The Art of the New Yorker Cover Master Class with Françoise Mouly, Sarula Bao and Adrian Tomine
SVA Theatre 333 West 23rd Street, New York, NYFrançoise Mouly, The New Yorker’s art editor, is joined by the cover artists Sarula Bao and Adrian Tomine to present a seminar on how the magazine’s famous covers are crafted each week. At the end, there will be an extended Q. & A. with the artists.
Ayad Akhtar and Mohsin Hamid talk with Parul Sehgal: Reflecting Our World
SVA Theatre 333 West 23rd Street, New York, NYAyad Akhtar is a novelist and a playwright. He is the author of the novels “Homeland Elegies,” one of the New York Times’ Ten Best Books of 2020, and “American Dervish,” which has been published in more than twenty languages. His plays include “Junk,” which won the Kennedy Prize for American Drama; “Disgraced,” which won a ... Read more
FAHM OPEN MIC NIGHT
Episcopal Actors' Guild 1 E 29th St, New York, NY, United StatesThis FAHM, in partnership with Broadway Barkada, Dr. Kevin Nadal, and Maritess Zurbano, FANHS-MNY will be hosting a one night only Open Mic! with performances by Broadway Barkada's Liz Casasola, Renée Albulario, and The Braganza Sisters*. Join us for kwento, kantahan & kababayan! Of course we'll have lumpia! If you have any accessibility needs for ... Read more
ChinaFile Presents: Nikah, a Film Screening and Discussion
Asia Society 725 Park Avenue, New York, NYSet in China’s Uyghur region in 2017, and spanning the months between two weddings, Nikah follows Dilber, a young woman approaching a crossroads amid the Chinese government’s surveilling and detaining of members of her community. As even her most personal decisions become suddenly political, Dilber must struggle with the tension between tradition and modernity, as ... Read more
A Night of Filipino Cultural Resistance
Prime Produce 424 West 54th Street, New York, NY“PERFORMING FILIPINA PRESENTS: A Night of Filipino Cultural Resistance” is an event hosted by Lianah Sta. Ana (she/her), writer of PERFORMING FILIPINA, a new “kind of” musical. The evening is a celebration of Filipino cultural workers, tying our work as artists to revolutionary movements, and aiming to deepen U.S. Filipinos’ understanding of the role of ... Read more
An Evening with Daphne Xu
The Museum of Modern Art 11 W 53rd St, New York, NY, United StatesModern Mondays welcomes artist and filmmaker Daphne Xu to present the US premiere of her newest short film, Notes of a Crocodile (2024), which screens alongside previous works. Xu’s exploration of the politics and poetics of place draws on her background in urban planning; her earliest projects pertain to Xiongan, a rural area in China’s ... Read more
Conference: The Appearance: Art of the Asian Diaspora in Latin America & the Caribbean
Asia Society 725 Park Avenue, New York, NYArt at Americas Society is pleased to present "The Appearance: A Conference by Americas Society and Asia Society," in collaboration with Asia Society.
Mengxi Wang – Chinatown 32 Sequences
Museum of Chinese in America 215 Centre Street, New York, NYIn partnership with the Chinatown Partnership/Chinatown BID, MOCA invites you to an insightful conversation with Mengxi Wang, photographer and author of Chinatown 32 Sequences. This book offers an immersive exploration of New York’s Chinatown, capturing the essence of its people and culture. Through vivid photography and storytelling, Wang highlights the lives of longtime residents and ... Read more
Broadway: Yellow Face – AAPI Community Night
Todd Haimes Theatre 227 West 42nd Street, New York, NYTony Award® winner and three-time Pulitzer finalist David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly) will make his Roundabout debut with the Broadway premiere of Yellow Face, his hilarious is-he-or-isn’t-he comedy of identity, show business, and (perhaps) autobiography. Starring Daniel Dae Kim (Lost) and directed by Tony nominee Leigh Silverman (Violet). Inspired by real events, the playwright’s fictionalized doppelgänger protests yellowface casting in Miss Saigon, only to ... Read more
A Tribute to Kimiko Hahn
Poets House 10 River Terrace, New York, NYGather with readers and friends to honor the extraordinary Kimiko Hahn. An innovative poet, curator, professor, and collaborator, Hahn was named a Chancellor for the Academy of American Poets and received The Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly Lifetime Achievement Award in 2023. Her newest book, The Ghost Forest (W.W. Norton, 2024), offers a contemplative and haunting ... Read more
AACS + QCAP Chai Chat
Queens College-Powdermaker Hall Queens College Powdermaker Hall, Gate 3 Entrance Rd, FlushingStop by the QCAP Community Space for some chai and snacks and the chance to chat with professors from QC’s Asian American Community Studies (AACS) Minor and the QCAP Team! The AACS Minor is being relaunched, QCAP is entering its 3rd year, and this is a great opportunity to learn more about both the minor and ... Read more
Why “Comfort Women” Advocacy Matters Today
KAN-WIN’s “Comfort Women” Advocacy Team works to educate and mobilize local communities in the movement for justice for survivors of the Japanese military’s sexual slavery system. “Comfort women” was a euphemism for the hundreds of thousands of girls and women across Asia and the Pacific Islands who were forced or deceived into military sexual slavery ... Read more