Events

DID YOU EAT? (밥 먹었니?) is Zoë Kim’s autobiographical journey through love’s many forms–how it’s learned, given, and reflected inward. In a nimble and tender solo performance, Zoë shapeshifts into the souls of her family through a landscape of memories where tears and laughter collide. It’s not just a story, but a reckoning—weaving through the ... Read more

Join APIAVote, AAPI Data, AAJA, and NCAPA for the next installment of the Voices of AAPI Communities monthly briefing, where we’ll dive deep into the latest survey insights from AAPI Data and AP-NORC on timely policies.

Join ALL ARTS and The Serica Initiative for the latest installment of the New York Emmy Award nominated Voices Rising series, celebrating the brilliance and influence of Asian Americans in sports and dance. The evening begins with a reception from 6:30–7:30 PM and features drinks, light bites, and sponsor booths, where community members can connect, explore, ... Read more

oin us for a launch event with world-famous drag queen Kim Chi, discussing her new cookbook Kim Chi Eats The World: 75 Recipes Fit for a (Drag) Queen. Joining Kim Chi in conversation is standup comedian Youngmi Mayer. This event will be hosted in the Strand Book Store’s 3rd-floor Rare Book Room at 828 Broadway ... Read more

Join us at e-flux Screening Room on Tuesday, October 21 at 7pm for the screening program Ancestral Computation, followed by a discussion between artist Nouf Aljowaysir and curator Mashinka Firunts Hakopian. The program is co-presented with ArteEast. Ancestral Computation assembles works that counter the epistemes of Western technoscience, from across the SWANA region and its ... Read more

Join Queens Borough President Donovan Richards Jr. for a meeting with the South Asian and Indo-Caribbean community and business leaders in Central Queens. Various government agency representatives will also be present.

A. J. Jacobs will discuss his noteworthy experiences communicating ideas that are unusual, and maybe even unpopular. Drawing on guiding texts including the Constitution, the Encyclopedia Britannica, the Bible, and George Washington’s “110 Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation,” (#98, Drink not nor talk with your mouth full neither Gaze about ... Read more

With the ever-growing need to understand ourselves and humanity as a whole, it is necessary to examine the concepts of morality, ethics and universal values as guiding principles of the human condition. With generous support from Y.T. Hwang Family Foundation, The Korea Society presents a Series on Ethics and Common Values. This series promotes the ... Read more

Join the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) — alongside its New York and CUNY J-School chapters — in partnership with the Asian American Writers’ Workshop (AAWW), for a thought-provoking conversation on the transformative power of storytelling. This panel brings together journalists and writers whose work spans memoir, data journalism, features, and cultural criticism. From AAJA ... Read more

Cantonese opera has been part of New York’s story for more than 170 years. Beginning in the 1850s, touring troupes performed in Chinatowns across the United States from San Francisco to Chicago, New York, and even Spokane (plus smaller cities in between). In 1853, the 40-member Tong Hook Tong opera company appeared at New York’s ... Read more

Join us for an evening with Kimiko Hahn, recently appointed Poet Laureate of New York State by the New York State Writers Institute and a distinguished professor in the MFA Program at Queens College. The author of eleven collections including The Ghost Forest: New and Selected Poems, Foreign Bodies, Brain Fever, and The Unbearable Heart, winner of the American Book ... Read more

Quickly evolving artificial intelligence technology is emerging as a potentially powerful journalism tool, including for harnessing data in stories. But AI needs to be wielded carefully and correctly to get accurate, trustable results in storytelling. Join Sandeep Junnarkar, Data Journalism Director at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, for a three-part training ... Read more

Join Borough President Donovan Richards for a Job Recruitment Fair, featuring a wide variety of local employers looking to hire Queens residents today. Participating employers include the Council for Airport Opportunity, the NYC Department of Veteran Services, the NYS Department of Civil Services, New York Life, Queens Workforce 1 Career Center, the U.S. Army, Urban ... Read more

Session 3 of CACF x FALDEF "Know Your Rights" Workshop Series will cover the Rights of the Undocumented. Participants will be provided information about the rights and protections for undocumented individuals, to help bring awareness and highlight available resources. Participants are encouraged to bring their questions! This session will be facilitated by Angela Torregoza, Esq.

This Committee of 100 Asian American Career Ceilings Initiative will feature insights from four trailblazing Asian American women who have both witnessed and personally experienced the challenges of breaking through the “career ceiling” in the legal profession. Despite decades of advancement in education and representation at entry levels, Asian American women remain underrepresented in leadership ... Read more

Join NYSEAN and the Southeast Asia Coalition for Academic Freedom for a conference examining attacks on intellectual and academic freedom in Southeast Asia and the United States. Scholars, journalists, and activists will gather to look at how universities and intellectuals often become the first target of rising authoritarianism, the costs and benefits of collective action, ... Read more

The Mills Institute is pleased to welcome President Frank Wu of Queens College, a distinguished legal scholar and a nationally respected higher education leader, for a special conversation on his remarkable career journey. Following his remarks, Christie Chung, Executive Director of The Mills Institute at Northeastern University, will moderate an engaging Q&A.  This event will ... Read more