Asian American / Asian Research Institute

MOCA PERFORMS – Over Hills and Valleys
2025-12-13 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre Street, New York, NY, 10013
MOCA is pleased to welcome back resident artist Benjamin “saxofshaolin” Chin for a special concert of Over Hills and Valleys: An Imagination of the Shared History of Hakka Chinese and Jamaican Music.
Over Hills and Valleys is a musical imagination of the shared history of Hakka Chinese and Jamaican music and its people. Accompanied by Grammy-nominated Reggae producer, Andre “Dretegs” Hawthorne, the duo will perform a set of original music and covers that will trace the migration patterns of the Hakka Chinese from Southeast Asia to the Caribbean to New York City. In addition, the pair will discuss and share behind-the-scenes footage of the writing and recording process of the project. Join us for this unique afternoon concert that brings together the resonant traditions of Hakka Chinese and Jamaican music in a one-of-a-kind cultural encounter.

AAPI Short Film Showcase
2025-12-13 13:00 - 15:00 | Blniky’s Bar, 609 Grand Street, Brooklyn, NY
You’re invited to a special showcase celebrating incredible Asian American short films from talented emerging filmmakers! This isn’t just a screening; it’s a chance to connect with the creative community and help bring a new story to life.
Every ticket and donation directly supports the production of our upcoming short film, “We Meet Again.”

AAPI-CARE Parent Convening
2025-12-13 10:00 - 17:00 | NY
AAPI-CARE (Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders – Connect. Activate. Reimagine. Engage.) is a 1-day convening that brings together NYC’s AAPI and allied parents to discuss the experiences and issues most relevant to AAPI families. AAPI-CARE aims to create a shared learning community where parents and caregivers will be equipped with the tools to advocate for themselves, their families, and the wider AAPI community as a whole. This convening will also create opportunities for parents to engage in social justice leadership.
This convening is open to AAPI parents/grandparents/legal guardians of a child/children in public, K-12 schools; parents are interested in leadership and are curious, open-minded, and want to learn.

A+ Asian Comedy. Asian Stand Up Comedy in NYC’s Broadway Theater District.
2025-12-12 19:00 - 20:30 | 318 W 53rd st, 318 West 53rd Street, New York, NY, 10019, United States
A+ Asian Comedy is the ultimate Asian stand up comedy show, filled with the funniest Asian comedians New York City has to offer. Our comics can be seen on Netflix, HBO, and Comedy Central, but nothing compares to seeing them perform live at the world famous Broadway Comedy Club. Tickets are limited, so purchase yours now and enjoy the show!

Music A4: From Indie to Raga
2025-12-12 19:00 - 20:00 | Salon on Kingston, 105 Kingston Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11213, United States
From Indie to Raga is a public event hosted by Devi Majeske, A4’s 2025 Van Lier Fellow in Music Performance. This event marks the culmination of her fellowship and features a preview of new songs from her upcoming debut album “How You Know You’re Alive.”
Devi (vocals, sitar, guitar) will present four of her original pieces with Siddharth Ashokkumar (Carnatic violin), Dhruvin Shah (tabla), and August Polite (piano, guitar). The performance will be followed by a short Q&A and a reception with light refreshments. Audience members are invited to stay, ask questions, and engage in conversation about South Asian diasporic music.
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and The New York Community Trust Van Lier Fellowships.

Where Voices Linger, Reflections on Loving v. Virginia
2025-12-12 18:30 - 20:00 | Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre Street, New York, NY, 10013
In conjunction with the special exhibition happa.me, MOCA is proud to present a hybrid program that examines the enduring legacy of Loving v. Virginia and its impact on interracial relationships in the United States. The evening will open with a presentation of Where Voices Linger, a short play by Jeremy Rafal that reflects on the complexities of forbidden love and the pursuit of truth. A panel discussion, led by Ken Tanabe, founder of Loving Day, will follow, offering historical insight, personal perspectives, and contemporary reflections on the landmark case and its resonance today.
We invite you to join us for an engaging and thought-provoking program that brings together art, history, and community to explore the lasting significance of Loving v. Virginia.

Shared Dialogue, Shared Space 2025: Finale Indoor Exhibition (Reception)
2025-12-12 18:00 - 20:00 | Storefront for Ideas, 127 Walker Street, New York, NY, 10013
Korea Art Forum (KAF) invites you to the culminating indoor exhibition of the 2025 Shared Dialogue, Shared Space (SDSS) program, opening Friday, December 12, 2025, at the Storefront for Ideas, powered by Immigrant Social Services (ISS) in Chinatown, NY.
Following the unveiling of their public art installations, artists Ali Motamedi, Cecilia Lim, Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana, Ricardo Miranda Zuniga, and Moses Ros shares their work as part of the 2025 SDSS program.
SDSS is an ongoing series of outdoor participatory art events held at accessible community hubs in immigrant neighborhoods around New York City. SDSS offers residents and visitors the unique opportunity to engage directly with artists and work with them to develop projects that address issues of language, identity, migration, conflict, and cultural production – key issues that define the experience of New Yorkers. These works culminate in an indoor exhibition and public art installations across New York City.

Guest curators Jennifer McGregor, curator and arts planner, former Director of Arts at Wave Hill, and Martin Lucas, arts educator and Emeritus Professor in the Integrated Media Arts MFA Program at Hunter College, co-curate the 2025 iteration. They bring fresh perspectives to this dynamic and continuously evolving project.

Central Asia & Diaspora Futures Symposium
2025-12-12 11:00 - 13:40 | Macaulays Honors College/CUNY, 35 W. 67th Street, New York, NY, 10023
We’re so excited you’re joining us for Central Asia & Diaspora Futures, a student-led symposium hosted by MHC 387 – Central Asian Film and Literature!
This event brings together artists, writers, curators, activists, and filmmakers from across Central Asia and the diaspora for a vibrant day of storytelling, conversation, and shared community. Students will be leading the discussions and panels, so you’ll get to see perspectives shaped right from the classroom.

Understanding Domestic Violence in the Asian Community: Pathways to Healing
2025-12-12 11:00 - 13:00 | NY
Understanding Domestic Violence in the Asian Community: Pathways to Healing
Join us for an eye-opening online event where we delve into the complexities of domestic violence within the Asian community. Learn about the unique challenges faced by individuals in this community and discover pathways to healing. Our expert speakers will share insights, resources, and strategies to empower and support those affected. Let’s come together to raise awareness and foster a safe and inclusive environment for everyone. Don’t miss this important discussion!

Hack City Comedy with Mic Nguyen and Jenny Arimoto
2025-12-12 07:30 - 21:00 | Union Hall, 702 Union St, Brooklyn, 11215, United States
If having an Asian guy on a comedy show is unusual, then having two is just overkill. But that’s what the hosts of the Asian Not Asian Podcast, Jenny Arimoto and Mic Nguyen, are trying to do with their Hack City comedy show — overkill on the funnies. Join the two as they host one of NYC’s most diverse comedy shows, featuring comics from HBO, Comedy Central, and your Twitter feed.

The Dating Game, NYC Theatrical Screening & Director Q&A﻿
2025-12-12 - 2025-12-18 | DCTV, 87 Lafayette St, New York, NY, 10013
We’re proud to co-present the NYC theatrical screening of The Dating Game, a new documentary by Emmy-winning filmmaker Violet Du Feng (Hidden Letters), exploring love, loneliness, and connection in modern China. In a country where eligible men outnumber women by 30 million, three bachelors enroll in an intensive seven-day dating camp led by one of China’s most sought-after dating coaches. Both funny and poignant, The Dating Game captures the awkwardness, hope, and humor of searching for love in an age of digital disconnection.
Following the screening, join director Violet Du Feng for a post-film Q&A moderated by Susan Yuqing Feng, Director of Programs at China Institute of America. China Institute audience receive 15% off tickets with promo code datinginstitute.

QING BAI: Innocence
2025-12-12 - 2025-12-14 | Here Arts Center, 145 6th Ave, New York, 10013, United States
Qing Bai: Innocence is an original experimental theater piece inspired by The Legend of the White Snake.
Set within a world of the broken bridge, rivers, and rain, Qing Bai reimagines the ancient Chinese legend through movement, sound, and ritual gesture. Performed entirely in Mandarin with English subtitles provided, the piece delves into transformation, memory, and the liminal space between human consciousness and primal instinct.
Developed by an international ensemble, Qing Bai will travel across the U.S. East Coast, with performances at Brown University, Yale University, and a special presentation in New York City.

MOCA x NYAFF Film Club: Totally F***ed Up
2025-12-11 19:00 - 21:00 | Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre Street, New York, NY, 10013
MOCA x NYAFF Film Club present last screening of 2025 with Totally F***ed Up (1993), written and directed by Gregg Araki, which is a raw, poetic portrait of queer adolescence and alienation in early ’90s Los Angeles. The first installment of Araki’s “Teenage Apocalypse” trilogy, the film follows six gay and lesbian teenagers who form a fragile chosen family as they navigate love, friendship, and despair in a world that refuses to see them.
Stay after the screening for a conversation between MOCA’s Curator Herb Tam and NYAFF’s Executive Director Sam Jamier, starting at 8:20 pm. Explore the film’s deeper meanings and behind-the-scenes context before engaging in further discussions with fellow attendees over beverages.

Amader Jolsha – Community Celebration + Open Mic!
2025-12-11 18:30 - 21:00 | Apicha Community Health Center (Queens), 82-11 37th Avenue, Jackson Heights, NY, 11372
A night of community, creativity, and celebration! Drag queen performances, art, music, and open mic magic. Everyone is invited!

Amader Jolsha (transl. “Our Celebration”) is a community celebration packed with fun cultural activities, beautiful henna art, delicious food, and a dazzling performance by Bangladeshi drag queen, NaFis 🌈 Join us to connect, create, and celebrate! This exciting event is open to community members of all backgrounds and allies!
Featured Performance:
NaFis is a Bangladeshi-American actor, singer, and lightworker born in Satkhira, BD and now based in Queens, NYC. Their artistic journey began in Bangladesh. At the age of 6, they won a National Folk Music Award, in Poddo-Kuri, and placed third nationally, before becoming a finalist on Bangladesh’s first televised children’s singing competition, Channel- I’s Khude Gan Raaz, in 2008. They were the first ever Bangladeshi student accepted into the conservatory Musical Theatre program at the University of Miami. Since moving to the US at fifteen, they have built a multidisciplinary career shaped by queerness, diaspora, and a deep love of storytelling. They originated Sebanti in SoHo Rep’s ‘Public Obscenities’, a performance that earned them a Drama Desk Award, and have appeared in ‘Femininjection’ at The Tank, ‘Rent’ as Angel with Open Hydrant Theatre, ‘Lady in the Dark’ at New York City Center, ‘House of Joy’ as Salima, and ‘Tinderella’ as Dylan, for which they also received BroadwayWorld’s Best Performer in a Musical award. They originated Rini, a non-binary queer Bengali character, in the play, ‘Mahamoha’, for Baltimore’s first t4t theatre festival, and will be closing out 2025 by playing the lead role of Rohan in the New York Theatre Festival’s production of ‘Down Once More’. Their current work focuses on expanding queer and trans South Asian storytelling and uplifting Bangladeshi cultural expression beyond the narrow, homogenized versions of South Asian representation seen in regional and diasporic media. To connect and follow along, IG: @nafis_storyteller

Family Amnesia: Chinese American Resilience
2025-12-11 18:00 - 19:30 | Asian American / Asian Research Institute, 25 West 43rd Street, Suite 1000, New York, 10036, United States
Family Amnesia (Daylight Books, 2025) is a visual tribute and love letter honoring author Betty Yu’s Chinese American family roots in the United States. The art book explores her family’s multi-generational resilience and resistance through mixed-media collages, her grandfather’s photographs, and own captured images and archival material.

Committee of 100 Asian American Career Ceilings Initiative event
2025-12-11 18:00 - 19:00 | NY
Dear Friends,
We are pleased to invite you to attend the 52nd Committee of 100 Asian American Career Ceilings Initiative event on the “Findings of the Asian American Career Ceilings Survey – Part II” on December 11 at 6 pm ET that will cover the differences of the results by gender, age group, seniority and profession and what the respondents said about what solution(s) they believe should be implemented by companies, government agencies, etc.
There have been very few surveys done in a professional manner on the issue of Asian American Career Ceilings that seek to capture the opinions and experiences of Asian Americans. Although we conducted an informal survey more than a year ago, we made the decision to do this formal survey a few months ago. The results are thought provoking and should be valuable to both individuals striving to be successful and for policy makers who are tackling this problem.
The survey posed the following questions:

Do you feel that your career success has been impeded in any way because of your ethnicity?
If so, what form of career disadvantage do you feel you have been subjected to (check all that apply):
What do you feel was the cause of the career disadvantage?
Over the last five years, on a scale of 0 to 10, at what level of severity do you feel that you have been subject to Asian American Career Ceilings obstacles (0 = no impact and 10 = severe impact)?
Do you feel that the current tensions between the U.S. and China and the Asia hate incidences have had any impact on your career success? 0 to 10 scale (0 = no impact and 10 -= severe impact)
Share a specific incident that you experienced that you feel is an example of an Asian American Career obstacle.
Share your view of what solution(s) you believe should be implemented by companies, government agencies, etc. to counter Asian American Career obstacles.

Special thanks to Jeremy Wu, a Committee of 100 member, for his review of the methodologies we used and the technical validity of the results,
Jeremy was a senior executive and manager with the federal government, retiring from the Census Bureau after also serving at the Departments of Transportation, Energy, and Agriculture.
His pioneering Big Data work at the Census Bureau included an online mapping and reporting application that was recognized as a major U.S. statistical innovation at the United Nations in 2009.
Part II will be held on December 11, 2025 at 6:00 pm Eastern Time / 5 pm Central Time / 3:00 pm Pacific Time. There is no fee to attend this webcast. Please register for Part II at https://c100-12-11-2025.eventbrite.com

We hope you will join us.
Best regards,
Peter Young
Chair, Committee of 100 Asian American Career Ceilings Initiative
Committee of 100 Member and Board Member

Presenter
Peter Young
Chair, Committee of 100 Asian American Career Ceilings Initiative
Committee of 100 Member and Board Member

Peter Young is CEO and President of Young & Partners, a corporate strategy and boutique investment banking firm focused on the life science and chemical industries. He was previously head of industry groups at Salomon Brothers, Schroders and Lehman Brothers, a senior private equity executive with J.H. Whitney & Co. and a senior member of Bain & Co., the corporate strategy firm.
Mr. Young received a BA in Economics from Yale, an MS in Accounting from NYU, and an MBA from Harvard Business School where he graduated as a Baker Scholar. He is a CPA and a Chartered Global Management Accountant. He serves on a number of boards of directors, both corporate and non-profit and is President and board member of Société de Chimie Industrielle, a leading life science and chemical industry non-profit organization.
The Committee of 100
The Committee of 100 (C100) is a non-profit, non-partisan leadership organization of prominent Chinese Americans in business, government, academia, and the arts founded 37 years ago.
The Committee’s purpose is to provide leadership and act as a constructive force in the dual mission of:
Promoting the full participation of all Chinese Americans in American society and acting as a public policy resource for the Chinese-American community;
Advancing constructive dialogue and relationships between the peoples and leaders of the United States and Greater China.
To learn more about the organization, please go to https://www.committee100.org.

Digital Safety and Best Practices for Journalists
2025-12-11 14:00 - 15:00 | NY
Instructor:
Danielle Meah, Deputy Chief Information Security Officer, Hearst
In today’s fast-changing digital environment, journalists and community media professionals are increasingly exposed to online threats such as hacking, phishing, doxing, surveillance, and identity theft.
A single security lapse can compromise sensitive sources, disrupt publishing systems, or erode audience trust. This 90-minute virtual training aims to equip community journalists with essential cybersecurity knowledge and practical tools to safeguard their data, communications, and digital presence.
Participants will learn about:
Protecting digital identities
Secure communications
Device security
Data protection
Threat context and awareness

Twin Tides Book Launch with Hien Nguyen, Jade Song, Rebecca Ho, and Carolina Đỗ
2025-12-10 19:00 - 21:00 | The Twisted Spine, 306 Grand Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11211, United States
The Twisted Spine is honored to welcome author Hien Nguyen to the shop to celebrate the launch of her debut novel, TWIN TIDES! Hien will be joined in conversation by author Jade Song (Chlorine), and the event will also feature a reading by Carolina Đỗ & Rebecca Ho, two of the voice actors from the audiobook.
Proudly presented with support from the Asian American Writers’ Workshop (AAWW).
About TWIN TIDES:
Long-lost twin sisters unravel the mystery behind their mother’s disappearance and face the family betrayal that ultimately separated them in this breathtaking speculative young adult thriller.
Heiress and influencer Caliste Ha lives a glamorous life in an LA high rise, her perfectly curated social media feed hiding the cracks in her family. Across the country, Aria Nguyen is barely surviving as a freshman and academic scammer at Georgetown University. They have never met.
That changes with one unexpected and grim phone call. Their long-missing mother has been found dead in Les Eaux, Minnesota. Upon arrival in the sleepy town, Caliste and Aria discover another shocker—they are identical twins.
Ready to unearth the secrets that led to their mother’s death and their separation, they start looking for answers. But a vengeful ghost is haunting the waters, and an unknown enemy is watching their every move.
Can Aria and Caliste unravel all the sinister mysteries of Les Eaux, or will the town’s deadly secrets ultimately drag them under?

The Changing Face of Progressive Brooklyn
2025-12-10 18:30 - 20:00 | Center for Brooklyn History, 128 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn, New York, 11201
Brooklyn’s reputation as one of America’s most progressive boroughs reflects a long history of demographic shifts, social movements, labor organizing, and vibrant urban culture. With each new wave of residents, Brooklynites have carried forward a legacy of progressivism, adapting it to new movements for justice, equality, and inclusion.
Join renowned demographer Joseph Salvo, distinguished political scientist John Mollenkopf, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, and moderator Katie Honan of THE CITY, for a conversation about Brooklyn’s evolving population and progressive identity.

Waves from Busan
2025-12-10 18:00 - 20:00 | Korean Cultural Center NY, 122 E 32nd St, New York, NY, 10016
Waves from Busan is an international performing arts initiative organized by the City of Busan and the Busan Foundation for Culture, in collaboration with the Korean Cultural Center New York.
The program is produced and managed by the Busan Performing Arts Market (BPAM) Secretariat, introducing Busan’s creative performing arts scene to New York and fostering professional cooperation between the two cities.

The Affordability Crisis Facing NYC's Older Adults
2025-12-10 08:00 - 10:45 | The Greene Space, 44 Charlton St, New York, NY
New York’s affordability crisis has finally begun to get the attention it deserves. But few New Yorkers feel the strain more acutely than the city’s 1.3 million older adults. Over the past decade, the number of older adults living in poverty has surged by 41 percent across the five boroughs, and today 18.4 percent of New Yorkers age 65+ live below the poverty line. Even more alarming, nearly one in five older adults report no income from Social Security at all—and many others are working longer out of necessity, struggling to keep up with rising costs and insufficient retirement savings.
This forum will explore how city efforts to tackle New York’s affordability crisis can ensure that older adults’ unique cost-of-living challenges are front and center. Panelists will discuss the bold policy actions and investments needed to strengthen financial security, stabilize incomes, expand access to vital supports, and reverse the alarming rise in older adult poverty.

Words Bridging Worlds: On Poetry and Translation
2025-12-08 19:00 - 21:00 | Queens College/CUNY, 65-30 Kissena Blvd, Flushing, NY, 11367
A reading by U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze, followed by a reception and book signing.

Queens College is honored to welcome Arthur Sze, the nation’s 25th U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2025-2026. Sze will visit the campus and share his literary expertise, followed by a reading, reception, and book signing.
Author of 12 poetry collections, Sze’s honors include the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, the 2024 Science and Literature Award from the National Book Foundation, the Bollingen Prize for American Poetry from Yale University, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Poetry Foundation, a Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, a Jackson Poetry Prize from Poets & Writers, a Lannan Literary Award, and a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award, among others.

Alice Young, Trailblazing Lawyer and Advocate for Equality
2025-12-08 18:00 - 19:00 | NY
We are pleased to invite you to attend the eighth Committee of 100 Conversations – “Recollections, Pioneers and Heroes” event that will feature Alice Young, Trailblazing Lawyer and Advocate for Equality, whose career has been defined by groundbreaking achievements in law, advocacy for diversity, and dedicated community service.
Alice served as Partner and Chair of the Asia Practice at leading law firms including Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer and Milbank Tweed, specializing in corporate law, international transactions, and Asia business partnerships. As a member of the first graduating class of women of Yale College and one of the first Asian American women to graduate from Harvard Law School, she broke barriers on Wall Street and paved the way for women and minorities throughout her 40+ year law career. Beyond her legal work, Alice has been a tireless advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion.

2025 World Dance Festival: Dancing Across Cultural Borders – Free Livestream
2025-12-07 16:00 - 18:00 | The Ailey Studios, 405 West 55th Street, New York, NY, 10019
Lotus Music & Dance and Robert Browning Associates present
World Dance Festival: Dancing Across Cultural Borders.
Sunday, December 7th, 4pm,
Free Livestream from sold out show in NYC Ailey Citicorp Theatre,
Featuring

“Hidden Faces and the Harvest” with the Japanese Folk Dance Institute
Saung Budaya, West Sumatran Dance
Excerpts form the Cross Cultural Ramayana with Trinayan Odissi Collective East Indian Dance and
Kinding Sindaw, Filipino Tribal Dance
With Live Musical Accompaniment

This event will not only be an entertaining and festive celebration of authentic world-class dance and music, but will feature a Q&A as well as audience participation, providing a chance to learn directly from the artists about the common threads these cultures share and what makes them unique.

Cinema Kinare At Film Noir: An Afternoon of South Asian Shorts
2025-12-07 14:00 - 16:00 | Film Noir Cinema, 122 Meserole Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, 11222, United States
Following the event we’ll be regrouping at a bar in Greenpoint for a post screening reception. Details will be shared with those who RSVP with their ticket purchase. There is no additional cost to attend, let us know if you’d like to come!
Cinema Kinare is a community run project without any institutional support. All funds from tickets will go solely towards covering venue costs. Thank you for your support!
Our Program
Our program is threaded through with explorations of masculinity – in its unraveling and its construction, in its excesses and limitations – as found in friendship, desire and resistance.
We’ll be screening films by four South Asian filmmakers; three of whom are based in and around NYC and will be joining us for a post screening discussion about their craft.
Headlining our program is Alexander Farah’s award winning short, One Day This Kid (2024). The film follows Hamed, an Afghan Canadian boy, as he comes into adulthood under the weight of his father’s expectations – confronting fear, desire and shame, in search of a self unknown. One Day This Kid premiered at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival, and won the Grand Jury Prize at South by Southwest 2025 amongst a host of other accolades.

Ping Chong Archival Symposium
2025-12-06 12:00 - 19:00 | Hunter College – Lang Recital Hall, 695 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10065
The Ping Chong Archival Symposium will be a full day gathering exploring the archive and artistic legacy of the visionary artist and Pink Fang Artistic Director Emertius, Ping Chong.
This free, public event on December 6th marks a pivotal collaboration between Pink Fang and Hunter College Theatre Department, a semester-long partnership that includes a co-taught course called Multicultural Theatre Performance: Engaging Community Voices and Stories, class visits, an Artist Lunch for students with Ping Chong, a theater workshop available to the entire Hunter College community, and public screenings of Ping Chong’s archival works followed by talk-backs.
The day-long symposium event will bring together artists, scholars, students, and the public for conversation, panels, artistic activations, and a celebratory reception, illuminating the impact, evolution and future of Chong’s groundbreaking interdisciplinary practice that has transformed the landscape of performance in America and beyond.

Public Tour of With a Single Step: Stories in the Making of America
2025-12-06 11:30 - 12:30 | Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre Street, New York, NY, 10013
Join a MOCA educator for a public gallery tour of MOCA’s core exhibition, With a Single Step: Stories in the Making of America, which provides an overview of the Chinese in America from the 19th century through the present day. Items in the Museum’s collection are used to highlight the major themes of the exhibit.
FREE! RSVP optional, but appreciated. Tours leave from the main lobby. Tour times subject to change or cancellation.

Shorts by Lav Diaz, a Visions/Panawin screening
2025-12-05 19:30 - 21:00 | KJCC, 53 Washington Square South, New York, NY, 10012, United States
A “Lav Diaz Short” may sound like an oxymoron for worldwide admirers of the Filipino master writer/director, better known for his feature films that run as long as 11 hours. Panawin/Visions presents an opportunity to explore another facet of the artist’s prolific output with this program of his short films, with running times from 40 minutes to as brief as 2. As with his more known feature films, the shorts find him pushing the boundaries of cinematic form while exploring themes of collective trauma, expiation, and transcendence.
The program includes: Butterflies Have No Memories, Himala: A Dialectic of Our Times, Prologue to The Great Desaparecido, The Boy Who Chose the Earth, The Day Before the End, and The Firefly.

Mini-Global Mashup Festival: Flying Horses/Sonic Threads - Music of the Silk Road
2025-12-05 18:00 - 20:00 | Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd, Flushing, NY, 11354, United States
Join us for Flying Horses/Sonic Threads, our Mini-Global Mashup Festival, to experience sounds exchanged along the Silk Road, an ancient trade route that crossed Asiatic and North African landscapes. Along with textiles and ceramics, rhythmic patterns, the sounds of lutes, zithers, and fiddles also spread along the Silk Road. Bringing artists from China, India, Iran, Palestine, Syria, and Turkmenistan together, Flying Horses/Sonic Threads will amplify the sonic and historical connections that cross these regions and cultures.

An Evening with Lucy Liu: Screening and Conversation on Rosemead
2025-12-05 17:00 - 19:30 | AMC Lincoln Square 13, 1998 Broadway, New York, NY, 10023
China Institute of America is pleased to present a special evening featuring a screening of Rosemead at AMC Lincoln Square, followed by a fireside conversation with Lucy Liu.
Inspired by a harrowing true story, Rosemead follows an ailing mother who takes drastic measures to protect her troubled teenage son, set against the simmering tensions of a Chinese American community in the San Gabriel Valley. Lucy Liu delivers a powerful, career-redefining performance that brings depth and humanity to this gripping portrait of a family pushed to the edge.
After the screening, Lucy Liu will join Susan Yuqing Feng, Programs Director of China Institute, for a conversation about her role, her creative process, and the film’s cultural resonance.
