Play – English
Todd Haimes Theatre 227 West 42nd Street, New York, NYRoundabout brings English, by Sanaz Toossi, home to Broadway, after its world premiere, co-produced with Atlantic Theater Company. Knud Adams (Primary Trust) once again directs this Pulitzer Prize-winning play about the universal foibles of language and miscommunication. The comedy unfolds in an Iranian classroom where adult English learners practice for their proficiency exam. As they ... Read more
Play – Cymbeline
Lynn F. Angelson Theater 136 East 13th Street, New York, NYIn a world shattered by tyranny and poisoned by misogyny, Cymbeline tells the story of a young woman's flight from despair to heroism as she rediscovers her lost siblings and brings order to a kingdom ruled by chaos. Performed by an ensemble of eleven women, Cymbeline is a story of hope and rebirth in the ... Read more
DISORIENTALISM PART 7: YELLOW-FEVER FEVER!
The Public Theater 425 Lafayette St, New York, NYdisOrientalism is a truly New York experience– bringing together the best artists from Broadway, Stand Up Comedy, Dance, and Music for one spectacular all-star AAPI variety hour. To start off the year of the Snake, we are going to love you a long time with some one-of-a-kind performances carefully curated and hosted by New York’s ... Read more
Weathering Financial Storms: Navigating and Preparing for Financial Hardship
As public and private funding for nonprofit organizations is reduced, many nonprofits are struggling with an unprecedented demand for services amidst a shifting financial landscape. In order to continue to deliver vital services, organizations are considering reducing their workforce, searching for alternative sources of revenue, and weighing strategic alliances. Each of these options raises significant ... Read more
Author Talks: Kim Suhyun & Anton Hur
In a world where it can seem impossible to feel you are ever good enough, and where it’s easy to judge yourself by the unrealistic standards, I Decided to Live as Me offers guidance and encouragement for celebrating yourself and feeling comfortable in your own skin. Kim Suhyun is a writer and illustrator based in ... Read more
Rice Cake as Offerings: A Nian Gao Cooking Workshop
Think!Chinatown Studio 1 Pike Street, New York, NYLet’s bring in the Year of the Wood Snake with lucky nian gao 年糕 sticky rice cake! Learn all about the cultural traditions, significance and symbolism behind nian gao, as well as where to buy delicious handmade nian gao in Chinatown and where to find the ingredients you need to make it yourself at home. ... Read more
The Role of the Nonprofit Board of Directors: Legal Responsibilities and Best Practices
An engaged and skillful Board of Directors is key to fostering a resilient and enduring nonprofit organization. Directors often agree to serve on nonprofit Boards because they support the mission and work of an organization, but service on a Board brings with it significant responsibilities. This webinar will address the role of nonprofit Board members ... Read more
Play – My Man Kono
A.R.T./New York Theatres 502 West 53rd Street, New York, NYIn the heyday of silent films, Japanese émigré TORAICHI KONO, in pursuit of the American Dream, becomes a loyal confidante of film star Charlie Chaplin, but at the dawn of WWII is swept up in anti-Japanese hysteria and accused of espionage. $44 Early Bird tickets available to purchase until Jan 5, 2025 - use code ... Read more
“The China Business Conundrum” with Author Kenneth Wilcox
Queens College - President's Lounge 65-30 Kissena Blvd - Q-side, Dining Hall, Flushing, NYThe China Business Conundrum: Ensure That "Win-Win" Doesn't Mean Western Companies Lose Twice describes former CEO of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) Ken Wilcox's firsthand challenges he encountered in four years “on the ground” trying to establish a joint venture between SVB and the Chinese government to fund local innovation design―and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) ... Read more
Cassindy Chao: Ancient Wisdom, Modern Love
Museum of Chinese in America 215 Centre Street, New York, NYThe Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) invites you to an engaging discussion with Cassindy Chao, the highly respected dating coach, matchmaker, and author of Ancient Wisdom, Modern Love: Chinese Wisdom for Dating Success. Cassindy’s newly expanded edition of her book features family stories, cherished recipes, and heartfelt reflections on love and relationships.
Play – English (Community Night Performance)
Todd Haimes Theatre 227 West 42nd Street, New York, NYRoundabout Theatre Company is extending an invitation for a $20 community night performance for the Pulitzer-prize winning Broadway Play, ENGLISH. Please use code ENGLISH25CN. Roundabout brings English, by Sanaz Toossi, home to Broadway, after we co-produced its world premiere with Atlantic Theater Company. Knud Adams (Primary Trust) once again directs this Pulitzer Prize-winning play about ... Read more
Book Launch with Mia Arias Tsang: FRAGMENTS OF WASTED DEVOTION
The World's Borough Bookshop 34-06 73rd Street, Jackson Heights, NYIn this dazzling debut collection, Mia Arias Tsang explores the complexity and torture of queer heartbreak with an urgency that will leave you breathless. Flash nonfiction, vignettes and personal narrative combine to tell the almost-love stories of her young adulthood. From dusty university libraries to Boston-bound BoltBuses, and the glittering skyscrapers of New York City ... Read more
MOCA x NYAFF Film Club: Better Luck Tomorrow
Museum of Chinese in America 215 Centre Street, New York, NYMOCA is thrilled to partner with the New York Asian Film Festival to present the MOCA x NYAFF Film Club, a quarterly program celebrating the brilliance and boldness of Asian and Asian American cinema. This series highlights films of historic and cultural significance under the theme Subversion, spotlighting daring films that challenge the norm, rewrite ... Read more
In Celebration of “The Magnificent Ruins”
Asian American Writers' Workshop 112 West 27th Street #600, New York, NY, United StatesJoin AAWW in-person and online for a celebration of Nayantara Roy’s The Magnificent Ruins, a “rare feast” of a novel in which a young Indian American book editor inherits her estranged family’s ancestral home–and their long-buried secrets (Rachel Lyon, author of Self-Portrait With Boy)! Nayantara will be in conversation with writer Nina Sharma, and the ... Read more
Obayashi ’80s: The Onomichi Trilogy & Kadokawa Years
Japan Society 333 East 47th Street, New York, NY, United StatesThe teenage symphonies of Nobuhiko Obayashi (1938-2020) are wound in a melancholy nostalgia for a period indelibly lost to time—that inexpressible gap between adolescence and adulthood. Braiding visually expressive fantasias with striking formal experimentation and pop-art boldness, Obayashi’s idiosyncratic cinematic language produced some of Japan’s most beloved seishun eiga in the 1980s. Captivating generations of ... Read more
The Art of Dealing with China in the Age of Uncertainty
As the Chinese economy slows and geopolitical tensions rise, multinational companies are reconsidering their footprint in China. Many of the most experienced and knowledgeable China-based businesspeople, analysts, and journalists have left the country in recent years, especially post-COVID. Political tightening under Xi Jinping and growing suspicions of foreign entities have made it more challenging for ... Read more
Igniting Opportunities Workshop for Entrepreneurs
This free entrepreneurship workshop is the second in a series, powered by NYSTEC IgniteU NY in collaboration with the CUNY Office of Research, and is designed to expose participants to different business resources. In this workshop, attendees will gain valuable insights about searching for funding for research and commercialization of technology. Attendees will hear from ... Read more
AAPI HEROES
Museum of Chinese in America 215 Centre Street, New York, NYDive into an enchanting journey with AAPI HEROES, where we follow our young explorer, Kai, across time and space. This capitvating performance, rich in dance and storytelling, inspired by iconic Asian Figures such as Anna May Wong, Hollywood's first Chinese American star, and Bruce Lee, a legend in martial arts and philosophy. It also brings ... Read more
NY Chinese Cultural Center Lunar New Year Show
Museum of Chinese in America 215 Centre Street, New York, NYJoin the New York Chinese Cultural Center and the Museum of Chinese in America to celebrate the Lunar New Year with a performance by NYCCC’s resident company and guest artists.
China and Central Asia: An Expert Opinion
Queens College - President's Lounge 65-30 Kissena Blvd - Q-side, Dining Hall, Flushing, NYDistinguished Professor Morris Rossabi and President Frank H. Wu invite you to a lecture on "China and Central Asia: An Expert Opinion" by Dr. Parviz Mullojonov, Political Scientist, Historian, and Senior Advisor to International Alert in Central Asia.
Grace Chang: The Family Legacy of the Chinese BaoTingChang Performers
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NYCelebrating the career and journey of Producer and Actress Grace Chang and her family.
Leekyung Kang’s Solo Exhibition “Entombed in Static”
Queens College (Klapper Hall) 65-30 Kissena Blvd, Room 404, Flushing, NYThe Queens College Office of the President and the Office of Institutional Advancement cordially invite you to a one-person exhibition, "Entombed in Static," by Leekyung Kang, the Thomas Chen Family Crystal Windows Artist-in-Residence. Opening Reception: Tues, Feb 11, 2025, from 6pm to 8pm, Klapper Hall, Student Gallery RSVP by Feb 4, 2025 to rsvp.dev@qc.cuny.edu, or ... Read more
Getting It Wrong to Get It Right: Perfection & Self-Esteem
Hunter College 695 Park Avenue, New York, NYDo you always have to get everything right - grades, friends, family, work? Are you allowed to make mistakes, to try different things and different paths? In this session, we will examine the connections between perfection and self esteem, explore the ways failure and exploration can lead to personal growth, and learn strategies for. Open to ... Read more
Tai Chi Solution for Mental Wellness Workshop
Sunset Park Library 5108 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, NYIn this 60-minute Tai Chi workshop designed for mental health, participants not only learn about the mental health benefits of Tai Chi but also leave with practical skills and experiences that can motivate them to continue practicing on their own and exploring Tai Chi further.
Sarah Chihaya with Merve Emre: Bibliophobia
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL) 455 Fifth Avenue, New York, NYBooks can seduce you. They can annihilate, reveal, and provoke you. And anyone incurably obsessed with books, Sarah Chihaya thinks, has had this kind of unsettling literary encounter. She calls books that have this effect “Life Ruiners.” Chihaya’s Life Ruiner, Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, became a talisman for her in high school, and its electrifying ... Read more
Mayoral Candidate Forum on Culture and Arts
Bric Media 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NYJoin us for a vital conversation about the future of culture and arts in New York City, bringing together mayoral candidates to share their visions, strategies, and commitments to the cultural life of our city. This engaging evening will provide attendees with a unique opportunity to hear directly from the candidates on how they plan ... Read more
Author Event with Mimi Khúc | Asian Mental Health Bookclub
Join us for a virtual event where we will be chatting with Mimi Khúc about her book, dear elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss. Mimi Khúc, PhD, is "a writer, scholar, and teacher of things unwell." She is an adjunct professor of Asian American studies and disability studies. Informed by her personal observations and academic ... Read more
Shifting the Narrative: Multicultural Visionaries in Media & Entertainment
A+E Networks 235 East 45th Street, New York, NYJoin us for an empowering panel discussion around mixed identities in the workplace in partnership with The WICT Network: New York (Empowering Women in Media, Entertainment & Technology) & ACE (Asian Community Excellence ERG at A+E Networks).
Film – Moral
Asia Society 725 Park Avenue, New York, NYAsia Society continues an ongoing monthly series titled Films to See Before You Die featuring classic films and underseen gems from across Asia and the Asian diaspora with extended introductions by Asia Society's Curator of Film. Moral Marilou Diaz-Abaya, Philippines, 1982, DCP, 140 min. In Tagalog with English subtitles. Four Filipina women navigate friendship and ... Read more
2025 SoloDuo Dance Festival
Dixon Place 161A Chrystie St, New York, NYThe Festival, established in 2016 by WHITE WAVE’s Artistic Director, Young Soon Kim, showcases 33 exceptional dancemakers from the New York Metro area and across the United States, alongside international performers from Korea, Japan, China, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, England, Switzerland, and Germany. These artists were carefully selected by a distinguished panel of presenters and ... Read more
Challenges for Korea’s Democracy
Join us for a discussion about fallout from the Yoon Suk Yeol administration’s Martial Law declaration, his subsequent impeachment and the presidential transition in Seoul, challenges to South Korea’s democracy, and implications for the U.S.-Korea relationship and Korea’s foreign relations, with Kelly Kasulis Cho, Washington Post Breaking News Reporter, Andrew Yeo, senior fellow and the ... Read more
New Confucianism with Daniel A. Bell
Among Western audiences, Daniel A. Bell is best known as a critic of liberalism. Still, he is also a critic of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), specifically of its legalist and Leninist legacies. What sets him apart from the typical Western critic is skin in the game, as he writes from within China, with nuance ... Read more
Book Talk: Class and Inequality in China and India, 1950–2010
The New School (Starr Foundation Hall) 63 Fifth Avenue (UL 102), New York, NYChina and India have long been central to the world economy. Two and a half centuries ago, they contributed 50% of the world’s output; after suffering a decline thereafter, their share fell to a paltry 9% in 1950 but has since resurged to about 25% today. This book shows that the growth and inequality experiences ... Read more
Class and Inequality in China and India, 1950–2010
The New School (Starr Foundation Hall) 63 Fifth Avenue (UL 102), New York, NYChina and India have long been central to the world economy. Two and a half centuries ago, they contributed 50% of the world’s output; after suffering a decline thereafter, their share fell to a paltry 9% in 1950 but has since resurged to about 25% today. This book shows that the growth and inequality experiences ... Read more
Water and Oil: The Movies of Ang Lee
Asia Society 725 Park Avenue, New York, NYAsia Society presents Water and Oil: The Movies of Ang Lee; a complete retrospective from February 14-23 with select appearances by the filmmaker and collaborators.
‘Unwellness and Care in the University’ by Dr. Mimi Khúc
Join Dr. Mimi Khúc as she shares her work on unwellness and the university from her new book, dear elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss. Applying her framework of a “pedagogy of unwellness,” Dr. Khúc explores the contours of student and faculty unwellness and realizes that academic hyperproductivity across university strata is a kind of unrelenting ... Read more
Beena Kamlani: The English Problem
NYPL Stephen A. Schwarzman Building - Lenox & Astor Room, 216 Fifth Avenue & 42nd Street, New York, NYKamlani’s debut novel explores the British perception of India and the Indian perception of Britain through the story of a man who straddles both cultures but is fully at home in neither.
Exploring Taiwan with Miss Chizuru: The Fictional Craft of Taiwan Travelogue
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL) 455 Fifth Avenue, New York, NYHow can a Taiwanese novel incorporate historical materials from its decades under Japanese colonial rule? How does two women’s travelogue become a work of fiction? This talk will examine Taiwan Travelogue’s use of a “Shōwa Taiwan Railway Gourmet Tour” as its storytelling framework, covering the novel’s early inspirations, conceptual development, research, fieldwork, archives-building, story conception, ... Read more
Chinese Theatre Works Presents: Hao Bang Ah! Snake!
Flushing Town Hall 137-35 Northern Blvd, Flushing, NY, United StatesHao Bang Ah! Snake! features original Chinese budaixi hand puppets performing a selection of wild skits, dances, and songs that celebrate the wit and wisdom of the zodiac animals! Special guests include Lady Whitesnake and other all-star members of the zodiac puppet ensemble.
Sunny Jain’s Wild Wild East
Queens College (Lefrak Hall) 65-30 Kissena Blvd, Flushing, NYWhether performing on the National Mall in DC for the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, or in the foothills of the Himalayas in Pakistan for 10,000 people, Sunny Jain’s Wild Wild East creates hypnotic rhythms that intertwine with Hindustani vocals, saxophone and guitar. Drawing from his family’s immigration story, Jain recasts the immigrant as the modern-day cowboy ... Read more
13th Annual Winter Film Festival – Spotlight on Films by Koreans
Look Cinemas 657 West 57th Street, New York, NYThe 13th Annual Winter Film Festival runs February 19-23 2025 in New York City and includes 87 outstanding films, a diverse mixture of animated films, documentaries, comedies, romances, dramas, horror films, music videos and web series of all lengths. The event is jam-packed with screenings and Q&A sessions at NYC's LOOK Cinemas, six Education sessions/workshops and a ... Read more
NYC Campaign Finance Board (CFB) June Primary Election Plans
Join the Campaign Finance Board's Public Affairs team to learn about the agency's plan for the June Primary Elections, particularly around Ranked Choice Voting. We look forward to your questions, feedback, and collaboration ideas!
Skin as Technology in Asian/America
“Skin” has multiple and fraught meanings in Asian America. Asian skin tones are ambiguous, variously labeled as yellow, brown, or white-ish. Colorism and the stigma of darker skin are frequently raised as evidence of Asian anti-Blackness, and a preference for skin whitening likewise interpreted as imitating whiteness. As scholars like Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, S. ... Read more
Book Talk: Eastward, Westward
Asia Society 725 Park Avenue, New York, NYSince the 1960s, Jerome A. Cohen has been one of America’s foremost voices on China. As professor at Harvard Law School, he founded the study of Chinese law in the U.S. Over his career he has advocated for human rights, encouraged legal reforms, mentored students — including future president of Taiwan Ma Ying-jeou — and ... Read more
A Revolutionary Friendship: Malcolm X and Yuri Kochiyama
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture - New York Public Library 515 Malcolm X Blvd, New York, NYJoin panelists Jamal Joseph, Akemi Kochiyama, Tamara Payne, and Jaimee Swift for a conversation about the revolutionary friendship of Malcolm X and Yuri Kochiyama. Coinciding with the 60th anniversary of Malcolm X's death, the discussion will focus on archives, truth-telling, and understanding the histories and possibilities of radical solidarities. This event is co-created by The ... Read more
NYS Attorney General & NYS Comptroller Lunar New Year Celebration
Public School 2 Manhattan 122, Henry Street, New YorkLunar New Year Celebration hosted by NYS Attorney General Letitia James and NYS Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli.
Play – SUMO
The Public Theater 425 Lafayette St, New York, NYEntrenched 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
“Campu: An American Story” – Honoring Day of Remembrance 2025
Join us for the unveiling of Campu: An American Story, an immersive portrait project exploring the resilience of Japanese Americans who were incarcerated in camps during WWII. Since 2022, photographer and National Geographic Explorer Haruka Sakaguchi has traveled to all 10 camps and photographed over 80 Japanese Americans as they made pilgrimages to their former camps ... Read more
A Transformative Look at the Lives of Filipina Care Workers and Their Mutual Aid Practices
In Caring for Caregivers: Filipina Migrant Workers and Community Building during Crisis (University of Washington Press, 2025), Valerie Francisco-Menchavez centers the perspectives of Filipino caregivers in the San Francisco Bay Area from 2013 to 2021, illuminating their transnational experiences and their strategies and practices to help each other navigate the crumbling U.S. healthcare system.