BMCC Asian Heritage Month 2024
Borough of Manhattan Community College 199 Chambers Street, New York, NYBorough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC/CUNY) proudly presents Asian Heritage Month 2024. The Asian Heritage Month co-chairs are Mark Goodloe, Technical Director in the BMCC Tribeca Performing Art Center; Albert Lee, Student Success Outreach and Programming Coordinator; Lisa White, Videographer, the BMCC Media Center and Erwin Wong, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs. ... Read more
2024 New York Public Library World Literature Festival
The New York Public Library's World Literature Festival shines a spotlight on books, writers, artists, and thinkers from around the globe and reflects some of the many languages spoken in our city's diverse communities. Join the Library to discover free events and programs, book recommendations, resources, and more for all ages, in a range of ... Read more
RESBAK! ARTS & RESISTANCE AGAINST THE DRUG KILLINGS IN THE PHILIPPINES
The City College of New York 160 Convent Avenue, New York, NYThis exhibition and showcase coincides with CCNY’s Third 2024 Critical Perspectives on Human Rights Conference, April 17-19, 2024, which aims to explore the contested legacy of human rights in increasingly uncertain times. RESBAK (RESpond and Break the Silence Against the Killings) is an interdisciplinary alliance of artists, media practitioners, and cultural workers. The primary goal ... Read more
2024 Queens World Film Festival
Museum of the Moving Image 30-01 35th Avenue, Astoria, NYQueens World has screened over 1,800 films representing 92 nations, including 281 films from filmmakers located in Queens. Queens world has produced over 600 screening events serving over 80,000 audiences with exciting films and engaging talk backs designed to connect film lovers and filmmakers. Discount Code: Use code QWFriends/Family at checkout for $5 off
Korea: A New History of North and South
The Korea Society 350 Madison Avenue, 24th Floor, New York, NYJoin us for a book talk with authors Professor Victor Cha and Professor Ramon Pacheco Pardo, who discuss their new book, Korea: A New History of South and North with policy director Jonathan Corrado. The Korea Society is proud to be a stop on the famous pink book tour! This important new work of history ... Read more
India’s Economy: Miracle or Debacle for Human Development?
Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College 47-49 East 65th Street, New York, NYRoosevelt House Human Rights Program, in collaboration with Scroll, are pleased to present a facilitated discussion with Indian-American Economist, Ashoka Mody, and Hunter College Professor of Economics, Karna Basu, as they discuss Mody's book India is Broken. Karna Basu is an Associate Professor of Economics at Hunter College & The Graduate Center, CUNY, and a Faculty Associate at the Roosevelt ... Read more
Reclaiming the Spotlight: The Life and Legacy of Anna May Wong
Museum of Chinese in America 215 Centre Street, New York, NYThe Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) cordially invites you to a captivating evening dedicated to the legendary Anna May Wong, Hollywood’s first Asian American star, whose luminous journey shattered stereotypes and paved the way for future generations. This event brings together three distinguished authors, Graham Russell Gao Hodges, Yunte Huang, and Katie Gee Salisbury, ... Read more
Corky Lee’s Asian America: Fifty Years of Photographic Justice
Asia Society 725 Park Avenue, New York, NYJoin us for the New York launch of Corky Lee's Asian America, a seminal work that traces Lee’s decades-long quest for photographic justice with David Henry Hwang, Mae Ngai, Akemi Kochiyama, and Hua Hsu. Moderated by Chris Kwok.
WHITE WAVE Dance Studio Showing
New York Center for Creativity & Dance 287 East 10th Street, New York, NYCaptivating performances by world-class WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company, presenting the artistic culmination of 36 years of Ms. Kim’s choreographic exploration. This informal studio showing include "WORK in PROGRESS" will sample about 45 minutes of Young Soon Kim’s broad repertoire! Multi-cultural dancers include Mark Willis, James Johnson, Ellie Swainhart, Lacey Baroch, SeoHee Choi, ... Read more
Film – Photographic Justice: The Corky Lee Story (New York Theatrical Premiere)
DCTV 87 Lafayette St, New York, NYFor 50 years, Chinese American photographer Corky Lee tirelessly documented the celebrations, struggles, and daily lives of Asian American Pacific Islanders. Determined to push mainstream media to include AAPI culture in the visual record of American history, Lee produced an astonishing archive of nearly a million compelling photographs. His work takes on new urgency with ... Read more
Dismantling and Combating Hate Conference 2024
Queens College (Student Union Ballroom) 65-30 Kissena Blvd, Student Union Ballroom, 4th Floor, Flushing, NYCUNY educates and employs approximately 265,000 New Yorkers of which at least 85% identify as being part of a minority group. The 2024 Dismantling and Combating Hate Conference will provide discussion about, and tools for, a holistic approach to building a sense of belonging and value among every member of the community at CUNY--from hiring ... Read more
2024 Committee of 100 Annual Conference
New York Marriott Marquis 1535 Broadway, New York, NYEach year, Committee of 100 hosts an annual Conference & Gala to bring together those with unique and insightful perspectives on the state of Chinese Americans and the future of U.S.-China relations. Committee of 100 is proud to be hosting its 2024 Annual Conference & Gala and celebrating its 35th anniversary in New York City ... Read more
Valiente Bangla: Bangladeshi Migrants Mobilize for Immigrants Rights in Spain
Bangladeshi migration to Spain is resurging due to declining economic opportunities and political instabilities in Bangladesh. While a long standing community began to form in the 1980s, due to Spain’s liberal immigration laws, the community size ebbed and flowed as migrants moved to other parts of Europe. But as immigration laws have become restrictive in ... Read more
Writers’ Cafe with Bushra Rehman
Borough of Manhattan Community College 199 Chambers Street, New York, NYStop by for lunch and tea with Bushra Rehman, author of Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion, Corona, and co-editor of Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism. Bushra will speak of what inspires her as a queer Asian-American writer, as well as her writing process and techniques. Mingle with others as Bushra ... Read more
Food Justice and Urban Change in a Historic Chinese Neighborhood
NYU King Juan Carlos Center 53 Washington Square South, New York, NY53 Washington Square South (KJCC), Room 701 Food justice includes the right to food that is culturally appropriate. That right is challenged in immigrant neighborhoods where the participants and spaces of food production, distribution, and consumption are contested. Manhattan’s Chinatown is a prime example of a neighborhood where food is central to its commerce, cultural ... Read more
Coreyah: Psychedelic Korean Folk
Queens College (Lefrak Hall) 65-30 Kissena Blvd, Flushing, NYHailing from South Korea, Coreyah is a mesmerizing psychedelic Korean folk music group. With six talented members, they skillfully blend Korean traditional instruments, captivating vocals, guitar, and percussion to create their unique sound. Since their debut in 2010, Coreyah has been at the forefront of a musical revolution, fusing contemporary ethnic and popular sounds while ... Read more
Songkran Community Resource Fair
Woodside Avenue (Little Thailand Way) Woodside Avenue (btwn 75th to 78th Street), Woodside, NYJoin Little Thailand community in celebrating Songkran (Thai New Year) and Earth Day with free resources, Thai food and cultural performances!
Chef Martin Yan Special Book Signing: “The Best of Yan Can Cook”
China Institute 40 Rector Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NYJoin us and meet renowned Chef and TV personality, Chef Martin Yan at China Institute in America for a special in-person signing event celebrating the publication of his latest cookbook, “The Best of Yan Can Cook”. This wonderful cookbook features, among many others, ten favorite recipes from four decades of the “Yan Can Cook” television ... Read more
Tour 1: Shared Spaces by Phillip Poon
Pearl River 452 Broadway, New York, NYWhat role do four spaces have in shaping culture in Chinatown? Through a guided tour of an iconic Asian department store, an activist architecture gallery, a community library, and the mall where “Chinatown meets high fashion,” participants will gain an understanding of what role these spaces play in shaping Chinatown. The tour will feature talks ... Read more
Screening and Conversation with Dr. Ming Wang: Sight
China Institute 40 Rector Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NYThe film Sight, starring Greg Kinnear, is based on Dr. Ming Wang's autobiography, From Darkness to Sight, chronicling his journey from childhood in Hangzhou, China, where the dream of becoming a physician was delayed by the challenges of the Cultural Revolution. The film screening will be succeeded by a discussion between Dr. Ming Wang and ... Read more
LYCHEE MARTINI: AN ASIAN FEMALE COMEDY SHOW
Silk Road Cafe Chinatown 30 Mott Street, New York, NYYou’re invited to “Lychee Martini,” an all-inclusive stand-up comedy show centering the voices of Asian women in comedy. April 20 lineup: Kyle Marian (Banana Ketchup) Ricky Sim (NY Comedy Festival, Edinburgh Fringe) Zubi Ahmed (Ramy S3, Kutti Gang) Hosted by Lee Lan and Andrea Wang Discover the range of Asian comedic talent in NYC + ... Read more
Film – Zero Waste (Virtual Screening & Director’s Talk)
Zero Waste is a timely documentary film that explores the current recycling efforts in South Korea through the personal stories of six changemakers. These individuals are advocates for a circular economy who fight against the ongoing plastic waste pollution crisis in the country which has been aggravated by the recent global pandemic. To better understand ... Read more
Dalit History is Poster History
Join Shrujana N. Shridhar, a Mumbai-based artist and illustrator, and Christina Dhanuja, the co-founder of Dalit History Month, for a presentation on the literary and political movements led by the Dalit Panthers. This conversation will delve into the Dalit Panther Archive’s digitized treasures—posters, magazines, and revolutionary poetry—and their transformative impact on Marathi literature.
Engaging with Southeast Asia: The Ambassadors’ Perspective
Asia Society 725 Park Avenue, New York, NY2023 marked a significant year for U.S. diplomacy in Southeast Asia as the United States signed comprehensive strategic partnerships with both Vietnam and Indonesia, advanced negotiations on the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF), and established the first U.S.–ASEAN center in Washington, DC. While Southeast Asia serves as a key driver of economic growth in ... Read more
Film Comment Live: Tribute to Navroze Contractor
Film at Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater 165 W. 65th Street, New York, NYFrom the early ’70s onwards, Indian cinematographer Navroze Contractor—who passed away last year at age 80—blazed a trail of radical image-making. Trained in fine arts, photography, and cinematography, Contractor wielded the camera as a weapon and a paintbrush, capturing both the thrills and the throes of popular uprisings in films that defined political documentary in ... Read more
An Evening with Ayoung Kim
The Museum of Modern Art 11 W 53rd St, New York, NY, United StatesAyoung Kim joins us to present a selection of her speculative fiction–inspired shorts, including the US premiere of Delivery Dancer’s Sphere (2023), for which she was the first Korean artist to receive the Prix Ars Electronica. While Kim’s practice draws on legacies of cyberfeminism and video game design, her videos, installations, and performances are equally ... Read more
Asian American Authors in Conversation—Paperback Book Launch for Ava Chin’s Mott Street
Chatham Square Library 33 East Broadway, New York, NYThis book talk will take place in person at Chatham Square Library AND online. Come celebrate the paperback book launch of Ava Chin’s Mott Street: a Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming. Ava will be in conversation with Lucy Yu, proprietor of Yu and Me Books, Ken Chen, Assistant Professor and Associate Director ... Read more
Nonprofit 501c3: Legal Requirements and Becoming a 501c3: Benefits and Pitfalls
Guest speakers reviewing Annual Filings, State Registration, Financial Audits, and IRS 99. This is part of a series of six (6) training workshops to help LGBTQ and BIPOC leaders survive and thrive. The trainings are over video digital conference. FREE but $5 donation requested for this training provided after registration. These trainings are supported by ... Read more
From AA to Q to Z: Queer Asian Americans in Law School and Beyond
What are the current cultural challenges AAPI as well as LGBTQ+ students face in the educational pipeline to law school? Securing work in NYC? Join us for a virtual panel to discuss the current landscape and learn about resources and support for those wanting to apply to law school or on their way into the ... Read more
Urban Ecologies on the Edge: Making Manila’s Resource Frontier
Georgiou Library - NYU East Building 239 Greene Street, 5th Floor, New York, NYUrban Ecologies on the Edge: Making Manila’s Resource Frontier explores the multiple, paradoxical stories of urban provisioning through the example of Manila’s socio-ecological relations with nearby Laguna Lake. The book received the 2022 AAG Meridian Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work in Geography and the 2024 Benda Prize for First Book on Southeast Asian Studies.
Eddie Ahn & Kristen Radtke – Advocate
Strand Book Store 828 Broadway 3rd Floor, Rare Book Room, New York, NYJoin us for an in-person event with San Franciscan attorney and Cartoonist-in-Residence, Eddie Ahn, for a discussion of his debut graphic memoir Advocate: A Graphic Memoir of Family, Community, and the Fight for Environmental Justice. Joining Eddie in conversation is critically acclaimed writer Kristen Radtke. This event will be hosted in the Strand Book Store's ... Read more
2024 Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference
Sheraton Grand Seattle 1400 6th Avenue, Seattle, WAWe are pleased to announce Asian American Studies in the 2020s: Disciplinary, Ethnic, Diasporic Identities as the theme for our 2024 conference. Since its inception, Asian American Studies has been particularly sensitive to histories of inclusion, marginalization, exclusion, and elision—in political life, narratives, and canons. In our (post) 9/11 and COVID moment of heightened political ... Read more
Moro Women Leading Peace: Panel on Bangsamoro Peace Process
Join the Global Network of Women Peacebuilders and women leaders from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front side in the autonomous region of Muslim Mindanao, including Atty. Sha Elijah Dumama-Alba, for a discussion about their peacebuilding/government-building work. In-Person at 8th Floor, UN Church Center & Virtual Attendance
Banned Book Club with Stacey Lee: The Downstairs Girl
Join bestselling author Stacey Lee, The New York Public Library, and teens across the country for a special virtual discussion of The Downstairs Girl, the latest title in our national Teen Banned Book Club. About the Book By day, 17-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady’s maid for the cruel daughter of one of the ... Read more
Secrets of Self-Publishing
You’ve got a great idea for a book, but you don’t have a publisher. Choosing to publish your own work is a viable and powerful alternative to the traditional approach. Should you do it yourself or pay a company to do it? In this informative and practical Toolbox you’ll learn the essential steps of self-publishing. ... Read more
Creative Process: Meet Artist Kelly Wang
China Institute 40 Rector Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NYJoin us to meet with one of the featured artists, Kelly Wang, in our current Shan Shui Reboot: Re-envisioning Landscape for a Changing World Exhibition and learn first-hand stories of her creative process. You will get to chat and interact closely with Kelly during the program. As a promising emerging artist, Kelly seamlessly blends contemporary ... Read more
Music – An Affirming Flame
Bruno Walter Auditorium - Lincoln Center 111 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NYNew York Classical Players performs Benjamin Britten's String Quartet No. 1, written while Britten was living in New York at the beginning of World War II, paired with recitations of poetry and correspondence from the New York Public Library's W.H. Auden archive, followed by a performance of Dimitri Shostakovitch's tragic war memorial, string quartet no. ... Read more
Tai Chi Solution for Mental Wellness Workshop
Museum of Chinese in America 215 Centre Street, New York, NYMOCA is honored to invite Master Sherry Zhang to conduct a Tai Chi workshop for mental wellness. The essence of Tai Chi as a path to mental wellness lies in its harmonious blend of movement, breath, and mindfulness. In this 90-minute Tai Chi workshop designed for mental health, participants not only learn about the mental ... Read more
Elections and Political Change in Southeast Asia Conference
Rudin Forum 295 Lafayette Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NYJoin NYSEAN for a discussion of recent elections and political change in Southeast Asia with: Sheila Coronel, Amy Freedman, John Gershman, Allen Hicken, Sidney Jones, J.M. Lanuza, Kanokrat Lertchoosakul, Ann Marie Murphy, Nava Nuraniyah, Jonathan Corpus Ong, Margaret Scott, and Meredith Weiss. This conference aims to place recent Southeast Asian elections in context by analyzing what kind of political change has occurred as well as ... Read more
Chinatown Photo Album Zine Launch Party
Yu & Me Books 44 Mulberry Street, New York, NY, United StatesChinatown Photo Album is a community-sourced archive of family photographs and stories connected to Manhattan’s Chinatown. Over the past year, the project has gathered submissions with the goal of highlighting the everyday moments, milestones and memories that shape the neighborhood. Now, Chinatown Photo Album has created a free zine for community members that showcases these ... Read more
Lahore Literary Festival in New York 2024
Asia Society 725 Park Avenue, New York, NYThe Lahore Literary Festival (LLF), one of South Asia’s premier cultural events, returns to Asia Society New York, exploring contemporary Pakistan through artists, writers, and other experts. The festival will present American audiences with a more nuanced view of Pakistan, with discussions on fiction and nonfiction writing, art, architecture, history and politics.
Play – Reclaiming Vietnam
Jalopy Theatre 315 Columbia Street, Brooklyn, NYGrowing up in a bi-racial home with a white mother and a Vietnamese father, Kim spent years wishing away her father’s less-than-desirable immigrant status, skin color and all the painful family secrets she inherited. Determined to face her demons, she joins a volunteer organization in Vietnam. As she begins to discover the beauty of her ... Read more
Pasifika Series | Mindanao Dances, with Potri Ranka Manis
Peridance Center 126 East 13th Street, New York, NYWelcoming Potri Ranka Manis to the Pasifika Series! The April offering is Mindanao Dances, indigenous dances from the southern Philippines. This 90-min, open-level workshop will immerse participants in the living tradition of the indigenous peoples of Mindanao, southern Philippines, through a somatic experience of ancestral legends, epics, and myths. From the time-honored epic, Derangen, these ... Read more