Events

The opening week of Gathering: Collecting and Documenting Chinese American History culminates with a day-long symposium featuring presentations and discussions with the leading organizations dedicated to the history of Chinese in America. The program will emphasize dialogue among the gathered organizations about the challenges, importance, and potential of public history in our communities.

Learn Cantonese in just four weeks! Join us as we make Cantonese fun and easy to learn with conversational Cantonese/Toisanese bootcamps by Kim Mui. The four-week course is designed to focus squarely on teaching real, applicable conversation skills that can help you actually communicate in Cantonese (and Toisan). Sign-up and start learning Cantonese today.

MOCA’s newest exhibition, Gathering, shows how different organizations collect and share Chinese American history. Create a mixed-media collage that tells your life story!

Chinatown, Manhattan is its own destination! Uncover the history of one of New York City’s oldest neighborhoods through this 90 minute walking tour, which focuses on how everyday buildings and places of historical significance reflect and shape a community. The tour will take you through time from the neighborhood’s origins as a Native American village, to the Irish Five Points, the Italian immigrants of Little Italy, to present day as one of the fastest growing immigrant communities of New York City. Some highlighted sites include Collect Pond, Five Points, Columbus Park, Funeral Parlor Row, the Church of the Transfiguration, and the oldest street in Chinatown.  

Keep your family and community memories for posterity! Sign up for a timeslot where the MOCA Collections team will scan and digitize your most beloved photos, paper documents, and/or 2-D mementos 11" x 17" or smaller.   为后代留下您对家庭和社区的记忆！注册一个时间段，美国华人博物馆馆藏部将数字化扫描您最喜爱的照片、文件、或者其它二维纪念品，尺寸限制在不超过11"x17"。分享您数字化物品背后的故事，并带走一份数字化的副本，发个朋友圈炫耀一下吧！

Author Fuchsia Dunlop joins us to talk about her fully revised and updated edition of her classic cookbook Land of Plenty. When Fuchsia Dunlop’s Land of Plenty was first published in 2001, few people outside China had experienced the lip-tingling sensation of real Sichuan pepper. Nearly twenty years later, Sichuanese cuisine has become popular all over the world, but Dunlop’s pioneering work remains the key text for English speakers eager to understand its myriad flavors and sophisticated culinary techniques. As the New York Times has said, Dunlop has “done more to explain real Chinese cooking to non-Chinese cooks than anyone.”

Happy Halloween! Join us for some not-too-scary monster stories, then dress up your own paper jack-o-lantern with a scowl or a smile.

Join us to meet and talk with Sean Fraga about the forgotten reason for the construction of America’s numerous transcontinental railroads: trade with Asia. Sean uses maps, postcards, government records, magazine articles, and corporate files to reveal this overlooked history. He argues that nineteenth-century Americans believed the transcontinental railroads’ great potential lay in opening the United States to the Pacific World.

Learn Mandarin in just four weeks! Join us as we make Mandarin fun and easy to learn with conversational Mandarin bootcamps taught by Ying Pan. The four-week course is designed to make learning a language fun and exciting while exploring new cultural experiences by learning the language, history and customs. Sign-up and start learning Mandarin today.

Join us for an evening of FREE music, songs, and stand-up comedy, as we transform our museum lobby into a stage for emerging talent from the community. Explore the museum and exhibitions for free. Advance registration is required.

Learn Cantonese in just four weeks! Join us as we make Cantonese fun and easy to learn with conversational Cantonese/Toisanese bootcamps by Kim Mui. The four-week course is designed to focus squarely on teaching real, applicable conversation skills that can help you actually communicate in Cantonese (and Toisan). Sign-up and start learning Cantonese today.

In collaboration with Pearl River Mart: Korean Canadian music business matriarchitect Sophia Chang speaks to Kimmy Yam of NBC News, formerly of HuffPost Asian Voices, about her new memoir from Audible Original x Hello Sunshine, The Baddest Bitch in the Room. The audiobook chronicles Sophia's unique journey as the first Asian woman in hip-hop. She entered the music industry in the late 1980s, landing gigs at record companies like Jive and Atlantic, and managing artists like Wu-Tang clan members Ol’ Dirty Bastard, RZA, and GZA, as well as Q-Tip, A Tribe Called Quest, Raphael Saadiq, and D’Angelo. “Hip-hop embraced me, but Wu-Tang claimed me,” she says. “You know Wu Tang took this little Korean Canadian woman and they went: She’s ours.”

Learn Mandarin in just four weeks! Join us as we make Mandarin fun and easy to learn with conversational Mandarin bootcamps taught by Ying Pan. The four-week course is designed to make learning a language fun and exciting while exploring new cultural experiences by learning the language, history and customs. Sign-up and start learning Mandarin today.

A JOURNEY OF 26.2 MILES STARTS WITH A FESTIVAL! MOCA SPIKE 150 team and ambassadors invite you to join us for a pre-race festival on Saturday, November 2. Tickets are at $40, including Buffet Lunch, Mr. Bing Cart, Entertainment, Museum Admission and Gallery Tour as well as 10% off at MOCA Shop by Pearl River!

Learn Cantonese in just four weeks! Join us as we make Cantonese fun and easy to learn with conversational Cantonese/Toisanese bootcamps by Kim Mui. The four-week course is designed to focus squarely on teaching real, applicable conversation skills that can help you actually communicate in Cantonese (and Toisan). Sign-up and start learning Cantonese today.

Transform every day and found objects into unique sculptures that share the stories of what they were and what they’ve become!

The Transcontinental Railroad dramatically shaped the landscape of the American West and the nation… yet its story too often omits histories of the native and immigrant populations who built it. Reconsider the impact of Chinese immigrants on nation building by touring MOCA exhibitions and exploring primary sources that trace Chinese contributions to the railroad.

Learn Mandarin in just four weeks! Join us as we make Mandarin fun and easy to learn with conversational Mandarin bootcamps taught by Ying Pan. The four-week course is designed to make learning a language fun and exciting while exploring new cultural experiences by learning the language, history and customs. Sign-up and start learning Mandarin today.

Learn Cantonese in just four weeks! Join us as we make Cantonese fun and easy to learn with conversational Cantonese/Toisanese bootcamps by Kim Mui. The four-week course is designed to focus squarely on teaching real, applicable conversation skills that can help you actually communicate in Cantonese (and Toisan). Sign-up and start learning Cantonese today.

Simon Tam joins us to talk about his new memoir, “Slanted: How an Asian American Troublemaker Took On The Supreme Court.” Simon will also be bringing some special guests to perform with him.

Learn Mandarin in just four weeks! Join us as we make Mandarin fun and easy to learn with conversational Mandarin bootcamps taught by Ying Pan. The four-week course is designed to make learning a language fun and exciting while exploring new cultural experiences by learning the language, history and customs. Sign-up and start learning Mandarin today.

Voices of the One Child Era: Adoption, Awareness & Identity is a series of programming devoted to telling a diverse range of stories of American adoptees from China. In this installment of the series, watch two documentary short films on birth parent searching, Ricki’s Promise (View Higher Films, 2014) and Meet Me on the Bridge: Discovering the Truth About my Parents After 20 Years (BBC, 2017). After, join director Changfu Chang and adoptee stars of the respective films, Ricki Mudd and Kati Pohler, for a Q&A on the making of the films and updates on their stories since the films were made.

Transform every day and found objects into unique sculptures that share the stories of what they were and what they’ve become!

Danielle Seid joins us to talk about the iconic Asian American film star Anna May Wong, who, in the 1950s, appeared on numerous television programs such as Adventures in Paradise, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, and Mike Hammer. A pioneer in early American television, in 1951, Wong also starred in a series for the Dumont Network called The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong, a show sadly missing from TV archives. Danielle will situate Wong’s television stardom within recent studies of and popular interest in Wong’s life and film career. In particular, Danielle will ask what Wong’s late career performances, which were primarily on TV but also included a few minor roles in film, suggest about aging Asian American stardom and Wong’s symbolic importance to the transition from the Chinese exclusion era to 1950s Cold War multiculturalism.  

Keep your family and community memories for posterity! Sign up for a timeslot where the MOCA Collections team will scan and digitize your most beloved photos, paper documents, and/or 2-D mementos 11" x 17" or smaller.   为后代留下您对家庭和社区的记忆！注册一个时间段，美国华人博物馆馆藏部将数字化扫描您最喜爱的照片、文件、或者其它二维纪念品，尺寸限制在不超过11"x17"。分享您数字化物品背后的故事，并带走一份数字化的副本，发个朋友圈炫耀一下吧！

Come experience the world premiere screening of the visual album PASIÓN together with a live musical performance. Starring cellist Wendy Law in collaboration with filmmaker Dilonna Rutherford, PASIÓN features the music of tango, bossa nova and Spanish classical music. Filmed across Greece, Spain, Italy, and New York City, it tells a semi-autobiographical story of love, betrayal, and redemption.

Learn Cantonese in just four weeks! Join us as we make Cantonese fun and easy to learn with conversational Cantonese/Toisanese bootcamps by Kim Mui. The four-week course is designed to focus squarely on teaching real, applicable conversation skills that can help you actually communicate in Cantonese (and Toisan). Sign-up and start learning Cantonese today.

Why do we collect and save objects? Consider this as you look at objects from our Gathering exhibit that are up to 125 years old!

Mind the Gap is an upcoming exhibition at The Delaware Contemporary that aims to explore the gaps in life we all face. The work on display investigates various perspectives that will inspire viewers to reflect on their own gaps in life. This panel discussion intends to explore the concept of “gaps” through the critical lens of women’s roles and their identities in the context of Chinese contemporary art. Moderated by the curator of Mind the Gap, Wenlu Bao, the discussion invites female art professionals from different roles and jobs to share their ideas, experiences, and stories. Panelists will include the New York based artist Emily Cheng, curator Kathrine Page, and gallerist Echo He. Questions will center on issues such as gender gaps, how New York City reacts to Chinese female artists, how visual art benefits Asian communities, and what kind of art education practices attract Asian artists that help to close or minimize the gaps.

Learn Cantonese in just four weeks! Join us as we make Cantonese fun and easy to learn with conversational Cantonese/Toisanese bootcamps by Kim Mui. The four-week course is designed to focus squarely on teaching real, applicable conversation skills that can help you actually communicate in Cantonese (and Toisan). Sign-up and start learning Cantonese today.

Keep your family and community memories for posterity! Sign up for a timeslot where the MOCA Collections team will scan and digitize your most beloved photos, paper documents, and/or 2-D mementos 11" x 17" or smaller.   为后代留下您对家庭和社区的记忆！注册一个时间段，美国华人博物馆馆藏部将数字化扫描您最喜爱的照片、文件、或者其它二维纪念品，尺寸限制在不超过11"x17"。分享您数字化物品背后的故事，并带走一份数字化的副本，发个朋友圈炫耀一下吧！

Why do we collect and save objects? Consider this as you look at objects from our Gathering exhibit that are up to 125 years old!

Imagine yourself a year later at the end of 2020. Make a 2-D or 3-D self-portrait that represents the “new you”!

Put a spin on a MOCA tradition! Help welcome the New Year by making handmade decorations to liven up the Museum. Transform our space with colorful creations, which will be on display through our annual Lunar New Year Family Festival!