Play – SUMO

The Public Theater 425 Lafayette St, New York, NY

Entrenched in an elite sumo training facility in Tokyo, six men practice, eat, love, play, and ultimately fight. Step into the sacred world of sumo wrestling, with the New York premiere of Lisa Sanaye Dring’s mesmerizing new drama, SUMO. Akio arrives as an angry, ambitious 18-year-old with a lot to learn. Expecting validation, dominance, and fame, ... Read more

$93

2025 Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference

Hilton Columbus Downtown 402 N High St, Columbus, OH, United States

The Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference brings together over 3000 Asian studies scholars from across the globe. As the largest Asian Studies Conference worldwide dedicated exclusively to Asian Studies research, topics covering all countries in Asia across 30 academic disciplines, our annual conference is the ideal setting to meet face-to-face with University faculty and ... Read more

Love Can’t Feed You: A Novel

Cherry Lou Sy’s debut novel Love Can’t Feed You (Dutton, 2024) is a heartfelt and poignant exploration of love, sacrifice, and survival in the face of adversity.

Double-Conscious Formation of Organizational Life: Chinese Civil Society Organizations in the U.S., 1849-1911

Asian American / Asian Research Institute 25 West 43rd Street, Suite 1000, New York, United States

How does racism influence the formation and development of organizational life in a racialized community? In this paper, Prof. Simon Yamawaki Shachter extends on Du Bois’s concept of double consciousness to explain community organizations’ roles and development.

National (un)Belonging: Bengali American Women on Imagining and Contesting Culture and Identity

Asian American / Asian Research Institute 25 West 43rd Street, Suite 1000, New York, United States

Much queer theory in America is based on white male experience and privilege, excluding people of color and severely limiting its relevance to third-world activism. Dr. Roksana Badruddoja visits paradoxes, difficulties, unity, and diversity by unraveling the lives of two second-generation gender-queer South Asian American folx.

Family Amnesia: Chinese American Resilience

Asian American / Asian Research Institute 25 West 43rd Street, Suite 1000, New York, United States

Family Amnesia (Daylight Books, 2025) is a visual tribute and love letter honoring author Betty Yu’s Chinese American family roots in the United States. The art book explores her family’s multi-generational resilience and resistance through mixed-media collages, her grandfather’s photographs, and own captured images and archival material.

The Shakuhachi 5: Shakuhachi Vogue – A Visual Concert

Japan Society 333 East 47th Street, New York, NY, United States

Traditional instrument supergroup The Shakuhachi 5 has its North American debut in this provocative “visual concert.” Offering a dazzling repertoire spanning four centuries, including a work written for the ensemble by Dai Fujikura and a brand-new commission from Rome Prize winner Lisa Bielawa, these five shakuhachi rockstars aspire to boost the image of their primitive ... Read more

$43

2025 CUNY Asian American Film Festival

CUNY Graduate Center (Martin Segal Theatre) 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY

Since 2004, the CUNY Asian American Film Festival (AAFF) has celebrated the creativity and vision of student filmmakers from across the City University of New York. Join us for an exciting evening on Friday, May 30, 2025, where all winners and runner-ups will remain anonymous until after the screening of selected films, chosen by our ... Read more