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Threads of the HMong Diaspora
Hosted by the California State Library, Pachia Lucy Vang, a textile arts designer at her studio Culture through Cloth, will explore the history of HMong Californians through the threads of their global diaspora.
The Evolution of Arts in Cambodia
Hosted by Asia Society, Phloeun Prim, Executive Director of Cambodian Living Arts and New York City-based Cambodian poet Sokunthary Svay will join Elena Park, Joe Melillo, and Karen Brooks Hopkins to reflect on how Cambodia’s the cultural landscape has been transformed in the years following the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime.
Memory Tracks: A Lao Family's Story Through Music
On this special edition of Bodega Pop with Gary Sullivan on WFMU, Rattana Bounsouaysana will share her family’s journey from Laos to the United States through their memories of Southeast Asian and English language popular music.
Singing the Underworld: Peni Candra Rini, Samita Sinha, and Qian Yi
Hosted by the Asia Society, Samita Sinha, Qian Yi, and Peni Candra Rini, will perform songs conveying their different interpretations of life and love, joy and sadness, and death and danger, including inspiration from Javanese myth.
Short Film Screening: The Ice Cream Sellers
The New York Center for Global Asia at New York University will host a screening of the award-winning short film, The Ice Cream Sellers, followed by a discussion with director Sohel Rahman. This film follows the everyday lives of two resilient Rohingya children in a turbulent refugee community.
Asian Video Cultures on the Global Electronic Superhighway
Hosted by the Institute of Fine Arts Contemporary Asia, a panel of curators and artists will discuss the current Museum of Modern Art Exhibit, Signals: How Video Transformed the World, and how artists harnessed video as an agent of social change in Asia.
Visions / Panawin: Focus on Philippine Cinema
Hosted at the NYU King Juan Carlos Center, the Visions/Panawin Film Series aims to introduce New York University and the Filipino American community in NYC to the rich canon of Philippine cinema. The third and final film featured will be Batang West Side, directed by Lav Diaz.
Poetic Currents: The Philippines and Beyond
Hosted by Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU, poets Luis H. Fracia, Vina Orden, Patrick Rosal, Renato Rosaldo, and Mary Louise Pratt will share their respective poetry and reflect on themes within the Filipino literary space.
Endless Revolution: Aesthetics of Resistance in the Neoliberal Peace
Hosted by the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University, Quynh H. Vo, American University, will juxtapose Vietnamese national politics of representation with narratives of human experience illustrated in Vietnamese American art and literature.
In Celebration of Dust Child: Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai and Vanessa Chan
Hosted at the New Design High School by the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Vanessa Chan, Malaysian author of The Storm We Made, will talk with Vietnamese author Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai about her latest novel, Dust Child.
Songs of Love and Loss: Crafting Buddhist Poetry in Early Modern Cambodia
Hosted by the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University, Trent Walker, author of Until Nirvana’s Time: Buddhist Songs from Cambodia, will discuss the aesthetic and affective dimensions of the four primary types of sung Buddhist poems in Cambodia: retellings of the Buddha's life, expressions of filial gratitude, meditations on the process of dying, and aspirations for future bliss.
Water as Leverage for Resilient Cities Asia
Hosted by The Forum at Columbia University, a short film and program from the Dutch Government’s Water as Leverage in Asia will tackle urban water-related challenges in the cities of Chennai (India), Khulna (Bangladesh), and Semarang (Indonesia).
Indonesia Monologue Night
Hosted by Bowery Poetry Club and sponsored by ReginArt, Wawan Sofyan will present his spoken word on Indonesia’s declaration of independence, Besok atau tidak sama sekali (Tomorrow or never). Joane Win will present Cotton Candy concerning sexual violence during Indonesia’s riot.
A Photographer in the Archives: Discovering the Dutch East Indies and an Independent Indonesia
Hosted by the Cornell University Library and Southeast Asia Program, Brian Arnold, author of A History of Photography in Indonesia: From the Colonial Era to the Digital Age, will present a lecture on the development of photography in Indonesia, emphasizing the importance of archives and a material-based approach to research.
Suanjaya Kencut Solo Exhibition
GR gallery will host the first solo exhibition of Indonesian artist, Suanjaya Kencut. Suanjaya’s 19 artworks aim to turn viewers' attention to the representation of human beings as dolls, representing how all living things are sacred, social creatures.
A Closer Look at Laos: Through the Eyes of a Film Director and a Journalist
Laotian film maker Mattie Do, journalist Manyphone Vongphachanh, and Noel Clehane, Global Head of Regulatory & Public Policy at BDO, will discuss current economic struggles and opportunities in Laos. This event is sponsored by Asia Society Switzerland, BDO, a global for-profit advisory firm, and the University of Zurich.
What's New? About New Singapore Poetries
Yu & Me Books will celebrate and amplify Asian literary voices by hosting the upcoming authors Hamid Roslan, Shou Jie Eng, Judy Luo, and Jee Leong Koh. Each author will perform readings from their respective works.
Visiting Shrines, Holding Manuscripts: On the Footsteps of Islamization in the Philippines
Hosted by the Harvard University Asia Center, Elsa Clavé, University of Hamburg, will discuss the the social and cultural aspects of the emergence of three Islamized political entities - the sultanates of Sulu, Magindanao-Buayan, and the Muslim confederation Pat a pengampong ko Ranao.
External Entrails
Silverlens New York is pleased to announce External Entrails, an intergenerational group exhibition featuring all new works by Southeast Asian artists Nicole Coson, Corinne de San Jose, Bernardo Pacquing, and Arin Sunaryo. The exhibition will open on November 16, 2022 and is the second show at Silverlens New York, following a successful inaugural opening in September.
Activating the Voice(s)
Hosted by the Cambodian American Literary Arts Association, Sokunthary Svay, a Khmer writer from the Bronx, will lead a writing workshop on how to find one’s voice and engage readers.
Translated History: Thai Revolution Reborn in Fiction
Hosted by Cornell University, Sunisa Manning will discuss her new novel, A Good True Thai, which describes the Thai 1970s student radicalization and revolution and was selected as a finalist for the Epigram Books Fiction Prize.
Băng Qua Nước: Across Land, Across Water
Curated by Ivy Vuong as part of the Artspace Open Source Festival, Băng Qua Nước: Across Land, Across Water is an exhibition exploring how homes exist, twist, and meld across land and water for Vietnamese diasporic peoples through the works of Connecticut-based Vietnamese artists Thuan Vu, Antonius-Tín Bui, Quyên Trương, and Thu Tran.
Mediation and Remediation of Khmer Traditional Wedding Music and Lakhon Bassac Theatre on Television and Social Media
Hosted by The Center for Khmer Studies, Dr. Francesca Billeri, University of Rome, will discuss how Phleng kar wedding music and lakhon bassac theatre genres are being mediated through television performances and remediated on the internet.
Meeting Point 2022: From Connection to Collaboration
Meeting Point 2022 offers spaces to discover new friends, exchange ideas and experiences, and discover inspiration for future work. This event is hosted by the Mekong Cultural Hub.
Golden Years Weighing Philippine Martial Law 1972-1981
Curated by Victor Barnuevo Velasco, Golden Years Weighing Philippine Martial Law 1972-1981 showcases original vintage photographs that appeared in U.S. newspapers from the 1960s to 1980s. Organized to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Philippine martial law, the exhibit had its successful inaugural run at Florida International University in Miami from August to September 2022. It kicks off its national tour on October 15, 2022, 3:00 PM EST at Bliss on Bliss Art Projects in Sunnyside, Queens, New York City.
Splendors of Malay World Textiles with John Ang
Splendors of Malay World Textiles is an unprecedented exhibition put together by collector John Ang, displaying 650 textiles. This event is sponsored by University of Hawaii and the International Hajji Baba Society of Washington, DC.
Singapore Literature Festival in NYC
The 5th Singapore Literature Festival will explore the theme Archipelago Dreaming through the works of various Singaporian creatives. This event is hosted by Singapore Unbound and co-sponsored by the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, the NYU Postcolonial, Race and Diaspora Studies Colloquium, and the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU.
Unbecoming: Exploring Filipinx Trans Identity Through Literary Fiction
Hosted by Cornell University, Meredith Talusan, author of the critically-acclaimed memoir Fairest, will explore how Trans and Filipinx identities exist in liminal spaces, encompassing divergent understandings of gender, sexuality, nationality, race, and origin.
Black Henry: Charting New Ways Forward in Filipino History
Vina Orden, a writer and social justice advocate, will present a critique of colonial Spanish and Filipino history, utilizing Luis H. Francia’s play, “Black Henry,” as a radical work of imagination and jumping off point. This event is hosted by the Asian American / Asian Research Institute.
Rithy Panh Film Series - MoMA
Join the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) for a film series featuring the works of Rithy Panh, one of Cambodia’s foremost filmmakers. Films to be featured include: Irradiés (2020), The Rice People (1994), S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (2003), The Burnt Theatre (2005), One Evening after the War (1998), The Catch (2011), and The Sea Wall (2008).