Qui Nguyen, the wildly inventive playwright (and screenwriter for Marvel and Disney) known for his use of pop culture, pop music, and puppetry, reunites with director May Adrales for this funny, sexy, and brash new play. A young Vietnamese family attempts to put down roots in Arkansas, a place as different from home as it ... Read more

Indulge in the mastery of distinguished pianist and Van Cliburn competition laureate Yekwon Sunwoo as he soulfully performs Chopin's 2nd Piano Concerto, showcasing his remarkable artistry. The evening's program begins with David Ludwig's brilliant Moto perpetuo for solo violin, followed by Tchaikovsky's profoundly poignant Pezzo Capriccioso. The night concludes with Tchaikovsky's iconic Serenade for Strings ... Read more

Saturday, November 4 · 5:30 - 7:30pm EDT Virtual Free  and In Person in Los Angeles Virtual RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/zoomus-imperialism-in-west-asia-a-community-teach-in-for-asian-americans-registration-749627916277 In Person RSVP in Los Angeles: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/f2f-us-imperialism-in-west-asia-a-community-teach-in-for-asian-americans-registration-745583840337   We will use an analysis of U.S. imperialism as a foundation to see connections in West Asia through an Asian American lens.  We invite Asian Americans to this space of ... Read more

Save the date and join us for a LIT-erary Diwali! Prepare to indulge in our action-packed schedule and tasty bites - including yummy sambar. What more can you ask for than a bookish festival? We have a stacked schedule of panel discussions for you below with all these books (and more!) available for sale at ... Read more

Celebrating 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.!

This 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

Saturday, 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

Join 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

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

Monday, November 6 · 9 - 10pm EST Virtual Free RSVP:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/asian-american-emerging-sports-identities-registration-740621578077?aff=ebdsoporgprofile   A celebration and acknowledgement of the myriad of ways Asian Americans express themselves through sports and sporting behaviors.  This session takes a look at Asian America's complex relationships to american sports cultures. Do Asian Americans identify american sports culture as an ecosystem to ... Read more

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

An “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

Founded in 2006, the Korean American Film Festival New York (KAFFNY) has presented works including by documentary filmmaker Dai Sil Kim-Gibson, DJ Spooky’s live musical re-score of the 1956 seminal classic Korean film, “Madame Freedom,” pioneer video art by Nam June Paik, multi-faceted perspectives on the 1992 Los Angeles Riots, and a three-wall gallery projection ... Read more

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

Wednesday, 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

Kahlil 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

Join us virtually on Thursday, November 9th and Friday, November 10th for our third annual CUNY Professional Development Conference hosted by the University Human Resources – Professional Development & Learning Office. This year, sessions will follow one of the core tracks: Executive Leadership: Be a Leader Who Makes a Difference Management Essentials: Influence, Implement and ... Read more

Join us for a program exploring the opportunities and limits for US-Korea-Japan trilateral cooperation. US President Joe Biden met with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at a landmark trilateral summit at Camp David in August. This program aims to critically assess the progress made since then, with an ... Read more