Events & Happenings
This Month in Chinatown
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Kimchi Grilled Cheese Pop-up (with higgled and piggled)
Visit The Hub for Test Thursday, our new initiative for entrepreneurs to test concepts + gain customer insight. Stop by for Kimchi Grilled Cheeses made by higgled and piggled.
Tomb Sweeping Workshop & Panel Discussion
Join us for a special (清明節) Tomb Sweeping Workshop, where we’ll dive into the traditions of ancestor veneration—what it means, how it’s practiced, and its deep cultural significance. We are honored to have Grand Tea and Imports, Chop Suey Club, and Jan Lee to share their stories and how they observe the holiday and followed by a workshop.
Open Office Hours
Book a free consultation with our team! Our open office hours are an opportunity to meet with the WtC team to chat through your challenges and support needs.
Open Office Hours
Book a free consultation with our team! Our open office hours are an opportunity to meet with the WtC team to chat through your challenges and support needs.
Open Office Hours
Book a free consultation with our team! Our open office hours are an opportunity to meet with the WtC team to chat through your challenges and support needs.
Open Office Hours
Book a free consultation with our team! Our open office hours are an opportunity to meet with the WtC team to chat through your challenges and support needs.
Open Office Hours
Book a free consultation with our team! Our open office hours are an opportunity to meet with the WtC team to chat through your challenges and support needs.
Open Office Hours
Book a free consultation with our team! Our open office hours are an opportunity to meet with the WtC team to chat through your challenges and support needs.
Suamora’s March Community Circle: The Resilience Shift
Join us for a transformative wellness event designed to help you shift from simply carrying stress to actively managing it with intention and clarity.
Open Office Hours
Book a free consultation with our team! Our open office hours are an opportunity to meet with the WtC team to chat through your challenges and support needs.
Onigiri Noah Pop-Up
Visit The Hub for our first (!) Test Thursday, our new initiative for entrepreneurs to test concepts + gain customer insight. Stop by for made-to-order onigiri’s by Noah.
Fuzhou Sisters Winter Qinghong Tasting
Explore Fuzhou Sisters’ self-brewed Qinghong, including special flower-infused variations. This event invites you on a sensory journey through the rich heritage of Fuzhou.
Exited Founders Fireside Chat: Paraag Sarva
He raised at a $500 million+ valuation and successfully led his company through the pandemic. After six years of leadership, he successfully exited his startup. You should learn from this guy. His name is Paraag Sarva.
New Year, New Business
This Business 201 session with Welcome to Chinatown and JP Morgan will provide the tools to take your vision to the next level, whether you’re an emerging entrepreneur or current small business owner.
Cheers to Love with Dawang
Cheers to love! DAWANG and Welcome to Chinatown are coming together to host a Valentine’s Day weekend
Unlock Opportunities with MWBE Certifications
An info session on Minority- and Women-Owned Business Enterprise (MWBE) certification with an expert from Empire State Development.
WtC LNY Kids Day @ The Hub!
Celebrate the Year of the Snake with fun crafts and festivities for the whole family!
Holiday Cookie Decorating Workshop
Join us for a festive holiday cookie decorating event hosted by a Daniel Kim, NYC baker!
Holiday Wreath Workshop with Shu's Flower
Join us to create your own Christmas wreath with Fan Favorite Small Business: Shu's Flower.
Come to learn how to make your own fresh holiday wreath with Shu just in time for the holiday season. Each $125 ticket guarantees a bespoke holiday wreath to take home, tools, light refreshments, and an evening of holiday fun while supporting a Chinatown small business.
Drinks and light snacks provided!
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About Shu’s Flower:
Based in the heart of NOLITA, Shu’s flower has the best varieties of fresh cut opulence décor for home or office, even a little gift for your loved ones. As flowers are part of daily life, we aim to provide the unique and simple design from bouquets to the chuppah, the table arrangements for our daily customers. Shu’s flower provides expertise, same day arrangement delivery to weekly corporate accounts to specialized occasions and wedding grandeur.
Shu’s Flower was a winner of our 2024 Small Business Awards, in the Fan Favorite category! Our Fan Favorite was chosen through an open nomination and voting process – think of it like a people’s choice award. Each year, the nominations and enthusiastic voters remind us of the significance this neighborhood has in the lives of so many.
Check out Ben Hon (@stuffbeaneats) spotlight of Shu’s Flower to learn more about Shu’s story.
Shu and fellow Small Business Award winners were honored at our Gala on September 19th. Small businesses are the heart and backbone of Chinatown. Welcome to Chinatown’s Small Business Awards honor local businesses and entrepreneurs for their contributions to Chinatown and the wider community.
Marketing Consultation with Vanessa Chung (Pro-Bono Concierge Program)
Unlock your business’s marketing potential with a 25-minute pro-bono consultation with strategist Vanessa Chung!
Self Defense Workshop with Malikah
A free self defense workshop with Malikah, for women and gender expansive individuals. Learn how to leverage the power of your own body and voice to feel safe.
Workshop: Building a Winning Website
Hosted by Squarespace and Welcome to Chinatown, this website building workshop is open to all experience levels!
Founders Embracing Failure: A Conversation on Resilience
Panelists will share the ups and downs of their founding journeys, and the hard-earned lessons from experiencing and embracing failure.
Golden Day with CPC
CPC is hosting a free family fun day, and bring the community together around voting, culture, and fun. Costumes encouraged!
tayotayo: Creating Space for the Filipinx Diaspora
A rich exchange of ideas, stories, and strategies as we reimagine the future of Filipinx spaces – hosted by Anjelica Florendo
Nonprofit AI for Communications & Productivity
Join us for our upcoming panel discussion hosted by Leadership Fellows New York and Amplifi Digital on Nonprofit AI for Communications & Productivity!
Chinatown Solidarity: 2nd Annual US-Canada Chinatown Cultural Preservation and Revitalization Conference
Building off the success of last year's conference, we will reconvene American and Canadian Chinatown business and cultural leaders to exchange and implement ideas on preserving North American Chinatowns. We aim to strengthen the connections fostered in Vancouver and discuss how the collective #ChinatownSolidarity group can implement the powerful roadmap generated from last year's conference.
NEW WAVE Book Release + Q&A w/ Elizabeth Ai + Jezz Chung
Come celebrate the book release for New Wave: Rebellion and Reinvention in the Vietnamese Diaspora by Elizabeth Ai!
New Wave NYC Theatrical Run
We’re partnering with AZN AMERICANA to bring NEW WAVE back to the city with a limited theatrical run at DCTV’s Firehouse Cinema!
This film sheds light on an untold chapter of the Asian diaspora, moving beyond war stories to highlight the creativity, joy, and iconic culture that Vietnamese refugees built in 1980s America. We believe New Wave is one of many stories that deserves to be shared with the world.
AZN AMERICANA, a nonprofit collective for Asian women & femmes, is proud to serve as the impact producer for New Wave Documentary and excited to partner with Welcome to Chinatown for its NYC theatrical run.
In addition to sharing this story, we're honored to work with New Wave director Elizabeth Ai. Elizabeth is a Chinese-Vietnamese-American Emmy award-winning producer, with a long filmography of independent narratives and branded content for companies like National Geographic, ESPN, and VICE. Did you know that New Wave is her first feature documentary? We're so excited to support New Wave's theatrical release in NYC, and continue empowering and bolstering creatives in our community.
We cannot wait for you to see the film, and meet the team behind it!
Artist Talk with Chankalun and Carnaby Fair
We invite you to attend our very first Artist Alley Series Artist Talk featuring: HK-based neon artist Chankalun and Carnaby Fair.
MID-AUTUMN BLOCK PARTY: Presented by Chinatown Social
Chinatown Social is celebrating Mid-Autumn festival hosting a one-day event that will feature your favorite AAPI small businesses.
Women's Entrepreneurship Workshop by AZN AMERICANA & Welcome to Chinatown
Come to learn & meet other local NYC Asian women & femme entrepreneurs!
Olympics Watch Party
Join us at Whiskey Tavern for an action-packed day as we watch Team USA compete in the Olympics basketball games!