BMCC Asian Heritage Month 2025
Borough of Manhattan Community College 199 Chambers Street, New York, NYAsian Heritage Month events at Borough of Manhattan Community College with events like a Haiku Contest, documentary screenings, a Chongsam Fashion Show, film nights, tea tasting, cosplay, and a cultural dinner. Highlights included community talks, a Pickleball tournament, and meditation sessions, all aimed at honoring Asian culture and community engagement.
Theater: RHEOLOGY
The Bushwick Starr 419 Eldert St, Brooklyn, NY, United StatesIn Rheology, Misha joins forces with his physicist mother, Bulbul Chakraborty. Bulbul is obsessed with the mystery of sand: how it flows, like a liquid, but then jams into a solid. Misha is obsessed with his mother. But they’re running out of time. In this boundary-pushing new collaboration, an artist son challenges his scientist mother ... Read more
MOCA x NYAFF Film Club: Chan Is Missing
Museum of Chinese in America 215 Centre Street, New York, NYMOCA is thrilled to partner with the New York Asian Film Festival to present the MOCA x NYAFF Film Club, 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 Subversion, spotlighting daring films that challenge the norm, rewrite ... Read more
2025 Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference
Westin Boston Seaport 425 Summer Street, Boston, MATheme: Re-Orienting Asian American Studies in a time of resurgent ethnonationalism and fascism
SEAC Spring Course Special Lecture with Sheela Jane Menon: Unsettled: Race, Identity, & Indigeneity in Malaysia
Malaysia has been strategically marketed as the embodiment of Southeast Asia's racial, cultural, and religious diversity. State narratives have, for decades, advertised Malaysia as the epitome of regional multiculturalism: a postcolonial nation in which racial harmony and unity are bolstered by rapid development. This brand of "exceptional multiculturalism," as | term it, facilitates the categorization ... Read more
Screening – LIGHT OF THE SETTING SUN
DCTV 87 Lafayette St, New York, NYIn her deeply personal and moving directorial debut, filmmaker Vicky Du unravels her family’s war-torn history across three generations and three countries—China, Taiwan, and the United States. Light of the Setting Sun is a poetic exploration of the unspoken, revealing how inherited trauma, insecurity, and the echoes of war shape both identity and legacy. Through ... Read more
Rally Against Sexual Assault (R.A.S.A.)
Queens Borough Hall 120-55 Queens Blvd, Kew Gardens, NYEach year, through this Rally Against Sexual Assault, KAFSC's Youth Community Project Team (YCPT) stands united in the fight against gender-based violence, advocating for prevention and empowering youth and community. We invite you to stand with us as we raise awareness, support survivors, and rally for change.
Patterns That Remain Book Launch: New York and Mental Health Panel
Ms. Yoo 163 Allen St, New York, NY, United StatesAbout Patterns That Remain The book combines history, storytelling, research, and culturally grounded strategies to support readers as they move throughout their healing journey. If you are the child of Asian immigrants, this book is for you. If you are healing from diasporic wounds, this book is for you. If you want to break intergenerational ... Read more
Film – The Life of Oharu
Japan Society 333 East 47th Street, New York, NY, United States5mm Presentation. Set in feudal Japan, The Life of Oharu is Mizoguchi’s harsh indictment of exploitative men and a system that victimizes women. Kinuyo Tanaka demonstrates extraordinary tour-de-force acting in her role as a woman at various stages of her life who is continuously affected by men around her. A testimony to the supreme craftsmanship ... Read more
A+ Asian Comedy. Asian Stand Up Comedy in NYC’s Broadway Theater District
318 W 53rd st 318 West 53rd Street, New York, NY, United StatesA+ Asian Comedy is the ultimate Asian stand up comedy show, filled with the funniest Asian comedians New York City has to offer. Our comics can be seen on Netflix, HBO, and Comedy Central, but nothing compares to seeing them perform live at the world famous Broadway Comedy Club. Tickets are limited, so purchase yours ... Read more
The Future of Food? It’s in the Kitchen
Cookbook authors like Lesley Enston, Alicia Kennedy, Hetty Lui McKinnon, Lukas Volger, and Joe Yonan are showing readers that sustainable, delicious food can be made from scratch using whole ingredients, and that even when there are little to no animal products on the ingredient list, there don’t need to be sacrifices when it comes to experiencing a wide ... Read more
Malikah’s National Muslim Women’s Summit
Islamic Center at NYU 238 Thompson St, New York, NYEvery year, Malikah hosts the National Muslim Women’s Summit, one of the few nationwide gatherings dedicated to social justice-minded Muslim women. This year marks our ninth summit, and we are centering our conversations, workshops, and performances around the theme: Healing Through Art. Through poetry, recitation, movement, and collective creativity, we will explore how art can ... Read more