Playwriting Workshop with Alvin Eng
Turn your Chinatown images, insights, raps, rhymes and rhythms into characters and scenes for the stage! Sign up today for a free 90-minute playwriting workshop with playwright/author, songwriter and performer Alvin Eng! Through group and individual playwriting exercises, we will write, create and cultivate character monologues and scenes that reflect our unique and shared visions and experiences. Enrollment is limited and a free dinner follows the workshop! — Free with RSVP!
Resistance Through Representation: A Screening of Anna May Wong’s “Daughter of Shanghai”
Enjoy a screening of "Daughter of Shanghai", a 1937 crime film starring Anna May Wong and Philip Ahn. Author Katie Gee Salisbury, who recently published Wong's biography "Not Your China Doll" will speak on the film's groundbreaking casting as the first time two Asian Americans played the lead couple in the sound era. — Free with RSVP!
Re-imagining Tales from Historic New York Chinatown: A Reading and Conversation with Radha Vatsal, Hosted by Alvin Eng
Join us for an evening of literature and conversation celebrating Radha Vatsal’s newly released novel, No. 10 Doyers Street. Hosted by playwright/author Alvin Eng, the event will explore Vatsal’s captivating portrayal of early 20th-century Chinatown and the colorful personalities in her book. Free with RSVP!
"The Railway Conspiracy" Launch Party
Join us for a reading by SJ Rozan to celebrate the release of The Railway Conspiracy, a rollicking new mystery novel by crime writing duo John Shen Yen Nee and SJ Rozan! Following the reading, there will be a book signing by SJ Rozan. Free with RSVP!