GET YOUR TICKETS HERE Please join the Asian Women Giving Circle (AWGC) for our first in-person celebration in four years on Wednesday, May 31, 6 – 8:30 pm at the legendary firehouse DCTV (Downtown Community TV Center). During our upcoming celebration, we are thrilled to pay tribute to the exceptional accomplishments of Min Jin Lee, Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya, and our remarkable grantees for building the future we want to …
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Asian Women Giving Circle Awards $76,000 in Arts and Activism Grants in 2022
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | July 2022 Contact: Hali Lee [email protected] Asian Women Giving Circle Awards $76,000 in Arts and Activism Grants in 2022 NEW YORK — The Asian Women Giving Circle today named ten new grantees for 2022. They include an archival project memorializing the AAPI experience during the pandemic and the escalation of ant-Asian hate and a …
Asian Women Giving Circle Awards $75,000 in Grants to Nine Cultural Intervention Projects in New York City
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE / August 2021 Contact: Hali Lee [email protected] NEW YORK — The Asian Women Giving Circle has awarded grants to nine projects led by NYC-based Asian American women artists and community organizations that explore the impact of the past year on the city’s BIPOC communities through the lens of resistance, resilience, and solidarity. “This year we put …
Spring Gala: Stronger Together
May 27, 2021 at 7:00-8:00 pm ET Join us to celebrate power, resilience, and the vision of our grantee partners. Kit Yan, co-creator of Interstate, will emcee. Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai will share recent work. And as always, there will be conviviality, community, and connection. Click here to register!
Conversations on Justice
May 20 @ 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM Featured speakers are advancing the calls for justice in New York City by harnessing the power of tenants, women and gender non-conforming individuals, survivors of interpersonal violence, immigrants and refugees, and more. North Star Fund is a social justice fund that supports grassroots organizing led by communities of color building power in New York …
Exhibition Tour + Meet the Artist
EXCLUSIVE INVITATION April 21, 2021 7:00–8:15 pm Exhibition tour 8:00 pm Online vigil for Atlanta shooting victims MAY WE KNOW OUR OWN STRENGTH Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya Join us for a new exhibition integrating visual art and technology by NYC Commission on Human Rights artist-in-residence and creator of I Still Believe in Our City public art campaign. This interactive installation uses 16 …
What is Social Justice Art? A Talk with Artist Siyan Wong
Join us on March 4 at 7:30 pm ET So much to celebrate in 2021! Vaccines, climate justice back on the agenda, and a president who speaks of hope rather than hate. Join us to celebrate Siyan Wong’s birthday, AWGC 2019 grantee. Siyan will discuss her artistic journey. Her artwork will be on sale and 25% of the proceeds will …
Request for Proposals 2021
Request for Proposals 2021 Application cycle is now closed. Overview Asian Women Giving Circle (AWGC) believes culture is an essential part of any strategy for social change. We support Asian American women-led organizations and individual artists in NYC who are using arts and culture to: bring about progressive social transformation, raise awareness and catalyze action around critical issues that affect …
Imagining Different Possibilities – Join us on January 27th
We invite you to join us for a conversation and studio tour with artist, activist Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya. This is a moment that invites us to imagine different possibilities, better ones, more inclusive ones. Please join us this year as we explore what we can do together to build community while supporting artist activists who courageously paint, write, perform, dance, sing and speak truth …
Asian Women Giving Circle Awards $67,500 in Grants to Eleven NYC Culture Change Makers
NEW YORK, NY – A documentary about sex workers organizing in the wake of a police raid that led to a Flushing massage worker leaping to her death and a multimedia art installation centered on the experiences of women can collectors in New York City Chinatown are among the projects awarded grants this year from the Asian Women Giving Circle. …