• High Line Plinth: Lectures & Meditations – Healing Through Ritual

    High Line Spur at 30th St, 10th Av 30th Street & 10th Avenue, New York, NY, United States
    Non AAARI Events

    Featuring a lecture by Lama Justin von Bujdoss, this session explores the role of ritual practice and meditation in transforming grief, loss, and violence into resilience and collective care. Drawing connections between Buddhist traditions and contemporary social justice work, the session considers how ceremony, blessing, meditation, and performed rituals can support processes of healing. The ... Read more

  • Dragon Boat Family Festival

    Museum of Chinese in America 215 Centre Street, New York, NY
    Non AAARI Events

    Family Festivals are bustling events with lots of sights, sounds, and aromas. There is limited stroller parking available, with a staff-operated lift used to reach the restrooms and lower level spaces. We recommend families with sensory concerns join our MOCACREATE events to celebrate the holiday.

  • Play – Until the First Snow (Show 1)

    Theatre Row Theatres 410 West 42nd Street, New York, NY
    Non AAARI Events

    Pan Asian Rep culminates its 49th Milestone Season with the annual NuWorks Festival, an experimental series of self-created work from innovative artists exploring an eclectic range of genres and techniques using poetry, text, dance and music.  Synopsis Amid the 1992 Los Angeles Riots, Kelly travels to her grandmother’s home on the outskirts of Seoul, where ... Read more

    $43
  • Mourning the Ming or Mourning the Self? Writing Dream of the Red Chamber and Reading It Across Time

    Non AAARI Events

    Since its emergence in the eighteenth century, Dream of the Red Chamber has been widely regarded as the greatest novel in the Chinese literary tradition. Written over more than a decade by Cao Xueqin under conditions of poverty and without patronage, the novel was left unfinished at the author’s death. Yet despite censorship, repeated bans, ... Read more

  • Garam Masala Dating Show: Pride Edition

    Top Secret Comedy Club 44 Avenue A, New York, NY, United States
    Non AAARI Events

    Two strangers. One stage. A packed room full of people who came to watch it all go down. Garam Masala Dating is NYC’s only live comedy dating show. Every show, we put a real couple on a blind date in front of a live audience while hosts Surbhi and Wyatt Feegrado play wingman, roast them, ... Read more

  • Art Analysis Writing Workshop

    Yu and Me Books 44 Mulberry St, New York, United States
    Non AAARI Events

    Join us for an Art Analysis Writing Workshop where we’ll be analyzing short stories, poetry, and visual art. In this encouraging space, we are cultivating an inviting environment for you to hone in on your own unique voice.

    $25
  • Japan, Beyond the Genkan – A Conversation with Joshua W. Walker on Japan’s Global Role

    Japan Society 333 East 47th Street, New York, NY, United States
    Non AAARI Events

    Japan Society presents a conversation with Dr. Joshua W. Walker, President and CEO, on the themes explored in his recent bookJapan, Beyond the Genkan. At a time of heightened global interest in Japan and shifting dynamics in U.S. alliances, Japan, Beyond the Genkan blends cultural perspectives with broader diplomatic and political insights, while simultaneously examining ... Read more

    $31
  • Immigration to the City of Dreams: An Author Talk with Tyler Anbinder

    Bronx Library Center 310 East Kingsbridge Road, Bronx, NY
    Non AAARI Events

    Join us at Bronx Library Center for a conversation with historian and author Tyler Anbinder, in conversation with curator Monxo López, as he shares both the oft-told and hidden histories of immigration in New York City, along with his experience writing City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York. From immigrants who made a big splash ... Read more

  • Critical Comparison: Sanctions on North Korea vs. Iran

    The Korea Society 350 Madison Avenue, 24th Floor, New York, NY
    Non AAARI Events

    Join us for a conversation with Dr. Jonathan Brewer, Visiting Professor at King's College, London, on the differences, similarities, and trajectories of international sanctions on North Korea and Iran. In conversation with policy director Jonathan Corrado, Dr. Brewer discusses evolving UN Security Council sanctions, their utility within larger diplomatic frameworks, their implementation and circumvention, and North ... Read more

  • Min Kwon: America/Beautiful 250

    The Green-Wood Cemetery Catacombs 500 25th St, Brooklyn, NY
    Non AAARI Events

    For her project America/Beautiful, Korean-American pianist Min Kwon commissioned almost eighty leading composers across the United States to each write a variation on America the Beautiful, producing a vast mosaic of voices, aesthetics, identities, and histories. No two variations are alike. Some are tender and lyrical, others bracing and dissonant; some meditate, others protest. Together ... Read more

    $90
  • A4 Unscripted and Immersive Acting Audition Workshop

    Pearl Studios NYC 500 8th Ave, New York, NY, United States
    Non AAARI Events

    Are you an artist looking to sharpen your skills in unscripted and immersive theater? Are you an actor or actress with no experience in this growing expression but are looking for resources on how to audition with confidence? Join A4 and the Disney Talent Casting team for an interactive experience centered on the global performance ... Read more

  • Play – Until the First Snow (Show 2)

    Theatre Row Theatres 410 West 42nd Street, New York, NY
    Non AAARI Events

    Pan Asian Rep culminates its 49th Milestone Season with the annual NuWorks Festival, an experimental series of self-created work from innovative artists exploring an eclectic range of genres and techniques using poetry, text, dance and music.  Synopsis Amid the 1992 Los Angeles Riots, Kelly travels to her grandmother’s home on the outskirts of Seoul, where ... Read more

    $43
  • Radical Relations: Creative Conversations on Solidarity, Legacy, Activism + Art

    MFA Design for Social Innovation at School of Visual Arts 136 West 21st Street, 5th Floor, New York, NY
    Non AAARI Events

    Alongside a few special guests, the afternoon will feature: Akemi Kochiyama-Ladson speaking on the Yuri Kochiyama Solidarity Project, which honors Yuri’s legacy and carries on her commitment to bring people together and build cross movement, cross racial solidarity in support of human rights, dignity, and self-determination for all oppressed people. traci kato-kiriyama reading from their ... Read more

  • The 24th World Korean Traditional Art Competition

    Barrymore Film Center 153 Main Street, Fort Lee, NJ
    Non AAARI Events

    The Traditional Art Society of Korea (TASK) & The Federation of Korean Associations, USA host the 24th World Korean Traditional Art Competition. This event aims to promote Korea’s excellent traditional culture widely, discover and support talented next-generation Korean musicians living abroad, and enhance the skills of overseas Korean musicians, thereby expanding the base of traditional ... Read more

  • Book Launch Party – Horizon Hong Kong: Selected Stories

    Accent Sisters 89 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
    Non AAARI Events

    One of Hong Kong’s leading English writers, Xu Xi investigates and invigorates the transnational, transcultural, and translingual dimensions of her beloved city in these 22 stories covering the 1960s to the present day. Accent Sisters is proud to present the book launch of Xu Xi’s short story collection, Horizon Hong Kong, a Gaudy Boy publication ... Read more

  • K-Pop Dance Night With DJ MOOBEK & HWARANG

    The Dance Floor at Josie Robertson Plaza 10 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY
    Non AAARI Events

    Lincoln Center’s Silent Disco series continues with a high-energy night led by DJ MOOBEK, founder of KCORE PRODUCTION. MOOBEK has performed at major festivals and clubs across North America, Asia, and South America. Drawing from extensive experience on international stages, he delivers more than just a DJ set, creating a fully immersive performance that blends ... Read more

  • Buddhism Along the Silk Road

    High Line Spur at 30th St, 10th Av 30th Street & 10th Avenue, New York, NY, United States
    Non AAARI Events

    Featuring a lecture by Jin Xu, Jane and Leopold Swergold Associate Professor of Chinese Art History at Columbia University, this session situates the Bamiyan Buddha within the broader history of Buddhist transmission across East, Central, and South Asia. The session highlights how trade routes facilitated cultural encounters, religious coexistence, and the circulation of artistic forms. ... Read more

  • About Face: Disrupting Ballet Film Screening

    David Rubenstein Atrium 61 West 62nd Street, New York, NY
    Non AAARI Events

    Presented as part of Lincoln Center's Chinese Arts Week and China Institute's centennial celebration, About Face: Disrupting Ballet, a new feature-length documentary, spotlights the efforts of former New York City Ballet soloist Georgina Pazcoguin and author, producer, and choreographer Phil Chan as they launch their global Final Bow for Yellowface movement and challenge the dance ... Read more