Happy AAPI Heritage Month, International Workers’ Day, Golden Week, Vesak Day/Visakha Bucha, and Dragon Boat Festival to everyone celebrating throughout this month!
Welcome to QCAP’s May newsletter for the Spring 2025 semester!
Updating you on events and opportunities for our Queens College AAPI community.
📣ANNOUNCEMENTS
Free Honors Cords for Graduating Students!
QCAP would like to congratulate our AAPI students graduating in QC’s Class of 2025 with red-and-gold honor cords to wear at Commencement! Please stop by our AAPI Heritage Month Celebration on May 5 or during QCAP Study Hall the week before finals (May 13–15) to pick up your honors cord (while supplies last)!
QCAP Internship Program: Fall 2025 Application Opens Soon!
The QCAP Internship Program places students with Queens/NYC organizations that serve local AAPI communities and align with their personal, academic, and professional interests and goals. QCAP Interns gain professional experience in areas like civic engagement, education and youth development, gender justice, housing justice, social work, and more. Learn more about the QCAP Internship Program on our website, where the link to apply (via Google Form) will be posted soon. The Fall 2025 application will be open from Friday, May 16, to Friday, September 12. If you have any questions, please reach out to the QCAP Team at [email protected].
The QCAP Community Space’s Open Hours!
For the Spring 2025 semester, the QCAP Community Space in Powdermaker Hall 251 is open every Tuesday from 9:30am to 4:00pm! Stop by to study, take a break between classes, or learn more about QCAP’s programs and resources. We have snacks, a microwave, and an iMac available for student use!
The QCAP Space is also still available for reservation by students Monday through Thursday! If you would like to reserve the space for studying, meetings, etc., please book online at least 1 day in advance at https://qcapspacereservation.setmore.com/.
Note: The QCAP Community Space will be closed after May 15 for the summer and will reopen at the beginning of the Fall semester.
Deadline Extended for Summer 2025 QCAP Faculty Workshops Application!
QCAP invites applications for our 2025 summer faculty development workshops, scheduled for August 7, 8, and 14. The QCAP Faculty Workshops are designed to support QC faculty in teaching QC’s diverse AAPI students, in understanding local AAPI histories and issues, and in developing and implementing Asian American studies course content and pedagogies.
The QCAP Faculty Workshops are open to QC faculty across all disciplines and fields. We especially encourage part-time/contingent faculty to apply. QC faculty who complete all 3 workshop sessions, complete assigned readings and tasks, and submit a post-workshop reflection will receive $1,600.
⭐️UPCOMING EVENTS
Mon 5/05: AAPI Heritage Month Celebration
Come celebrate AAPI Heritage Month with QCAP and AACS on Monday, May 5, during free hour (12:15–1:30pm), in the Muyskens Conference Room at The Summit! We’ll make cute keychains (with kits courtesy of Legend House DIY) and enjoy yummy snacks from local Asian eateries like falafel, kimbap, and sweet and savory buns! Cultural clothing is optional but encouraged. Open to all members of our QC community! You don’t want to miss it!
Tue 5/13–Thu 5/15: QCAP Study Hall
Come by the QCAP Community Space (Powdermaker Hall 251, on the 2nd floor by the Urban Studies department office) anytime Tuesday, May 13 through Thursday, May 15, from 11:00am–4:00pm, for a Study Hall session before Finals Week! Whether you’re tackling assignments, preparing for exams, or just need a quiet space to focus, we’ve got you covered! Feel free to bring your friends and study together, or just stop by to grab a quick snack and recharge. It’s a great way to be productive and also connect and support each other during a stressful time.
⏪QCAP RECAP
AACS + QCAP Chai and Lassi Chat (4/01)
Thank you to everyone who stopped by our last Chai Chat of the semester! We loved seeing both familiar and new faces, chatting about the AACS minor and QCAP, and celebrating Eid. It was a wonderful opportunity to share culture, make memories, and enjoy each other’s company. We hope you had a great time trying mango lassi and doing henna!
QCAP at APAHE 2025 (4/09–11)
Last month, members of the QCAP Team were proud to represent QCAP and Queens College at the annual Asian Pacific Americans in Higher Education (APAHE) conference in Oakland, California! We especially loved being with and learning from fellow AANAPISI community members and leaders from across the country and beyond, and we came back energized and inspired!
🏫CAMPUS EVENTS
Spring Gala (NISA), Thu 5/01, 4:00-8:00pm, Dining Hall 114, RSVP required here
Christian Open Mic Night (First Love), Thu 5/01, 6:00-8:00pm, Faculty Lounge
Fashion N’ Fête (CSA x GSA), Thu 5/01, 6:00-10:00pm, Student Union LL50 Underground
Piñata Making (Relax & Craft x ALAS), Thu 5/01, 6:00-8:00pm, Student Union 310
Weekly Yoga with Exhale to Inhale, Mon 5/05 & Mon 5/12, 12:00-12:45pm, Muyskens Conference Room in The Summit (or sign up for on-demand yoga)
Springfest, Mon 5/05 (rain date 5/07), 12:00-4:00pm, on the Quad
A Wellness Crafternoon (Pokémon Club), Mon 5/05, 12:15-1:30pm, Powdermaker 116
Study & Sip (Women in STEM), Mon 5/05, 12:15-1:30pm, Student Union 126
Kamayan Night (TROPA), Mon 5/05, 6:00-9:00pm, Student Union LL50 Underground, RSVP here
Writers at Queens: Reading by Richard Prins, Mon 5/05, 7:00pm, Rosenthal Library, Tanenbaum Room 300i
Relax & Paint before Finals, Tue 5/06, 3:00-4:30pm, Student Union 126 (Faculty & Staff Lounge)
Encanto Movie Night (Creative Media Club x ALAS), Tue 5/06, 5:00-7:00pm, location TBA
Karaoke Night (ASA), Tue 5/06, 6:00-9:00pm, location TBA
Mother’s Day Pottery Sale (Ceramics Club), Wed 5/07, 12:00-3:00pm, Quad or Cafeteria
Wellness Walk (Wellness Society), Wed 5/07, 12:10-1:30pm, location TBA
Finals Decompression Session (BLASKLCD x NSSLHA), Wed 5/07, 12:15-1:30pm, Queens Hall 340
UBUNTU End of Semester Celebration, Wed 5/07, 12:30-1:30pm, Student Union 126 (Faculty & Staff Lounge)
Medical Kdrama Night (Korean Club), Wed 5/07, 5:00-9:00pm, location TBA
K-Pop Game & Trivia Night! (K-POP Club), Wed 5/07, 5:00-8:00pm, location TBA
Spring Bash (Hispanic Club), Wed 5/07, 6:00-9:00pm, Student Union 126 (Faculty & Staff Lounge)
Sonder (Student Choreography Showcase), playing Thu 5/08 through Sun 5/11, Goldstein Theatre, $7 tickets
Movie Night (GSA), Thu 5/08, 6:00-8:30pm, Student Union 310 or Student Union 115A
Noor-e-Punjab (QC Jalsa x ISA x SASA), Thu 5/08, 6:00-10:00pm, Student Union Underground LL50, $10 tickets for QC students
The Cypher: Karaoke Edition (BSU), Fri 5/09, 2:00-6:00pm, Dining Hall Patio Room
End of Year Celebration (QCBLASK x QCNSSLHA), Mon 5/12, 12:15-1:30pm, Queens Hall 340
Finals-Free Zone: A Destressor Event (NISA), Wed 5/14, 12:00-3:00pm, location TBA
End of Year Dinner (MSA), Thu 5/15, 4:00-9:00pm, location TBA
💗COMMUNITY EVENTS IN NYC
Rheology, playing now through 5/10, Bushwick Starr, 419 Eldert St, Brooklyn, $30 tickets
Goddess, playing now through 6/08, The Public, 425 Lafayette St, Manhattan, $40 tickets with code CUNY2425
Sondheim’s Old Friends, playing now through 6/15, $49 tickets with code MTCJL
Corky Lee’s Asian America Book Panel, Thu 5/01, 5:30-7:00pm, Queens Public Library at Flushing, 41-17 Main St, Flushing, Queens, and online via Zoom
CUNY x NYC Votes: NYC Ranked Choice Voting 101, Thu 5/01, 6:30-7:30pm, webinar via Zoom
Book Talk: To Have and Have More by Sanibel, with Eric Kim, Thu 5/01, 7:00-8:00pm, Yu & Me Books, 44 Mulberry St, Manhattan
Cathy Linh Che: Becoming Ghost, with Wo Chan, Thu 5/01, 7:00-8:00pm, Books Are Magic Montague, 122 Montague St, Brooklyn
All This Safety Is Killing Us with editors Ronica Mukerjee and Carlos Martínez, Thu 5/01, 7:00-8:00pm, World’s Borough Bookshop, 3406 73rd St, Jackson Heights, Queens
AAARI Symposium: Healing During Uncertainty: Asian American Mental Health, Fri 5/02, 8:30am-4:00pm, CUNY School of Law, 2 Court Sq, LIC, Queens
Writers’ Cafe with Bushra Rehman (ABI x HCAP), Fri 5/02, 1:00-3:30pm, BMCC Fiterman Hall, 245 Greenwich St, Manhattan, RSVP required for non-BMCC students
Author Talk with Derek Kirk Kim (The Last Mermaid), Fri 5/02, 3:30-4:30pm, online via Google Meet
Closing Ceremony: The Path Forward (Mekong NYC), Fri 5/02, 6:00-9:00pm, FPWA, 40 Broad St, Manhattan, RSVP required
From Hawaiʻi to Palestine: Sean Connelly, Nadine Fattaleh, Nour Joudah, and Brandy Nālani McDougall, Fri 5/02, 6:00-8:00pm, A/P/A Institute at NYU, 20 Cooper Sq, 3rd floor, Manhattan
Vietnamese Writers in the Diaspora, Fri 5/02, 6:30-8:00pm, Rizzoli Bookstore, 1133 Broadway, Manhattan
Celebrate Holi, Sat 5/03, 10:00am, 1:00pm, & 4:00pm, Brooklyn Children’s Museum, 145 Brooklyn Ave, Brooklyn, $15 adult tickets
SQWM Mother’s Day Sip N’ Shop, Sat 5/03, 11:00am-3:30pm, Regency Party Hall, 110-54 Springfield Blvd, Queens Village, Queens
Lahore Literary Festival in New York 2025, Sat 5/03, 11:00am-6:00pm, Asia Society, 725 Park Ave, Manhattan, $40 non-member tickets (student discount with code SENSTU)
Spring Book Swap, Sat 5/03, 5:30-7:30pm, Yu & Me Books, 44 Mulberry St, Manhattan
Apex for Youth x Chinatown Runners: Run through Sunset Park, Sun 5/04, 9:30am-12:30pm, 6th Ave & 41st St, Brooklyn
SQWM Pop-up Pantry for Vaisakhi, Sun 5/04, 1:00pm, Sikh Cultural Society Gurdwara, 95-30 118th St, Richmond Hill, Queens
Three Seasons: Screening and Talk on the Making of Modern Vietnam, Sun 5/04, 4:00-6:30pm, Asia Society, 725 Park Ave, Manhattan, $15 non-member tickets (student discount with code SENSTU)
3AF Impact Series: The Asian American Consumer, Tue 5/06, 11:55am-4:30pm, online via Zoom, register here
Boat Baby: Vicky Nguyen in Conversation with Ally Love, Tue 5/06, 6:00-7:00pm, Asia Society, 725 Park Ave, Manhattan, $25 non-member tickets (student discount with code SENSTU)
Book Launch: The Original Daughter by Jemimah Wei, with Roxane Gay, Tue 5/06, 7:00-8:30pm, New Design HS, 350 Grand St, Manhattan
Asian Comedy Fest 2025, Tue 5/06 through Thu 5/08, shows at 7pm and 9pm, Sugar Mouse NYC, 47 3rd Ave, Manhattan
Book Launch: The Manor of Dreams by Christina Li, with Chloe Gong, Wed 5/07, 7:00-8:00pm, Yu & Me Books, 44 Mulberry St, Manhattan
Immigrant Wellness Resource Fair, Wed 5/07, 2:00-6:00pm, UnLocal, 45 W 29th St, Suite 203, Manhattan
Films to See Before You Die: Suzaku, Wed 5/07, 6:30-8:30pm, Asia Society, 725 Park Ave, Manhattan, limited free tickets for students with ID
An Evening with Guadalupe Nettel (The Accidentals), with Radha Vatsal, Wed 5/07, 7:00-8:00pm, World’s Borough Bookshop, 3406 73rd St, Jackson Heights, Queens
In Celebration of The Hollow Half by Sarah Aziza (AAWW), Thu 5/08, 7:00pm, livestreaming, RSVP here
Jennifer Hope Choi: The Wanderer’s Curse, with T Kira Madden, Thu 5/08, 7:00-8:00pm, Books Are Magic Montague, 122 Montague St, Brooklyn
Spring Community Fest (MinKwon Center), Sat 5/10, 12:00-3:00pm, Murray Hill LIRR Station, Queens
Love & Unity in May Concert & Resource Fair, Sat 5/10, 2:00pm, Glow Community Center, 133-29 41st Ave 1FL, Flushing, Queens
A4: Mothers in the Arts, Sat 5/10, 2:00-4:00pm, STORM Bookstore, 118 Norman Ave, Brooklyn
A4: Queens Poetry Symposium Reading, Mon 5/12, 5:00pm, Queens Public Library at Flushing, Lower Level conference room, 41-17 Main St, Flushing Queens
Meet n Greet: Incredible by Maia and Alex Shibutani, Tue 5/13, 5:30-7:00pm, Yu & Me Books, 44 Mulberry St, Manhattan
The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration with editors Frank Abe and Floyd Cheung, Tue 5/13, 6:00-8:00pm, Roosevelt House at Hunter College, 47-49 E 65th St, Manhattan, and online, RSVP here
Book Launch: Walk Like a Girl by Prabal Gurung, with Eva Chen, Tue 5/13, 7:00-8:30pm, New Design HS, 350 Grand St, Manhattan
Book Talk: The Anti-Ableist Manifesto by Tiffany Yu, with Nitika Chopra, Wed 5/14, 7:00-8:00pm, Welcome to Chinatown, 115 Bowery, Manhattan
Queens Borough President AAPI Heritage Month Celebration, Thu 5/15, 5:00pm, Queens Borough Hall, 120-55 Queens Blvd, Kew Gardens, Queens
Reclaiming Vietnam: A One-Woman Show by Kim Chinh, Thu 5/15, 6:00-7:30pm, Queens Public Library at Flushing, 41-17 Main St, Flushing, Queens, and on Zoom
Love-Grief in Poetry (AAWW), Thu 5/15, 7:00-8:00pm, Liz’s Book Bar, 315 Smith St, Brooklyn
The Shakuhachi 5: Shakuhachi Vogue – A Visual Concert, Fri 5/16, 7:30-9:00pm, Japan Society, 333 E 47th St, Manhattan, $43 non-member tickets
KCLS Author Voices: Kiku Hughes, Sat 5/17, 5:00-6:30pm ET, online via Zoom
Night for Impossible Light: Mutual Aid for Gaza, Sun 5/18, 4:00-6:00pm, World’s Borough Bookshop, 3406 73rd St, Jackson Heights, Queens
Book Party: The Summers Between Us by Noreen Nanja, Mon 5/19, 7:00-8:00pm, World’s Borough Bookshop, 3406 73rd St, Jackson Heights, Queens
Book Launch: Gingko Season by Naomi Xu Elegant, with Gina Chung, Tue 5/20, 7:00-8:00pm, Yu & Me Books, 44 Mulberry St, Manhattan
Center for Fiction Presents Madeleine Thien on The Book of Records, with Maaza Mengiste, Tue 5/20, 7:00-8:15pm, Center for Fiction, 15 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, and livestreaming
Book Talk: Transplants by Daniel Tam-Claiborne, with Elysha Chang, Wed 5/21, 7:00-8:30pm, New Design HS, 350 Grand St, Manhattan
Queens Borough President Guyanese Independence Day Celebration, Thu 5/22, 6:00pm, Queens Borough Hall, 120-55 Queens Blvd, Kew Gardens, Queens
Book Talk: Becoming Ghost by Cathy Linh Che, with Kyle Lucia Wu, Thu 5/22, 7:00-8:00pm, Yu & Me Books, 44 Mulberry St, Manhattan
Kevin Nguyen: Mỹ Documents, Thu 5/22, 7:00-8:00pm, NYPL Schwarzman Building, Celeste Auditorium, 42nd St & 5th Ave, Manhattan, and livestreaming
2025 NYC AAPI 5K, Sat 5/24, 12:00-5:00pm, Pier 45, Hudson River Greenway, Manhattan
The Queens Review Spring 2025 Launch Party, Sun 5/25, 7:00pm, Unnameable Books, 615 Vanderbilt, Brooklyn
AAPI Heritage Night: New York Liberty v. Golden State Valkyries WNBA Game (AAWW), Tue 5/27, 7:00pm, Barclays Center, 620 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, $51.94 tickets
No, YOU Tell It! “My Place,” Wed 5/28, 7:00-9:00pm, Grove 34, 31-83 34th St, Astoria, Queens
2025 CUNY Asian American Film Festival, Fri 5/30, 6:00-8:00pm, CUNY Graduate Center, Martin Segal Theatre, 365 Fifth Ave, Manhattan
Laughing Lassi: Desi Standup Comedy Show, Fri 5/30, 7:00-8:30pm, Broadway Comedy Club, 318 W 53rd St, Manhattan
2025 AAPI Mayoral Forum, Tue 6/03, 6:00-8:00pm, New York Law School, 185 W Broadway, Manhattan
Celebrating Poetry with Jenevieve Ting, Francisco Delgado and Taiyo Na, Wed 6/04, 6:00-7:00pm, Queens Public Library at Flushing, 41-17 Main St, Flushing, Queens, and on Zoom
Eid Al Adha Picnic (Malikah), Fri 6/06, 1:00-5:00pm, Astoria Park, Queens
Astoria Halal Fest (Malikah), Sat 6/21, 12:00-6:00pm, Steinway St, Astoria, Queens
AAARI 24th Annual Gala, Mon 6/16, 5:30-9:00pm, CUNY Graduate Center, Concourse Level, 365 Fifth Ave, Manhattan, $200 regular tickets, $50 student tickets with ID
📌INTERNSHIPS & OTHER OPPORTUNITIES
Handshake – online platform for QC students to search & apply for internships & jobs
Saint George Society’s Scholarship – scholarship award up to $6,800, apply by 5/09
Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) Program – applications now being accepted on a rolling basis
Volunteer with Apex for Youth – info session on 5/06 at 7:00pm via Zoom
Volunteer with SAADA – remote summer opportunity for the role of Community Historians
✨RESOURCES
In case you didn’t already know, we have a Resources section on our website, where you’ll find not just QC and CUNY resources but other AAPI-related resources as well. These resources range from scholarly journals to various podcasts and YouTube channels to local AAPI-serving community organizations. Check them out! We also encourage immigrant students to connect with QC’s Immigrant Student Support Initiative—see their recent Instagram post about CUNY immigration resources.
And as always, if you need any support or help accessing resources on or off campus, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us at [email protected] or DM us on Instagram @qcap.queens.
