China Institute in America Presents: Lunar New Year Family Festival 2024

China Institute 40 Rector Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY

For this year's festival, we are flying master artists directly from the picturesque historical province of Zhejiang, China to New York City to provide an authentic, captivating, a true immersive cultural experience for your entire family that's filled with festive activities and performances - hallmark to China Institute's Lunar New Year Festival!

$15

Rituals & Altars: a Community Workshop for the New Year w/ Alison Kuo

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

Learn about traditions and rituals of the Lunar New Year as the Think!Chinatown team shares practices observed in Chinatown and in their own homes. Deepen your understanding about offerings and symbology you might see around this time of year. We’ll then discuss how these traditions might be relevant to our lives now and how they ... Read more

$35

Concrete Utopia: A Director’s Talk

The story begins in the immediate aftermath of a catastrophic disaster. What if our apartment complex is the only building left standing after a devastating earthquake? Produced by Climax Studio, the production house known for their creative storytelling and exceptional directing in Netflix's Hellbound and D.P., Concrete Utopia is "a dystopian disaster movie with a ... Read more

The Health & Wellness Needs of New York’s LGBTQ AAPI Briefing

Join CACF and Apicha Community Health Center for a virtual briefing on the findings of Apicha's newly released needs assessment of the health and wellbeing of New York City’s LGBTQ+ Asian American and Pacific Islander community. In this needs assessment, 344 LGBTQ+ AAPI community members responded to a confidential and anonymous survey, available in nine ... Read more

In Her Own Words: Isabel Sandoval

NYU Silver Center, Jurow Hall & Silverstein Lounge

For her final event as the A/P/A Institute’s 2023-24 Artist-in-Residence, Isabel Sandoval presents a lecture about cultivating her sensibility and maintaining her integrity as a self-taught filmmaker. In an industry dominated by cisgender white men, Sandoval will discuss how her multiple identities as a migrant woman of color inform her understanding of the language of ... Read more

Play – Warrior Sisters of Wu

ART / NY (Mezzanine Theatre) 502 West 53rd Street, New York, NY

Romance of the Three Kingdoms meets Pride and Prejudice in this scintillating ensemble tale of two Han Dynasty swordswomen battling tradition to gain love, respect, and self-determination. Preview tickets for $35 (Feb 7 to 10 only), use code WSW35

$30

Global Risk Forum: What Lies Ahead for the World in 2024?

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

Featuring General David H. Petraeus (US Army, Ret.) and Nobel Prize Recipient Joseph E. Stiglitz In 2023, the world has experienced slowing economic conditions, heightened geopolitical instability and mounting tensions among major global powers. Geopolitical uncertainties persist, with ongoing conflicts such as the Russia-Ukraine War, escalating competition between the U.S. and China, and the emergence ... Read more

$95

Racial Healing in AA and NHPI Community Organizations

National CAPACD is excited to announce an upcoming webinar on February 7, centered around solidarity, allyship, and healing between Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AA and NHPI) and BIPOC communities. This webinar will feature speakers from the local community-based organizations that have been supported by National CAPACD’s AA and NHPI Community Resilience Fund ... Read more

Untold APIDA Stories: Hip Hop in the Desi American Community

In post-9/11 U.S., Desi American communities looked to hip hop as a way to express how they are racialized as a community. Desi Americans also used hip hop to form alliances with Black communities. They focused on expressing racial consciousness to develop multiracial coalitions while acknowledging differences. Join us to learn more about Desi American ... Read more

2024 SOLODUO DANCE FESTIVAL

Dixon Place 161A Chrystie St, New York, NY

WHITE WAVE DANCE presents our 8th Annual SoloDuo Dance Festival at Dixon Place featuring 33 participating choreographers/companies from Japan, Korea, Germany, and across the USA. The program celebrates the unique art of the solo and duet—formats often favored by early-stage choreographers as their companies begin to find their paths within the dance world. The Festival ... Read more

$25

FIGHTING TO BELONG BOOK LAUNCH

Hana House 345 Adams St, Brooklyn, NY

The Asian American Foundation and Third State Books invite you to celebrate AANHPI history with the highly anticipated publication of our graphic novel Fighting to Belong: History of Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders, Vol I.