Events for Dec/03/2025

During these divided times, many people believe that open dialogue and discourse are the only tools to mend a divided nation. Comedians Hasan Minhaj and Ronny Chieng believe the opposite: hatred is the answer. For one night only — in 19 cities — Hasan and Ronny will face off in a no-holds-barred live debate where ... Read more

Leviathan Lab’s WinterFest proudly presents a double feature of two new, compelling solo performances and a staged reading of a new dark comedy: The National New Play Network NYC Rolling World Premiere of FULL CONTACT; a developmental workshop of X#*! YOU VERY MUCH, MOM; and a one-night staged reading of BLOOD/SUCKER.  In FULL CONTACT, after ... Read more

What is justice and how do we get it? Join Robert L. Hess Scholars Melissa Murray and Russell M. Jeung in conversation as they draw on their personal and professional journeys to address these questions. Melissa Murray, the 2024–25 Robert L. Hess Scholar in Residence, is the Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law ... Read more

The new Sam Schwartz Transportation Research Program at Roosevelt House is pleased to present a special screening of selections from Streetfilms, an online documentary project and leading platform for educational films on sustainable transportation. These “shorts” will feature Streetfilms’ signature “man on the ground” storytelling approach, capturing how smart transportation design and policy in Paris, Montreal, London, and ... Read more

The artist Sean Connelly reflects on his year-long residency at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, and shares his curatorial process and vision for Hawai‘i is not the United States, but it is your Future. The exhibition, on view at 20 Cooper Square, first floor gallery, invites viewers to consider the built environment as oceanic, an interconnected ... Read more

Continuing MOCA’s LGBTQ AANHPI Program Series, we are proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2025 to present Meet Us Where We’re At, a program of six videos that forefront the experiences of drug users and harm reduction practices as they intersect with the ongoing HIV crisis. Meet Us Where We’re At features newly commissioned ... Read more

From exclusion laws to “foreign ownership” bans, bureaucracy has always been a border. Join us for Paperwork as Power, the second event in our two-part History of Anti-AANHPI Laws and Legal Battles series. From the Geary Act to the Alien Land Laws, learn how documents, data, and property restrictions turned suspicion into control, and how ... Read more