Non AAARI Events

From the debate over affirmative action to the increasingly visible racism amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Asian Americans have emerged as key figures in a number of contemporary social controversies. In Making the Human: Race, Allegory, and Asian Americans, Corinne Sugino offers the lens of racial allegory to consider how media, institutional, and cultural narratives mobilize ... Read more

Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn have traveled the world and lived for many years in Asia, where their work won them the first Pulitzer Prize granted to a husband and wife. They join Orville Schell of the Center on U.S.-China Relations for a conversation on Kristof’s latest book, Chasing Hope: A Reporter's Life.

For our November Town Hall, A4 takes a deeper look at the art of memoir. How do artists explore deeply personal experiences and create connections in the process? Writer, educator, activist, and performer Alvin Eng (Our Laundry, Our Town) will share his artistic journey of writing plays and adapting them into memoirs. We’ll also hear ... Read more

Created by House of Chow’s Artistic Director Yvonne Huatin Chow, The Woman in Red. The Child in Blue. is a dance theater piece dedicated to daughters that are cycle-breakers. Weaving cultural movement lineages of Hip-Hop Dance, Chinese Kung-Fu Wu-Su, and Asian folk dances, this Shamanic journey tracks a mother and daughter whose healing and freedom ... Read more

Photographs taken by early American missionaries to Korea, such as Samuel Austin Moffett (1864–1939) and Edmund de Schweinitz Brunner (1889–1973), capture what life was like in Korea during the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries, including people, buildings, streets, cityscapes, and rural landscapes. Focusing on in-depth research of rare images of now-vanished early modern architecture in ... Read more

Bystander Intervention Training – This one-hour, interactive training will teach you Right To Be’s 5Ds of bystander intervention methodology and why this training is so important now. We’ll show you the positive impact that bystander intervention has on individuals and communities. We’ll talk through five strategies for safe intervention: distract, delegate, document, delay and direct, ... Read more

Beyond the comfort zone is the growth zone, where you learn new things, meet new people, travel to new places, and try new experiences. While it may be a challenge, the growth zone can help expand your world and find your passions and goals in life. When you are not able to accomplish things that ... Read more

Join AAWW in-person and online for a celebration of Emily Jungmin Yoon’s Find Me as the Creature I Am! Emily will be joined by writers Monica Sok and Sally Wen Mao. Find Me as the Creature I Am is a book full of tenderness and violence, longing and love. Ranging from inherited family tales to ... Read more

In the twilight of the British Empire, an aspiring poet named Maya Mehta sets out to make her mark on the world.  When Mahatma Gandhi’s famous Salt March passes through her hometown, Maya is torn between duty to her family and the passionate ideals of her freedom-fighting friends in the Indian Independence Movement.  Ultimately, through ... Read more

Wondering how the U.S. election results could impact South Asia and South Asian Americans? Our panel of experts will break it down and explore what to expect in the coming years. Don’t miss this chance to get an in-depth perspective from those in the know!

MODArts Dance Collective (MADC) presents Move to Change - a festival which uses dance as a form of social justice and arts activism through the lens of BIPOC choreographers and cinematographers. The goal of Move to Change is to create cultural and gender affirming spaces for artists of color to educate, empower, & illuminate issues ... Read more