Belvoir St. Theatre’s Counting and Cracking, by S. Shakthidharan and directed by Eamon Flack, comes to NYU Skirball this fall for its North American Premiere after critically acclaimed productions in Australia and the United Kingdom. The sweeping, episodic play features nineteen actors from across the globe on a multi-generational journey of a Sri Lankan-Australian family from 1956-2004. Radha fled ... Read more

Dogugaeshi, the award-winning phenomenon by genius puppeteer Basil Twist, is back! Born as a Japan Society commission, this ever-innovative piece now celebrates its 20th anniversary. Enter a mystical world, where a mysterious white fox shepherds you through past and present Japan. Inspired by a disappearing traditional stage mechanism from Japan’s Awa region called dogugaeshi, Twist ... Read more

Legacies: Asian American Art Movements in New York City (1969-2001) is an expansive survey of rarely-seen artwork and archival material by artists that constitute and exceed “Asian American,” a label denoting a cultural and national identity invented in 1968. Utilizing an interdisciplinary and research-driven praxis, Legacies uncovers how artists of Asian descent have historically negotiated ... Read more

The PrideFull Fest announces its 4th edition with 14 films centering LGBTQIA2S+ people of color and their stories. The festival runs from September 13-22, 2024, with in-person screenings from the 13th to the 15th in New York City and a virtual run from the 16th to the 22nd across the United States. This year’s theme ... Read 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 ... Read more

Join us for the 2024 Asian American Literature Festival (AALF), a historic multi-city gathering designed to support and nurture Asian American literature and the literary community. The AALF is a space of stewardship, kinship, and care, where we celebrate the role of Asian diasporic literature in creating community.

Join the Asian American Writers’ Workshop for an exhibition of the late poet Meena Alexander’s library, which the Workshop acquired for our 30th anniversary. The reading room will include a curated display of titles by Meena Alexander, as well as books from her collection with original annotations, notes exchanged between friends and loved ones, rare ... Read more

Learn about HCAP programs, make friends, and connect with Hunter resources. Join our decorating contest to win a prize. We’ll have games, free food, and snacks! ALL Hunter students are welcome!

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

Join AAWW in-person and online for a celebration of Zara Chowdhary’s memoir The Lucky Ones! Zara will be joined by journalist, television producer, and writer Nur Nasreen Ibrahim. The Lucky Ones traces the past of a multigenerational Muslim family to India’s brave but bloody origins, a segregated city’s ancient past, and the lingering hurt causing ... Read more

Have you ever felt like someone needs help but didn't know how to start the conversation? Afraid you'll make things worse if you bring it up? You're not alone. Many of us-even professionals-struggle to start these important conversations. Sometimes the pressure feels overwhelming, we're uncomfortable, or we just don't know how to help if something ... Read more

OiYan Poon conducts interviews with Asian Americans throughout the US who have been actively engaged in policy debates over race-conscious admissions or affirmative action. Through these exchanges, she finds that Asian American identity remains deeply unsettled in a contest between those invested in reaching the top of the racial hierarchy alongside whiteness and those working ... Read more

During the shutdown of 2020, Edward Cheng roamed the streets of Chinatown with his camera. Businesses were closed. Work had dried up. There was nothing else to do. On these treks he ran into people he knew. He saw the same friends, acquaintances, and community members time and again. Eventually he asked to photograph them. ... Read more