Events

This play is a contemporary reimagining of the classic Chinese folk romance The Butterfly Lovers. In a world where marriage comes with a price tag, self-branding has become a means of survival, and ideals are quietly shaped by capital, the story of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai takes root again in Shanghai and New York ... Read more

Introduction by Jawni Han. Leave it up to chance and come watch a Sakamoto-affiliated picture, presented on film. 35mm. Approx. 90-120 min. Part of Music by Ryuichi Sakamoto

This September, in partnership with America250, the Asian American Business Development Center is proud to present Hidden in Plain Sight: Asian Americans and the Making of America, an immersive exhibition bringing more than 150 years of Asian American history to the center of the American story.

The acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author of Katabasis and Yellowface returns with her dazzling new novel. Taipei Story is a humorous and profoundly moving coming-of-age novel that grapples with grief, language, and culture shock. Don’t miss an afternoon of lively conversation as Kuang and author Hua Hsu (The New Yorker, Stay True) delve into questions of identity, memory, and the pull of home across ... Read more

We’re excited to bring Mustache, the 2023 SXSW Audience Award winner for Narrative Feature, to the Queens community! ​Written and directed by Imran J. Khan, Mustache is a heartfelt and funny Muslim and South Asian coming of age story set in the mid 90s. The film follows 13 year old Pakistani American Ilyas as he ... Read more

Imported 35mm Print. The fourth and final film of eccentric filmmaker Donald Cammell, best known for his brilliant 1970 debut Performance co-directed with Nic Roeg, Wild Side was butchered by studio interference, re-cut and taken away from Cammell who subsequently took his own life. A provocative, erotic neo-noir starring Christopher Walken in one of his ... Read more

Join us for a free, live simulcast concert of the Tony® and Olivier Award-winning musical.

Saturday, September 13, is the last day to see the public art sculpture About a Living Culture by IMAGINE (a.k.a Sneha Shrestha) at Diversity Plaza in Jackson Heights, Queens. Also on September 13, the Rubin will participate in the annual Jackson Heights Momo Crawl—an event celebrating the momo, a Nepalese and Tibetan dumpling—from 2:30–3:30 PM. ... Read more

Considered one of the great plays of the modern era, Anton Chekhov’s final play about a family on the edge of ruin is radically reimagined by acclaimed director and dramatist Simon Stone, who returns to the Armory following his blistering Obie-Award winning take on Federico García Lorca’s Yerma (2018). His refreshing adaptation resets the action ... Read more

Join us for a conversation on using and adapting evidence-based practices (EBPs) and community-based practices (CBPs) for Asian American and Asian Immigrant (AAAI) populations. This webinar will explore how service providers and community-based organizations implement culturally responsive EBPs and CBPs to address the unique mental health needs of AAAI individuals and communities. Speakers will share ... Read more

The UCLA Asian American Studies Center, with support from The Asian American Foundation, presents this webinar series on teaching Asian American and Pacific Islander Histories for K-12 and University Educators. Learn from leading scholars and classroom educators how to integrate AAPI narratives into your curriculum.

In this presentation, Gala Porras-Kim discusses recent work that considers how objects in collections are shaped by multiple actors, some of them non-consenting collaborators: the artists who create them, the collectors who establish their contexts, and the curators, conservators, and registrars who classify, preserve, and present them. The works examine how historical objects are transformed ... Read more