year-old Sam to his unsettling family home in Singapore. Perfect for fans of R.L. Stine! \n\n\n\n\nWe’re honored to welcome Moniza Hossain to The Twisted Spine on September 9 to celebrate the release of Bad Things Happened Here! Moniza will be joined in conversation by Clay McLeod Chapman (DEVIL INSIDE). \nAbout BAD THINGS HAPPENED HERE: \nLonely twelve-year-old Sam Wells has never known his mother. So when his maternal grandmother calls with a plane ticket to Singapore\, he hopes the trip will give him the answers he’s been looking for. But his imposing family home isn’t what he expected. His grandmother is a stranger. Spiders crawl over impassible mounds of hoarded mementos. The house is such a labyrinth that Sam can barely make his way through the boxes\, let alone find out anything about his mom. \nUntil he meets her ghost\, frozen in time at age twelve. \nSomething terrible happened when Priya Malhotra was just a schoolgirl in Singapore. Something twisted enough to keep her trapped. Something that might be happening again. Children are going missing as they did decades before in Sam’s eerily unsettling neighborhood . . . and the closer Sam gets to the terrifying truth that lurks within the haunted\, abandoned factory where the original crimes occurred\, the more it seems that Sam will be the next to disappear. \nTo save himself\, he’ll have to untangle the mystery. But if he does\, will he lose his mom forever? \nAbout the speakers: \nMoniza Hossain is a Singaporean author of Bengali descent who writes children’s books inspired by her South Asian heritage. She has a Bachelor of Arts with Honours from the National University of Singapore\, and a Masters in English Literature from King’s College London. Her works include her debut picture book\, Street Puppy Masjid Cat\, and her sophomore picture book\, Ritu In The Sun. She also writes books for middle grade readers. She has a short story in the award winning anthology Being Ace\, and another in an anthology entitled The Beasts Beneath the Winds. She lives in Manchester with her husband. \nClay McLeod Chapman is the author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes\, Kill Your Darling\, Stay on the Line\, What Kind of Mother\, Ghost Eaters\, Whisper Down the Lane\, The Remaking\, and miss corpus\, story collections nothing untoward\, commencement and rest area\, as well as The Tribe middlegrade series: Homeroom Headhunters\, Camp Cannibal and Academic Assassins. \nEvent guidelines: \nEach ticket includes either a hardcover copy BAD THINGS HAPPENED HERE or a $15 Twisted Spine gift card. \nLimited additional copies of the books will be available for purchase at the event. \nA signing will follow the discussion.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/book-launch-bad-things-happened-here-by-moniza-hossain/
LOCATION:The Twisted Spine\, 306 Grand Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11211\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260909T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260909T210000
DTSTAMP:20260821T140258Z
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SUMMARY:Written Women: Lalleshwari
DESCRIPTION:Written Women is a monthly writers salon at Cordelia\, inviting you to respond to poems\, stories and myths written by and about women. \n\n\nEach month\, we’ll read and discuss a different text to inspire our own free-write session\, drawing from women’s stories of power\, madness\, sensuality\, tragedy\, queerness\, and insubordination. Time will be set aside at the end of each meetup for folks to share excerpts of what they’ve written. \nThis September\, we’ll read the work of Lalleshwari\, also known as Lal Ded\, a Kashmiri mystic from the early 14th century whose deceptivley simple verses deliver profound meditations on philosophy and spirituality\, all through the lens of the everyday. We’ll wander through her body of work\, crossing oceans\, riding horses\, and opening doors. Inspired by her contemplations on devotion\, destruction\, and bliss\, we’ll write our own pieces which reach to uncover the sacred in the mundane. \nWritten Women is led by poet\, movement artist and facilitator Katya Borkov. You can learn more about her work at http://www.everythingspills.studio\, or on instagram @everything.spills \nThis event is funded in part by Poets & Writers with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. \nPainting featured in the banner by Kanayalal S Raina.\n\nPhotograph courtesy of Rebecca Foltin
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/written-women-lalleshwari/
LOCATION:Cordelia\, 942 Bergen Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11238\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book,Book Reading,Discussion
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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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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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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
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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
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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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