Events

Join in celebrating the Asian Pacific-Islander American (APIA) community at Penn.

Asian-Pacific American Heritage Week - Join us for our signature closing event! Come out to support your friends at an amazing show and an even greater cause.  For those of you new to Big Asian, we'll run it "talent-show" style, except between every performer our MCs will ask for bids within the audience. Pair up with friends, groups, and clubs to support your friends - plus, we'll have free food!

Asian-Pacific American Heritage Week - In collaboration with Penn's ASAM Program, APAHW is proud to present our 2021 ASAM Sharing Our Roots!  Come learn from Professors of the Asian American Studies Program as they share Asian-American topics they’re passionate about. Thank you so much to Penn Asian American Studies (ASAM) for helping us to organize this wonderful event!

Featuring
Penn's NROTC Midshipmen and the Presentation of Colors from the Hollenback Center
Col. Vincent John Ciuccoli, USMC -- Commanding Officer, Philadelphia Consortium NROTC

Guest Speaker
Lynn Manuel, Veterans & Military Affiliated Coordinator, Penn Student Records & Financial Services

Asian-Pacific American Heritage Week is proud to present our headline speaker for 2021, Inga Lam, coming to Penn on November 10th. Come learn about Inga's experiences travelling the world and taking inspiration for her own dishes at home. Plus, watch as student's from Penn's very own Penn Appetite take on Inga's challenge and create their own dish for Inga to try!

Ania Vu, Composer and pianist, PhD Candidate, Penn Music. Born and raised in Poland, and of Vietnamese descent, Ania Vu has a passion for music, text, and languages. Join us for an intimate recital featuring a song cycle set to French poetry by Verlaine and Prévert, songs set to Vu’s own words in Polish, solo piano music, and a duo for percussion and piano. Vu will be accompanied by soprano Paulina Swierczek and percussionist Alyssa Resh. 

Asian-Pacific American Heritage Week Event - This workshop, ‘We’re All in this Together’, aims to bring together people from different backgrounds to talk about their associations with both American and Asian cultures, and the similarities and differences that run between them. We will first do a speed dating icebreaker with a Squid Game twist (can you flip the ddakji over?! Think of the scene in the subway!) so that we can get to know each other. Afterward, the majority of the workshop will be held in an interactive, small-group format, with PAACH leaders guiding the activity and discussion. Each group will create a board which shows the different selves and identities that they feel they have to take on in their everyday lives.

Asian-Pacific American Heritage Week 2021 kicks off with Extravaganza. We're bringing together dozens of Penn's clubs in 2 hours of jam-packed excitement. We'll be catering food and have groups lined up one after one to celebrate APAHW 2021 and our shared heritage and culture.

Gabrielle Foreman, Paterno Family Professor of American Literature and Professor of African American Studies and History, Penn State University.  As founding director of the Colored Conventions Project and as the research historian for a decade-long performance project to bring buried Black history to the stage, Gabrielle Foreman discusses how digital archives and resurrectionary poetics stitch the ephemerality and partiality of the Black past-present into a quilt of historical recovery.

Come take A Walk Through Indonesia to experience what's most fun and exciting about us! Learn about Indonesian college life, chat with our students while coloring traditional batik designs, and more!  PAACH/APSC event hosted by the International Guest Student Program students at Penn.