Events upcoming
October 19, 2021 , 7:00 PM
FIRESIDE CHAT: NAWAAZ AHMED AND JAFREEN UDDIN
Nawaaz Ahmed, Jafreen Uddin
Our quarterly Fireside Chat series brings an Asian diasporic author, artist, or academic into conversation with Jafreen Uddin, Executive Director of the Asian American Writers' Workshop. Jafreen will be joined by debut novelist Nawaaz Ahmed (Radiant Fugitives) to share updates from the Workshop, and to discuss uplifting the next generation of Asian American creators.
October 25, 2021 , 6:00 PM
** POSTPONED** COME MEET ME AT THE JUNCTURE OF KNEE & HISTORY: COMPLICATING (AUTO)BIOGRAPHICAL POETICS, A WORKSHOP WITH GEORGE ABRAHAM
George Abraham
As writers in diaspora, the western imagination of the “lyric I” can impose harmful and reductive gazes unto our poetry. How do we wrestle with these narratives under the failed and limited imagination of empire? In this generative and discussion-based workshop led by poet George Abraham, we will look beyond respectability, linearity, and digestibility.
October 26, 2021 , 7:00 PM
MOUTH TO MOUTH: OPEN MIC AND SHOWCASE
Kay Ulanday Barrett, Jaden Fields, Muriel Leung, féi hernandez
Mic Check! Are you a writer? Come share your work at our next edition of our open mic, Mouth to Mouth. Curated and hosted by the magical Kay Ulanday Barrett and Jaden Fields! This month we’re featuring Muriel Leung and féi hernandez.
October 27, 2021 , 7:00 PM
AAWW AT 30: DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF HOME
Jafreen Uddin, Snighda Sur, Cathy Linh Che, Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis
For AAWW at 30, we'll celebrate with leaders of major Asian American organizations and publications the importance of finding a space of our own plus the literal and figurative definitions of home. Moderated by Cathy Linh Che of Kundiman, the panel features our very own Jafreen Uddin, Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis of the Smithsonian Asian Pacific Center, and Snigdha Sur of The Juggernaut.
October 28, 2021 , 7:00 PM
A LOVE LETTER TO NEW YORK CITY: 2021 OPEN CITY FELLOWS FINAL READING
Aaisha Bhuiyan, Ayesha Islam, Jessica Jacolbe, Lylla Younes, Teresa Mathew, Hannah Bae, Noel Pangilinan
RSVP HERE! This October, join us for a celebratory reading with our 2021 Open City Fellows, as they read from, and discuss the work they have completed over the course of their Fellowship term. We’ll hear from Open City Neighborhood Fellows Jessica Jacolbe and Teresa Mathew, who have been documenting...
November 11, 2021 , 7:00 PM
TASTE MAKERS: SEVEN IMMIGRANT WOMEN WHO REVOLUTIONIZED FOOD IN AMERICA
Mayukh Sen and Monique Truong
Join us as we celebrate Mayukh Sen’s new book, Taste Makers, which brings forward the stories of seven immigrant women whose legacies are complicated and often erased, despite their outsized global influence on food. Their histories unwrap, layer by layer, issues of labor, immigration and gender. Mayukh will be joined in conversation by novelist Monique Truong.
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Michelle Zauner on H Mart
With Hrishikesh Hirway
Shruti Swamy on Kathak Dance
With Rajiv Mohabir
Ta-wei Chi and Ariel Chu on Queer Time
With Hsin-Hui Lin, Ye Odelia Lu, Petit, Yahia Zhengtang Ma, Leah Yang, Jenna Tang, and more
Pik-Shuen Fung on Ghosts
With K-Ming Chang
Utsav Lal in Concert
In Collaboration with the Irish Arts Center of NY
Events upcoming
October 19, 2021 , 7:00 PM
FIRESIDE CHAT: NAWAAZ AHMED AND JAFREEN UDDIN
Nawaaz Ahmed, Jafreen Uddin
Our quarterly Fireside Chat series brings an Asian diasporic author, artist, or academic into conversation with Jafreen Uddin, Executive Director of the Asian American Writers' Workshop. Jafreen will be joined by debut novelist Nawaaz Ahmed (Radiant Fugitives) to share updates from the Workshop, and to discuss uplifting the next generation of Asian American creators.
October 25, 2021 , 6:00 PM
** POSTPONED** COME MEET ME AT THE JUNCTURE OF KNEE & HISTORY: COMPLICATING (AUTO)BIOGRAPHICAL POETICS, A WORKSHOP WITH GEORGE ABRAHAM
George Abraham
As writers in diaspora, the western imagination of the “lyric I” can impose harmful and reductive gazes unto our poetry. How do we wrestle with these narratives under the failed and limited imagination of empire? In this generative and discussion-based workshop led by poet George Abraham, we will look beyond respectability, linearity, and digestibility.
October 26, 2021 , 7:00 PM
MOUTH TO MOUTH: OPEN MIC AND SHOWCASE
Kay Ulanday Barrett, Jaden Fields, Muriel Leung, féi hernandez
Mic Check! Are you a writer? Come share your work at our next edition of our open mic, Mouth to Mouth. Curated and hosted by the magical Kay Ulanday Barrett and Jaden Fields! This month we’re featuring Muriel Leung and féi hernandez.
October 27, 2021 , 7:00 PM
AAWW AT 30: DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF HOME
Jafreen Uddin, Snighda Sur, Cathy Linh Che, Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis
For AAWW at 30, we'll celebrate with leaders of major Asian American organizations and publications the importance of finding a space of our own plus the literal and figurative definitions of home. Moderated by Cathy Linh Che of Kundiman, the panel features our very own Jafreen Uddin, Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis of the Smithsonian Asian Pacific Center, and Snigdha Sur of The Juggernaut.
October 28, 2021 , 7:00 PM
A LOVE LETTER TO NEW YORK CITY: 2021 OPEN CITY FELLOWS FINAL READING
Aaisha Bhuiyan, Ayesha Islam, Jessica Jacolbe, Lylla Younes, Teresa Mathew, Hannah Bae, Noel Pangilinan
RSVP HERE! This October, join us for a celebratory reading with our 2021 Open City Fellows, as they read from, and discuss the work they have completed over the course of their Fellowship term. We’ll hear from Open City Neighborhood Fellows Jessica Jacolbe and Teresa Mathew, who have been documenting...
November 11, 2021 , 7:00 PM
TASTE MAKERS: SEVEN IMMIGRANT WOMEN WHO REVOLUTIONIZED FOOD IN AMERICA
Mayukh Sen and Monique Truong
Join us as we celebrate Mayukh Sen’s new book, Taste Makers, which brings forward the stories of seven immigrant women whose legacies are complicated and often erased, despite their outsized global influence on food. Their histories unwrap, layer by layer, issues of labor, immigration and gender. Mayukh will be joined in conversation by novelist Monique Truong.
Must Read
Without rice, there is nothing. And without the pot, there is no rice.
The stories in this folio piece together alternate, speculative histories that reflect distinctly queer modes of life: often without a clear resolution, a "moral," or a sense of "straight" logic
A scene report takes a look at one burgeoning but endangered arts community in Queens
It’s no wonder / that so very few / survive / the experience of being / cast out / into the blinding light.
Writers share the books they have turned to when imagining a world without without cages
Feminist organizers and writers reflect about what we have learned from one another about care, community, and survival in continuing to build solidarities towards collective liberation
Discourses of compliance and metrics foreclose collective possibilities in reimagining approaches to justice and equity that are organized in care and love
She remembers the rituals she had imbued with her own significance: how her ex used to bring her a single flower after every exam, and how she’d watch it wilt on her desk as she studied for the next.
I should have studied their faces as they said goodbye, the way they smelled, the lines on their hands.
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