Join Sonic Bloom and Berlin NYC for a concert featuring distinct R&B voices from the Asian Diaspora: Jereena Montemayor, Filipino American R&B/Pop artist from Southern California; Mark Natama, Indonesian artist blending traditional R&B with contemporary elements, and Dhyan Rajamani, recording artist hailing from Maryland.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University (NIU) for a talk by Wan Juliana Emeih Binti Wahed, NIU Fulbright Visiting Scholar and Senior Lecturer at the College of Creative Arts, MARA University of Technology Sarawak Branch, Malaysia. In this lecture, Dr. Wahed will discuss the aesthetic design of Pua Kumbu, a traditional patterned multi-coloured ceremonial cotton clothing created and occasionally worn by the Iban people of Sarawak, West Kalimantan in Indonesia, and Brunei.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at UCLA for a lecture by Dr. Supeena Insee Adler, the curator and conservator of the World Musical Instrument Collection at UCLA and an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Ethnomusicology, where she directs the Music of Thailand ensemble. In this lecture, Dr. Adler will discuss the efforts of the Thai performing arts community in preserving cultural heritage and strengthening social bonds in Southern California’s Thai diaspora.

Join NYSEAN and Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU for a talk by Gina Apostol, acclaimed author who teaches writing at the Fieldston School, Barnard College, and The New School; and Neferti Tadiar, Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College.

Join the Asian American / Asian Research Institute at CUNY for a book talk on Contemporary Art and Ecological Transformation in East and Southeast Asia, an edited volume that examines how contemporary art in East and Southeast Asia confronts environmental destruction, ecological degradation, and social injustice against the backdrop of global ecological crises. Featured speakers include Meqin Wang, Professor of Art at California State University, Northridge; Midori Yamamura, Associate Professor of Art History at Kingsborough Community College/CUNY and an Alcaly/Bodian Distinguished Scholar at the CUNY Graduate Center; Stephanie Benzaquen-Gautier, research fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies in Leiden and the Center for Khmer Studies; and Vicki Kwon, Associate Curator of Korean Art and Culture at the Royal Ontario Museum.

Join the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University for a talk by Phil Acimovic, Lecturer in the Department of Music at Yale University, and a gamelan musician and composer. Acimovic will discuss how the gamelan courses at Yale address the challenges of spontaneity and flexibility of Javanese gamelan in two musical contexts, klenèngan (concert music) and wayang (shadow plays).

To celebrate the Year of the Horse, join the World’s Borough Bookshop for author/illustrator Aram Kim reading Tomorrow Is New Year’s Day and author Monique Truong reading Mai's Áo Dài. The book readings are followed by activities learning all about customs and traditions important to the Lunar New Year, including an art workshop for kids by Bonnie Wong and a lion dance performance.

Join Lofty Pigeon Books for the launch of The Blue House I Loved by Kao Kalia Yang and Jen Shin, a beautifully illustrated story of Hmong refugees’ beloved first home after arriving in the United States. The book launch consists of a reading by the Illustrator Jen Shin, followed by a conversation, Q&A, and book signing.

Join the Center for Remembering & Sharing for a concert that explores the theme of immigration, growing out of their own rich multi-ethnic family and musical histories, from Africa, Japan, Timor, Taiwan, Haiti, and beyond. Curated by Jen Shyu, the concert features Jen Shyu herself (vocals, Taiwanese moon flute, Japanese biwa, Korean gayageum), Sumi Tonooka (piano), and Val Jeanty (SoundChemist).

Join the Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC) for a virtual screening of all five episodes of the Southeast Asian American Journeys documentary series, produced in partnership with the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) and featuring guest appearances from community members featured in the films. The screenings will be followed by a Q&A with Producer/Director Quyên Nguyen-Le, SEARAC Executive Director Quyen Dinh, and CAAM Executive Director Donald Young.

Join the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop for a workshop on making prints, using letterpress and risograph technologies, to collectively produce a zine or short monograph. This workshop includes a brief introduction by Rianne Subijanto, Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Baruch College-CUNY, and Meghan Forbes, author of Technologies for the Revolution: The Czech Avant-Garde in Print. This event will highlight histories of print culture from Indonesia to Czechoslovakia a century ago, in which the working class and avant-garde artists utilized printed matter and modern channels of communication to push for an anti-capitalist, anti-colonial future.

Join the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and The Twisted Spine Bookstore for the book launch of Twin Tides by Hien Nguyen, a speculative fiction writer who writes about Vietnamese ghosts, monsters, and mythology. The event features a reading by Carolina Đỗ and Rebecca Ho, voice actors of the audiobook. Writer and filmmaker Jade Song will moderate the discussion.

Join Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU, Espacio de Culturas at NYU, and NYSEAN for an evening of short films by Lav Diaz. The program includes: “Butterflies Have No Memories,” “Himala: A Dialectic of Our Times,” “Prologue to The Great Desaparecido,” “The Boy Who Chose the Earth,” “The Day Before the End,” and “The Firefly.”

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University (NIU) for a talk by Jui-Ching Wang, Professor of Music Education and World Music at NIU’s School of Music. Professor Wang will discuss a project called “Performing Southeast Asian Art Goes to School,” which helps develop curricula that use performing arts to teach K-12 students important historical context from Asian American Communities. This project connects NIU students and local in-service teachers with Asian American community members to raise awareness of Asian American cultures and history.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at UCLA and the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts - University of the Arts Singapore for a talk by Zechariah Goh, one of Singapore’s most distinguished composers who has made significant contributions to choral music worldwide. Goh will discuss the composition of his choral works over the last 30 years as well as their relationship to Singaporean cultural heritage, language, and traditions.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University for a talk by Benjamin Tausig, Associate Professor of Critical Music Studies at Stony Brook University, who will discuss his book on Maurice Rocco, a queer Black American jazz pianist who was murdered in 1976 in Bangkok. The talk explores how Rocco’s life and death reflect profound shifts in the definitions and valuations of race, sex, and gender identity in Cold War-era Thailand.

Join the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University for a talk by Analyn Salvador-Amores, Professor of Anthropology and former Director of the Museo Kordilyera at the University of the Philippines-Baguio. Dr. Salvador-Amores will discuss the commodification and revival of Indigenous tattoos from the Northern Philippines.

Join the Yale Council on Southeast Asia Studies for a talk by Pamela Nguyen Corey, Associate Professor of Art History at Fulbright University Vietnam. In this talk, she looks at metaphor as an artistic method that emphasizes temporal and tacit dimensions of regional imagination, using the 2023 Thailand Biennale in Chiang Rai and artworks by Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Nguyen Trinh Thi as case studies.

Join NYSEAN and Sulo: The Philippines Studies Initiative at NYU for a showcase of Filipino student filmmakers at NYU: Cal Galicia, Haley Jade Odum, Jack Lacy, and Lauren Luke. This program highlights and celebrates the work of these emerging storytellers before their films premiere on the festival circuit and beyond.

Join the Asian American / Asian Research Institute at CUNY for a talk by Vina Orden, who will present on her essay in CUNY FORUM Volume 11:1, examining how narratives in popular media can perpetuate or challenge existing power structures and colonial mentalities.

Join the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University for a talk by Anocha Suwichakornpong, Associate Professor of Film from Columbia University, who will discuss how fictional narrative filmmaking can serve as a form of resistance under authoritarian regimes, with a focus on her own practice as a filmmaker and artist working in Thailand.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at UCLA for a talk by Dr. Chinary Ung, Cambodian-American composer and emeritus faculty of music composition at University of California, San Diego. Dr. Ung will discuss his creative work and how tradition and futuristic experimentation can coexist musically.

Join Vietnamese Boat People (VBP) and Think!Chinatown Studio for a Story Slam in which Vietnamese Americans share their journey of migration, identity, love, loss, healing, and discovery. The event is preceded by a reception and an introduction by VBP’s Founder, Tracey Nguyễn Mang.

Join the Asia Society Museum for a film screening of Opera Jawa by Garin Nugroho, followed by a wine reception and a special music performance by renowned composer Peni Candra Rini with acclaimed musicians Shahzad Ismaily, Andy McGraw, and I Gusti Putu Sudarta.

Join the Asia Society Museum for a multi-sensorial celebration of the silent film Setan Jawa by filmmaker Garin Nugroho. The silent film will be accompanied by a live score composed and performed by Peni Candra Rini, with Andy McGraw, Shahzad Ismaily, Gusti Sudarta, and Scott Clark. A conversation and Q&A with the filmmaker follows the program.

Join NYSEAN and NYU MAIR for a talk by Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Benjamin Tausig about the way that music features in their new books and how they engage with songs in their various writings. Benjamin will give a brief introduction to his latest book, Bangkok After Dark. Jeffrey will then discuss a chapter in his new book, The Milk Tea Alliance.

Margaret Scott, NYSEAN co-founder, will moderate the discussion.