• Filipino American History Month Little Manila Parade & Block Party

    70th Street, Roosvelt Ave & 41st Ave Woodside, NY
    AAARI Events

    This Filipino American History Month, the Office of Assemblymember Steven Raga, together with the Office of Queens Borough President Donovan Richards, Woodside on the Move, Bright Spot Community Development Center, NaFFAA New York State Chapter, and FANHS Metro New York Chapter, will host the first-ever Filipino American History Month Little Manila Parade & Block Party ... Read more

  • Performance – “Choreographies of Care” by Kim Ye

    Model Airplane Field (Flushing Meadows Corona Park) Forest Hills, NY
    Non AAARI Events

    The 30-minute movement-based performance combines choreography from the Asian tradition of park dancing with US military parade sequences, Qigong, and gestures taken from pregnancy, childrearing, and sex work. Performed by an intergenerational ensemble to a score that layers Chinese nursery rhymes, traditional East Asian instrumentals, in utero recordings, and “Taps,” the piece proposes caregiving as ... Read more

  • Archeology and the Making of Ifugao History

    Events Space - 1st Floor 19 Washington Square North, New York, NY, United States
    Non AAARI Events

    Who has the authority to tell Ifugao history, and what changes when communities take part in that work? This conversation draws from archaeology in Ifugao to examine how knowledge about the past is produced and shared. Research has challenged long-held claims about the age of the rice terraces and has shown how community knowledge can ... Read more

  • Workshop – Fund, Make, and Release Your Film

    Asian American Arts Alliance (A4) 29 West 38th Street, Floor 9, New York, NY
    Non AAARI Events

    In this intimate two-hour workshop led by Thomas Percy Kim (who raised $1.6M in crowd-equity for his film Isle Child and is a co-founder of the independent film studio The Vandalist), your project will be pressure-tested with live feedback to get your project ready for the world of independent financing. Co-facilitated by Maaya Shah, you’ll ... Read more

  • An Evening with David Henry Hwang in conversation with Jeff Yang

    Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College 47-49 East 65th Street, New York, NY
    Non AAARI Events

    Please join the Asian American Studies Program for an evening with Tony- and Obie-award winning playwright David Henry Hwang in conversation with journalist Jeff Yang. DAVID HENRY HWANG is a playwright, librettist, screenwriter, and Professor Emeritus at Columbia University. His stage works include the plays FOB (1980, Obie Award), M. Butterfly (1988, Tony Award), Golden Child (1996, Obie Award, Tony ... Read more

  • AI Fundamentals & Master Prompting

    Non AAARI Events

    Join Furg Herrera (MBA ’17) for a practical webinar on the lasting skills behind meaningful AI results: clear communication, useful context, and critical thinking. Learn a repeatable approach you can apply across AI tools, even as the technology evolves, and build a foundation for moving from answers to reusable assets, workflows, and automation. You'll learn ... Read more

  • Asian American Studies Matters

    AAARI Events

    In its 250-year existence, the United States has welcomed, nurtured, while also barred and deported Americans who hail from all parts of the world. The Asian American experience is at once unique and familiar. From the first migrants to these shores in the late 1500s, to the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882, to the incarceration ... Read more

  • Vietnamese Boat People 2026 Story Slam

    Think!Chinatown Studio 1 Pike Street, New York, NY
    AAARI Events

    Do you have a story only you can tell? Vietnamese Boat People is back at the Think!Chinatown Studio for their 7th Annual Story Slam—an evening of live storytelling, community, and connection. Starting as the Mỹ Việt Story Slam, an online performance focusing on stories from the Vietnamese diaspora, this collaboration with Think!Chinatown features in-person live ... Read more

  • Yiyun Li with Jennifer Egan: Music Against the Night

    New York Public Library - Stephen A. Schwarzman Building 42nd Street & 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United States
    Non AAARI Events

    Yiyun Li’s latest book is Music Against the Night. In Dublin, as the 18th century nears its end, a young virtuoso named John Field comes of age as his family nurtures visions of him becoming the next Mozart. His talent takes him to England, France, and Russia, where he becomes a famous pianist and composes ... Read more

  • Environmental Crisis in Southeast Asia: Politics, Misrule, and Resistance

    NYU Wagner - Main Event Space, Room 101 105 East 17th Street, New York, NY
    Non AAARI Events

    This conference brings together scholars and practitioners to examine the politics of the environmental crisis across Southeast Asia—a region where socio-ecological ruptures are not aberrations but products of longstanding structures of extraction and governance failure. Panelists trace the roots of these crises and assess how extractive industries, increasingly legitimized through the language of green transitions ... Read more

  • Environmental Crisis in Southeast Asia: Politics, Misrule, and Resistance

    NYU Wagner School of Public Service 105 East 17th Street, New York, NY
    Non AAARI Events

    This conference brings together scholars and practitioners to examine the politics of the environmental crisis across Southeast Asia—a region where socio-ecological ruptures are not aberrations but products of longstanding structures of extraction and governance failure. Panelists trace the roots of these crises and assess how extractive industries, increasingly legitimized through the language of green transitions ... Read more