Celebrate the season with Asia Society. Bring friends and family to experience a night of fun and culture. This annual event features free museum tours, artisan demonstrations, special priced “leotinis”, discounts at AsiaStore and on membership and more. Join us for the festivities! When: December 2, 2011 Time: 6:00pm -9:00pm Where: 725 Park Avenue at 70th St. New York City For more info click here.

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Join us for the opening reception of Oksana Prokopenko: Exhibition of Mosaic Icons and Paintings on Thursday, December 15th, at 6 pm Oksana Prokopenko’s works have been acquired into the permanent collections of museums in the USA and Italy. She has been featured on the Russian international TV network, NTV-America, radio, and numerous publications. To quote Margo Grant, the Museum of Russian Art’s director, “The soul of Prokopenko’s work is in her walking that fine line between the transcendent and the ordinary. Prokopenko has achieved sheer brilliance in her deft treatment of the tiny peices in her micro-mosaics. What’s more is that it is done with a rainbow of majestic colors. ” Prokopenko is a rarity in today’s contemporary art scene. Her focus on detail is akin to that of artist ...

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Judith Sloan’s Yo Miss! Teaching Inside the Cultural Divide Thursday February 16th, 7:30 PM Joe’s Pub 425 Lafayette Street, New York NY Advance tickets, reserved seating. $15 Award-winning playwright and actress Judith Sloan collides with revolutionary rapper Immortal Technique. Part documentary, part music, part poetic autobiography, Yo Miss! Teaching Inside the Cultural Divide looks back on Judith’s years of teaching in prisons, immigration high schools, and universities. In this sometimes funny, sometimes sad, always truth-seeking performance, Sloan breaks down assumptions that divide teacher and student, student and student, one sub-culture from another, and residents of a polyglot city who live in close proximity but come from conflicting worlds. Through poetry, vivid c ...

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January 23rd marks the first day of the 2012 Lunar New Year, which will be kicked off with 600,000 rounds of colorful firecrackers, prepared by highly trained detonation specialists, a traditional Lunar New Year practice believed to scare away evil spirits. Expected attendees include local politicians, community leaders and dignitaries. After opening ceremonies, a dozen Lion, Dragon and Unicorn dance troupes will march down the main streets of Chinatown (Mott, Bowery, East Broadway, Bayard, Elizabeth, and Pell) to help ring in the New Year. A massive festival will be in the heart of Chinatown that will feature all-day cultural performances by traditional and contemporary Asian and Asian-American singers and dancers, along with food vendors and promotional booths. Estimated Attendance: 200, ...

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Charles A. Dana Discovery Center (inside the Central Park at 110th Street between Lenox and Fifth Avenues) Sunday, January 29, 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm Celebrate the Jewish New Year of the Trees by participating in an interactive storytelling musical performance of The Hat Seller and the Monkeys and a shadow puppets presentation Under the Shade of the Mulberry Tree by NYC’s own Play me a Story. Free. No advanced registration required. Families only, no groups, please. For more information, please call 212-860-1370. Date: Sunday, January 29, 2012 Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Where: Central Park, NY For more info click here.    

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Take part in the 9th Scotland 10k Run in Central Park, NYC, organised by the New York Road Runners and sponsored by the Scottish Government on April 7th 2012. Start the week with a healthy start! New York Road Runners When: April 7, 2012 Where: Central Park, NY For more info click here.  

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Dances of Vice, NYC’s premier promoter of anachronistic parties, along with The Art Deco Society of New York presents an evening with the Modern Girl, or Moga, and her kaleidoscopic world of dancing, drinking and late night revelry. Learn a new step on the dance floor, sip an intoxicating tonic and take in the sultry sounds of live prewar jazz by the Kuni Mikami Jazz Quintet featuring vocalist Mari Koga. Watch fashionable flirtation come to life as real Mogas wearing Deco-style fashion designed byMutsumi Gee of Allure Original Styles shimmy through the halls of Japan Society’s exhibition Deco Japan: Shaping Art and Culture, 1920-1945. Period attire strongly encouraged! When: May 5, 2012 Special exhibition tour by Gallery Director Joe Earle, 7:15-8 PM. Part of the Open House Wee ...

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A modest hit in Korea that deserves far more attention than it received, this sharp dramedy from The Servant director Kim Dae-Woo has the endearing Yun-Seo ( the legendary Han Suk-Kyu) randomly coming across an ‘indecent novel.’ Hesitant to read it at first, he’s soon inspired to write one of his own, even asking his family rival and infamous captain of guards, Gwang-Heon (Lee Beom-Su, City of Violence), to illustrate it for him. Their book is soon the most talked-about in town and it’s eventually picked up by Jeong-Bin, the king’s favorite concubine. But when she becomes a little too involved, the two men are soon drawn in a tricky web of palace intrigue that will leave no one safe. Tribeca Cinemas: 54 Varick Street, on the corner of Canal Street, one block from the A, C, E and 1 train Ca ...

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Holy blockbusters! A big hit at the Korean box office, Sword is the epitome of posh, luscious, decadent period filmmaking. Based on the real life Empress Myeongseong, it tells her story through the eyes of a bounty hunter who becomes her bodyguard (Cho Seung-Woo, now doing his mandatory military service). She tries to stand up to Russian and Japanese intervention in 19th Century Korea and the results are a series of luxurious, CGI-enhanced action scenes alternating with carefully calibrated and eye-meltingly colorful scenes of court life, making this movie feel like an unholy mix of Merchant-Ivory and The Matrix. Tribeca Cinemas: 54 Varick Street, on the corner of Canal Street, one block from the A, C, E and 1 train Canal Street stops All seating is first-come, first served. Doors open at ...

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March 16, 2013 Fifth Avenue and 44th Street  Manhattan, NY Held on the streets of New York since 1762, the New York City Saint Patrick’s Day Parade and Festival is billed as the oldest and largest parade in the Western Hemisphere. The event is a true spectacle, with more than 150,000 participants marching in the parade and more than 2 million spectators lining the streets of 5th Avenue. A unique aspect of the parade is that all participants are on foot … everyone marches, including civic groups, dignitaries and of course the bands. There are no floats, no motorized vehicles, no balloons. For this reason the committee says marching bands are the most important part of the parade because they set the pace and provide a cadence for the march. Saturday, March 16, 2013 11:00 AM &nbs ...

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