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SUMMARY:Cross-Chinatown Convening
DESCRIPTION:Save the Date and Register for Saturday July 11th\, 10AM-6PM!\n\n\nJoin representatives from Chinatowns in New York\, Boston\, DC\, and Philly\, to check in on the organizing progress and challenges of our cities. Visitors will be invited to presentations\, workshops\, tours\, and art builds\, as we close out the exhibition “No Arena: Making a Movement” in style. \nFinal schedule will be posted closer to the day of the event.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/cross-chinatown-convening/
LOCATION:Asian Arts Initiative\, 1219 Vine Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
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SUMMARY:Archiving a Movement: Youth Zine Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Youth were a powerful force behind the No Arena movement. For many young people\, it was the first organizing campaign that they were part of. This workshop will be a reflection space to process the challenges they overcame and the power behind youth organizing. Youth participants will learn how to create a zine and have their work be part of a published No Arena archiving zine.  \nThis workshop is ideal for high school/early college youth\, but we welcome younger students and accompanying parents and caregivers. \nThe workshop is led by Peri Law\, an artist\, a community organizer\, and the Youth Programs Coordinator of Asian Americans United. \nProject support provided by the Velocity Fund\, administered by Asian Arts Initiative\, with generous funding from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/archiving-a-movement-youth-zine-workshop/
LOCATION:Asian Arts Initiative\, 1219 Vine Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
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SUMMARY:Crossing Streets and Sharing Stories: Black-Asian Solidarity in Philly
DESCRIPTION:Crossing Streets and Sharing Stories: Black-Asian Solidarity in Philly\n\n\nIn collaboration with Writers Room\, join us for a storytelling workshop grounded in the shared histories of struggles and resilience in Chinatown and West Philadelphia. This event is part of Crossing Streets\, a constellation of arts events celebrating culture and uniting people—and purpose—in two deeply rooted Philadelphia neighborhoods.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/crossing-streets-and-sharing-stories-black-asian-solidarity-in-philly/
LOCATION:Asian Arts Initiative\, 1219 Vine Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
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SUMMARY:Philly Asian Futures
DESCRIPTION:Philly Asian Futures (PAF) is a community-engaged multi-disciplinary theatrical project that seeks to bring together local Pan-Asian artists and elders to dream about our community’s future in Philadelphia. Join us October 22nd – 26th for the theatrical presentation styled as a “Living Museum” at Asian Arts Initiative 3rd Floor\, featuring eight installation-style performances. These pieces were crafted through engaging with story circles with different Asian Diasporic Communities within Philadelphia\, including SEAMAAC\, Al-Bustan\, and the Chinatown Friends Senior Care Center; by attending and engaging these story circles\, our musicians\, writers\, dancers\, and actors seek to connect their own artistic and cultural backgrounds to the stories and experiences shared by our community elders. \nPlease note: our performance on Wednesday the 22nd will be a Preview performance!
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/philly-asian-futures/2025-10-26/
LOCATION:Asian Arts Initiative\, 1219 Vine Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
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SUMMARY:Philly Asian Futures
DESCRIPTION:Philly Asian Futures (PAF) is a community-engaged multi-disciplinary theatrical project that seeks to bring together local Pan-Asian artists and elders to dream about our community’s future in Philadelphia. Join us October 22nd – 26th for the theatrical presentation styled as a “Living Museum” at Asian Arts Initiative 3rd Floor\, featuring eight installation-style performances. These pieces were crafted through engaging with story circles with different Asian Diasporic Communities within Philadelphia\, including SEAMAAC\, Al-Bustan\, and the Chinatown Friends Senior Care Center; by attending and engaging these story circles\, our musicians\, writers\, dancers\, and actors seek to connect their own artistic and cultural backgrounds to the stories and experiences shared by our community elders. \nPlease note: our performance on Wednesday the 22nd will be a Preview performance!
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/philly-asian-futures/2025-10-25/
LOCATION:Asian Arts Initiative\, 1219 Vine Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
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SUMMARY:Philly Asian Futures
DESCRIPTION:Philly Asian Futures (PAF) is a community-engaged multi-disciplinary theatrical project that seeks to bring together local Pan-Asian artists and elders to dream about our community’s future in Philadelphia. Join us October 22nd – 26th for the theatrical presentation styled as a “Living Museum” at Asian Arts Initiative 3rd Floor\, featuring eight installation-style performances. These pieces were crafted through engaging with story circles with different Asian Diasporic Communities within Philadelphia\, including SEAMAAC\, Al-Bustan\, and the Chinatown Friends Senior Care Center; by attending and engaging these story circles\, our musicians\, writers\, dancers\, and actors seek to connect their own artistic and cultural backgrounds to the stories and experiences shared by our community elders. \nPlease note: our performance on Wednesday the 22nd will be a Preview performance!
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/philly-asian-futures/2025-10-24/
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SUMMARY:Philly Asian Futures
DESCRIPTION:Philly Asian Futures (PAF) is a community-engaged multi-disciplinary theatrical project that seeks to bring together local Pan-Asian artists and elders to dream about our community’s future in Philadelphia. Join us October 22nd – 26th for the theatrical presentation styled as a “Living Museum” at Asian Arts Initiative 3rd Floor\, featuring eight installation-style performances. These pieces were crafted through engaging with story circles with different Asian Diasporic Communities within Philadelphia\, including SEAMAAC\, Al-Bustan\, and the Chinatown Friends Senior Care Center; by attending and engaging these story circles\, our musicians\, writers\, dancers\, and actors seek to connect their own artistic and cultural backgrounds to the stories and experiences shared by our community elders. \nPlease note: our performance on Wednesday the 22nd will be a Preview performance!
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/philly-asian-futures/2025-10-23/
LOCATION:Asian Arts Initiative\, 1219 Vine Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
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SUMMARY:Philly Asian Futures
DESCRIPTION:Philly Asian Futures (PAF) is a community-engaged multi-disciplinary theatrical project that seeks to bring together local Pan-Asian artists and elders to dream about our community’s future in Philadelphia. Join us October 22nd – 26th for the theatrical presentation styled as a “Living Museum” at Asian Arts Initiative 3rd Floor\, featuring eight installation-style performances. These pieces were crafted through engaging with story circles with different Asian Diasporic Communities within Philadelphia\, including SEAMAAC\, Al-Bustan\, and the Chinatown Friends Senior Care Center; by attending and engaging these story circles\, our musicians\, writers\, dancers\, and actors seek to connect their own artistic and cultural backgrounds to the stories and experiences shared by our community elders. \nPlease note: our performance on Wednesday the 22nd will be a Preview performance!
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/philly-asian-futures/2025-10-22/
LOCATION:Asian Arts Initiative\, 1219 Vine Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
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SUMMARY:Community Book Launch for Sarah Aziza’s "THE HOLLOW HALF" (Philly)
DESCRIPTION:Conversation with author Sarah Aziza and book launch for “The Hollow Half.” The evening will open with 2 poetry acts.\n\n\nLa La Lil Jidar presents a community celebration of Sarah Aziza’s debut memoir The Hollow Half (Catapult Books) followed by a post-reading conversation moderated by Camonghne Felix. Joining Aziza will be special guest readers Candice Iloh and Angbeen Saleem. Hosted by: Denice Frohman and Jess X. Snow. Books will be for sale and all proceeds will be donated to support Sarah Aziza’s family in Gaza. \nFundraising for Sarah Aziza’s family in Gaza: Our goal is to raise $5\,000 to support Sarah’s family in Gaza who face a lack of food and adequate shelter after having been displaced multiple times because of the ongoing genocide. We will also have La La Lil Jidar posters\, Palestine art\, and shirts for sale. \nFood will be provided by Renata’s Kitchen. We encourage attendees to come early (6PM) before the event begins (6:30PM) to eat\, mingle and buy merch. \nLimited tickets @ $45+ reserve a copy of The Hollow Half. \nAll other tickets sliding scale. \n\n\nAbout “The Hollow Half” \nThe Hollow Half by Sarah Aziza is a searing\, genre-bending memoir tracing three generations of diasporic Palestinians from Gaza to the Midwest to New York City—and back. In October 2019\, Sarah Aziza\, daughter and granddaughter of Gazan refugees\, was narrowly saved after being hospitalized for an eating disorder. The doctors revive her body\, but it is no simple thing to return to the land of the living. The hauntings begin in the hospital cafeteria\, when a mysterious incident summons the familiar voice of her deceased Palestinian grandmother. \nAs she responds to a series of ghostly dreams\, Aziza unearths family secrets that reveal the ways her own trauma and anorexia echo generations of violent Palestinian displacement and erasure—and how her fight to recover builds on a century of defiant survival and love. As she moves towards this legacy\, Aziza learns to resist the forces of colonization\, denial\, and patriarchy both within and outside her. \nBreathtaking\, fiercely honest. . .Sarah Aziza weaves a genre-bending memoir of body and land\, an unflinching look at the tyranny of emotional\, physical\, and intrapsychic hunger. These hungerings—complex\, visceral\, ever-present—frame a story of hauntings\, erasures\, colonization\, and the metaphor and reality of Palestine. But The Hollow Half is not merely a dissection of absence; it is an expansion of genre itself\, gorgeously blending memoir with dreamwork\, ancestral secrets with reclaimed history. Through stunning\, transformative prose\, Aziza writes both herself—and the reader—towards liberation.” —Hala Alyan\, author of The Moon That Turns You Back \n\n\nAbout Sarah Aziza (author) \nSarah Aziza (she/هي ) is a Palestinian American writer\, translator\, and artist with roots in ‘Ibdis and Deir al-Balah\, Gaza. She is the author of The Hollow Half\, a genre-bending work of memoir\, lyricism\, and oral history exploring the intertwined legacies of diaspora\, colonialism\, and the American dream. \nSarah’s award-winning journalism\, poetry\, essays\, and experimental nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, Best American Essays\, The Baffler\, Harper’s Magazine\, Mizna\, The Washington Post\, The Guardian\, and The Nation\, among other publications. \n\n\nAbout Asian Arts Initiative \nAccessibility note: this event is on the ground floor and do not need stairs to enter \nConnecting cultural expression and social change\, Asian Arts Initiative uses art as a vehicle to explore the diverse experiences of all communities which include Asian Americans. Located in Philadelphia’s Chinatown North\, Asian Arts Initiative is a multidisciplinary arts center offering exhibitions\, performances\, artist residencies\, youth workshops\, and a community gathering space. Here\, all of us can view and create art that reflects our lives\, and think critically\, creatively about the future we want to build for our communities. \nhttps://asianartsinitiative.org/
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/community-book-launch-for-sarah-azizas-the-hollow-half-philly/
LOCATION:Asian Arts Initiative\, 1219 Vine Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
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