November 2017
Coconut Milk with Freelove: A Reading with Dan Taulapapa McMullin and Sia Figiel
Presented by the Native Studies Forum. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU and Native American & Indigenous Student Group at NYU. Please join us for a celebration of friendship, literature, poetry, Sia’s five-O birthday, and a chance for the NYU community to hear and talk with two of the most celebrated and treasured artists of Oceania, Dan Taulapapa McMullin (Coconut Milk) and Sia Figiel (Free Love). The readings will be followed by Q&A, to be followed by a light reception.…
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Afro-Asian Poetics: Ana-Maurine Lara, Joseph Legaspi, Margaret Rhee, and Nicole Sealey
UPDATE: The event has reached full capacity, and we are not currently accepting RSVPs. Should additional tickets become available, they will be released via the Eventbrite form below. There is no waitlist or overflow room, but we will seat walk-in guests as capacity allows. Presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. Co-sponsored by the NYU Institute of African American Affairs and Kundiman. Celebrating Afro-Asian solidarity, conversations, and poetics, four poets celebrate their newly released poetry collections, and reflect on political and…
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An Evening with V. Vale, In Conversation with Dan Fox
Presented by the Colloquium for Unpopular Culture. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. V. Vale was born in 1944 in a Japanese American incarceration camp to a Japanese showgirl mother and an actor father. He was later fostered by a Polish family in Peoria, his Japanese uncle in Fresno, and a Black family in Whittier, California. After a stint as keyboardist for proto-metal band Blue Cheer, he worked at City Lights bookstore in San Francisco where, after being gifted…
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