Artists: Charles Yuen, Dinh Q. Le , Dorothy Imagire, Eunjung Hwang, Howardena Pindell, Nancy Hom, Roger Shimomura, and, Sin-ying Ho.

ArtSlam event is to promote emerging artists allowing them the opportunity to present and talk about their work, meet and network with each other as well as with more established artists and critics/curators.

For more information about CAPA Heritage Festival, go to www.capaonline.org

America's Chinatown Voices:
Exhibtion & Silent Auction

Date: April 23nd to May 9th, 2010
Bidding at Opening Reception April 22, 6-8pm
Location: Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, 3rd Floor (map)

Panels/artworks by the community from the outdoor installation "America's Chinatown Voices" at Columbus Park

Dozens of painted panels made by community people, children, artists & other New Yorkers from the previous installation "America's Chinatown Voices" will be mounted at Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center. There will be a night where the panels will be auction.

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New York Lunar New Year Flower Festival
Date: Fri. 2/12 10am-10pm & Sat 2/13 10am-7pm
Location: Sara D. Roosevelt Park, Chinatown, NYC (map)
Admision: FREE!

"A Lunar New Year Folk Arts Festival" featuring Asian Folk artists and musicians. Traditional artists/crafts people will be giving hands on demonstrations. Artists include a Chinese miniature dough figurine artist, a calligrapher, a Korean Knotting artist, an Indian Mahendi hand painting artist, an Er Hu performer, together with a Tibetan folk dance and music performance. New Year delicacies will also be served. Audiences will have the opportunity to interact with skilled folk artists and ask questions, make requests and learn and delight in the magic of a traditional craft and music. This is an ideal event for families.

Date: Sunday, Dec 13th 2009
Time: 11:00am - 2:00pm
Location: Univeristy Settlement/Houston Street Center, 273 Bowery (map)
Admission: FREE

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Date: Wednesday, Dec 9th 2009
Time: 7:00PM - 9:30PM
Location: BMCC Tribeca Performance Arts Center
Admission: $5 inclusive of refreshments.

AAAC is collaborating with BMCC Tribeca Performance Arts Center for " Out of the Archive: Progress and Community", a lively artists' panel commemorating the recently launched digital archive, artasiamerica.org.

A panel conversation about the Asian American Art Centre's important web site artasiamerica.org, reflecting 60 years and several generations artistic production by Asian American artists and the organization’s current community development efforts.

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Opening Reception: Friday September 18th 6:00pm - 9:00pm

Gallery Talk with Artists & Scholars: Wed October 7th 6pm-8pm.
Location: White Box 329 Broome St.

To commemorate the launch of www.artasiamerica.org and the 35th Anniversary Celebration of the Asian American Arts Centre, AAAC exhibits Tomie Arai, Albert Chong, John Yoyogi Fortes, and Swati Khurana for the last exhibition at 26 Bowery.

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Computer Art Residency: A Collaboration with Immigrant Social Service Inc.
Date: July 27 - July 31, 2009
Location: Immigrant Social Service (ISS), 137 Henry St Artist: Jiawei Gong

During the Residency, Jiawei Gong will interact with teenagers on a casual, informal basis, spending time with them, answering their questions and curiosity, and in this way introduce young people to creativity & how technology can be used to further creative goals.

Home Made is a visual art and design project that draws upon Lee's heritage to interogate Chinese identity in New Zealand. The lavishly illustrated artist book expands the discussion on mid-19th CenturyCantonese Diaspora and celebrates an alternative cultural history of Chinese settlement through cut-paper, paint, found text and images. See Press Release.

On Friday, July 3rd, Asian American Arts Centre will be hosting the annual ART SLAM, showcasing the work of emerging Asian-American & Asia influenced artists. Participating Artists are Hwa Hyun Kim, Kerry Ann Lee, Nung-Hsen Hu, and Xiaoqing Ding. More to be announce.

CHINA: JUNE 4, 1989
Online Exhibition
Date: June 4, 2009 - Ongoing
Go to Current Exhibition.

"America's Chinatown Voices" at Columbus Park
Date: May 09 - August 08, 2009
Artists: Nathalie Pham and Avani Patel

A special outdoor art event will occur in Columbus Park this Spring/Summer to rally the community to come together and speak about their thoughts and experiences in the community.
See Press Release.

Asian American Arts Centre at The 30th CAPA Heritage Festival!
Date: Sunday, May 3rd 2009
Time: 12:00PM - 6:00PM
Admission: FREE

For more information about CAPA Heritage Festival, go to www.capaonline.org

In addition to our Annual Lunar New Year Folk Arts Festival, an exhibition of some high quality Tibetan Thangka paintings as well as works from AAAC Permanent Collection of Folk Art will be on view during this festival. The dates of the exhibition are January 26 till March 13, 2009. Thangka paintings usually depict deities and saints, aspects of the life of the Buddha, as well as the more abstract Mandalas, astrological charts, medical descriptions and scenes, usually serving as a supplementary aid to religious educational development. They are meant as focal elements for visualization, meditation and contemplation. See Press Release.

"A Lunar New Year Folk Arts Festival" featuring Asian Folk artists and musicians. Five traditional artists/crafts people will be giving hands on demonstrations. Artists include a Chinese miniature dough figurine artist, a calligrapher, an Indian Mahendi hand painting artist, an Er Hu performer, together with a Tibetan folk dance and music performance. New Year delicacies will also be served. Audiences will have the opportunity to interact with skilled folk artists and ask questions, make requests and learn and delight in the magic of a traditional craft and music. This is an ideal event for families.

CLUSTERBOMB! is a creative response to physical and psychological displacement in the post 9-11 era of disillusionment and artistic inertia. It is an interdisciplinary, intergenerational and transnational network of artists, writers, activists, cultural workers and youth. Participants are posing a collective challenge to the issue of have and have-nots, why those who have are getting more and those who don't have are getting less or nothing.

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By appointment; $2 per person attending; minimum 15 people; 30-45 min. Tours can be arranged according to the needs of each group. Tailored for each group talks normally cover an introduction to Asian art, the Arts Centre, its purpose, history or context in the Asian American community of Lower Manhattan, diversity as exemplified by the racial complexion of the present group, an introduction to selected art works, as well as a methodology to visual learning.

Asian American artists, talks and performance events on site also available for booking. Contact Us.

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All exhibitions unless otherwise indicated was held at Asian American Arts Centre 26 Bowery 3 Fl above McDonalds, in Chinatown, one block below Canal St. New York NY 10013. Gallery hours are M-F 1230 to 630pm, Thurs till 730pm. Current exhibitions and much, much more, are posted on www.artspiral.org For further information call 212.233.2154 or write aaacinfo@arspiral.org

*Important Notice*
Asian American Arts Centre now is located at 111 Norfolk Street, 1st Flr. New York, NY 10002. For more information go to Contact Us

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