Celebrate the New Year Japanese-style at our Oshogatsu event that’s filled with fun for the whole family! After watching a riveting Japanese taiko drum performance, kids are invited on stage for a hands-on drum mini-workshop. Families can then welcome the New Year with exciting and traditional activities like New Year’s calligraphy, lion dancing and other ... Read more

Komunidad: Filipinos in the UAE is a documentary photography project that captures the lives of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) in the UAE. It offers an intimate glimpse into the daily experiences of four individuals from the Filipino community. Now part of the NYUAD Akkasah Photography Archive in NYU's Special Collections, artist Xyza Cruz Bacani's work is significant ... Read more

On Tuesday, January 30, APIAVote, AAPI Data and the Asian Americans Journalist Association (AAJA) will be co-hosting the second in the Voices of AAPI Communities monthly briefing series that analyzes findings from the new AAPI Data/AP-NORC Survey. This briefing will focus on AAPI views on the economy, including inflation, student debt, and medical debt.

NY’s Independent Redistricting Commission (IRC) must redraw NY’s 26 Congressional lines by February 28th ... BUT will the public be allowed to weigh in on this process?

Celebrate the Year of the Dragon at Queens Botanical Garden! Enjoy the lion dance performance, music, crafts, and more. Stay tuned for more details and the schedule of their 2024 Lunar New Year Celebration! $5 Suggested Donation • FREE Admission • $15 Event Parking

Recent events have heightened military tensions on the Korean Peninsula—North Korea’s successful launch of a military satellite resulting in Seoul’s decision to partially suspend the inter-Korean Comprehensive Military Agreement (CMA), and followed by Pyongyang’s deployment of additional forces near its border with South Korea—increasing the chances of conflict on the Korean Peninsula. North Korea's advancements ... Read more

Join us for an intimate conversation with photographer Edward Cheng, the artist behind Think!Chinatown’s new black and white film photography exhibit, “Walking with Lions, and Other Chinatown New Year Traditions”. Deep dive into all things Lunar New Year as Ed, a native to Manhattan’s Chinatown, shares with us about his unique connections and experiences with ... Read more

NERO is a Shakespearean, five-act “streamplay” theatricalizing the history from George W. Bush’s War on Terror to our present day as the rise and fall of Nero’s Roman Empire. Set in 64AD in Rome’s Palace of the Frogs, this “state of the nation” tragicomedy invites Black, Indigenous and People of Color to examine how white ... Read more

Back in NYC for 1 night only! Join us for the 220th performance on 2/2/24 Proclaimed "A Theatrical Force" by the Orlando Weekly for her uncanny embodiment of 13 characters and "A Woman Who Shapes the Future" by Fox 5, Qurrat Ann Kadwani searches for identity in her autobiographical one-woman show. THEY CALL ME Q ... Read more

What is the value of history to labor? What is the value of labor to history? How might we better bring the lessons of the past to laborers, labor organizers, scholars, students, and the public at large? And how does centering non-traditional labor and underrepresented experiences in labor organizing and labor history help us to ... Read more

The junta that seized control of Myanmar’s government in February 2021, triggering a massive, nationwide civil disobedience movement and prompting intensive pushback from regional ethnic armed organizations, still has yet to cede power back to civilian authorities. In the meantime, the unseated civilian leadership continues as the National Unity Government (NUG), while grassroots protest continues ... Read more

Join Oakland Asian Cultural Center in Oakland, CA, as they partner with the Malonga Arts Residents Association (MARA) for their second annual Lunar New Year x Black History Month Community Celebration. Welcome to another celebration of Asian and African-American solidarity through art, music, and dance. Oakland Asian Cultural Center is thrilled to present this year’s ... Read more

Join us in welcoming the Year of the Dragon on Saturday, February 3, 2024. Ring in the new year with performances and craft activities inspired by Lunar New Year traditions across Asia. 

Join Asia Society in welcoming the Year of the Dragon on Saturday, February 3, 2024. Ring in the new year with performances and craft activities inspired by Lunar New Year traditions across Asia.

For this year's festival, we are flying master artists directly from the picturesque historical province of Zhejiang, China to New York City to provide an authentic, captivating, a true immersive cultural experience for your entire family that's filled with festive activities and performances - hallmark to China Institute's Lunar New Year Festival!

Learn about traditions and rituals of the Lunar New Year as the Think!Chinatown team shares practices observed in Chinatown and in their own homes. Deepen your understanding about offerings and symbology you might see around this time of year. We’ll then discuss how these traditions might be relevant to our lives now and how they ... Read more

The story begins in the immediate aftermath of a catastrophic disaster. What if our apartment complex is the only building left standing after a devastating earthquake? Produced by Climax Studio, the production house known for their creative storytelling and exceptional directing in Netflix's Hellbound and D.P., Concrete Utopia is "a dystopian disaster movie with a ... Read more

Join CACF and Apicha Community Health Center for a virtual briefing on the findings of Apicha's newly released needs assessment of the health and wellbeing of New York City’s LGBTQ+ Asian American and Pacific Islander community. In this needs assessment, 344 LGBTQ+ AAPI community members responded to a confidential and anonymous survey, available in nine ... Read more

For her final event as the A/P/A Institute’s 2023-24 Artist-in-Residence, Isabel Sandoval presents a lecture about cultivating her sensibility and maintaining her integrity as a self-taught filmmaker. In an industry dominated by cisgender white men, Sandoval will discuss how her multiple identities as a migrant woman of color inform her understanding of the language of ... Read more

Featuring General David H. Petraeus (US Army, Ret.) and Nobel Prize Recipient Joseph E. Stiglitz In 2023, the world has experienced slowing economic conditions, heightened geopolitical instability and mounting tensions among major global powers. Geopolitical uncertainties persist, with ongoing conflicts such as the Russia-Ukraine War, escalating competition between the U.S. and China, and the emergence ... Read more

National CAPACD is excited to announce an upcoming webinar on February 7, centered around solidarity, allyship, and healing between Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AA and NHPI) and BIPOC communities. This webinar will feature speakers from the local community-based organizations that have been supported by National CAPACD’s AA and NHPI Community Resilience Fund ... Read more

Live performances and special appearances by guest honorees, and more. Open to the public. RSVP by February 2, 2024.

The Asian American Foundation and Third State Books invite you to celebrate AANHPI history with the highly anticipated publication of our graphic novel Fighting to Belong: History of Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders, Vol I.

Since the introduction of their Pocket Chinese Almanac at MOCA in 2010, Joanna C. Lee and Ken Smith have become an integral part of our Lunar New Year celebrations, bringing a unique blend of cultural expertise and insightful foresight. Their annual predictions have turned into a staple for many who seek to navigate the year ... Read more

Moderated by Chenxing Han, “Recovery: The History of America’s Early Buddho-Daoist Temples” illuminates the process of cultural and religious recovery through architecture and archives. Together, Drs. Chuimei Ho, Bennett Bronson, and Jonathan H.X. Lee will discuss the vibrant communities and voices engaged in 19th-century California’s thriving traditional Chinese temples and shrines, allowing us to hear ... Read more

Are you teaching—in whatever position—in a SUNY or CUNY institution, with at least some level of Southeast Asia interest/focus? Please join an informal discussion of plans, ideas, and more, on what SEAC has been doing and hopes to accomplish, how we can better incorporate Southeast Asia into our curricula and research, and more. We will ... Read more

In anticipation of the Lunar New Year celebrations, join us for an insightful and inspiring event that celebrates the journey of Asian women entrepreneurs. Our panelists will share their unique challenges, pivotal moments in their business journeys, insights into their mindsets, and cherished rituals surrounding the Lunar New Year. Julie Zhu will explore the journeys ... Read more

Swoop into the Year of the Wood Dragon with your family and friends! Celebrate Losar, the Tibetan New Year, with an afternoon of art. Learn about traditional Losar celebrations and this year’s zodiac animal, the powerful and determined Wood Dragon. Then explore the galleries, watch a traditional torma butter sculpture demonstration, and let your creativity ... Read more

Pakistan’s upcoming elections mark a pivotal juncture for the country and for broader South Asia. Against the backdrop of enduring political challenges and a relentless economic crisis, the discourse on governance, policies, and the imperative for reforms spark several pressing questions: Will these elections reshape the delicate balance between civilian governance and military influence? Can ... Read more

Join Borough President Donovan Richards Jr. for a joyous celebration of Lunar New Year, as Queens welcomes the Year of the Dragon. Come to Queens Borough Hall for a festive evening of cultural performances, delicious food, and honorees who uplift our Queens community. Cosponsored by the Chinese Business Association of New York.

Please join us for this webinar to learn about Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions (AANAPISIs) and Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions (ANNHSIs). This event will be an opportunity to connect and learn about these minority serving educational funding designations, the role the institutions play in improving education equity for AA ... Read more

Asian Americans have faced significant career obstacles in the journalism industry, as is true in many industries. Our two panelists, who both are long-term veterans in the journalism industry, will share their observations about the career ceilings problem in journalism, their personal experiences, and the advice that they would give to Asian Americans pursuing careers ... Read more

For the first installment of the NYU Migration Network’s inaugural Public Conversation Series, Jennifer Lee (Columbia University) and Crystal Parikh (Director, Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU) will engage in conversation on “Asian Americans and the Curse of Competence.” Held monthly on select Thursdays over the spring 2024 semester, the Public Conversation Series will bring together scholars, ... Read more

To commemorate Philippine Solidarity Month, Anakbayan Manhattan (ABM) and the New York Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines (NYCHRP) invite you to join us on Saturday, February 15th for a night of cultural performances and educational discussions as we explore the Filipino pursuit to shape a future marked by enduring justice and genuine democracy. ... Read more

Last fall, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida made a significant move by appointing five women to his cabinet, notably including the first female foreign minister in over two decades. Demonstrating a commitment to gender diversity, Kishida has also set an ambitious target of achieving a 30% representation of women in executive positions within prime-listed companies by ... Read more

Come to China Institute for a fun evening of calligraphy and music with friends, a date, or family members! Practice wellness with like-minded cultural enthusiasts, and experience rich Chinese culture in the heart of NYC! Participants are invited to pick up a brush and practice writing with guidance from our calligraphy expert, while enjoying intimate ... Read more

Get ready to soar into the festivities as we welcome the Year of the Dragon with an afternoon of legendary fun for the whole family!

Celebrate storytelling creativity with our festival of animation short films by Asian American and Asian artists. We're Screening 11 Films Selected from over 1,000 submissions... In addition to the category winners below, this year’s Official Selected Animation Shorts are listed below. The program on February 18th, 2024 will only screen some of the films due ... Read more

Conversation with author, scholar and Queens College alumna Ava Chin on her memoir, Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming, Penguin Press, 2023). Moderated by President Frank Wu, Queens College. Ava Chin is the author of the award-winning Eating Wildly and Mott Street, which was named a Best Book of 2023 ... Read more

Join us for a discussion on deterrence and North Korea with Ambassador Bonnie Jenkins, United States Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security. Together in conversation with US Air Force Reserve Major Jessica Taylor and Korea Society Policy Director Jonathan Corrado, Ambassador Jenkins will discuss the US-ROK Alliance and the growing threats ... Read more

Instructor: Subramaniam Vincent, Director of Journalism and Media Ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University As the 2024 elections draw closer, political campaigns are poised for extensive outreach, with an anticipated surge in advertising spending. According to Axios, U.S. elections-related advertising is projected to reach approximately $16 billion. Local, community and ... Read more

Please join Queens DA Melinda Katz, Congresswoman Grace Meng, NY Senator John Liu, NYC Council Members Linda Lee and Sandra Ung to celebrate

Discover the captivating music of the Weimar Republic at the NYCP Chamber Music Series, in partnership with Carnegie Hall and the NY Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. Experience Hindemith's emotive Piano Sonata No. 2 and String Trio No. 1, followed by Korngold's innovative Suite for Left Hand Piano and Strings. Celebrate ... Read more

Parade begins on Mott/Canal Street, and will head towards the Bowery, up East Broadway, down Eldridge Street, and end around Grand Street. Festival Booths on Bayard St. between Mott St and Mulberry St.

Museum of Chinese in America launched its inaugural Performing-Artist-In-Residence program in summer 2023, and welcomed a cohort of 4 performing artists to generate a theme-based project. This year’s theme, The Past in the Present, encourages the resident artists to explore the legacies and traditions they’ve carried on and to create a project that reflects their identity, ... Read more

Please join us for a very special professional learning session at the Museum of Chinese in America to explore strategies for using comics and graphic novels to teach Asian American and Pacific Islander history. We will share the newly published Hidden Voices: Asian American and Pacific Islander curricular resources including Who Belongs, and Meet the ... Read more

Join us for our first in a series of in-depth conversations this year about mental health within the Asian American community, featuring U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy and psychiatrist Dr. Sue Varma, author of Practical Optimism: The Art, Science, and Practice of Exceptional Well-Being. The conversation will be moderated by Vicky Nguyen, NBC News Senior ... Read more

The Mary Keatinge Das Lecture A talk by Richard Eaton (Arizona) “A Typology of Architecture and Power, and the Decline of Indian Buddhism” Introduction by Katherine Ewing, Professor of Religion and Director, South Asia Institute Time: 6:15pm - 7:45pm Location:  208 Knox Hall, 606 West 122nd Street, between Broadway and Claremont A graduate of the ... Read more

Over the past few years, challenges to books written by or about LGBTQ people—as well as those by or about racial and ethnic minorities—have been on the rise. This trend has especially impacted books that are intended for young audiences. In 2023 alone, more than 1,900 attempts were made to ban books from school libraries ... Read more

The Museum of Chinese in America is proud to partner with New Asia Chamber Music Society again to present a new recital program to celebrate the Year of the Dragon. Embark on a musical odyssey with the New Asia Chamber Music Society! Join us for an extraordinary concert featuring a captivating repertoire that explores the ... Read more

Join us for our second event bridging research, practice, and community engagement. Dr. Lisa Suzuki's lab is working to understand the impact of race-based trauma in the Asian American community. The panel aims to familiarize participants with culturally tailored treatment, including specific techniques and questions employed in therapies, and explore intervention aspects designed specifically for ... Read more

Dharna, a law-abiding gay beautician in one of the slums of Manila, finds their life in danger on learning that his name has been included in the village drug watchlist. In Duterte’s war on drugs, even having one’s name on the watchlist means the risk of getting killed extrajudicially. Dharna goes on a darkly comic ... Read more

Every year Malikah hosts the National Muslim Women’s Summit. This is our eighth summit and serves as one of the few nation-wide opportunities for social justice minded Muslim women to connect and discuss the current status of Muslim women in America and our collective vision for the future. We will be focused on how to ... Read more

Every year, we gather to commemorate the anniversary of the February 19, 1942 signing of Executive Order 9066, which authorized the U.S. military to forcibly remove and incarcerate over 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry during WWII. We, our parents, grandparents, their siblings, and their parents were among those who were forced to leave behind everything ... Read more