Healing Across Generations, Spring 2020
We’re going virtual! Our API& crew is so excited to announce that we will be joining the Virtual Bữa Ăn Tiếng Việt Family Gatherings. We will be doing a spin-off session of our Healing Across Generations series. Come through if you’re looking for a safe(r) Vietnamese community space to explore some of your own questions on intergenerational trauma.
Creating Change Dallas 2020
API& is going to Creating Change! Hosted by the National LGBT Taskforce, Creating Change is one of the largest convenings of LGBTQ folx in the country. We will be presenting on Healing Across Generations, our skill-building workshop series that supports API community members in unpacking the stories of our people, learning how trauma impacts how we move in the world, and visioning what healing across generations could look like. After two successful cohorts, we are now ready to share this work and learn from our QTAPI comrades from across the country. Help us get there by donating!
Healing Across Generations, Fall 2019
After hosting an amazing Healing Across Generations cohort earlier this year, our API& crew has decided to do a second run of the series!
Healing Across Generations, Spring 2019
We’re so excited to announce the launch of a new workshop series! Healing Across Generations, a 3-part workshop that supports Asian and Pacific Islander (API) community members in exploring the stories of our people, how trauma impacts how we move in the world, and what healing across generations could look like. This skill-building series aims to offer pathways for folx to navigate these conversations on their own, in their own terms–whether that’s through conversations with family or through research–ultimately culminating in a project that will be shared in the last workshop.
Radical Reels: Ugly Delicious Fried rice, Summer 2018
API& Radical Reels draws on David Chang's food documentary series Ugly Delicious to spark conversations on the Asian Pacific Islander (API) diaspora’s relationship with food, culture, immigration, assimilation, and gentrification. Through our viewing series, we break bread, watch the episodes, discuss them together, and strategize for the future. Our third and final discussion will be on fried rice. Feel free to bring a dish but most importantly, bring yourself!
Radical Reels: Ugly Delicious craw fish, Summer 2018
API& Radical Reels draws on David Chang's food documentary series Ugly Delicious to spark conversations on the Asian Pacific Islander (API) diaspora’s relationship with food, culture, immigration, assimilation, and gentrification. Through our viewing series, we break bread, watch the episodes, discuss them together, and strategize for the future. Our second discussion will be on crawfish (Ugly Delicious Episode 4). Feel free to bring a dish but most importantly, bring yourself!
Radical Reels: Ugly Delicious Fried Chicken, Summer 2018
API& Radical Reels draws on David Chang's food documentary series Ugly Delicious to spark conversations on the Asian Pacific Islander (API) diaspora’s relationship with food, culture, immigration, assimilation, and gentrification. Through our viewing series, we break bread, watch the episodes, discuss them together, and strategize for the future. Our first discussion will be on fried chicken (Ugly Delicious Episode 6). Feel free to bring a dish but most importantly, bring yourself!
RADICAL REads: the movement we deserve, winter 2018
We close out our Radical Reads article club with a final session focused on visioning for our future. We’ll read a few articles, discuss them with each other, and break bread together. We will end the series with visioning, discussing what we want and how the resources needed for the movement onward.
RADICAL REads: reclaiming our struggle, winter 2018
Join API& for our radical reading and discussion group! We’ll read a few articles, discuss them with each other, and break bread together. Our second gathering will focus on power and visibility.
RADICAL REads: moving from allyship to liberatory solidarity, winter 2018
Join API& for our radical reading and discussion group! We’ll read a few articles, discuss them with each other, and break bread together. Our first reading series will focus on intra- and inter-community building and healing.
The Ring Halloween Screening, fall 2017
Join us for a night of thriller and gore!
Come hang out with us Sunday, October 22nd at The Brooklyn Commons for a special Halloween screening of the Japanese classic "The Ring." We will be accepting donations for this event in support of CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities's organizing efforts, no one will be turned away at the door if you cannot give. Feel free to bring any friends and family who might be interested!
API & IPA, Summer 2017
Tis Lit! Come hang out on Sunday August 27th at Berg'n starting at 4pm. It'll be a casual space to eat, drink, and build together with other API folk. There may or may not be Banagrams, Uno, and other fun games. Feel free to bring any friends and family who might be interested!
We hope to see you there!
Radical Reels: American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs, summer 2017
Join API& for an afternoon screening in celebration of Asian Pacific Islander month and social justice warrior Grace Lee Boggs. The screening of documentary film American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs (2013) will be followed by lightly facilitated discussion. Teach someone something new, leave learning something revolutionary.
Cha(t) & Chill: Lunar New Year Edition, winter 2017
Join us for Cha(t) & Chill: Lunar New Year Edition! We’ll have tea, eat home-cooked festive meals, and talk about our heritage cultures. New year games and crafts will also be provided. Feel free to bring your own dish, but most importantly bring yourself! We hope to see you there :)
Cha(t) & Chill, fall 2016
How do you recenter yourself during moments of stress, harm and trauma? Join us and the community* for Cha(t) & Chill. We’ll have tea, eat home baked goods, and talk about our self-care practices. Small sandwiches and self-care tools (coloring books! stuffed animals! incense!) will also be provided. This summer was intense, full of tragedy after tragedy, attacks on our QPOC community, non-stop state violence with no sign of accountability in sight. And this election season has been disturbing, threatening the security of our communities.
This is all to say: we’re exhausted. Emotionally. Physically. Spiritually. So we thought we should regroup, gather, and spill some tea -- maybe not literally. Bring yourself and what you can. Come through and allow yourself to receive.
The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House, Spring 2016
From Soon Ja Du to Peter Liang, A Discussion on Anti-Blackness in the Asian Pacific Islander American Community.
Making space for meaningful dialogue during Asian Pacific Islander History Month to discuss anti-Blackness in the community and how to continue building solidarity among communities of color in the struggle for racial justice. Join us for a spirited conversation as we build, learn and grow together. This event is free and open to the public.