Asian American Author Panel

Join us in celebration of Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month as three accomplished professionals with local ties will share their perspectives on the writing process and talk about their family heritage as reflected in their books.

Talk Story: Rooting for Truth

I Street Conferencing Center 600 Massachusetts Avenue, NW (entry from I Street between 6/7th streets), Washington, DC, United States

Talk Story Event: Helen Zia + “The Last Boat Out of Shanghai”

I Street Conferencing Center 600 Massachusetts Avenue, NW (entry from I Street between 6/7th streets), Washington, DC, United States

  Stories of courage and resilience, Chinese fleeing from Shanghai as the communist army engulfs the country becomes the backdrop for vivid narratives of four exiles who represent "the voices, viewpoints and character of the Shanghai diaspora." Join us for our February Talk Story event featuring the author and activist, Helen Zia, as she shares […]

Talk Story Event: Community Collaboration + 150th Anniversary of the Transcontinental Railroad

I Street Conferencing Center 600 Massachusetts Avenue, NW (entry from I Street between 6/7th streets), Washington, DC, United States

Join us as we launch into the 2019 season of Talk Story Programming with an exciting community discussion on the 150th anniversary of the completion of the first transcontinental railroad, coming up in May 2019. Joining us from New York will be activist and photographer Corky Lee and our Executive Director Ted Gong. The two […]

Talk Story: Wong Chin Foo & Chinese Exclusion Act

Studio Xfinity 715 7th Street NW, Washington, DC, United States

JOIN US: Scott D. Seligman on Wong Chin Foo who challenged Denis Kearney on anti-Chinese laws, and a film screening of Rick Burns and Li-Shin Yu’s Chinese Exclusion Act.