Upcoming Events – Museum of Chinese in America

August 2022

China trade paintings, c 1820

With a Single Step

Stories in the Making of America

September 1, 2009 – December 31, 2023

Asians for Black Lives: An unnamed woman at a Black Lives Matter rally near the White House, Washington DC. She is holding a sign that says “Yellow Peril Supports Black Power.” Photograph by Mengyu Dong

Responses: Asian American Voices Resisting the Tides of Racism

July 15, 2021 – September 18, 2022

Casting Call for Fall Season of 囍 Double Happiness

An Original Immersive MOCA Production

August 25, 2022, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Women from Local 23-25 at the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU) garment workers' rally in Columbus Park in 1982. Photograph by Paul Calhoun. MOCA Collections.

The scale is hard to discern from the close-up range of this photograph, but as many as 20,000 garment workers and their supporters marched and gathered in Columbus Park on June 24th and July 25th, 1982, in two of the largest demonstrations of worker unity and collective strength in New York Chinatown history.

MOCA TALKS: Reflections on the 1982 Garment Workers Strike

with Rachel Bernstein, May Ying Chen, June Jee, and Mae M. Ngai

August 31, 2022, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

September 2022

Virtual Mid-Autumn Family Festival

September 6, 2022 – September 10, 2022

Save the Date: Mid-Autumn Family Festival

September 17, 2022, 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm

[POSTPONED] MOCA COOKS with Simon Fan

Crystal Shrimp and Baby Bok Choy with Black Mushrooms

September 22, 2022, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm