Artists for Liberation: A Panel Discussion on Asian American Cultural Organizing for Change
2025-10-08 18:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Accent Sisters, 89 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10002
Join Asian American Arts Alliance (A4) and a panel of multi-disciplinary Asian American writers and artists for a vital discussion about organizing towards our collective liberation through the arts.

Our History Brings Us Here: A Reading and Conversation
2025-10-08 20:00 - 21:00 | NY
Join AAWW for readings and a conversation between Luisa Igloria, Michelle Peñaloza, and Rhoni Blankenhorn, moderated by R. A. Villanueva! We’ll be toasting their books – Luisa’s Caulbearer, Michelle’s All The Words I Can Remember Are Poems, and Rhoni’s Rooms for the Dead and the Not Yet – each released within the past year!

From Japanese Empire to American Hegemony: A Book Talk by Matthew Augustine
2025-10-09 12:00 - 13:30 | Columbia University – International Affairs Building (SIPA), 420 West 11th Street, New York, NY, 10027
Historian Matthew R. Augustine will discuss his recently published book, From Japanese Empire to American Hegemony: Koreans and Okinawans in the Resettlement of Northeast Asia (title in the WEAI “Studies” series), a comprehensive study of the dynamic and often contentious relationship between migration and border controls in U.S.-occupied Japan, Korea, and the Ryukyu Islands in the wake of WWII. Augustine’s book examines the American interlude as a closely integrated, transregional history.

Learn to Use AI for Data Reporting: How to find and access relevant data
2025-10-09 14:00 - 15:30 | NY
Quickly evolving artificial intelligence technology is emerging as a potentially powerful journalism tool, including for harnessing data in stories. But AI needs to be wielded carefully and correctly to get accurate, trustable results in storytelling.
Join Sandeep Junnarkar, Data Journalism Director at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, for a three-part training series on using AI to find and analyze data to help you produce strong, high-quality stories for your audience. Junnarkar will be joined by Jere Hester, director of the J-School’s Local Accountability Reporting program, at these trainings.
10/9, Learn how to locate relevant data sets. We’ll explore – employing real-life examples – how to mine NYC Open Data and other largely untapped sources of information.

NYC Mayoral Race Policy Panel
2025-10-09 14:30 - 16:00 | Hunter College – LGBTQ+ Community Space, 695 Park Ave, Thomas Hunter Rm 311, New York, NY, 10065
Join us on Thursday October 9th at 2:30PM in the Maralyn G. Cohn LGBTQ+ Community Space (Thomas Hunter 311) and learn about the policy platform and voting implications for each of the NYC Mayoral race candidates.
The panel will feature distinguished faculty and researchers who will share their unique perspectives on how the mayoral race policies affect various communities:

Carlos Vargas-Ramos, Ph.D.: Director for Public Policy, External and Media Relations, and Development @ CENTRO (Center for Puerto Rican Studies)
Erin Mayo-Adam, Ph.D.: Director and Professor at the LGBTQ Policy Center
Christopher M. Kwok, Esq.: Professor of Asian American Studies

This event is presented by Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College and Hunter College Affinity Spaces

U.S. – China Relations in a New Era: Youth Perspective & Expert Insights
2025-10-09 18:00 - 19:30 | China Institute, 40 Rector Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY, 10006
At a moment of profound changes in the U.S. – China relationship, how do young Americans view the landscape change, and how does their perspective align with the insights of one of America’s most respected authorities on China?
This program brings together the rising voices of American youth and the seasoned insight of David J. Firestein. As inaugural President and CEO of the George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.–China Relations, Firestein will deliver a keynote, “America’s Changing Strategic Assumptions about China: Implications for the Bilateral Relationship,” exploring the opportunities and challenges shaping this pivotal relationship.

The Alien Enemies Act of 1798: Understanding 1941 and 2025
2025-10-09 18:00 - 19:30 | NY
Immediately after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt invoked the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) of 1798, leading to the arrest of thousands of West Coast Issei men and their wartime detention in Army and INS facilities in an internment process that was distinct from the incarceration of nearly 127,000 persons of Japanese ancestry under Executive Order 9066. In the spring of 2025, President Donald J. Trump invoked this act against alleged Tren de Aragua members on the basis that this Venezuelan gang has “invaded” the United States, spawning a blizzard of litigation over this Trump administration’s assertion of authority in immigration policy and practices.
This panel will address how this act was applied to and impacted the Japanese American wartime community, ramifications of the current administration’s approaches, the status of the court cases challenging the administration’s use of AEA, and the amicus brief that was filed on behalf of descendants of Issei men who were imprisoned when the AEA was invoked in World War II. The speakers also will discuss how to accurately and effectively speak about the lessons from history when communities, especially those of color, live under the specter and reality of arrest, detention, and deportation.
Moderator: Susan H. Kamei, adjunct professor (teaching) of history, and affiliate faculty, USC Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture

On Healing Land, Birds Perch: Healing From the Trauma of the Vietnam War
2025-10-09 18:30 - 20:00 | Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10021
Join us for an intimate screening of On Healing Land, Birds Perch, a powerful short documentary by Vietnamese-born filmmaker Naja Pham Lockwood. Through the lens of Eddie Adams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Saigon Execution, the film explores the lingering trauma of the Vietnam War and the complex journey toward reconciliation — 50 years after the fall of Saigon. Lockwood, herself a refugee who fled Vietnam in 1975, brings together voices from both sides of the conflict: the children of the executed, the daughter of the executioner, and those whose families were caught in the crossfire. Their stories, raw and deeply personal, reveal the emotional scars that transcend generations and borders.
This screening is more than a cinematic experience. Following the film, Naja Lockwood will join us for a live Q&A to discuss the making of the documentary and the importance of confronting inherited trauma through storytelling.

On The Road: Sikh American Truck Drivers
2025-10-09 19:00 - 20:00 | NY
Join The Asian American Education Project for a live, virtual workshop in partnership with the Sikh Coalition to learn about the history and experiences of Sikh American truck drivers.
Sikh Americans account for an estimated 20% of the country’s truck drivers. In this workshop, participants will explore the role of Sikh truck drivers in the United States. They will learn about the significant contributions to the industry, challenges faced, and key beliefs of Sikhism that can impact experiences of Sikh American truckers. Participants will gain access to lesson plans and resources for teaching this content in the classroom.
This workshop is free for educators and will take place virtually. It will feature Savleen Singh, Senior Education Manager of the Sikh Coalition as a guest speaker. The workshop will be facilitated by Ashley Chu, AAEdu Curriculum Development Manager.

Rising Above Stigma: A Virtual Book Talk with Author Michelle Yang
2025-10-09 19:30 - 20:30 | NY
Join us Thursday, October 9th at 7:30 PM ET for a virtual conversation with author Michelle Yang to discuss her memoir “Phoenix Girl: How a Fat Asian with Bipolar Found Love,” and themes of emigration, mental health, self-love, and healing.

Promoting Mental Health in Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Communities
2025-10-10 10:00 - 13:00 | Morningside Heights Library, 2900 Broadway, New York, NY, 10025
Nationally, hate crimes against members of the Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) community increased by 73% during the COVID-19 pandemic and nearly doubled in New York City (NYC) in 2021 when compared to 2020. Additionally, AANHPI communities in NYC have a relatively high rate of poverty when compared to other communities. Systemic racism and anti-Asian hate, coupled with constrained economic circumstances, increase the risk for post-traumatic stress, depression, anxiety, anger, lower self-esteem, concerns over safety and poor behavioral health outcomes among AANHPI individuals and communities. PMH-AANHPI will focus on promoting mental health and prioritizing resilience for all.

How to talk about Parkinson's in your Community
2025-10-10 12:30 - 16:30 | LaGuardia Community College, 31-10 Thomson Avenue, Long Island City, NY
The Parkinson’s Foundation, in collaboration with the CUNY School of Medicine, and Commonpoint invites you to join an interactive training: Parkinson’s Disease 101: How to Talk About Parkinson’s in Your Community.
This training is designed to:

Provide basic knowledge about Parkinson’s disease (PD)
Identify resources available for the community
Establish key talking points to speak about PD with confidence

The Last Girl Awards
2025-10-10 18:30 - 21:00 | Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10021
A rare and inspiring opportunity to be in the room with global changemakers redefining what freedom means. Hear from Nobel Peace Laureate Nadia Murad, Princess Mabel of Orange-Nassau, filmmaker and Olympian Mary Mazzio, human rights advocate Taina Bien-Aimé, and feminist icon Sayeda Hameed. Hosted by actor Reshma Shetty, the evening features bold reflections, lively wine reception, and a book signing with The Freedom Seeker author Ruchira Gupta. Presented in partnership with Apne Aap.

Country Gongbang
2025-10-10 20:00 - 20:30 | Queens College – LeFrak Concert Hall, 153-49 Reeves Ave, Flushing, NY, 11367
Fusing the soul of bluegrass with the spirit of K-pop, Country Gongbang brings a fresh, global twist to the stage. Founded in 2014 as South Korea’s first bluegrass band—and the first Korean group to perform at the legendary Grand Ole Opry in Nashville—Country Gongbang is redefining tradition with bold, bilingual vocals and a vibrant, genre-blending sound.

South Asian Journalists Association 2025 Fall Conference
2025-10-11 09:00 - 17:00 | Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, 219 West 40th Street, New York, NY, 10018
The South Asian Journalists Association is pleased to host our annual conference and gala on October 10-11 in New York City.
Our theme, frontlines and through lines, underscores how at a time when the Fourth Estate is under its greatest test, we gather not only as reporters on the frontlines — but as storytellers connecting the threads across generations, communities, and crises. We celebrate the journalists who hold the line and trace the through lines — with clarity, courage, and conviction.
Connect with journalists, network with peers, learn, inform, and educate during a full weekend of events and activity.
On Saturday, October 11th, we’ll have a full day of panels, workshops, and collaborative activity at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY in Midtown Manhattan.

Blood and Water - Filipino Brooklyn Walking Tour
2025-10-11 11:00 - 13:00 | Fulton Ferry Landing, 1 Water Street, New York, NY, 11201
Between the 1910s and the 1960s, Filipino sailors and merchant marines built vibrant communities in Brooklyn. They joined forces with Filipino students, artists, and activists to fight against American imperialism and racial discrimination.
BLOOD AND WATER combines historical research and imagination to retell this forgotten story of Asian American New York.
Tours will be led by Dr. Michael Menor Salgarolo, an award-winning historian, licensed tour guide, and retired stand-up comedian. He received his PhD in History from NYU in 2022.

2025 FANHS-MNY Community Awards
2025-10-11 12:00 - 15:00 | Queens Museum, New York City Building, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, NY, 11368
FANHS-MNY’s annual Community Awards celebrates the accomplishments of Filipino American community and its leaders in the Metro NY area!

New Burma Strategic Dialogue: Diaspora and International Engagement in Myanmar’s Future
2025-10-11 13:00 - 17:00 | NYU Wagner – Main Event Space, Room 101, 105 East 17th Street, New York, NY, 10003
Myanmar stands at a critical crossroads. Nearly four years after the coup, the country faces humanitarian catastrophe, economic collapse, and ongoing violence. During this Forum on Burmese Democracy, leading voices will share their perspectives on the crisis. The panel will examine Myanmar’s current trajectory, the challenges to democratic recovery, and the role of international engagement and diaspora communities. Kim Aris will join the presenters via video to provide an update on humanitarian relief efforts.

SAADA Bucket-A-Thon
2025-10-11 13:30 - 16:00 | Midtown Loft & Terrace, 267 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10016
Join us in NYC on Saturday, October 11, 2025, for the world premiere of Memory Bucket—SAADA’s new cooperative storytelling game to play with the people you’re curious about.
We’ve poured our hearts into this game for over a year, working hand in hand with our community, and we’re so excited to finally share it with you!
Memory Bucket helps you uncover the stories you’ve always wished you knew. Based on the methodology of SAADA’s First Days Project, our new game allows you and your loved ones to travel back in time together to hear about the experiences that made them who they are today.
Invite your friends and family to hear their stories, and make new friends at the event.
Ticketed attendees will play a prototype of Memory Bucket at our Bucket-A-Thon and receive a Memory Bucket game for free (retail price $50) when we launch to the public later this year!

MOCA TALKS with Karen Hao – Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI
2025-10-11 15:00 - 16:00 | Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre Street, New York, NY, 10013
The Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) cordially invites you to a timely conversation with award-winning journalist and author Karen Hao on the promises and perils of today’s AI revolution. Drawing on years of reporting and her bestselling book Empire of AI, Hao traces OpenAI’s rapid rise from its origins as a safety-minded nonprofit to a market-driving powerhouse backed by Microsoft and examines how the global race to build ever-larger AI systems is reshaping economies, labor, and the environment.

Play - Did You Eat? (밥 먹었니?)
2025-10-14 - 2025-11-16 | The Public Theater, 425 Lafayette St, New York, NY, 10003
DID YOU EAT? (밥 먹었니?) is Zoë Kim’s autobiographical journey through love’s many forms–how it’s learned, given, and reflected inward. In a nimble and tender solo performance, Zoë shapeshifts into the souls of her family through a landscape of memories where tears and laughter collide. It’s not just a story, but a reckoning—weaving through the textured threads of Korean/American identity, belonging, and healing. DID YOU EAT? (밥 먹었니?) is a poetic love letter to the inner child, and hopefully yours too. Directed by Chris Yejin.

Wells Fargo & AABDC: Economic Insights and Entrepreneurial Stories
2025-10-14 16:30 - 20:00 | Wells Fargo, 30 Hudson Yards, Connections - 63rd Floor, New York, NY, 10001
Join us on Tuesday, October 14, 2025 for an evening of meaningful conversation and connections. The event will feature a fireside chat with local business leaders, offering insights into current challenges and opportunities across industries. As part of the agenda, we’ll also explore the latest economic forecast. The evening concludes with a networking reception, giving attendees the change to build relationships and exchange ideas.

The Immigration and Nationality Act 60 Years Later: The Making of Modern New York City
2025-10-14 18:00 - 20:00 | Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College, 47-49 East 65th Street, New York, NY, 10065
Please join us as Roosevelt House and the Tenement Museum host a discussion to mark the 60th anniversary of the Immigration and Nationality Act, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on October 3, 1965. Lifting the restrictive 41-year-old national origins quotas, the law—also known as The Hart-Celler Act—ushered in a new era of immigration, and laid the groundwork for the formation of modern New York City.

Archiving for Films, for Community
2025-10-15 18:00 - 20:00 | The City College of New York – Shepard Hall, 259 Convent Avenue, New York, NY, 10031
Hear from an archive producer and an archivist – from two sides of this field, and its importance for filmmakers and communities.

Meet Advocacy Fellows from Liberty in North Korea
2025-10-16 12:00 - 13:00 | The Korea Society, 350 Madison Avenue, 24th Floor, New York, NY, 10017
Join us for a discussion with Liberty in North Korea (LiNK) Advocacy Fellows to hear firsthand about the realities of life in North Korea, the decision and process of leaving, the adjustment to a new life in South Korea, and the discovery of new meaning and motivation. This discussion features two advocacy fellows: Rose Jang, a graduate from Hongik University Department of Architecture, and Hannah Oh, a fourth year student at Hongik University studying Electrical and Electronic Engineering, as well as Hannah Song, CEO of LiNK, in conversation with policy director Jonathan Corrado.

Learn to Use AI for Data Reporting: Prompt writing and AI-powered data analysis
2025-10-16 14:00 - 15:30 | NY
Quickly evolving artificial intelligence technology is emerging as a potentially powerful journalism tool, including for harnessing data in stories. But AI needs to be wielded carefully and correctly to get accurate, trustable results in storytelling.
Join Sandeep Junnarkar, Data Journalism Director at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, for a three-part training series on using AI to find and analyze data to help you produce strong, high-quality stories for your audience. Junnarkar will be joined by Jere Hester, director of the J-School’s Local Accountability Reporting program, at these trainings.
10/16, Learn to create effective AI prompts that, as Junnarkar puts, allow you to “interrogate” the data, asking questions that yield information and insight key to your story.

October 2025 AANHPI Community DNA Forum
2025-10-16 16:00 - 17:00 | NY
NCAPA with AAPI Data will be hosting our monthly DNA Forum where we will discuss federal policy updates related to the government shutdown. AAPI Data will provide brief updates about their newest survey and info about data fortification.

States against Nations: Meritocracy, Patronage, and the Challenges of Bureaucratic Selection
2025-10-16 17:00 - 18:30 | NYU Wagner – Lafayette Conference Room, Floor 2, 105 East 17th Street, New York, NY, 10003
Join NYSEAN for a talk by Nicholas Kuipers about his new book, States Against Nations (Cambridge University Press, 2025). In his book, Kuipers questions the virtues of meritocratic recruitment as the ideal method of bureaucratic selection. He argues that while civil service reform is often seen as an admirable act of state-building, it can actually undermine nation-building. Throughout the book, he shows that in countries with high levels of group-based inequality, privileged groups tend to outperform marginalized groups on entrance exams, leading to disproportionate representation in government positions. This dynamic exacerbates intergroup tensions and undermines efforts towards nation-building. Drawing on large-scale surveys, experiments, and archival documents, States Against Nations provides a thought-provoking perspective on the challenges of bureaucratic recruitment and unearths an overlooked tension between state- and nation-building.

Unruly Comparison: Queerness, Hong Kong, and the Sinophone
2025-10-16 18:00 - 19:30 | 20 Cooper Square, 3rd floor, 20 Cooper Square, 3rd floor, New York, NY, 10003
Alvin K. Wong (University of Hong Kong) joins the NYU Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality for a discussion about his new book Unruly Comparison Queerness, Hong Kong, and the Sinophone (Duke University Press, 2025).
The book examines queerness in Hong Kong through a transdisciplinary analysis of Sinophone literature, cinema, visual culture, and civil society. Moving beyond Eurocentrism in queer theory and China-centrism in area studies, Wong frames Hong Kong as a model for global comparison by theorizing a method of unruly comparison—acknowledging the incommensurability of cultural texts and queer figures across different temporal and spatial locations. Here, unruly comparison positions Hong Kong as an undefinable time-space that troubles historicist, colonial, and China-centric renderings of the city as merely a site of British colonial legacy, Chinese rule, or global capital. Wong analyzes queer interracial desire in World War II; a cinema of gay male cosmopolitanism; queer intimacy among migrant workers; trans visuality and legality; cross-border sex work; and the queer diaspora of Hong Kong after the 2019 protests. Through Wong’s readings, Hong Kong becomes a queer region of racial, gender, and sexual incommensurability. By foregrounding the friction, asymmetry, and perverse juxtapositions of unruly comparison of Hong Kong with the Sinophone world, Wong reframes key debates in queer theory and East Asian studies.
A limited number of free copies will be available at the event.

Diwali Celebration Hosted by the Queens Borough President
2025-10-16 18:00 - 20:00 | Hindu Center, 45-52 Kissena Blvd, Flushing, NY, 11355
Join Queens Borough President Donovan Richards Jr. and the Diwali Celebration Committee for a festive Diwali Celebration.

The celebration will feature:

Cultural Performances
Honoring Community Leaders
Refreshments

Free, open to the public, RSVP suggested.
