Events

We are excited to announce our inaugural gathering of 2025 ERG Initiative, scheduled for July 9th, 2025. The event will feature the panel on “How to foster year-round employee and ally engagement”, followed by networking reception. Now that AAPI Heritage Month has passed, how do ERG leaders integrate AAPI focused activities and initiatives throughout the ... Read more

North America’s largest festival of contemporary Japanese film returns for its 18th year this summer at Japan Society. Join us for 30 curated films from across Japan featuring major award-winners, indie darlings, up-and-coming filmmakers, restorations, documentaries, experimental and short films and more. JAPAN CUTS is a showcase of the latest in Japanese cinema, featuring both ... Read more

We are pleased to invite you to attend this Committee of 100 Conversations – “Recollections, Pioneers and Heroes” event that will feature Committee of 100 member David Ho, who will talk about “The Art and Science of Innovative Life Science Discovery.” David Ho, pioneering AIDS research scientist, is a Professor of Medicine at Columbia University ... Read more

Please join acclaimed author Henry Chang and our staff as we discuss his Chinatown detective/crime novel series (that started with Chinatown Beat) in the context of two recent non-fiction works on New York's Chinatown gangs and the NYPD--Peter Chin's In the Ghost Shadows and Mike Moy's Bad to Blue.

­Presented by the New York Asian Film Foundation and Film at Lincoln Center, the 24th New York Asian Film Festival returns this summer from July 11-27, 2025 with its most ambitious and globally expansive lineup yet. With more than 100 films across four NYC venues: Film at Lincoln Center, SVA Theatre, LOOK Cinemas W57, and ... Read more

Ten years after his film debut as the narrator of Mrinal Sen’s Parallel Cinema breakout Bhuvan Shome (screening on July 12), Amitabh Bachan had become a certified Bollywood icon. In Kaala Patthar—loosely inspired by Joseph Conrad’s novel Lord Jim— he stars alongside Shashi Kapoor as a down-and-out coal miner named Vijay Singh

Join us for an event with award-winning author Claire Jia, discussing her debut novel Wanting. Joining Claire in conversation is acclaimed writer Jenevieve Ting. This event will be hosted in the Strand Book Store’s 3rd floor Rare Book Room at 828 Broadway on 12th Street.

Mrinal Sen’s Bhuvan Shome was one of three breakout films from 1969 that defined the start of the Parallel Cinema movement, distinguished by a reflexive, satirical wit and a playful stylistic approach. In the film, Utpal Dutt stars as an officious bureaucrat working for the Indian Railroad in Bengal. A boredom-inspired bird hunting expedition in Gujarat ... Read more

In observation of this Japanese summer festival based on a legend of “star-crossed” lovers, AAA members will provide telescopes to show the public the night sky. There will also be a picture story of the folk tale, as well as an Origami table, Bon Odori, Chorus and tanzaku paper on which to write and hang ... Read more

Films and stories set in or about New York that can only happen in the greatest city on earth. Punk to Protest - Writing is Activism with Alvin Eng A short video documentary on Alvin Eng, an Asian American author, musician, playwright and educator from NYC. This documentary offers a glimpse into the intersection of ... Read more

It’s an evening of art, ideas, and entanglements—join us for the launch of Winged Seeds, the exhibition catalogue that brings the textures of the show to your fingertips. This celebratory gathering brings together artist Jia Sung and graphic designer Rey Carlson in conversation, as they share the behind-the-scenes journey of crafting the zine—threading together themes ... Read more

The Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) cordially invites you to a special conversation with Judge Denny Chin, United States Circuit Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Co-Director of the Center on Asian Americans and the Law and Lawrence W. Pierce Distinguished Jurist in Residence at Fordham Law School. In this ... Read more