What’s On – Museum of Chinese in America

September 2021

Mini Mid-Autumn Celebration for Families

September 18, 2021, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

MOCAKIDS Storytime at Home!

Mid-Autumn Moon Gazing!

September 16, 2021, 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm

Virtual Mid-Autumn Family Festival

September 16, 2021 – September 21, 2021

MOCAKIDS Storytime at Home!

Wow! Workers!

September 9, 2021, 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm

August 2021

MOCAKIDS Storytime at Home: Back-to-School Buddies!

August 19, 2021, 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm

MOCAKIDS Storytime at Home: Row, Row, Row Your (Dragon) Boat!

August 5, 2021, 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm

Virtual Dragon Boat Family Festival!

August 2, 2021 – August 6, 2021

July 2021

Dragon Boat Family Festival: Afternoon Session!

July 31, 2021, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Dragon Boat Family Festival: Morning Session!

July 31, 2021, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Photo Credit: Monkey King by author and illustrator Ed Young

MOCAKIDS Storytime at Home!

Stories Are For Sharing

July 22, 2021, 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm

MOCA Ninth Annual Golf Outing

Liberty National Golf Club

July 19, 2021

MOCAKIDS Storytime at Home!

Colorful Collages

July 8, 2021, 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm

June 2021

MOCA Teahouse Reading Club:

In Search of Queer Asian Histories

June 22, 2021, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

MOCAKIDS Storytime at Home!

Love for Everyone

June 10, 2021, 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm

May 2021

Brian Kuan Wood (left) and Andrew Rebatta (right)

MOCA Curators in Conversation

Brian Kuan Wood

May 27, 2021, 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

MOCAKIDS Storytime at Home!

Family Near & Far

May 27, 2021, 4:00 pm – 4:45 pm

Courtesy of Museum At Eldridge Street

Activism, Athletics & Advice: Immigrant Newspapers in NYC

May 20, 2021, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

MOCAKIDS Meet & Greet with Author Oliver Chin and Illustrator Juan Calle

May 20, 2021, 4:00 pm – 4:45 pm

MOCA Teahouse Reading Club

Hearing Our Asian American Sisters

May 18, 2021, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

MOCAKIDS Storytime at Home!

Love from Head to Toe

May 13, 2021, 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm

Chinese American Museum of Chicago

MOCA Treasures on the Road

Soo Lon Moy and Andrea Stamm, Chinese American Museum of Chicago

May 12, 2021, 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

MOCAKIDS Author Meet & Greet with Julie Leung

May 6, 2021, 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm

MOCA Spotlight Series

Dr. David K. Lam

May 5, 2021, 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm

April 2021

MOCAKIDS Storytime @ Home!

Love in a Big, Warm Bowl

April 29, 2021, 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm

Virtual Educator Open House

April 21, 2021, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm

MOCAKIDS Storytime @ Home

画龙！画龙！Drawing Dragons!

April 15, 2021, 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm

MOCA Curators in Conversation

Michelle Yun Mapplethorpe

April 13, 2021, 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

MOCA Spotlight Series

Richard Lui

April 9, 2021, 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

MOCA X GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY

Qing Ming: Remembering Our Ancestors with Joanna C. Lee and Ken Smith

April 1, 2021, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

March 2021

MOCA Curators in Conversation

Christopher K. Ho

March 30, 2021, 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

MOCA Spotlight Series

Jane Chu, Ph.D.

March 25, 2021, 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

MOCAKIDS Storytime at Home!

Extraordinary, Magical Pebbles

March 25, 2021, 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm

MOCAKIDS Storytime at Home!

A Special Day with a Special Person

March 11, 2021, 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm

MOCA Teahouse Reading Club

Surging Violence Against Asian Americans

March 9, 2021, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

February 2021

Published home cook Tina Yao's recipes are featured in Anna Gass' Heirloom Kitchen: Heritage Recipes and Family Stories from the Tables of Immigrant Women

MOCA COOKS

Auntie Tina’s Tang Yuan/Sweet Rice Balls

February 26, 2021, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

YAO FAMILY WINES

Lunar New Year Celebration and Fundraiser with Chef Martin Yan

February 25, 2021, 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm

MOCAKIDS Storytime at Home!

Fun for the Lantern Festival!

February 25, 2021, 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm

MOCA TREASURES ON THE ROAD

Sonia Ng of the China Alley Preservation Society (Hanford, CA)

February 24, 2021, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Jeff Lam and Eddy Buckingham, owners of Chinese Tuxedo and the Tyger. Photo by Emma Cleary.

MOCA MIXOLOGY

Festive Cocktail HONG BAO with Eddy Buckingham of The Tyger

February 22, 2021, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

MOCA SPOTLIGHT SERIES

The Honorable State Senator Mae Yih

February 19, 2021, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

MOCA x PRIVATE POLICY

New York Fashion Week Collaboration Launch Virtual Party and LNY Celebration

February 15, 2021, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Lunar New Year Family Festival!

February 11, 2021 – February 19, 2021

MOCA COOKS

Pan-Fried Noodles with Wilson Tang and Chef Julie Cole of Nom Wah Tea Parlor

February 10, 2021, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm

MOCACREATE at Home: Lunar New Year Home Makeover!

February 5, 2021

MOCA TALKS: Chinese Almanac

Year of the Ox with Joanna C. Lee and Ken Smith

February 3, 2021, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

January 2021

MOCAKIDS Storytime at Home!

Winter Wonderland

January 14, 2021, 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm

December 2020

MOCA 40 Virtual Year-End Special Event

with Keynote Speaker Dr. Angela Duckworth

December 17, 2020, 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm

October 2020

Vera Chow, Untitled, 2020

Windows for Chinatown

Five sidewalk exhibits exploring MOCA’s archive!

October 15, 2020 – July 1, 2021

November 2019

2019 MOCA Legacy Award Gala

November 13, 2019, 6:00 pm – 11:00 pm

October 2019

The Chinese Helped Build the Railroad – The Railroad Helped Build America

Commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Transcontinental Railroad

October 17, 2019 – March 21, 2021

Teapot from China excavated from Los Angeles’ Old Chinatown archeological site, ca. 1900. Courtesy of Chinese Historical Society of Southern California

Gathering

Collecting and Documenting Chinese American History

October 17, 2019 – March 21, 2021

July 2019

2019 MOCA Golf Outing

July 11, 2019

June 2019

(L-R) Nancy Yao Maasbach, MOCA President; Wellington Chen, executive director of Chinatown Partnership; Marcella Chin Dear, Catherine Lee Young and Norma Chu of Ging Hawk Club; Margaret Lam, philanthropist; Stevie Huynh, Nicholas Anderson and Pedro Vidallon of Bubble_T; Jonathan Chu, MOCA Board co-chair

2019 MOCA Celebration of Community Heroes

June 12, 2019, 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm

May 2019

The Moon Represents My Heart

Music, Memory and Belonging

May 2, 2019 – September 29, 2019

October 2018

Radical Machines

Chinese in the Information Age

October 18, 2018 – March 24, 2019

New York Chinatown (1981-1984)

Interior Lives

Photographs of Chinese Americans in the 1980s by Bud Glick

October 18, 2018 – March 24, 2019

April 2018

Zhang Hongtu, Story of One Circle, 1983, Ink, gouache and acrylic on rice paper, Courtesy of the artist

Chinese Medicine in America

Converging Ideas, People and Practices

April 26, 2018 – September 16, 2018

On the Shelves of Kam Wah Chung

General Store and Apothecary in John Day, Oregon

April 26, 2018 – September 9, 2018

October 2017

Sailboat (Golden Venture, Golden Vision), 1995, folded magazine pages, rolled and cut white paper, cardboard, thread, liquid glue and colored marker, Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) Collections

FOLD

Golden Venture Paper Sculptures

October 5, 2017 – March 25, 2018

October 2016

Heidi Lau, Chinese American, 2016

Sour, Sweet, Bitter, Spicy

Stories of Chinese Food and Identity in America

October 6, 2016 – September 25, 2017

September 2015

Poy Gum Lee at his desk

Chinese Style

Rediscovering the Architecture of Poy Gum Lee, 1923 – 1968

September 24, 2015 – January 31, 2016

SubUrbanisms

Casino Urbanization, Chinatowns, and the Contested American Landscape

September 24, 2015 – January 31, 2016

September 2014

Waves of Identity

35 Years of Archiving

September 25, 2014 – March 1, 2015