Entrenched in an elite sumo training facility in Tokyo, six men practice, eat, love, play, and ultimately fight. Step into the sacred world of sumo wrestling, with the New York premiere of Lisa Sanaye Dring’s mesmerizing new drama, SUMO. Akio arrives as an angry, ambitious 18-year-old with a lot to learn. Expecting validation, dominance, and fame, ... Read more

In this enthralling, poignant docufiction, director Lou Ye (SUZHOU RIVER) and his crew reunite in Wuhan in January 2020 to complete a film started a decade earlier. When the first wave of Covid precipitates lockdown and fear, this story of revived artistic vision pivots to a thriller-paced account of the early spread of the virus ... Read more

Join us for a screening and Q&A of RIDE WITH DELIVERY WORKERS, a documentary by filmmaker Jing Wang and Urban Studies/Asian American Community Studies Professor Do Lee!  RIDE WITH DELIVERY WORKERS captures the challenges and determination of immigrant food delivery workers in New York City. The narrative follows their pursuit of fair working conditions and ... Read more

What is White feminism and what is the alternative? Join us for a discussion between Philosophy Professor Serene Khader and students Cindy Lin and Eugene Zeus and on her recent book Faux Feminism: Why We Fall for White Feminism and How We Can Stop (Beacon 2024). Khader holds the Jay Newman Chair in Philosophy of ... Read more

Join Esther M. Choi, artist and author of Le Corbuffet, Iris Moon, curator of Monstrous Beauty, and Natasha Pickowicz, dessert chef and author of More than Cake, in a conversation moderated by Kelly Ma, Curator of Learning & Outreach at Asia Society Museum, to explore more into the world of art in food and its ... Read more

In this lecture, Professor Sunglim Kim explores the history of ink painting in Korea, and examines its origin and development, both in the past and the present.

For our March Town Hall, A4 is celebrating the literary arts by gathering poets and spoken word artists to share their work, resources, and opportunities with each other and the wider AAPI creative community. Featured presenters include poet Sreshtha Sen, poet and a 2024 Margins Fellow with AAWW, who will share excerpts from their manuscript-in-progress ... Read more

ICE officials are raiding communities, businesses, and private homes. Asian immigrants are being shipped off to Central American countries. And millions of immigrants and people of color are living in fear of racial profiling, detention, and deportation. The Trump administration’s anti-immigrant agenda has put a target on the backs of our nation’s most vulnerable Asian ... Read more