Non AAARI Events

We invite you to join us for our non-partisan event, “The Muslim Community for the Muslim Vote,” an engaging event with leaders and experts discussing key issues for the upcoming election. Interpretation services will be offered in Arabic, Urdu, and Bangla to ensure everyone can participate in the conversation. NYC Votes will be providing free ... Read more

A4 and MoCADA present Bandung Community Conversation: Coalition Building with Betty Yu, an award-winning filmmaker, socially engaged multimedia artist, photographer and activist born and raised in NYC. Yu is also a co-founder of Chinatown Art Brigade, a cultural collective using art to advance anti-displacement fights.

A stunning history of Pakistan's cultural and intellectual capital from one of the preeminent scholars of South Asia The city of Lahore was more than one thousand years old when it went through a violent schism. As the South Asian subcontinent was partitioned in 1947 to gain freedom from Britain's colonial hold, and the Islamic ... Read more

On October 26, join Malikah and 31st Ave Open Street for a day of celebration and community! Come experience a vibrant event featuring incredible Muslim and SWANA artists, creators, and small businesses. Enjoy live performances, discover unique products and beautiful art, and indulge in delicious pre-packaged food—there’s something for everyone! With live music, good vibes, ... Read more

What to Expect: -Town Hall featuring speakers like local electeds, city agencies, and community leaders -Resource Fair including information on health, legal, worker's rights, education, environment, small business, anti-asian hate, voter rights, etc. -Music, Dancing, and Performers -Free Light Refreshments -NYS Awards Ceremony and MORE!

Tony Award® winner and three-time Pulitzer finalist David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly) will make his Roundabout debut with the Broadway premiere of Yellow Face, his hilarious is-he-or-isn’t-he comedy of identity, show business, and (perhaps) autobiography. Starring Daniel Dae Kim (Lost) and directed by Tony nominee Leigh Silverman (Violet).  Inspired by real events, the playwright’s fictionalized doppelgänger protests yellowface casting in Miss Saigon, only to ... Read more

Ever wonder what it would be like to see yourself on the cover of a magazine? Small publications from the 1980s-2000s were some of the first to feature Asian Americans front and center. Browse through cover art that did just that and design a magazine cover starring… you! From choosing the perfect images to designing ... Read more

Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker’s art editor, is joined by the cover artists Sarula Bao and Adrian Tomine to present a seminar on how the magazine’s famous covers are crafted each week. At the end, there will be an extended Q. & A. with the artists.

 Ayad Akhtar is a novelist and a playwright. He is the author of the novels “Homeland Elegies,” one of the New York Times’ Ten Best Books of 2020, and “American Dervish,” which has been published in more than twenty languages. His plays include “Junk,” which won the Kennedy Prize for American Drama; “Disgraced,” which won a ... Read more

This FAHM, in partnership with Broadway Barkada, Dr. Kevin Nadal, and Maritess Zurbano, FANHS-MNY will be hosting a one night only Open Mic! with performances by Broadway Barkada's Liz Casasola, Renée Albulario, and The Braganza Sisters*. Join us for kwento, kantahan & kababayan! Of course we'll have lumpia! If you have any accessibility needs for ... Read more

Set in China’s Uyghur region in 2017, and spanning the months between two weddings, Nikah follows Dilber, a young woman approaching a crossroads amid the Chinese government’s surveilling and detaining of members of her community. As even her most personal decisions become suddenly political, Dilber must struggle with the tension between tradition and modernity, as ... Read more