Join the New York Asian Film Foundation for the international premiere of Flower Girl (2025) as part of the New York Asian Film Festival. The film screening will be followed by a Q&A with Director Fatrick Tabada and actress Sue Ramirez.

Join the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and Asian American Journalists Association for an enlivening conversation on transitioning from reporting to long-form storytelling, featuring Vicky Nguyen and Youngmi Mayer. The panelists will reflect on the challenges of shifting from the fast-paced, fact-driven world of journalism to the slower, more introspective craft of writing books.

Join the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and the New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF) for a special program of conversation, community, and a film screening of Skin of Youth (2025). Panelists include Tony Bui, Kiều Chinh, Catherine T. Nguyễn, Việt Hương, Công Dương, and Nguyen Lam Thao Tam.

Join the New York Asian Film Foundation and Film at Lincoln Center for the North American premiere of The Hearing (2024) as part of the New York Asian Film Festival. The film screening will be followed by a Q&A with Director Lawrence Fajardo.

Join the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and IMGE Dance for Kinetic Mixer, a new dance film networking event designed for aspiring and established dance filmmakers.

Join Book Culture and the SUNY/CUNY Southeast Asia Consortium on Wednesday, July 9th at 7pm for a conversation with Benjamin Tausig, author of Bangkok after Dark: Maurice Rocco, Transnational Nightlife, and the Making of Cold War Intimacies, and Rianne Subijanto, author of Communication against Capital: Red Enlightenment at the Dawn of Indonesia. 

Please join Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art (NMAA) and the US-ASEAN Center on Monday, June 30 at 3pm ET for a panel discussion on US-Cambodian Cultural Heritage Protection, featuring NMAA’s Associate Curator of Southeast and South Asian Art, Emma Stein. This program will take place at the US-ASEAN Center at 1800 I Street NW, Washington, DC. There will also be a virtual attendance option if you cannot join us in person.

Join the Asia Society for the Prehistoric Body Theater’s performance of Ghosts of Hell Creek: Stone Garuda. In this performance by the Prehistoric Body Theater ensemble, Indonesian dancers channel prehistoric dinosaurs as they explore themes of mass extinction, climate crisis, and evolutionary ancestry through movement. Co-created with Indigenous Indonesian performing artists, Prehistoric Body Theater collaborates with international scientists to craft performances informed by cutting-edge paleontology—uniting art, science, and a deep commitment to nature conservation.

Join the Asia Society for the Prehistoric Body Theater’s premiere performance of Ghosts of Hell Creek: Stone Garuda. In this performance by the Prehistoric Body Theater ensemble, Indonesian dancers channel prehistoric dinosaurs as they explore themes of mass extinction, climate crisis, and evolutionary ancestry through movement. Co-created with Indigenous Indonesian performing artists, Prehistoric Body Theater collaborates with international scientists to craft performances informed by cutting-edge paleontology—uniting art, science, and a deep commitment to nature conservation.

Join the New York Public Library for a talk by acclaimed translator Jeremy Tiang, who will discuss his debut novel State of Emergency. This book is the winner of the Singapore Literature Prize.

Join the Asian American Writers’ Workshop for a celebration of Mothersalt by Mia Ayumi Malhotra and Becoming Ghost by Cathy Lin Che, featuring readings by Sahar Muradi and Eugenia Leigh.

Join ALTSEAN-Burma and PEN America for a book launch and celebration of the new anthology Women’s Voices from the Revolution. The panel will bring together writers and human rights advocates for a conversation on free expression, the transformative power of storytelling, and their personal experiences living under the Myanmar military's rule. Featured speakers Ma Thida, A Phyu, and Debbie Stothard.

Join Kew and Willow Books to celebrate AAPI Heritage Month with a lineup of amazing authors, who will read from their most recent works. Featured speakers include Cambodian American poet Chenda Bao, Chamoru writer Francisco Delgado, and multi-genre writer Taiyo Na.

Join the Center for Khmer Studies for a talk by Dr. Lawrence Chua, Associate Professor of Architecture at Syracuse University and CKS Research Fellow, who will discuss the conjoined genealogies of the Musée Albert Sarraut (Phnom Penh, 1920) and the National Museum of Bangkok (1927).

Join the New York Public Library for a talk by Kevin Nguyen, who will discuss his second novel, Mỹ Documents. The features editor at The Verge satirizes American xenophobia, political dysfunction, and our tech-culture industrial complex. Nguyen discusses his novel with writer Chris Gayomali.

Join Yu & Me Bookstore for a talk by Cathy Lin Che, Vietnamese American writer and multidisciplinary artist, as she discusses Becoming Ghost, her poetry collection about familial estrangement, the Vietnam War, and Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now. Author Kyle Lucia Wu will moderate the discussion.

Join PEN America for a webinar on the Cambodia-America rock opera Where Elephants Weep and human rights issues surrounding the Khmer Rouge regime. Panelists include Catherine Filloux, award-winning French Algerian American playwright, renowned composer Him Sophy, and performer and policy analyst Amara Goel. Executive Director of the Artists at Risk Connection Julie Trébault will moderate the conversation.

Join Weatherhead East Asian Institute and the School of the Arts at Columbia University for a panel on war, memory, and the enduring power of cinema in bearing witness and raising conscience surrounding the Vietnam War. Featured speakers include Phillip Noyce, director of The Quiet American (2002), and Tony Bui, filmmaker and Artist in Residence at WEAI. Ted Osius, former United States Ambassador to Vietnam, will moderate the discussion.

Join Asia in Action’s The Conversation Series at Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute for a panel commemorating the end of the Vietnam War and highlighting how the arts have played a powerful role in promoting peace and building bridges for new generations. Featured speakers include poet and author Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, and photographer Peter Steinhauer. Tony Bui, Artist in Residence at WEAI, will moderate the panel discussion.

Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute (WEAI) will host a panel marking the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War’s end and the 30th anniversary of U.S.-Vietnam reconciliation. Organized by Global Vietnam Studies with Columbia Global, the Journalism School, and the School of the Arts, the event features documentary filmmakers Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein (The Vietnam War), former Vietnamese Lt. Gen. Lo Khac Tam, Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, WEAI Director and History Professor at Columbia, and Thomas Vallely, Senior Advisor for Global Vietnam Studies at WEAI, co-founder of Fulbright University Vietnam, and former U.S. Marine (Silver Star recipient).

Join Global Vietnam Studies at Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University for a conference commemorating the 30th anniversary of US-Vietnam Reconciliation. This commemoration seeks to explore the contested history of the war and of the peace, and draw lessons for the future of US-Vietnam relations and for conflict resolution around the world. This event features Severine Autesserre, Chinh Chu, Quoc Viet Le, Annabel Lee, Chris Miller, Lien-Hang Nguyen, Nguyen Quoc Dung, Dang Dinh Quy, Dang Hoang Giang, Wafaa El-Sadr, and Thomas Vallely.

Join the Weatherhead East Asian Institute (WEAI) at Columbia University and the Columbia Journalism School for a keynote and ao dai exhibition featuring the Vietnamese-American actress, Kiều Chinh. Tony Bui, Artist in Residence at WEAI, will moderate the discussion.

Join Global Vietnam Studies at Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University for a conference commemorating the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. This commemoration seeks to explore the contested history of the war, and features Tony Bui, Lan Cao, Thuy Dinh, Olga Dror, Mai Elliott, Sean Fear, Laurel Kendall, Ann Marie Leshkowich, Trinh Luu, Adrienne Le, Lien-Hang Nguyen, Martina Nguyen, John Phan, Hoi Trinh, Nu Anh Tran, Duy Linh Tu, and Tuong Vu.

Join New York City Council Speaker Adrienne E. Adams and fellow Council Members for a vibrant celebration of Songkran (Thai New Year) and Thingyan (Burmese New Year). These joyous holidays, traditionally observed in mid-April, are renowned for their water festivals symbolizing renewal and fresh beginnings.

Please RSVP by Friday, April 25, 2025.