Lunar New Year is just around the corner, and we are celebrating the Year of the Snake with our annual Lunar New Year celebration at Flushing High School! The festivities will take place on Sunday, January 26, 2025 at 3 p.m. Come for free food from local restaurants, live music, dances, and cultural performances. The ... Read more

During the 1850s, thousands of Chinese immigrants arrived in the United States in search of economic opportunities during the Gold Rush. Most of them settled in California, especially northern California. They faced extreme levels of prejudice, discrimination, and hate. As a means of survival, early Chinese immigrants formed close-knit communities. The first Chinatown was established ... Read more

For our first Town Hall of the year, A4 is focused on photography. Folks in lens-based media are invited to share their projects, resources, and opportunities with the AAPI creative community, as well as make new connections.

This virtually-held event is geared towards NY social workers of various levels and fields of practice. An official bi-annual event at the NASW-NYS/NYC Chapter, the virtual social work job fair aims to support and engage NY social workers who are new to the profession and who are looking for a new position to continue their careers. 

Join us for a Town Hall meeting focused on the arts and culture scene in Queens! This event is an opportunity to engage with local artists, cultural leaders, and fellow residents. Share your ideas, discuss upcoming projects, and help shape the future of arts and culture in Queens. Attendees will participate in open discussions and ... Read more

This class is online only. Have you ever wondered about the history of your home? Who used to live there or what their lives were like? This class will show you how to research the history of your building and the people who owned and lived in it.  Looking at censuses, city directories, land conveyances, ... Read more

Join us for an illuminating conversation with Lionel Barber, author of Gambling Man: The Secret Story of the World’s Greatest Disruptor, Masayoshi Son. Gambling Man is the first Western biography of the enigmatic founder of Softbank -- written with Son’s cooperation but not authorized by him. Barber’s character study of Son reveals a man of ... Read more

Join Borough President Donovan Richards for a joyous celebration of Lunar New Year, as Queens welcomes the Year of the Snake. Enjoy a vibrant evening featuring cultural performances, food and special honors for distinguished members of Queens' AAPI community.

7pm Panel Discussion (free with purchase of performance ticket) Join Tecumseh Ceaser (Matinecock) and Bianca Collins (Shinnecock) in welcoming Robert Mirabal (Taos Pueblo) and members of his band Rare Tribal Mob. They will discuss Indigenous arts and culture, access to traditional music and native languages, and the connection to the land.  This invigorating conversation will be followed by Robert Mirabal in performance ... Read more

Happy New Year! Celebrate the Lunar New Year aka Year of the Snake with your fave comedy team Model Majority (recently featured on Good Morning America) for a night of snake-inspired comedy, music, special guests and more. Plus the audience will be given gifts of laughter, red envelopes and delicious Asian treats, for a happy ... Read more

Experience a once-in-a-lifetime cultural extravaganza as China Institute brings the enchantment of Prince Kung’s Palace Museum—a national first-class museum and one of the most prestigious cultural treasures of China—to the heart of New York City. This year’s festival will transport you to the grandeur of Beijing with an authentic and dazzling celebration featuring rich traditions, ... Read more

disOrientalism is a truly New York experience– bringing together the best artists from Broadway, Stand Up Comedy, Dance, and Music for one spectacular all-star AAPI variety hour. To start off the year of the Snake, we are going to love you a long time with some one-of-a-kind performances carefully curated and hosted by New York’s ... Read more

As public and private funding for nonprofit organizations is reduced, many nonprofits are struggling with an unprecedented demand for services amidst a shifting financial landscape. In order to continue to deliver vital services, organizations are considering reducing their workforce, searching for alternative sources of revenue, and weighing strategic alliances. Each of these options raises significant ... Read more

Let’s bring in the Year of the Wood Snake with lucky nian gao 年糕 sticky rice cake! Learn all about the cultural traditions, significance and symbolism behind nian gao, as well as where to buy delicious handmade nian gao in Chinatown and where to find the ingredients you need to make it yourself at home. ... Read more

An engaged and skillful Board of Directors is key to fostering a resilient and enduring nonprofit organization. Directors often agree to serve on nonprofit Boards because they support the mission and work of an organization, but service on a Board brings with it significant responsibilities. This webinar will address the role of nonprofit Board members ... Read more

The China Business Conundrum: Ensure That "Win-Win" Doesn't Mean Western Companies Lose Twice describes former CEO of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) Ken Wilcox's firsthand challenges he encountered in four years “on the ground” trying to establish a joint venture between SVB and the Chinese government to fund local innovation design―and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) ... Read more

The Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) invites you to an engaging discussion with Cassindy Chao, the highly respected dating coach, matchmaker, and author of Ancient Wisdom, Modern Love: Chinese Wisdom for Dating Success. Cassindy’s newly expanded edition of her book features family stories, cherished recipes, and heartfelt reflections on love and relationships.

Roundabout Theatre Company is extending an invitation for a $20 community night performance for the Pulitzer-prize winning Broadway Play, ENGLISH. Please use code ENGLISH25CN. Roundabout brings English, by Sanaz Toossi, home to Broadway, after we co-produced its world premiere with Atlantic Theater Company. Knud Adams (Primary Trust) once again directs this Pulitzer Prize-winning play about ... Read more

As the Chinese economy slows and geopolitical tensions rise, multinational companies are reconsidering their footprint in China. Many of the most experienced and knowledgeable China-based businesspeople, analysts, and journalists have left the country in recent years, especially post-COVID. Political tightening under Xi Jinping and growing suspicions of foreign entities have made it more challenging for ... Read more

This free entrepreneurship workshop is the second in a series, powered by NYSTEC IgniteU NY in collaboration with the CUNY Office of Research, and is designed to expose participants to different business resources. In this workshop, attendees will gain valuable insights about searching for funding for research and commercialization of technology. Attendees will hear from ... Read more

CACF invites you to a critical briefing on the Foundation Aid formula—the funding mechanism that determines how much our schools receive—and the current proposed education budget for NYC. We’ll discuss what’s at stake, including potential funding cuts, and how these changes impact AAPI students and families in the NYC public school system.

Join the New York Chinese Cultural Center and the Museum of Chinese in America to celebrate the Lunar New Year with a performance by NYCCC’s resident company and guest artists.

Distinguished Professor Morris Rossabi and President Frank H. Wu invite you to a lecture on "China and Central Asia: An Expert Opinion" by Dr. Parviz Mullojonov, Political Scientist, Historian, and Senior Advisor to International Alert in Central Asia.

Celebrating the career and journey of Producer and Actress Grace Chang and her family.

Do you always have to get everything right - grades, friends, family, work? Are you allowed to make mistakes, to try different things and different paths? In this session, we will examine the connections between perfection and self esteem, explore the ways failure and exploration can lead to personal growth, and learn strategies for. Open to ... Read more

In this 60-minute Tai Chi workshop designed for mental health, participants not only learn about the mental health benefits of Tai Chi but also leave with practical skills and experiences that can motivate them to continue practicing on their own and exploring Tai Chi further.

Books can seduce you. They can annihilate, reveal, and provoke you. And anyone incurably obsessed with books, Sarah Chihaya thinks, has had this kind of unsettling literary encounter. She calls books that have this effect “Life Ruiners.” Chihaya’s Life Ruiner, Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, became a talisman for her in high school, and its electrifying ... Read more

Join us for an empowering panel discussion around mixed identities in the workplace in partnership with The WICT Network: New York (Empowering Women in Media, Entertainment & Technology) & ACE (Asian Community Excellence ERG at A+E Networks).

Asia Society continues an ongoing monthly series titled Films to See Before You Die featuring classic films and underseen gems from across Asia and the Asian diaspora with extended introductions by Asia Society's Curator of Film. Moral  Marilou Diaz-Abaya, Philippines, 1982, DCP, 140 min. In Tagalog with English subtitles. Four Filipina women navigate friendship and ... Read more

Join us for a discussion about fallout from the Yoon Suk Yeol administration’s Martial Law declaration, his subsequent impeachment and the presidential transition in Seoul, challenges to South Korea’s democracy, and implications for the U.S.-Korea relationship and Korea’s foreign relations, with Kelly Kasulis Cho, Washington Post Breaking News Reporter, Andrew Yeo, senior fellow and the ... Read more

Among Western audiences, Daniel A. Bell is best known as a critic of liberalism. Still, he is also a critic of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), specifically of its legalist and Leninist legacies. What sets him apart from the typical Western critic is skin in the game, as he writes from within China, with nuance ... Read more

China and India have long been central to the world economy. Two and a half centuries ago, they contributed 50% of the world’s output; after suffering a decline thereafter, their share fell to a paltry 9% in 1950 but has since resurged to about 25% today. This book shows that the growth and inequality experiences ... Read more

Join Dr. Mimi Khúc as she shares her work on unwellness and the university from her new book, dear elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss. Applying her framework of a “pedagogy of unwellness,” Dr. Khúc explores the contours of student and faculty unwellness and realizes that academic hyperproductivity across university strata is a kind of unrelenting ... Read more

Kamlani’s debut novel explores the British perception of India and the Indian perception of Britain through the story of a man who straddles both cultures but is fully at home in neither.

How can a Taiwanese novel incorporate historical materials from its decades under Japanese colonial rule? How does two women’s travelogue become a work of fiction? This talk will examine Taiwan Travelogue’s use of a “Shōwa Taiwan Railway Gourmet Tour” as its storytelling framework, covering the novel’s early inspirations, conceptual development, research, fieldwork, archives-building, story conception, ... Read more

Hao Bang Ah! Snake! features original Chinese budaixi hand puppets performing a selection of wild skits, dances, and songs that celebrate the wit and wisdom of the zodiac animals! Special guests include Lady Whitesnake and other all-star members of the zodiac puppet ensemble.

Whether performing on the National Mall in DC for the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, or in the foothills of the Himalayas in Pakistan for 10,000 people, Sunny Jain’s Wild Wild East creates hypnotic rhythms that intertwine with Hindustani vocals, saxophone and guitar. Drawing from his family’s immigration story, Jain recasts the immigrant as the modern-day cowboy ... Read more

“Skin” has multiple and fraught meanings in Asian America. Asian skin tones are ambiguous, variously labeled as yellow, brown, or white-ish. Colorism and the stigma of darker skin are frequently raised as evidence of Asian anti-Blackness, and a preference for skin whitening likewise interpreted as imitating whiteness. As scholars like Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, S. ... Read more

Join the Campaign Finance Board's Public Affairs team to learn about the agency's plan for the June Primary Elections, particularly around Ranked Choice Voting. We look forward to your questions, feedback, and collaboration ideas!

Since the 1960s, Jerome A. Cohen has been one of America’s foremost voices on China. As professor at Harvard Law School, he founded the study of Chinese law in the U.S. Over his career he has advocated for human rights, encouraged legal reforms, mentored students — including future president of Taiwan Ma Ying-jeou — and ... Read more

Join us for the unveiling of Campu: An American Story, an immersive portrait project exploring the resilience of Japanese Americans who were incarcerated in camps during WWII. Since 2022, photographer and National Geographic Explorer Haruka Sakaguchi has traveled to all 10 camps and photographed over 80 Japanese Americans as they made pilgrimages to their former camps ... Read more

Soprano Heekyung Jung, an artist devoted to her craft, takes the stage to perform some of the most iconic works from Maria Callas’ repertoire—from Tosca to Lucia di Lammermoor. Backstage, her makeup complete, she pauses in quiet reflection, tracing the journey that led her to this moment. Through intimate storytelling, she revisits the pivotal experiences ... Read more

35mm Presentation. After a three-year stint in the penitentiary, rough-hewn yakuza Muraki (Ryo Ikebe) returns to the dimly lit gambling dens of postwar Tokyo in Masahiro Shinoda’s 1964 nuberu bagu (new wave) breakthrough. Within the claustrophobic halls of shuffling hanafuda cards and a sweaty haze of fanning bodies and irezumi-clad gamblers, Muraki notices the enigmatic ... Read more

Each year, Japan celebrates National Cat Day on February 22. This date in Japanese is “Ni Ni Ni”, which resembles the words “Nyan Nyan Nyan”, the Japanese words for “Meow Meow Meow”. Japan Society is excited to bring this celebration to New York for a purr-fectly delightful afternoon filled with paw-some events. The afternoon kicks off ... Read more

A lonely traveler, wounded by love and abandoned in despair, walks through a snow-covered plain, battered by the cold wind. His sorrowful journey paints a haunting portrait of isolation and rejection—one that may also reflect the loneliness of modern life. The deep sense of darkness in Winterreise goes beyond heartbreak. It speaks to something more ... Read more

The panel features Jo Inge Bekkevold, Senior China Fellow at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies/Norwegian Defence University College; Katarzyna Zysk, Professor of International Relations and Contemporary History at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies; and Elizabeth Wishnick, Senior Research Scientist in the China and Indo-Pacific Security Affairs Division at the Center for Naval Analyses and Senior Research ... Read more

oin us for an exclusive evening with Hao Jiang Tian, a trailblazer in the world of opera and a bridge between cultures. The discussion will explore his journey as an immigrant in the United States in the 1980s, his groundbreaking entry into the euro-centric opera sphere, and his ongoing efforts to promote cultural exchange through ... Read more

China Institute in America is thrilled to present a special screening of SAME OLD, the award-winning short film by Lloyd Lee Choi. Premiering at the 75th Cannes Film Festival, it has won multiple awards, including 1st place at the HBOmax APA Visionaries Awards. This gripping film vividly portrays one fateful night in the life of a New York City ... Read more

As we celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Asian American Business Roundtable, we bring together accomplished, forward-thinking Asian American business leaders to reflect on the achievements and challenges of the past ten years and take stock of how much impact and influence we have had on corporate strategy and what can be done to increase ... Read more

Prithi Kanakamedala’s book Brooklynites: The Remarkable Story of the Free Black Communities that Shaped a Borough is a cultural and social history told through four ordinary families from Brooklyn’s nineteenth-century free Black community: the Crogers, the Hodges, the Wilsons, and the Gloucesters. The book illustrates the depth and scope of their activism, cementing Brooklyn’s place in ... Read more

Asia Society invites you to join us for a conversation with Dr. Paul Gruenwald, Global Chief Economist at S&P Global Ratings. Dr. Gruenwald will provide insights on key market trends, including Trump 2.0, AI advancements, and the evolving landscape of globalization. Topics will cover the potential impact of a second Trump administration on Asian markets, ... Read more

Join us for a virtual conversation with Senator Chuck Schumer and learn how to safeguard your nonprofit organization.

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

In celebration of Women’s History Month, the Museum of Chinese in America honors the remarkable contributions of Asian and Asian American women composers to the musical landscape. Musicians Tessa Brinckman, Tiffany Wu and Kim Foester will present Weaving Clouds: Women in Creative Renewal, a captivating concert that combines harp, viola and flutes in an intimate ... Read more