Supporting Queer Arab/SWANA Americans in Psychotherapy
2026-03-09 17:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | NY
“Queer second-generation Arab/SWANA Americans are a rich, vibrant, and diverse community, yet, are marginalized within multiple contexts. Anti-Arab, anti-immigrant, and cisheteronormative structural norms and policies in the United States intersect with intense cultural and religious beliefs about the incompatibility of sexual and gender diversity and Arab/SWANA identity” (Alsamadi, 2025, p.1). Consequently, queer Arab/SWANA Americans may seek psychotherapy for support in managing stress related to intersectional oppression and disenfranchisement (Alsamadi, 2025; Chaney et al., 2020; Habhab, 2018; Ikizler & Szymanski, 2014; Khatib et al., 2023).
The unique needs of this population are rendered invisible in psychology training programs and continuing education programming. As such, this workshop will teach attendees (1) relevant cultural values within Arab/SWANA communities; (2) common themes in psychotherapy with queer second-generation Arab/SWANA Americans; and (3) how the Keeping Radical Healing in Mind (KRHM; Adames et al., 2023) therapeutic approach is relevant to queer second-generation Arab/SWANA Americans. The workshop will conclude with a collaborative case example where attendees will apply the KRHM therapeutic approach to a composite clinical case of a queer second-generation Arab/SWANA American client.

Storied Women: Asian American Playwrights in Conversation
2026-03-09 18:30 - 20:00 | Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10021
New York City welcomes a bountiful gathering of Off-Broadway stage productions this Spring, focusing on sisterhood, motherhood, and family: Chinese Republicans (Alex Lin, Roundabout Theatre), Meat Suit (Aya Ogawa, Second Stage Theater), and JESA (Jeena Yi, Ma-Yi Theater in residence at the Public Theater), among others. This panel discussion, moderated by Carolina Đỗ, celebrates talent, community and hard work, delving deep into fascinating tales of Asian America and the creative minds and lives behind them.
This program is presented by Asia Society in association with the Asian American Arts Alliance, a nonprofit dedicated to strengthening Asian American artists and cultural groups through resource sharing, promotion, and community building.

Affordability, Antitrust, and Inequality: Lina M. Khan and Paul Krugman in Conversation
2026-03-09 18:30 - 20:00 | CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10016
Hear from two leading economic thinkers about how to solve the complex crisis of affordability.

Affordability, Antitrust, and Inequality: Lina M. Khan and Paul Krugman in Conversation (Virtual)
2026-03-09 18:30 - 20:00 | CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10016
Hear from two leading economic thinkers about how to solve the complex crisis of affordability.
In-person reservations for this event are currently full, but please join the livestream.
Affordability was a central theme of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s campaign, and it is now a hot topic in national politics across party lines. Two leading thinkers, Lina M. Khan and Paul Krugman, discuss innovative solutions to the affordability crisis and how affordability, antitrust, and inequality are related. Khan is the former chair of the Federal Trade Commission and was most recently a co-chair of the Mamdani transition team. Krugman is a Nobel laureate, former New York Times columnist, and research professor of Economics at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Presented with the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality.
A video of this event will be posted later on our YouTube Channel.

Danny Koo, Violin, with Ensemble Edge
2026-03-09 19:30 - 21:30 | Carnegie Hall, 157 West 57th Street, New York, NY, 10019
With a commitment to sharing the beauty of classical music with a broader audience, violinist Danny Koo continues to expand the boundaries of classical performance through artistry and vision.

Play - Jesa
2026-03-10 - 2026-04-05 | The Public Theater, 425 Lafayette St, New York, NY, 10003
JESA by Jeena Yi, directed by Mei Ann Teo, is a riotous and heart-wrenching new play that explodes the idea of the “perfect family gathering.” When four estranged Korean American sisters reunite in Orange County to perform their father’s Jesa—a traditional ritual honoring the dead—old wounds erupt, secrets surface, and ghosts (literal and emotional) refuse to stay buried. With razor-sharp dialogue, explosive humor, and unexpected tenderness, JESA asks how we honor our ancestors when we can barely stand each other. Come for the sibling brawls and burning shrimp, stay for the aching truth of what binds us.

AAPI Mental Health Forum
2026-03-10 09:00 - 13:30 | CPC One, 45 Suffolk Street, New York, NY, 10002
Our AAPI Mental Health Forum, entitled Building and Strengthening Mental Health in AAPI Communities is organized by the CPC Community Resiliency & Support Services (CRSS) program. We are excited to welcome Dr. Chau Trinh-Shevrin, who will deliver a keynote address, along with a panel of mental health experts who will share their insights and expertise on improving and destigmatizing access to mental health services. Please RSVP at this AAPI Mental Health Forum registration link or use the QR code provided in the attached flyer. For more information, please contact Sumon Chin (schin@cpc-nyc.org) or Amy Eng (aeng@cpc-nyc.org).

Author Event with Michelle Yang | Asian Mental Health Bookclub
2026-03-10 20:00 - 21:00 | NY
Join us for a virtual event where we will be chatting with Michelle Yang about her book, Phoenix Girl: A Memoir. Michelle Yang is an advocate who writes on the intersection of Asian American identity, body image, and mental health. This memoir explores how Michelle emigrated to the U.S. from the tight-knit ethnic Chinese enclave in Incheon, South Korea, and had to adapt quickly to survive. With a dominant, impulsive father in charge-who protects the family from everyone but himself-and a mother who never finds her power, Michelle craves safety and security.
The event will take place on Tue March 10 2026 at 5pm PST. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to hear from our author!

Asian American Career Ceilings “Advice and Networking Event – Investing”
2026-03-11 18:00 - 19:00 | NY
The Committee of 100 Asian American Career Ceilings Initiative
“Advice and Networking Event – Investing” on March 11, 2026
Call for Advisor Volunteers

The Complex: Karan Mahajan with Keith Gessen
2026-03-11 18:00 - 19:00 | NYPL Stephen A. Schwarzman Building – Margaret Liebman Berger Forum, 476 Fifth Avenue, 2nd Floor, New York, NY, 10018
Follow the illicit liaisons, political ambitions, and mortal betrayals of one prominent Delhi family in a sweeping novel from National Book Award finalist Karan Mahajan.

Book Talk: The Complex: Karan Mahajan with Keith Gessen (Hybrid)
2026-03-11 18:00 - 19:00 | NYPL Stephen A. Schwarzman Building – Margaret Liebman Berger Forum, 476 Fifth Avenue, 2nd Floor, New York, NY, 10018
Follow the illicit liaisons, political ambitions, and mortal betrayals of one prominent Delhi family in a sweeping novel from National Book Award finalist Karan Mahajan.
The Complex: The sons and daughters of SP Chopra, one of India’s political architects, live together in a sprawling Delhi complex, vying for influence in a family shaped by the great man’s legacy. By the late 1970s, the still-young nation is on the brink of transformation, and the Chopras are scrambling to define their own futures. Sachin Chopra leaves for America, followed by his bride, Gita, eager to forge a life beyond the pressures of the family compound. Yet Delhi keeps pulling them back—even as Sachin’s predatory uncle, Laxman, hounds Gita. A man of restless ambition, Laxman ascends through the ranks of a rising Hindu nationalist movement, caught between his political aspirations and his personal transgressions. As India erupts in violence and long-buried secrets come to light, the embattled Chopras must reckon with the cost of power, the weight of tradition, and the shifting nature of love and allegiance.
Karan Mahajan worked on The Complex during his 2018-2019 Fellowship at the Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. He will discuss his book with writer Keith Gessen.
To join this event in-person | Please be sure to register for an In-Person Ticket. Doors will open 30 minutes before the program begins. For free events, we generally overbook to ensure a full house. Priority will be given to those who have registered in advance, but registration does not guarantee admission. All registered seats are released shortly before start time, and seats may become available at that time. A standby line will form shortly before the program.
To join the livestream | A livestream of this event will be available on the NYPL event page. To receive an email reminder shortly in advance of the event, please be sure to register! If you encounter any issues, please join us on NYPL’s YouTube channel.

Advisors Asian American Career Ceilings “Advice and Networking – Investing”
2026-03-11 18:00 - 19:00 | NY
The Committee of 100 Asian American Career Ceilings Initiative has been hosting a series of Advice and Networking events covering different professions. These one hour virtual events enable Asian Americans of all ages to get valuable career advice from experienced and successful Asian Americans. Our previous Advice and Networking events covered technology, finance, investing and consulting.

MOCA PERFORMS - Declaration of Independence, Day 1
2026-03-11 19:00 - 20:00 | Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre Street, New York, NY, 10013
Museum of Chinese in America’s Performing-Artist-In-Residence program welcomes a cohort of 3 performing artists to generate a theme-based project. This year’s theme, Declaration of Independence, encourages the resident artists to interrogate what it means to be “American,” to see self-determination, or to stake a claim to visibility, freedom, and belonging.

During this program, the resident artists will present works-in-progress and share the creative vision behind their projects. Audience members will have the opportunity to engage in an in-depth conversation with the artists, offering feedback, asking questions, and gaining insight into the cultural contexts and personal motivations that shape each work.
Join us for an intimate evening of artistic exploration, dialogue, and discovery.

Bob Crawford & Alexis Coe: America’s Founding Son
2026-03-11 19:00 - 20:00 | New York Public Library – Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, 42nd Street & 5th Avenue, New York, NY, 10018, United States
John Quincy Adams was born nine years before the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and he died as the United States was sliding irrevocably toward Civil War. In between he was a foreign ambassador, secretary of state, sitting president, and finally ex-president and sitting congressperson. In America’s Founding Son, Bob Crawford—best known as the bassist for the Grammy-nominated band The Avett Brothers—traces Adams’s unparalleled life and career. He helped formulate the Monroe Doctrine, which was evoked as recently as the day Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro was arrested. He is also the only ex-president to serve in Congress, where he confronted slaveholders and challenged the nation to live up to its founding ideals.

Demilitarizing Hawaiian Lands - Local Struggles, Global Implications
2026-03-12 16:00 - 17:30 | NY
Participants: Kyle Kajihiro (moderator), Camille Kalama, and ʻIlima Long
This webinar will discuss the history of (de)militarization in Hawaiʻi and contemporary struggles to reclaim Hawaiian lands, including expiring military leases of Hawaiian trust lands and successful demilitarization campaigns on Kahoʻolawe, Mākua, and Kapūkakī (Red Hill).
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Demilitarizing Hawaiian Lands – Local Struggles, Global Implications (Virtual)
2026-03-12 16:00 - 17:30 | NY

Exhibition Opening - Changing Cultures: Zhen Guo, A Retrospective
2026-03-12 16:00 - 18:00 | Mishkin Gallery at Baruch College/CUNY, 135 East 22nd Street, New York, NY, 10010
The Mishkin Gallery at Baruch College is proud to present Changing Cultures: Zhen Guo, A Retrospective, the first major survey of New York-based artist Zhen Guo (b. 1955, Shandong Province, China). The exhibition is on view from March 12 – June 12, 2026, and is accompanied by an illustrated brochure with a new essay on Guo by curator Gail Levin.
The works on display span nearly sixty years, from Zhen Guo’s first embroidery (Chairman Mao, 1966) to her large-scale papier-mâché and sewn fabric breast sculptures and handmade tufted tapestries created between 2012 and 2025. The show explores an artist’s journey from China to New York; themes include an immigrant’s identity, motherhood, and the violence embedded in patriarchal cultures. Guo’s large-scale “muted landscape” paintings protest environmental injustice.
Zhen Guo’s education was cut short at age twelve, when she was assigned to work in a clothing factory. She later studied, then taught, at Zhejiang Academy in Hangzhou, and immigrated to the United States in 1986. Recent solo exhibitions include “Zhen Guo: Embracing Kali” at Ethan Cohen Gallery, NY (2026), “Unfolding her Life” at Bard College (2024), and “What is My Name” at Connecticut College (2023). Guo has organized numerous exhibitions of feminist art and is the founder and president of the Chinese Feminist Art Alliance, NY. She lives and works in New York, NY.
Changing Cultures: Zhen Guo, A Retrospective, is curated by Gail Levin, Distinguished Professor in Fine & Performing Arts at Baruch College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. Guo’s retrospective follows Dr. Levin’s eponymous exhibition Changing Cultures: Immigrant Artists from China, 1991, on Chinese immigrant artists navigating worlds to express evolving identities. Levin’s most recent project is a biography of American artist Alice Baber, published in February 2026 by Pegasus Press. This exhibition is made possible by the Edith B. Stein Symposium Fund, Friends of the Mishkin Gallery, and the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences at Baruch College (CUNY).

Kirk Varnedoe Memorial Lecture Series with Patrick Flores
2026-03-12 18:00 - 20:00 | The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1 East 78th Street, New York, NY, United States
This talk reflects on the possibillities of curating Southeast Asia, reconsidering the gestures of art history and exhibition-making that supplement a regional aspiration.

Curator’s Talk – Making Mei Lanfang, a Modern Icon
2026-03-12 18:30 - 20:00 | China Institute Gallery, 40 Rector St, New York, NY, 10006

Musical: At the Edge of Chinatown part of Rough Draft Festival 2026
2026-03-12 19:00 - 20:00 | LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, 31-10 Thomson Ave, Long Island City, NY, 11101
Created by the music group, The Slants, At the Edge of Chinatown follows three Asian-American teenagers navigating fractured identities while their family restaurants face extinction in a rapidly changing Chinatown. It’s an explosive musical about third-culture kids who must remix the old world to build their own, proving that sometimes the most powerful form of preservation is fearless reinvention. With an emo/pop-punk score powering the show, this story pulls from our own backstories of growing up in restaurants, navigating Chinatowns around the world, and figuring out what it means to forge an identity that’s entirely your own.
On March 12 at 7pm, you’ll catch demo versions of songs performed by the two of us (Joe X. Jiang and Simon Tam) at the Little Theater (LPAC). Tickets are only $10, and students get in free. After the performance, stick around for a talkback where you can give us feedback and help shape this thing as we continue developing it. If you’re in NYC or know anyone who is, grab tickets here…and please spread the word!

MOCA PERFORMS - Declaration of Independence, Day 2
2026-03-12 19:00 - 21:00 | Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre Street, New York, NY, 10013
Museum of Chinese in America’s Performing-Artist-In-Residence program welcomes a cohort of 3 performing artists to generate a theme-based project. This year’s theme, Declaration of Independence, encourages the resident artists to interrogate what it means to be “American,” to see self-determination, or to stake a claim to visibility, freedom, and belonging.

ALC Habeas Training & Toolkit
2026-03-13 15:00 - 16:00 | NY
Join the Asian Law Caucus (ALC) for a training on habeas petitions seeking freedom for immigrants with unexecuted final orders of removal who have been recently re-detained after living in the community for many years. The training, along with an accompanying ALC toolkit, is focused on Ninth Circuit caselaw, but many of the arguments covered can be made in other circuits.

The Road to Healing, Rejuvenation, and Social Justice: Understanding Mental Health Challenges and Barriers to Mental Health Service Utilization among CUNY Asian American/Asian College Students
2026-03-13 18:00 - 19:30 | Asian American / Asian Research Institute, 25 West 43rd Street, Suite 1000, New York, 10036, United States
In their study, Prof. Esther Son explores the mental health challenges and barriers to accessing services faced by Asian American/Asian college students at the College of Staten Island/CUNY, particularly after the pandemic.

Wild Schools: An Evening of Shorts and Conversation with Women and Gender-Queer Filmmakers in New York
2026-03-13 18:30 - 20:30 | NYU Espacio de Culturas, 53 Washington Square S, New York, NY, 10012, United States
This event is free and open to public. Because of limited capacity, seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.

The Theater of the Matters: The Island of Loves
2026-03-13 19:00 - 20:00 | Japan Society, 333 East 47th Street, New York, NY, 10017, United States
The Theater of the Matters presents a dual program in honor of Paulo Rocha and Sumiko Haneda. Haneda’s 1982 documentary The Poem of Hayachine Valley (早池峰の賦) will screen on 16mm on March 14 at Light Industry.

AAWW & The Strand Present: Amin Ahmad + Kirthana Ramisetti
2026-03-13 19:00 - 20:00 | Strand Book Store, 828 Broadway 3rd Floor, Rare Book Room, New York, NY, 10003
Join us for an event with notable writer Amin Ahmad, discussing his new novel A KILLER IN THE FAMILY.

Moderating this discussion is culture writer and author, Kirthana Ramisetti. This event will be hosted at The Strand at Columbus (SCA) located at 450 Columbus Ave.
This event is co-presented with the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. For more information, please visit their website at aaww.org.

Writing Without Fear
2026-03-13 20:00 - 21:30 | The Asian American Writers’ Workshop, 18 West 21st Street, Suite 900, New York, 10010, United States
Are you working on a novel, memoir or non-fiction project? Did you start off with great enthusiasm, only to feel the project bog down? Are you overwhelmed by the complexity of the task? Has anxiety crept into your writing day?
To produce good work, writers must be willing to take risks and to produce writing that fails. This process of exploration often creates anxiety, and often results in the dreaded writer’s block. How do we allow spontaneity and improvisation into our work and still create coherence
How do we craft a writing process that allows risk, but also creates a safety net?
Borrowing from psychology, we will understand the types of anxiety inherent in the writing process, and how to manage them. We will examine working methods from other creative fields — architects, screenwriters, film editors, and radio story tellers — and steal from them.
The goal of this workshop is to create a writing process that works for you, and that allows you to be fearless and productive.

Prospect Park Lunar New Year Celebration
2026-03-14 11:30 - 14:00 | Boathouse + Audubon Center at Prospect Park, 101 East Drive, Brooklyn, NY, 11225
Celebrate Lunar New Year in Prospect Park! Enjoy a lion dance, cultural performances, festive activities & raffle prizes.

Join Prospect Park Alliance and the Chinese-American Planning Council for a joyful Lunar New Year celebration! Experience exciting lion dances, live cultural performances, and festive activities for all ages. The Lunar New Year marks a fresh start and new beginnings. Stop by to connect with neighbors, learn about local community resources and services, and celebrate together in Prospect Park. Enjoy raffle prizes and gift bags giveaways for the first 100 attendees to visit the welcome table, while supplies last.

The Filipino Nonprofit Leadership Playbook Part 2
2026-03-14 12:00 - 16:00 | Philippine Consulate, 556 5th Avenue, New York, NY, 10036
The Philippine Consulate General in New York and the NY Chapter of the National Federation of Filipino American Associations (NaFFAA NY) invite all leaders and organizations to participate in this FREE educational seminar, The Filipino Nonprofit Leadership Playbook, at the Philippine Center. The seminar will begin promptly at 12:30 PM for online attendees to join.

Spring Into Nowruz: Family Day 2026
2026-03-14 13:00 - 16:00 | Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10021
Join us in welcoming the Persian New Year at our Nowruz Family Day on Saturday, March 14, 2026, 1 – 4 p.m. Celebrate the start of Spring and learn about Nowruz with interactive workshops, music, crafts, storytelling and more. Don’t forget to enjoy Persian sweets and savories at the Leo Cafe.
