Happy Cleaners
Join us for a discussion of the feature film, Happy Cleaners (2019), a heartfelt story that celebrates the survival of immigrants, the experiences of the Korean American community, and the value of family.
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Our Laundry, Our Town: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond
Our Laundry, Our Town (Empire State Editions, 2022) is a memoir that decodes and processes the fractured urban oracle bones of Alvin Eng’s growing up in Flushing, Queens, a neighborhood of that singular universe that was New York City in the 1970s. As a theatre practitioner and professor, Alvin discovered the under-chronicled Chinese influence on Thornton Wilder’s seminal Americana drama, Our Town.
Solar Flushing
Queens College/CUNY Solar Flushing Date: Friday, June 1, 2012 Time: 2PM to 3PM Place: Flushing – Queens Library 4117 Main Street, Flushing, Queens Class presentation by Urban Studies 373 and 760, taught by Dr. Tarry Hum, at Queens College/CUNY. Students will discuss the opportunities and challenges of advancing solar energy in Flushing, and present their … Read more
Planning the Future of Downtown Flushing: Flushing River and Waterfront
Date: Monday, May 23, 2011 Time: 5PM to 6PM Place: Flushing – Queens Library 4117 Main Street, Flushing, Queens Class presentation by Urban Studies 220 E4M3 and 760.1 E4M2, taught by Dr. Tarry Hum, at Queens College/CUNY. Flushing, Queens is a diverse immigrant neighborhood undergoing much development and dynamic change. The city recently approved TDC … Read more
The Last Emperor of Flushing’s Final Manifesto
Alvin Eng is playwright, performer and adjunct Professor of Creative Writing on the English Department faculties of John Jay, BMCC and Fordham. He will be reading from “THE LAST EMPEROR of FLUSHING’S FINAL MANIFESTO–An Imperial Memoir in Queens English”–the prose adaptation of his acclaimed memoir monologues, The Flushing Cycle and The Last Emperor of Flushing. … Read more
The Flushing Cycle and Other Works
With recent accomplishments including editing and compiling a play anthology and oral history entitled “Tokens? The NYC Asian American Experience,” and the upcoming publication of excerpts from his memoir monologue entitled “The Flushing Cycle” in the Spring 2003 issue of the Performing Arts Journal, Prof. Alvin Eng will share some insight on his experiences, as … Read more