Play – Poor Yella Rednecks
New York City Center 131 West 55th Street, New YorkQui Nguyen, the wildly inventive playwright (and screenwriter for Marvel and Disney) known for his use of pop culture, pop music, and puppetry, reunites with director May Adrales for this funny, sexy, and brash new play. A young Vietnamese family attempts to put down roots in Arkansas, a place as different from home as it ... Read more
17th Annual Korean American Film Festival New York
Founded in 2006, the Korean American Film Festival New York (KAFFNY) has presented works including by documentary filmmaker Dai Sil Kim-Gibson, DJ Spooky’s live musical re-score of the 1956 seminal classic Korean film, “Madame Freedom,” pioneer video art by Nam June Paik, multi-faceted perspectives on the 1992 Los Angeles Riots, and a three-wall gallery projection ... Read more
Asian American Emerging Sports Identities
Monday, November 6 · 9 - 10pm EST Virtual Free RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/asian-american-emerging-sports-identities-registration-740621578077?aff=ebdsoporgprofile A celebration and acknowledgement of the myriad of ways Asian Americans express themselves through sports and sporting behaviors. This session takes a look at Asian America's complex relationships to american sports cultures. Do Asian Americans identify american sports culture as an ecosystem to ... Read more
WHIAANHPI Internship 101
The White House Initiative on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (WHIAANHPI) is now accepting applications for our internship program for the 2024 summer and fall cycles! Please join us on November 8 to learn about the application process — and get insights, tips, and advice directly from current interns and program alumni. WHIAANHPI ... Read more
Race at the Top: Asian Americans and Whites in Pursuit of the American Dream in Suburban Schools
CUNY Graduate Center (Sociology) 365 Fifth Avenue, 6th Floor, Room 6112, New YorkThe American suburb conjures an image of picturesque privilege: manicured lawns, quiet streets, and—most important to parents—high-quality schools. These elite enclaves are also historically white, allowing many white Americans to safeguard their privileges by using public schools to help their children enter top colleges. That’s changing, however, as Asian American professionals increasingly move into wealthy ... Read more
Asians on Demand: Mediating Race in Video Art and Activism
A/P/A Institute at NYU 244 Greene Street, New YorkWednesday, November 8, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm EST In Person Free in NYC at A/P/A Institute at NYU, 20 Cooper Square, 101 RSVP:https://apa.nyu.edu/event/asians-on-demand-with-feng-mei-heberer-sharon-heijin-lee-and-pacharee-sudhinaraset/ Surveying a contemporary, cutting-edge archive of video works from the Asian diaspora, Asians on Demand: Mediating Race in Video Art and Activism by Feng-Mei Heberer (NYU Department of Cinema Studies) uncovers the ways that diasporic ... Read more
CHOSEN (Documentary)
Macaulays Honors College/CUNY 35 W. 67th Street, New YorkThis co-sponsored screening of the documentary CHOSEN is part of the 17th Annual Korean American Film Festival New York (KAFFNY), running from November 8 to 13, 2023 in-person and online. Preceding CHOSEN will be a screening of the short documentary THE TEMPLE OF NON-DUALITY.
Tony Shalhoub, Hiba Abid, and Randa Jarrar: The Prophet at 100 and Arab American Writing in New York
NYPL Stephen A. Schwarzman Building 476 Fifth Avenue, New YorkKahlil Gibran’s The Prophet, a proto-New Age collection of arcane and oracular poetic essays has sold over 100 million copies in its 100-year lifespan and has made Gibran the third best-selling poet after William Shakespeare and Laozi. Gibran, a writer and artist who lived and worked primarily in the downtown Manhattan neighborhood then known as ... Read more