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Asian American Artist Town Hall Featuring performances by Madhusmita Bora, FLNG, and Jacinta Yelland Monday, February 3, 6 p.m. [learn more]
Humeysha New Asian Futurisms Closing Reception First Friday, December 6 from 6:00 - 9:00 PM. [learn more]
Turn up to bail out! Asian Arts Initiative is partnering with the Philadelphia Community Bail Fund to close out ABOLITION NOW Friday, August 23rd. [learn more]
Youth Art & Self-empowerment Project – ABOLITION NOW! Workshop Thursday, August 1, 6:30-8pm Join us and Youth Art & Self-empowerment Project for a workshop that examines and challenges perceptions of safety, policing, and prisons [learn more]
Asian Arts Initiative's Mini-Residency Program series supports and celebrates diverse theatrical projects from selected members of Philadelphia Asian Performing Artists (PAPA). Their cohort of residents includes Annielille Gavino (ACG '19), Marina Murayama Nir, and Daniel Park. Residents have developed their projects during the spring season and will present 20-30 minute works-in-progress showings. This showcase will take place Monday, July 15, at 7:00 pm AAI (1219 Vine Street Philadelphia, PA 19107). [learn more]
Sara Zia Ebrahimi's (LTA '14, ACG '13, '09) piece Oil, Bananas, Prisons will be featured in ABOLITION NOW! at the Asian Arts Initiative from June 21- August 30. [learn more]
Asian Arts Initiative presents an afternoon of book readings, performances, and children’s activities at the Youth Arts Workshop Radical Children’s Book Fair. Find the perfect book from among a variety of AAPI, PoC, and LGBTQIA writers and illustrator, including their Youth Arts Workshop students, who will be showcasing their new publication, (in)equality! [learn more]
Asian Arts Initiative presents ABOLITION NOW!. This exhibition features artist working around issues of Japanese internment, racial profiling of Muslim people and deportations of Southeast Asian immigrants, and how the prison industrial complex subjugates Asian American communities. June 21 - August 30 [learn more]
Asian Arts Initiative (1219 Vine Street) will host City of Pearls Book Release with writer Sham-e-Ali Nayeem on April 23 from 7:00 - 9:00 pm. Special guest poets & artists to be announced. [learn more]
Celebrate the radical spirit of a united international womxn’s movement with Asian Arts Initiative and Qunify! [learn more]
Asian Arts Initiative is seeking visual artists to explore, disrupt, think through, and respond to the topic of prison abolition and decarceration for an upcoming exhibition. [learn more]
An opening reception with panel discussion for a political art exhibition by the Dalit American collective Equality Labs. [learn more]
Equality Labs presents a one-day workshop on identifying and dismantling caste privilege in the US. [learn more]
Explore the intersections of astrology, sci fi, and culture in a fun afternoon workshop! [learn more]
Network and pitch ideas with other artists at Asian Arts Initiative this month! [learn more]
The exhibition runs from September 4 - December 15, and officially opens with a First Friday reception on September 7 at 6:00pm. [learn more]
Philadelphia Asian Performing Artists Mini-Residency will showcase work from selected members of their inaugural cohort, including one of Leeway's newest Art and Change Grantees. [learn more]
A curated projection exhibit targeting issues of displacement and immigration rights will illuminate outdoor space on Friday, July 6th. [learn more]
Local artist Eiko Fan (LTA '12; WOO '98) will share her 48 years of artistic evolution and invite the audience to be a part of her wood sculpture performance in this special interactive artist talk and workshop. No experience necessary! [learn more]
AAI presents its popular Artists Town Hall on Monday June 18 from 6-8 pm. Get a sneak peek of new works, network, and pitch your projects, events, and artistic opportunities, or just introduce yourself! [learn more]
Womxn in Asian America is a course taught by Melissa Kapadia that examines the hxstories and lived experiences of Asian American and Pacific Islander womxn (women, trans, and non-binary people) through readings of scholarly, narrative, activist, and popular texts; in-person conversations; film and other media; and explorations of our own lived experiences. The course will be held on Sundays from February 4 through March 25, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM at Asian Arts Initiative. [learn more]
Asian Arts Initiative hosts a book tour for Kay Ulanday Barrett's When the Chant Comes on Friday, February 2 at 7:00 PM. Unpicking vital political questions around race, disability and gender, Kay will be joined by local poets Osimiri Sprowal and Ras Mashramani (ACG '16). [learn more]
Asian Arts Initiative hosts a Spring Asian American Artist Town Hall on Monday, January 29, 6:00 - 8:00 PM. Get sneak peeks of new works by local artists, pitch your upcoming projects, events, or artistic opportunities, and network with fellow artists over a delicious potluck. [learn more]
Asian Arts Initiative's Youth Arts Workshop (YAW) presents a Community Craft and Art Fair on Saturday, December 9 from 12:00 to 4:00 PM. Check out an array of unique homemade jewelry, crafts, art, accessories, and more created throughout YAW’s fall after school program. [learn more]