New York Japan CineFest 2023 (Day Two)
Asia Society 725 Park Avenue, New York, NYCelebrating twelve years of New York Japan CineFest! Join us for fiction, documentary and anime, and short films around the world portraying historical and contemporary Japan. Day Two features a special calligraphy performance at 3 p.m.!
David Prize 101 – Dream Big New York – Workshop
53rd Street Library 18 W 53rd St, New York, NY, United StatesThis is an in-person program. 53rd Street is teaming up with The David Prize to celebrate the individuals who are creating a better, brighter city. It's no secret that New York City is home to some of the world's best talent, and we know New Yorkers are working to make it even better. The David ... Read more
Panel Discussion: Heart To Heart with People Who Collect Cans: How, Why, And What Are The Solutions?
GALLERY 456 at Chinese American Arts Council (CAAC) 456 Broadway, 3rd Floor, New York, NYSaturday, November 4, 2023, 3 – 5PM In Person Free in NYC at Gallery 456, Chinese American Arts Council, 456 Broadway Info: https://www.aaartsalliance.org/events/panel-discussion-heart-to-heart-with-people-who-collect-cans-how-why-and-what-are-the-solutions In this panel discussion moderated by painter Siyan Wong as part of her “Lives of Three Canners: New York Chinese Elderly Immigrants” art exhibition (thru 11/17), you will hear directly from canners and activists ... Read more
Film Screening and Panel: One Small Visit
Asia Society 725 Park Avenue, New York, NYJoin us on November 5 at 6:30 p.m. to watch One Small Visit, a movie about crossing national, social, and planetary borders. This heartwarming 30-minute feature tells the true story of the Abrahams, an immigrant Indian family who passes through Neil Armstrong's Ohio hometown in the wake of the '69 moon landing and the civil rights ... Read more
Restorative Justice in Action: Framing Our Mindsets Towards Healing
What is Restorative Justice? What is not Restorative Justice? How can RJ provide tools and resources for our audience and our communities, especially in our current climate of heightened hate and violence? Panelists Anooj Bhandari, Restorative Justice Institute Jane Shim, AALDEF Terrence Winston, Coalition for Community Schools Excellence Moderator - Josephine Hahn, Brennan Center for ... Read more
Why Asian Pacific Desi American History Matters
November 7 at 12:30pm-2:00pm PST / 3:30pm- 5:00pm EST · Virtual Free RSVP: https://asianamericanedu.org/workshops.html. This workshop gives an overview of our lesson plans and the five thematic units of citizenship, civil rights, identity, immigration and racism. It covers the importance of including APIDA history in school curriculums through exploring the contributions of APIDAs in labor ... Read more
Djuna: Counterweight with translator Anton Hur
The Korea Society 350 Madison Avenue, 24th Floor, New York, NYAn “antic, madcap noir with flair" (Wired) and “fast-paced cyberpunk story” (The New York Times Book Review) from one of South Korea's most revered science fiction writers, whose identity remains unknown, Djuna's Counterweight is an absorbing tale of corporate intrigue, political unrest, unsolved mysteries, and the havoc wreaked by one company’s monomaniacal endeavor to build the world’s ... Read more
WHIAANHPI Internship 101
The White House Initiative on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (WHIAANHPI) is now accepting applications for our internship program for the 2024 summer and fall cycles! Please join us on November 8 to learn about the application process — and get insights, tips, and advice directly from current interns and program alumni. WHIAANHPI ... Read more
Race at the Top: Asian Americans and Whites in Pursuit of the American Dream in Suburban Schools
CUNY Graduate Center (Sociology) 365 Fifth Avenue, 6th Floor, Room 6112, New York, NYThe American suburb conjures an image of picturesque privilege: manicured lawns, quiet streets, and—most important to parents—high-quality schools. These elite enclaves are also historically white, allowing many white Americans to safeguard their privileges by using public schools to help their children enter top colleges. That’s changing, however, as Asian American professionals increasingly move into wealthy ... Read more
Asians on Demand: Mediating Race in Video Art and Activism
A/P/A Institute at NYU 244 Greene Street, New York, NYWednesday, November 8, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm EST In Person Free in NYC at A/P/A Institute at NYU, 20 Cooper Square, 101 RSVP:https://apa.nyu.edu/event/asians-on-demand-with-feng-mei-heberer-sharon-heijin-lee-and-pacharee-sudhinaraset/ Surveying a contemporary, cutting-edge archive of video works from the Asian diaspora, Asians on Demand: Mediating Race in Video Art and Activism by Feng-Mei Heberer (NYU Department of Cinema Studies) uncovers the ways that diasporic ... Read more
CHOSEN (Documentary)
Macaulays Honors College/CUNY 35 W. 67th Street, New York, NYThis co-sponsored screening of the documentary CHOSEN is part of the 17th Annual Korean American Film Festival New York (KAFFNY), running from November 8 to 13, 2023 in-person and online. Preceding CHOSEN will be a screening of the short documentary THE TEMPLE OF NON-DUALITY.
Tony Shalhoub, Hiba Abid, and Randa Jarrar: The Prophet at 100 and Arab American Writing in New York
NYPL Stephen A. Schwarzman Building 476 Fifth Avenue, New York, NYKahlil Gibran’s The Prophet, a proto-New Age collection of arcane and oracular poetic essays has sold over 100 million copies in its 100-year lifespan and has made Gibran the third best-selling poet after William Shakespeare and Laozi. Gibran, a writer and artist who lived and worked primarily in the downtown Manhattan neighborhood then known as ... Read more