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  • 2026 Pacific Island Film Festival NYC

    Multiple NYC locations
    Non AAARI Events

    The Pacific Island Film Festival (PIFF) of New York City is an annual festival dedicated to telling a richer, more comprehensive story of the Pacific Islands. PIFF endeavors to be a platform for indigenous Pacific Island voices to be heard and recognized—celebrating, showcasing and cultivating the stories, art, talent and cultural resources of the Pacific ... Read more

    $20

  • 50th Milestone Season-THURSDAYS COME AT MORNING

    A.R.T./New York Theatre Spaces 520 8th Avenue, 3rd Floor BMR (Bruce Mitchell Room), New York, NY, United States
    Non AAARI Events

    Kicking off our 50th Anniversary season with a staged reading of THURSDAY COME AT MORNING By Lee Cataluna Original Story and Additional Material by Les J.N. Mau Cast: Les J.N. Mau & Ken Narasaki Directed by Jeff Liu Two gay American Asians in their 60’s coincidentally meet each other in a Honolulu cemetery visiting the gravesite ... Read more

  • Food, Memory, and Migration

    Non AAARI Events

    Join AAJA New York for an evening exploring how food writing helps us understand identity, memory, migration, family history, and culture. From recipes passed down through generations to reporting on the communities behind our favorite dishes, food can tell stories that reach far beyond what's on the plate.

    $15

  • Book Talk with Yue-Sai Kan: The Most Famous Woman in China and How She Did It

    China Institute of America 40 Rector Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
    Non AAARI Events

    Join China Institute for an inspiring evening with Emmy Award-winning host, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and bestselling author Yue-Sai Kan (靳羽西) as she discusses her memoir, The Most Famous Woman in China and How She Did It. In conversation with Susan Yuqing Feng, Director of Programs at China Institute, Yue-Sai will share stories from her groundbreaking career ... Read more

    $10

  • Spoiled: Asian American Hostility and the Damage of Repair

    CUNY Graduate Center (Martin Segal Theatre) 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
    Non AAARI Events

    In this talk, Summer Kim Lee discusses her book, Spoiled: Asian American Hostility and the Damage of Repair (Duke University Press, 2025), which examines contemporary Asian American artists who challenge expectations that their work should repair the wounds of racial trauma.

  • Listening Across Oceans: Story, Memory, and the Making of Memorials

    20 Cooper Square – NYU 20 Cooper Square, New York, NY, United States
    Non AAARI Events

    ​On September 18, 2026, Maui Public Art Corps and the County of Maui will bring its Lāhainā Think Space pilot project to New York University. Part of the ongoing community engagement process for the future Lāhainā Memorial honoring the 100+ lives lost in the August 8, 2023 wildfires, this gathering seeks to share Maui stories ... Read more

  • Across Continents: Writing Goans, Making Worlds

    Asian American / Asian Research Institute 25 West 43rd Street, Suite 1000, New York, United States
    AAARI Events

    Across Continents employs Goan literary subjectivity as epistemology to critique a specific limitation of postcolonial thought, one that does not account for the situations or afterlife of Portuguese colonialism.

  • Hui Mo’olelo: Lahaina Film Showcase

    The Museum of Modern Art 11 W 53rd St, New York, NY, United States
    Non AAARI Events

    On September 18, 2026, Maui Public Art Corps and the County of Maui will bring its Lāhainā Think Space pilot project to New York University. Part of the ongoing community engagement process for the future Lāhainā Memorial honoring the 100+ lives lost in the August 8, 2023 wildfires, this gathering seeks to share Maui stories ... Read more

  • Mandala Lab at the New York Botanical Garden

    Queens Botanical Garden 43-50 Main Street, Flushing, NY
    Non AAARI Events

    Join us at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx on Saturday, September 19, at 11:00 AM or 1:00 PM for our Mandala Lab Workshop, a 90-minute immersive event inspired by Tibetan Buddhist art and its powerful universal teachings, which encourages participants to get curious about their emotions through five thought-provoking, playful experiences.  The ... Read more

  • Galapagos Puppet Theater Presents: The Blazing Fire Mountain and Its Princess, A Monkey King Tale

    Flushing Town Hall 137-35 Northern Blvd, Flushing, NY, United States
    Non AAARI Events

    Join Monk Tang and his disciples as they find their path to India blocked by a blazing fire mountain. Only a magical fan owned by a powerful princess can put out the fire, but will she help them? Galapagos Puppet Theater brings this beloved episode of Journey to the West, the 400-year-old Chinese epic, to ... Read more

    $17

  • Afternoon Tea 下午茶: Mid-Autumn Edition

    Think!Chinatown Studio 1 Pike Street, New York, NY
    Non AAARI Events

    There will be time slots for this event on Sat Sept 19: Session 1 is from 1-2:30PM   |  Session 2 is from 3:30-5PM.  Afternoon Tea 下午茶 is back! In celebration of the Mid-Autumn Festival, join us for a special afternoon of exploring the rich cultural heritage of mooncakes and tea. 

    $53.12

  • Lectures and Meditations on the High Line – An Afternoon with Tuan Andrew Nguyen

    High Line Spur at 30th St, 10th Av 30th Street & 10th Avenue, New York, NY, United States
    Non AAARI Events

    Join us for an in-depth conversation between the artist behind The Light That Shines Through the Universe, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, and Cecilia Alemani, Donald R. Mullen, Jr. Director & Chief Curator of High Line Art. This program will focus on Nguyen’s practice, the inspiration for his Plinth commission, and the sculpture’s symbolic rebirth, followed by ... Read more