Join us to celebrate AAPI Heritage Month throughout May!
Note: Some events are open to all, while others are reserved for AAPI-identifying individuals.
EVENTS
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE: Movie Screening with aapiNHV | All are welcome
Date: May 1st at 4pm
Location: Bow Tie Criterion Cinemas (86 Temple Street)
Cost: $10/ticket
aapiNHV kicks off AAPI Heritage Month with a group movie screening of the acclaimed film, Everything Everywhere All at Once, starring Michelle Yeoh and a predominantly Asian cast, about an aging Chinese-American immigrant who is being audited by the IRS and swept up in a whirlwind adventure, where she alone can save the world by connecting lives she could have led in parallel universes (rated R).
RSVP here to attend
Contact person: Christine Kim, xinekim@gmail.com
CULTIVATING COMMUNITY: Community Garden Tour & Discussion | All are welcome
Date: End of May, Time/date TBA
Location: Garden on corner of Prospect & Division Streets
A community gardens event at the "Grandparents Garden" in New Haven to learn more about the Garden, the relationship between culture, food, and land, strengthening connections to the land and different generations.
RSVP here to attend
Contact person: Anh Ton, anhbton10@gmail.com
OUR STORIES IN PARALLEL: An Intergenerational Oral History Project | Reserved for AAPI-identifying individuals
Date: May 19th, 8-9pm
Location: Zoom (register to receive the link)
As we’ve come together as aapiNHV, we have grasped for our collective history and our growing interest in the question: what is our shared history in New Haven? What brought us together here and now? Our search for AAPI community history in New Haven has turned up limited fruit, which gets us thinking that the silence of the archives speak volumes of our collective histories. We invite everyone to participate in forming a public oral history community archive that bridges the gaps of the past and into the future as we continue to co-create our history in New Haven.
RSVP here to Attend
Contact: Jenny Heikkila Díaz (JHD), jennyhd@gmail.com
HISTORIES AND STORIES: A Community Gathering and Sharing Event | Reserved for AAPI-identifying individuals
Date: Sunday, June 5th, Doors open at 12:45, program starts at 1pm
Location: September in Bangkok (754 State Street, New Haven, CT)
There is not a single, unified AAPI story: we are a community known for its fragmentation and its complexity in history. For AAPI Heritage Month, we want to create a space that celebrate our diversity and multitudes, and to bring more people into our burgeoning movement. Join us for a storytelling event to learn about AAPI history, share and hear stories from each other and eat delicious food together!
RSVP here to Attend
Contact person: Tif Shen, jif.shen@gmail.com
ACTIVITIES
AAPINHV STORYFRONTS: AAPI Small Business Portraits & Stories
An ongoing AAPI small business spotlight series featuring photographic portraits of local business storefronts and the stories of their Asian owners. To follow along with the campaign, subscribe to our mailing list here and join our Facebook group here.
Contact person: William Meng, william.e.meng@gmail.com
LEARNING TOGETHER: Book Catalogue and Exchange | Reserved for AAPI-identifying individuals
aapiNHV is hosting two book-related events this May. (1) Help us compile a comprehensive book and media catalogue of AAPI authors, topics, and stories! (2) Join your fellow aapiNHV community members for a new/gently used book exchange of AAPI books this May! Sign up to send a book to, and receive a book from, an aapiNHV neighbor.
If you have suggestions for the book/media catalog, please let us know! Send us an email with the title of book, and a brief description of it.
Want to join in? Sign up here | Deadline to sign up for the book exchange is May 16th
Contact people: Odette Wang (wang.odette@gmail.com) & Tif Shen (jif.shen@gmail.com)