Persian Feasts: Recipes and Stories from a Family Table
Join us for an exclusive conversation with Leila Heller to celebrate the launch of her new cookbook, Persian Feasts: Recipes and Stories from a Family Table, published by Phaidon. Moderated by Galerie Magazine Editor-in-Chief Jacqueline Terrebonne, this lively discussion will explore the rich culinary traditions and celebratory menus of Persian cuisine that date back 5,000 ... Read more
AAPI Training on Voters’ Rights
Free nonpartisan workshops for Asian American, South Asian, and Pacific Islander community groups. Experienced lawyers will help community leaders and Asian Americans, South Asians, and Pacific Islanders understand: their rights in the election how to obtain language assistance typical voting problems and how to cure deficiencies. Attorneys will also cover the legal rules regarding electoral and voter education activities for tax-exempt nonprofit ... Read more
AAPI Training on Voters’ Rights
Free nonpartisan workshops for Asian American, South Asian, and Pacific Islander community groups. Experienced lawyers will help community leaders and Asian Americans, South Asians, and Pacific Islanders understand: their rights in the election how to obtain language assistance typical voting problems and how to cure deficiencies. Attorneys will also cover the legal rules regarding electoral and voter education activities for tax-exempt nonprofit ... Read more
Taking the Pulse of Post-COVID Chinese Economy and Society
Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis hosts a panel of experts to discuss the economic, political, and societal issues affecting China’s post-COVID recovery.
MOCA Mid-Autumn Family Festival
Mooncakes, magic, and the Jade Rabbit on the moon! Join us for an afternoon of storytelling, drop-in arts & crafts, mooncake making, and more.
Connie Chung with Walter Isaacson
Connie Chung is the first woman to co-anchor the CBS Evening News and the first Asian to anchor any news program in the U.S. Profoundly influenced by her family’s cultural traditions, yet growing up completely Americanized in the United States, Chung describes her career in a white, male-centered world. Overt sexism was a way of ... Read more
Pan Asian Rep 2024 Fall Reading Series – Calligraphy
Two cousins and their mothers confront changes generated by the past and the passing of time. In Los Angeles, one cousin faces her immigrant mother’s dementia while, in Tokyo, the other is challenged by her mother’s physical decline. Family history of the immigrant mother having married an African American and left Japan behind complicates all ... Read more
Cultural Icon, Cultural Ambassador: Yue-Sai Kan, “The Most Famous Woman in China”
A trailblazer in promoting understanding between Asia and the rest of the world, anchor, entrepreneur, and author Yue-Sai Kan will discuss her memoir with Asia Society Trustee Lulu C. Wang.
Patricia Tanumihardja – Mortar and Pestle: Classic Indonesian Recipes for the Modern Kitchen
The Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) cordially invites you to an insightful discussion with acclaimed food writer and cookbook author Patricia Tanumihardja, as she explores her latest culinary work, Mortar and Pestle: Classic Indonesian Recipes for the Modern Kitchen. Co-authored with her mother, Juliana Evari Suparman, this cookbook presents a vibrant collection of 80 ... Read more
China Institute in America Mid-Autumn Festival 2024
Celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival at China Institute in America for the entire family! Mid-autumn is one of the most celebrated holidays in China – a time for families to get together under the full moon and light up lanterns to symbolically illuminate the path to success for the rest of the year. Join us at ... Read more
2024 APAICS Technology Summit
Mark your calendars for the upcoming APAICS Technology Summit, taking place on September 25-26! Don't miss out on hearing from elected officials, industry leaders, and community partners as they discuss topics such as digital equity, representation in digital spaces, and more!
Unveiling The Findings: State of Chinese Americans Survey 2024
Chinese Americans constitute about 5.5 million people and are the largest share of the Asian American population. Despite this fast-growing electorate, Chinese Americans have faced a surge in racism in everyday life, been historically underrepresented in politics and policy, and the specific policy preferences and political behaviors of those same Chinese Americans are unknown. So ... Read more
Eliza Griswold and Hahrie Han with Andrea Elliott: Reckoning with Race in the Church
Not all evangelical churches fit the stereotypes. In their latest books, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Eliza Griswold and the Inaugural Director of the SNF Agora Institute, Hahrie Han, bear witness to two churches who break the mold. In Circle of Hope, Griswold chronicles the ravaging and ultimately destructive results to a group of progressive-leaning Philadelphia evangelicals ... Read more
Smart, Not Loud: How to Get Noticed at Work for All the Right Reasons (Workshop – Part 2)
The Asian American Mentorship Providing Opportunities to Women for Empowerment and Resilience (AAMPOWER) at CUNY invites you to join us at our next discussion/workshop on communication with author Jessica Chen to discuss her new book, Smart, Not Loud: How to Get Noticed at Work for All the Right Reasons. Part 2 workshop will take place ... Read more
China Institute in America CrazyLaugh Comedy
CrazyLaugh A dynamic oversea Chinese culture content production platform. At CrazyLaugh, our mission is to inspire a shift in perspective, transforming life’s twists and stress into moments of humor and laughter. We believe every challenge is a setup for a punchline, and we’re dedicated to empowering everyone find theirs. Together, we’re not just facing life’s ... Read more
Three Iconic Directors: Gurinder Chadha, Deepa Mehta, and Mira Nair
Join us for this Viewpoints program bringing together three iconic directors of world cinema: Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding), Gurinder Chadha (Bend It Like Beckham), and Deepa Mehta (Water), in a conversation moderated by Aroon Shivdasani. Three filmmakers of Punjabi background, this "Bhenji Brigade" has made significant contributions to film with their fierce creative visions, and represent a larger Indian ... Read more
Rupi Kaur: milk and honey 10th Anniversary Poetry Writing Workshop
In 2014 Rupi Kaur self-published her first collection, milk and honey. Its honesty and rawness stunned readers, as did its ability to confront bitterness and pain with genuine sweetness. Ten years and millions of copies later, it is one of the best-selling poetry books of the 21st century, and Kaur is a worldwide phenomenon. This year ... Read more
National Bunraku Theater
The National Theatre makes its triumphant arrival with bunraku theater in New York City for the first time in 32 years! Witness a stunning production of traditional Japanese puppet theater, with two quintessential climaxes from bunraku repertoire: Date Musume Koi no Higanoko (Oshichi, the Greengrocer’s Daughter) and Sonezaki Shinju (The Love Suicides at Sonezaki). Known ... Read more
Pan Asian Rep 2024 Fall Reading Series – My Man Kono
In the heyday of silent films, Japanese émigré TORIACHI KONO, in pursuit of the American Dream, becomes a loyal confidante of film star Charlie Chaplin, but at the dawn of WWII is swept up in anti-Japanese hysteria and accused of espionage. This will be a sneak peak of Pan Asian Rep's Feb 2025 world premiere ... Read more
Ada Limón and Peter Sís: In Praise of Mystery
Ada Limón’s poem “In Praise of Mystery” will be launched into space as an engraving on the Europa Clipper spacecraft this October. It has also been adapted into her debut picture book. The poem asks us what it means to explore beyond our known world and how the unknown can reflect us back to ourselves. ... Read more
Afro-Arab Jazz featuring Tarek Yamani & Yacine Boulares Quartet
Discover the electrifying fusion in “Afro-Arab Jazz,” a dynamic collaboration between Lebanese pianist Tarek Yamani and French-Tunisian saxophonist Yacine Boulares, blending Arabic trance rhythms and jazz harmonies. With a quartet featuring Jongkuk Kim on drums and Sam Minaie on bass, they weave together Arabic trance rhythms and jazz harmonies, from Lebanese Dabke to Tunisian Stambeli ... Read more
The Other Korea – Stories from the Diaspora
Join authors Ery Shin (Spring On the Peninsula) and Christine Ma-Kellams (The Band) as they discuss their books and stories from the Korean diaspora. Part of Town Hall's "K-Town Hall Series." Each ticket includes a copy of Spring On the Peninsula and The Band.