October 2013
YOUR DAY IS MY NIGHT
“I think of the bed as an extension of the earth,” says experimental documentary filmmaker Lynne Sachs. In this moving hybrid documentary/performance piece, the bed becomes stage as immigrant residents of a shift-bed apartment in the heart of Manhattan’s Chinatown are both performers and participants, storytellers and actors. Sharing their experiences as migrants and city dwellers, they reveal the intimacies and complexities of urban living. Filmmaker Lynne Sachs and performers Yi Chun Cao, Linda Y.H. Chan, Chung Qing Che, Ellen…
Find out more »December 2015
Streams of Desire: The Video Work of Richard Fung: Program 1
Presented by CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies and the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. Curated by Leeroy Kun Young Kang. This program features four video works by Richard Fung—spanning from 1986-2000—that place desire within the spaces of time, geography, and the body. Traced through the artist’s explorations of queer sex, racial and sexual representation, illness, and kinship, these videos center queer Asian diasporic experience against an ever-shifting backdrop of colonialism and political change. Revisiting these bold and imaginative works allow us…
Find out more »February 2018
Know Your Rights: Immigration and Police Enforcement on Campus
Presented by NYU Dream Team. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, NYU Immigrant Defense Initiative, NYU Office of Global Inclusion, Diversity & Strategic Innovation, Gallatin Human Rights Initiative, NYU Center for Multicultural Education & Programs, and NYU Sanctuary. This panel conversation for NYU staff, faculty, and administrators will feature speakers from the National Immigration Law Center, DRUM - South Asian Organizing Center, and New Sanctuary Coalition. Panelists will address the following questions: How can you minimize risks to those affected? Are you aware of…
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