Join us for a screening and discussion of No Rule is Our Rule, a documentary film about the friendship between two fiercely independent, interdisciplinary female dance artists Eiko Otake and Wen Hui. Eiko grew up in postwar Japan and has lived in New York since the 1970s. 8 years younger, Beijing-based Wen Hui grew up during the Cultural Revolution in ... Read more

Dr. Lisa Suzuki's lab is working to understand the impact of race-based trauma in the Asian American community and plans to share the scholarship through a research and community panel discussion workshop. This discussion workshop aims to bring together mental health trainees and professionals that support A/P/A populations in New York City to (1) share ... Read more

This Adoptee Awareness Month, join NCAPA, Adoptees for Justice (A4J), OCA New York, Alliance for Adoptee Citizenship (AAC), and AAPI New Jersey as we discuss the history of transnational adoption in the U.S. and adoptee citizenship.

Join Sisters in Self Defense in the T!C studio for a hands-on workshop where you’ll learn techniques for protecting yourself and others from racially motivated aggression in public spaces. Participants will gain practical knowledge about what actually happens in a street altercation, how to avoid dangerous situations and de-escalate conflict, and, if no other option ... Read more

Panelists featured in this webinar include Eva Chen, Vice President of Fashion Partnerships at Instagram; Laura Kim, Co-Creative Director of Oscar de la Renta and Founder and Co-Creative Director of MONSE; and Roopal Patel, Senior Vice President, Fashion Director, Saks Fifth Avenue. Peter Young, Chair of the Committee of 100 Asian American Career Ceilings Initiative ... Read more

New York City is home to one of the strongest civil rights laws in the nation prohibiting discrimination against over 25 protected categories across almost every aspect of life: housing, employment, and public spaces. The city’s Commission on Human Rights, the agency that enforces New York City’s Human Rights Law and strives to prevent discrimination, ... Read more

How does the US public view America’s place in the world? How strong are the bonds between the US and Korea? Conversely, how does the Korean public view the United States as a partner and an ally? How are these views changing and what are the implications for global geopolitics, the US-Korea Alliance, and peace ... Read more

As our AAPI community seeks to combat generational trauma, exceptionalism and the model minority myth - there is a lot of healing that our AAPI community can lean on one another to support and acknowledge. This session will center the AAPI perspective in the ways that we are working together to heal and build community ... Read more

Speaker: Na Yin, Associate Professor, Marxe School of Public and International Affairs, CUNY Institute for Demographic Research, Baruch College/CUNY CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 5318, Manhattan Also on Zoom: bit.ly/43nmlvU

Celebrate empathy, acceptance and cultural diversity this holiday season with an inspiring short film, American Sikh, followed by a lively discussion and a festive reception. American Sikh is an Oscar-qualified animated short film that tells the incredible true story of Vishavjit Singh, an American-born, turban-wearing Sikh illustrator, writer, performance artist, diversity speaker and creator of Sikhtoons.com. After ... Read more

Taiwan will hold a landmark presidential election on January 13, 2024. The outcome of the election will have major implications for the trajectory of peace and stability between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and Taiwan for years to come. But who exactly are the candidates vying to become the president? The front-runner, Lai Ching-te, of the ... Read more

On Friday, December 15, APIAVote, AAPI Data and the Asian Americans Journalist Association will be co-hosting the second in the Voices of AAPI Communities monthly briefing series that analyzes findings from the new AAPIData/AP-NORC Survey. This briefing will focus on AAPI views on Biden approval, voting rights, threats to democracy, and trust in political institutions. 

Join Sisters in Self Defense in the T!C studio for a hands-on workshop where you’ll learn techniques for protecting yourself and others from racially motivated aggression in public spaces. Participants will gain practical knowledge about what actually happens in a street altercation, how to avoid dangerous situations and de-escalate conflict, and, if no other option ... Read more

Homelessness is becoming a bigger problem everyday in NYC and around the world. Why? In this talk, filmmaker Alvin Tsang and artist Siyan Wong will explore this question by sharing clips from their work-in-progress documentary, “People’s Land.” This film follows Siyan (also a workers rights lawyer living in Lower East Side/Chinatown) as she tries to ... Read more

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents the 21st concert in its Crossing Boundaries series, gamin x yuniya edi kwon: OO / LL / IM, curated by gamin, at Abrons Art Center as part of the @Abrons Series. OO / LL / IM is an interdisciplinary ritual performance – a passageway through which grief, entanglements, ... Read more

Harmonica virtuoso Jiayi He, who has been featured on America’s Got Talent, will lead a crash course in how to play the harmonica and lead participants in a jam session to showcase their new skills with performances of holiday classics such as “Jingle Bell,” “Deck the Halls,” “Here Comes Santa Claus,” “Silent Night,” “When the ... Read more

Enjoy a holiday retrospective dedicated to a leading figure of the ascendant Taiwanese New Wave and one of cinema’s most celebrated surveyors of the human condition—Edward Yang. Desire/Expectations: The Films of Edward Yang features 10 screenings of Yang’s magnum opus Yi Yi, in addition to 2K and 4K restoration of That Day, on the Beach, ... Read more

At midnight on July 1st, 1997, 156 years of British rule in Hong Kong came to an end, as the colonial city-state was reunited with Mainland China under the status of “special administrative region.” The uncertainty many Hong Kongers felt about this event and its implications would, subtly or quite directly, influence films made in ... Read more

Journalist Jonathan Eig (King: A Life), University of Florida professor and former field director of SNCC's Mississippi Freedom Summer Project Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons, and political scientist Brandon M. Terry (To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr.) offer new perspectives on life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., ... Read more

Let's bundle up and gather for Winter Tea in Prospect Park! We will start with a short nature walk through the park trails, meet at boathouse, have some tea and enjoy the music and multilingual poetry performance we prepare for you. Embark on a musical journey with Gamin and Galen Passen as they lead us to ... Read more

Since 2020, COVID-19 has taken the lives of more than one million Americans. Nearly one-fifth of us knew someone among them. All of us have been impacted. In a culture that avoids talk of death and puts grief on a timeline, what does our mourning look like? How will we manage the voids the pandemic ... Read more

Join host Michelle Meow as our panel discusses the contributions women and non-binary filmmakers have made in film, talking with Liz Sargent, Julia Gouw, and Michelle Sugihara of CAPE (the Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment). We will screen "Take Me Home," Sargent's short film and a 2024 Oscar contender for best action short film, ... Read more