everyday royalty: An Exhibition of Artists Across Henry Street Settlement
[Fri, Sep 11 - Oct 18, 4:00 - 6:00 PM at Abrons Arts Center] Abrons Arts Center’s PATHS (Promoting the Arts Throughout Henry Street) program brings professional artists into Henry Street Settlement programs across the Lower East Side, fostering community, creativity, and connection through hands-on artistic practice. Learn More
Tai Chi w/ Tai Chi Solutions
[Mon, Oct 5-26, 10:30 - 11:30 AM at Elizabeth Garden] Practice will start at 10:30 am every Sunday. Pay what you can with a suggested donation of $15 for the teacher! Learn More
Asian American Authors in Conversation: Eric Sze
[Thu, Oct 15, 6:30 - 8:00 PM at Chatham Square Library, Community Room] Eric Sze, a chef and restaurateur in New York City, explores what makes Taiwanese food so multi-faceted and idiosyncratic with co-author Elyse Inamine. He travels back to Taiwan to unpack the dishes he grew up eating in Taipei, like Lu Rou Fan and Oyster Omelet, as well as gives an inside look at the method and madness behind the recipes he’s made in restaurants, at pop-ups, and at home in New York City. Learn More
Fall Festival 2026
[Sat, Oct 17, 12:00 - 4:00 PM at Abron Arts Center] Abrons Arts Center and Henry Street Settlement invite you to our Fall Festival, celebrating the start of a new season! Enjoy music, dancing, arts & crafts. Learn More
A flame latches to a bit of straw
[Thu, Oct 22 - 23, 6:30 - 7:30 PM, & Oct 24, 3:00-4:00 PM at New Museum Theater] Artist Alison Kuo presents A flame latches to a bit of straw, a new performance work drawing on the 400-year-old traditions of Cantonese Opera. Reinterpreting the form as a visual artist, she stages her discovery of an art practiced by her family in Hong Kong before they immigrated to the United States. Learn More
Shadow of the Unhinged
[Sat, Oct 24 - Nov 1 at Abron Arts Center] For more than five decades, Four Seas Players has brought Asian American stories to the New York stage, nurturing generations of artists and building bridges between cultures through theater. Learn More
Sống: Photographs by Ocean Vuong - Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU
[Fri, Oct 30 -Dec 11, every Tues–Fri, 12:00-6:00 PM at 20 Cooper Square Gallery] Writer and poet Ocean Vuong began taking photographs as a teenager. With a borrowed Nikon camera in hand, he captured intimate scenes in the nail salon where his mother worked for decades and documented the post-industrial landscapes and abandoned mills of Hartford, Connecticut, where his family settled after leaving Vietnam in the wake of the US war. Learn More
Yin & Yang Movement Workshop with Dian Dong Chen
[Fri, Oct 9, 12:30 - 1:30 PM at Chen Dance Center] Join us for a Yin & Yang workshop taught by co-founder Dian Dong Chen, alongside H.T. Chen & Dancers. Starting with gentle movement explorations to warm up the body and brain, followed by activities, dance devising and phrases meant to expand your creativity. Registration required. Click here to register!
Book Launch | The Girl Who Became King by Melissa King
[Wed, Oct 7, 7:00 - 9:00 PM at 20 Cooper Square Gallery] From award-winning chef, author, television personality, and activist Melissa King comes an intimate, captivating memoir about family, food, and finding her voice as a queer Chinese American chef. Learn More
Book Launch | Bad Words by Ríoghnach Robinson
[Tue, Oct 6, 7:00 - 9:00 PM at New Design H.S.] Parker Navarro’s debut novel was meant to define his career - until critic Selina Chan’s blistering review made it the flop of the decade. Four years later, his new book is his shot at redemption; for Selina, reviewing him again is a professional risk she can’t refuse. When her second takedown ignites a viral feud, both their fortunes shift overnight. Learn More