Asian American / Asian Research Institute

Akiko Yano Trio ft. Will Lee & Chris Parker
2025-10-05 18:30 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | Sony Hall, 235 West 46th Street, New York, NY, 10036
Started playing the piano in early childhood, Akiko made her solo debut in 1976 with “JAPANESE GIRL” which she recorded in LA with Lowell George and other members of Little Feat. With its creative sound that fused Japanese scales, folk songs, instruments with the pop, rock, jazz and contemporary music, it had a huge impact on the music scene at the time and Akikograbbed the music fans’ attentioninstantaneously, as it was said “Here comes a genius girl”. In 1979-1980, Akiko accompanied Yellow Magic Orchestra a.k.a. YMO (Ryuichi Sakamoto, Haruomi Hosono & Yukihiro Takahashi)on two world tours as a support member. Since then, she has been working with a wide range of musicians from jazz/rock to classical music, such as Pat Metheny, Thomas Dolby, The Chieftains, Toninho Horta, and Marc Ribot, to name a few. She recorded and toured with Anthony Jackson (b) and Cliff Almond (drs) as a trio. The duo with the electronica prodigy, late Rei Harakami and the piano duo with Hiromi showed us her free, unique, and highly skilled artistry. The most recent achievement is the piano duet album with Hiromi “Step Into Paradise – LIVE IN TOKYO-“ won the 39th Japan Gold Disc Award 2024.

Music - Resonance of Freedom
2025-10-05 17:00 - 19:00 | The Town Hall, 123 West 43rd Street, New York, NY, 10036
Presented by the Korean American Diaspora Foundation, this concert offers a powerful musical reflection on resilience, memory, and collective hope. The program includes Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture, followed by the Emperor Piano Concerto performed by the distinguished pianist HaeSun Paik. The evening culminates in the world premiere of The Grass Still Grows by Texu Kim, a cantata that gives voice to stories of community and remembrance. Under the direction of conductor Dongmin Kim, the performance invites the audience to experience the enduring pursuit of freedom through music that remembers, resists, and heals.

2025 Mid-Autumn Festival
2025-10-05 14:00 - 17:00 | China Institute, 40 Rector Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY, 10006
Join us for an unforgettable afternoon of hands-on fun, vibrant performances, and cultural discovery as we celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival — one of China’s most cherished holidays centered around family, gratitude, and togetherness.
Perfect for kids and grown-ups alike, this festive event is packed with engaging activities and exciting experiences that bring Chinese traditions to life!

Filipino American History Month – Gathering at Governors Island
2025-10-05 11:00 - 17:00 | Governor’s Island, New York, NY
In celebration of Filipino American History Month, Kinding Sindaw brings the legendary Rinayung, the magical boat of Bantogen from the epic Darangen, to symbolically sail the Hudson River and dock at Governors Island. The daylong event highlights living traditions of the Philippines through performance, craft, ritual, and storytelling, featuring master artists, tradition-bearers, and diaspora voices, grounding ourselves in the tradition of Filipino strength and heritage.

People & Places Conference
2025-10-05 - 2025-10-07 | Capital Hilton, 1001 16th St NW, Washington, DC, 20036
Community developers from five national networks are coming together in solidarity to advocate, collaborate, and innovate. Join us at the People & Places Conference to support each other as we build political power. You’ll have opportunities to make meaningful connections with peers from across the country as you learn about policy trends that impact your work, explore innovative initiatives, and hear directly from philanthropists.

Resonance: An Immersive AAPI+ Dance Event and Night Market
2025-10-04 - 2025-10-05 | We Are Here Brooklyn Studios, 563 Johnson Ave Floor 2, Brooklyn, NY, 11237, United States
Resonance is an immersive AAPI+ dance and night market experience created by choreographer David Cartahena Lee and Samaw Dance. On October 4–5, 2025, We Are Here Brooklyn will come alive with interactive booths, art, and community offerings, followed by a performance exploring identity, resilience, and queer AAPI+ stories through contemporary and street dance.

OPERA VOYAGE by Korea National Opera
2025-10-04 - 2025-10-05 | Korean Cultural Center NY, 122 E 32nd St, New York, NY, 10016
Presented by Korean Cultural Center New York & Korean National Opera
Founded in 1962 and established as an independent foundation in 2000, the Korea National Opera (KNO) is Korea’s leading opera company. As a national arts organization, KNO presents world-class productions and plays a central role in the development of opera in Korea. The company is committed to making opera accessible through programs such as the Regional Touring Opera, the KNO Vocal Concours, and the KNO Studio, which nurture new talent and provide educational opportunities for both professionals and the public.

2nd Inter-grant Festival
2025-10-02 - 2025-10-04 | Arts on Site, 12 St. Marks Place, 3R, New York, NY, 10003
Join us for the 2nd Inter-grant Festival, featuring artists from India, Guadeloupe, Trinidad and Tobago, Cyprus, Taiwan, Philippines, China, and Japan. In addition to the live performances, the festival will include screenings of three films co-produced with Mobile Dance Film Associate.

Why APIDA Curriculum Matters
2025-10-01 20:00 - 21:00
This workshop provides an overview of the Asian American Education Project’s lesson plans and the five thematic units on citizenship; civil rights; identity; immigration; and racism. It will cover the importance of including APIDA history in school curriculums through exploring the contributions of APIDAs in labor activism; the fight for school integration and citizenship rights; the use of Model Minority Myth as a racial wedge; how the Perpetual Foreigner Stereotype is part of systemic racism; and the intersectionality of APIDAs and other minority communities.

Lana Lin: The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam w/ Monique Truong
2025-10-01 19:00 - 20:30 | Books Are Magic Montague, 122 Montague Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11201
Situated between memoir, social criticism, and conceptual art, The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam is an incisive response to a modernist classic and an affecting exploration of the poetics and politics of our times.

Archaeological Research on the Rock Springs Chinatown: Daily Life Before and After the 1885 Chinese Massacre
2025-10-01 18:30 - 19:30 | Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre Street, New York, NY, 10013
The Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) invites you to an insightful conversation with Laura W. Ng, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Grinnell College and a historical archaeologist specializing in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Chinese migrants and their transpacific lives.

Action, Climate Awareness, Activism
2025-10-01 18:00 - 20:30 | 20 Cooper Square – NYU, 20 Cooper Square, New York, NY, 10003, United States
In partnership with the Tatou Festival, the A/P/A Institute at NYU hosts a special screening several poignant short films by Native filmmakers from the Pacific, followed by wala’au with the artists and their collaborators.
The program will feature artists Dakota Camacho (Etak and Mali’e’), Lanihuli Kanaka’ole (The Uluwehi Project), Leilehua Lanzilotti (the sky in our hands, our hands in the sky), Hāwane Rios (Standing Above the Clouds), and Sancia Miala Shiba Nash (Ho’oulu Hou).

Obstacles and Opportunities in Media and Entertainment
2025-10-01 17:00 - 18:30
This event will feature insights from two accomplished panelists who have expertise on this topic from their current professional responsibilities as well as their own personal careers: Albert Cheng, Vice President, Head of Prime Video, Richard Lui, NBC/MSNBC News Anchor, and Nicole Dungca, Reporter, The Washington Post and President, Asian American Journalists Association.
Peter Young, Chairman of the Asian American Career Ceilings Initiative and Committee of 100 member, will be the moderator.
After the conclusion of the fireside chat, there will be a Q&A session during which members of the audience may ask questions.

Yiming Ma | These Memories Do Not Belong To Us
2025-09-30 20:00 - 21:30
Join The Serica Initiative and the Stanford Asian Pacific American Alumni Club as author & activist Omar El Akkad interviews talented author Yiming Ma on his debut novel and his thoughts on technology evolving – and possibly, corrupting – in this modern society.

Beyond Translation: Addressing the Needs of AAPI English Language Learners in NYC Schools
2025-09-29 16:00 - 17:30
The program will feature:

A conversation with former ASAPer and ELL student, Aqida Rama, and community leaders about the unique challenges facing AAPI ELL students and families.

The official launch of our new case study which centers student perspectives that shed light on barriers AAPI ELL students may face and recommendations for how best to address them.

Strengthening Our Collective Action: Policy Insights & Innovations to Support AANHPI Communities
2025-09-29 14:00 - 15:00
Over this past year, Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities have faced increasing attacks. Massive federal budget cuts and spending freezes. Immigration enforcement targeting legal residents and students. The elimination of civil rights protections that took decades to build.
AANHPI-serving organizations are operating in survival mode. Many face closure.
Join AAPIP, NCAPA, AAPI Data, and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to discuss the current political landscape and what funders can do right now to support critical policy priorities that can ensure the safety and well-being of AANHPI communities.

AACS x QCAP Fall 2025 Kick-Off
2025-09-29 12:15 - 13:30 | Queens College (James Muyskens Conference Room), 65-30 Kissena Blvd, Flushing, NY, 11367
Join QCAP (the Queens College AANAPISI Project) and AACS (QC’s Asian American Community Studies program) on Monday, September 29, 2025, from 12:15-1:30pm, in the Muyskens Conference Room in the Summit (see campus map) for our Fall Kick-off event!
We’ll be decorating paper lanterns together. Participating at the kick-off also grants you entry to a free raffle for a chance to win some cute stationery!
Snacks will be provided!
QCAP is mask-friendly—masks are encouraged, because we want to keep our communities as safe and healthy as possible, but they are not required.

Film - Conflagration
2025-09-27 19:00 - 21:00 | Japan Society, 333 East 47th Street, New York, NY, 10017, United States
Imported 35mm Print. Known as Ichikawa’s favorite of his own films, Conflagration is the pinnacle of the many acclaimed literary adaptations he and his wife Natto Wada worked on together. Based on Yukio Mishima’s novel The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, the film involves the spiritual and psychological breakdown of an introverted, troubled youth named Goichi (Raizo Ichikawa), whose desire for pure beauty leads him to Kyoto’s Shukaku temple, where he becomes an apprentice to the priest. Haunted by the trauma of his father’s death, Goichi is unable to reconcile the sacred beauty of the temple with postwar reality, and his absolutist ideals become increasingly distorted until they lead to destruction. Ichikawa’s stark, poignant film is unforgettably rendered in stunning black and white by cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa.
Dir. Kon Ichikawa, 1958, 99 min., 35mm, b/w, in Japanese with English subtitles. With Raizo Ichikawa, Tatsuya Nakadai, Ganjiro Nakamura.

Full-day Symposium: Interpreting Metamorphosis
2025-09-27 09:30 - 17:30 | China Institute, 40 Rector Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY, 10006
Metamorphosis: Chinese Imagination and Transformation at China Institute Gallery presents a one-day symposium where featured artists, curators, and scholars explore and address key themes and questions raised by the exhibition. Through seven talks and panels, we will explore the breadth and depth of cultural, historical, and artistic themes related to Chinese imagination and transformation.

Asian Autumn Celebration, Featuring the AAPI Jazz Collective
2025-09-26 19:30 - 21:00 | Barrymore Film Center, 153 Main Street, Fort Lee, NJ, 07024
Come celebrate the beautiful autumn season with an evening of live jazz provided by AAPI Jazz Collective! Experience an enchanting program of jazz arrangements of classic Asian songs, blending traditional melodies with musical influences all around the world.
The AAPI Jazz Collective is a diverse group of established AAPI (Asian American and Pacific Islander) identifying jazz musicians and artists. The ensemble specializes in performing classic repertoire from a wide array of Asian cultures; reimagining familiar folk and classic songs within a jazz context.

Between Movement and Memory: Keerati Jinakunwiphat’s Choreographic World
2025-09-26 19:00 - 20:00 | Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre Street, New York, NY, 10013
Join us for an intimate evening spotlighting award-winning Thai American choreographer Keerati Jinakunwiphat, whose bold, emotionally resonant works explore themes of identity, memory, and cultural inheritance. As one of the few Asian American choreographers making waves in the contemporary dance world, Keerati brings a vital and underrepresented perspective to the field. This program is co-presented by Thai Theatre Foundation.

Book Launch: Reimagining Sustainability by Isagani Serrano
2025-09-26 16:00 - 17:00 | The City College of New York – Shepard Hall, 259 Convent Avenue, New York, NY, 10031
Reimagining Sustainability is a collection of writings on environment, climate justice, and sustainable development of the late Isagani Serrano, who was a thought leader on these themes as they relate to global social movements. This hybrid event will feature selected readings from the book and reflection on Isagani’s contributions to social movements.
Light refreshments will be served.
The option to attend on Zoom will be sent to Eventbrite registrants.

A4 September 2025 Town Hall
2025-09-25 18:30 - 20:30 | Asia Art Archive in America, 23 Cranberry Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11201
For our September Town Hall, A4 gathers artists whose work preserves cultural traditions and ancestral knowledge. Featured presenters include Mudang Jenn, a diaspora shaman, ritual performance artist, and teacher, who will discuss her experience bringing an ancient Korean folk religion to present-day audiences. We’ll also hear from Sabri Sundos, a Palestinian American painter and textile artist, who will present about his tatreez practice and his approach to community engagement.

Elaine Hsieh Chou’s "Where Are You Really From"
2025-09-25 18:00 - 19:30
Join AAWW for a celebration of Elaine Hsieh Chou’s Where Are You Really From, featuring Delia Cai!
A mail order bride from Taiwan is packed up in a cardboard box and sent via express shipping to California, where her much older husband awaits her. Two teenage girls meticulously plan how to kill and cook their downstairs neighbor. An American au pair moves to Paris to find herself, only to find her actual French doppelgänger. A father reunites with his estranged daughter in unusual circumstances: as a background actor on the set of her film. A writer’s affair with a married artist tests the line between fact and fiction, self-victimization and the victimization of others.
In these six singular stories and a novella that pivot from the terrible to the beautiful to the surreal, Elaine Hsieh Chou confronts the slipperiness of truth in storytelling.

Ria Sim, Author of “Dear New York, I Love You”
2025-09-25 18:00 - 19:00
Ria Sim, the creator of the popular Instagram account @coffeecakescafe, might be New York City’s biggest fan. She herself describes New York City as her soulmate; she sees the best in the city and is moved by the simplicity of the buildings against the sky, a single flower on a not-so-clean sidewalk, and the ever-rotating, meticulously curated decorations adorned on a brownstone in the West Village.
“Dear New York, I Love You: An Artist’s Celebration of the City” is packed with 120 colorful sketches that remind even the most jaded New Yorkers to notice the city’s simple beauties. It’s a colorful celebration, a love letter, and a beautiful art book all in one.

"Know Your Rights" Workshop Series Session 2: Removal Proceedings Overview
2025-09-25 17:00 - 18:00
Session 2 of CACF x FALDEF “Know Your Rights” Workshop Series will be an overview of Removal Proceedings. Participants will be provided information about the rights individuals have during these proceedings and details about the process. We encourage people to bring their questions! This session will be facilitated by Pamela Carranza, a New York-based immigration attorney who represents a wide range of individuals in immigration cases, from those in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention to those seeking relief from deportation in the U.S. immigration court system.

Speak Up and Lead: Student Voices on the Power of AANAPISIs
2025-09-25 15:00 - 16:00
Join us for “Speak Up and Lead: Student Voices on the Power of AANAPISIs”, a dynamic student-focused webinar celebrating AANAPISI Week 2025. This event brings together student leaders from AANAPISI-designated colleges and universities to share their powerful, first-hand stories about how AANAPISI-funded programs have transformed their educational journeys.

Mobile News Photography: The Fundamentals
2025-09-25 14:00 - 15:30
In today’s fast-evolving media landscape, the smartphone has become an indispensable tool for journalists – whether capturing a single image for a news article or crafting a photo essay that unfolds over multiple photographs.
This 90-minute training will equip participants with practical techniques to create strong, engaging photographs using the phone they already carry.

Creative Climate Forum 2025
2025-09-25 09:00 - 19:00 | Pier 57, 25 Eleventh Avenue, New York, NY, 10011
Hosted by the Human Impacts Institute’s Creative Climate Communications Lab, this dynamic Forum brings together urgent responses to today’s climate crises with bold, long-term strategies for systemic change.
Join us for a full day of performances, panels, hands-on workshops, and immersive art installations—all designed to ignite the power of collective imagination and inspire real-world action.
Whether you stay for the whole day or curate your own experience, you’ll leave energized, informed, and ready to help shape a more just and sustainable future.

CREATIVE CLIMATE FORUM 2025: Fast Responses, Slow Revolutions Art, Community, and Tools of Creative Resistance​​
2025-09-25 09:00 - 19:00 | Pier 57, 25 Eleventh Avenue, New York, NY, 10011
Hosted by the Human Impacts Institute’s Creative Climate Communications Lab, this dynamic Forum brings together urgent responses to today’s climate crises with bold, long-term strategies for systemic change.
