Events for Oct/22/2025
Play – Did You Eat? (밥 먹었니?)
DID YOU EAT? (밥 먹었니?) is Zoë Kim’s autobiographical journey through love’s many forms–how it’s learned, given, and reflected inward. In a nimble and tender solo performance, Zoë shapeshifts into the souls of her family through a landscape of memories where tears and laughter collide. It’s not just a story, but a reckoning—weaving through the ... Read more
APAICS 2025 Tech Summit
The APAICS Technology Summit brings together community and corporate leaders, subject matter experts, as well as Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AA & NH/PI) elected officials for bipartisan policy discussions that affect the AA & NH/PI community and the nation at-large.
Queens Borough President South Asian and Indo-Caribbean Leaders Meeting
Join Queens Borough President Donovan Richards Jr. for a meeting with the South Asian and Indo-Caribbean community and business leaders in Central Queens. Various government agency representatives will also be present.
Battling Truth Decay: Communicating nuance in a world hooked on fast factoids
A. J. Jacobs will discuss his noteworthy experiences communicating ideas that are unusual, and maybe even unpopular. Drawing on guiding texts including the Constitution, the Encyclopedia Britannica, the Bible, and George Washington’s “110 Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation,” (#98, Drink not nor talk with your mouth full neither Gaze about ... Read more
Misook Doolittle with Ambassador Kathleen Stephens
With the ever-growing need to understand ourselves and humanity as a whole, it is necessary to examine the concepts of morality, ethics and universal values as guiding principles of the human condition. With generous support from Y.T. Hwang Family Foundation, The Korea Society presents a Series on Ethics and Common Values. This series promotes the ... Read more
Because of You: A History of Kilawin Kolektibo
Please join Thirdworld Newsreel and the Documentary Forum at CCNY for a screening and discussion of the documentary film Because of You: A History of Kilawin Koletibo, co-directed by Desireena Almoradie and Barbara Malaran. The co-directors will be joined by past participants of Kilawin Kolektibo.
The Power of Storytelling and Its Intersections
Join the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) — alongside its New York and CUNY J-School chapters — in partnership with the Asian American Writers’ Workshop (AAWW), for a thought-provoking conversation on the transformative power of storytelling. This panel brings together journalists and writers whose work spans memoir, data journalism, features, and cultural criticism. From AAJA ... Read more
Disciples of the Pear Garden*: NYC Cantonese Opera Histories
Cantonese opera has been part of New York’s story for more than 170 years. Beginning in the 1850s, touring troupes performed in Chinatowns across the United States from San Francisco to Chicago, New York, and even Spokane (plus smaller cities in between). In 1853, the 40-member Tong Hook Tong opera company appeared at New York’s ... Read more
A Reading by Kimiko Hahn
Join us for an evening with Kimiko Hahn, recently appointed Poet Laureate of New York State by the New York State Writers Institute and a distinguished professor in the MFA Program at Queens College. The author of eleven collections including The Ghost Forest: New and Selected Poems, Foreign Bodies, Brain Fever, and The Unbearable Heart, winner of the American Book ... Read more