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More than a chatbot: A hands-on AI workshop for small business owners
Jun
22

More than a chatbot: A hands-on AI workshop for small business owners

Whether you're running a business or want to start one, Text It. Done. is the hands-on AI workshop that meets you where you are.

​If you've only just dipped your toes into AI — or haven't started yet — you're in the perfect place. This workshop opens up a whole new way of working most people don't even know exists yet.

​Bring one thing you need to get done: a customer reply, a social post, a product description, a menu update, a vendor email, a checklist, a plan, or that tiny task that keeps getting pushed to tomorrow.

​We’ll help you use AI to move it forward. And, when possible, turn it into a workflow you can use again.

Who should come

​Small business owners. Small business staff and operators. Freelancers and service providers. People starting or thinking about starting a business.

​In other works, this is a good fit if you:

  • ​used it to chat but not for real work yet

  • ​tried ChatGPT or Claude once and did not know what to do next/want to use it more effectively

​You do not need technical experience. You do not need to know how to code.

​Agenda

​We’ll move through two hands-on working sessions:

1. How to talk to AI clearly
Learn how to give AI the right context, examples, tone, and goal so it can actually help with real work.

2. How to turn one task into a repeatable workflow
Take one prompt or output and shape it into something you can reuse for your business.

​We’ll use live examples from everyday small business work, including customer replies, social posts, product descriptions, operations checklists, vendor emails, menu updates, and business planning.

​What to bring

​Please bring:

​A laptop or phone.

​One real task from your business or business idea.

​It can be messy, unfinished, annoying, or something you have been putting off. That is perfect.

​Schedule

​6:00 — Welcome and check-in

​6:10 — How to talk to AI so it actually helps

​6:20 — Hands-on: work through one real business task

​6:50 — Share what worked

​7:00 — Turning one prompt into a reusable workflow

​7:10 — Hands-on: build your workflow

​7:40 — Support, polish, and next steps

​7:50 — Share-outs

​8:00 — Close

​Getting in

​Space is limited so we can keep the workshop hands-on and useful.

​Please RSVP with a few details about your business, your comfort level with AI, and one task you might want to work on during the session. This helps us shape the workshop around the people in the room.

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Intro To Mahjong by Green Tile Social Club: June Session
Jun
23

Intro To Mahjong by Green Tile Social Club: June Session

Join us and Green Tile Social Club for a night of Mahjong!

*Tickets for this event will be available starting 1 week before the event date on GTSC's website.*

Hong Kong mahjong, taught the gtsc way 🤝
The night will begin with a dedicated 1.5 hour mahjong lesson taught in groups of six. your gtsc teacher will run you through the complete basics — terminology, role recognition, core game constructs — before real-time instructing you thru an open hand game

Once you’ve graduated to closed hand, stay and enjoy your new playing chops till we get kicked out at 10 🫡

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Slant'd x EAT BITTER: No One Will Ever Read This
Jun
24

Slant'd x EAT BITTER: No One Will Ever Read This

An evening of writing & community centered around the tenderness of personal excavation and fearlessly finding your voice, led by Lydia Pang and Jenn Lam.

Personal storytelling is transformative, but as creatives, we know it can be a tender process. How do you actually write like no one will ever read it?

Join us as we celebrate our friend and author Lydia Pang's debut memoir, "Eat Bitter," with an evening of connection, writing, and exploration into how to exhume and define your inner story.

Schedule: DOORS OPEN AT 7PM

7:15PM - Reading and Intro to "EAT BITTER" with Lydia Pang, hosted by Jenn Lam

8-9PM - Writing workshop facilitated by Slant'd

9-9:30PM - Close out & connection

Tickets include one copy of "EAT BITTER," generously contributed by Lydia Pang.

ABOUT LYDIA PANG

Lydia Pang is a Creative Director and entrepreneur shaping the biggest brands with cultural strategy and trend foresight. Her work has attracted a cult following and these pages are filled with her misfit creative energy. Bold, tender and witty in all the right places, Eat Bitter is a life-altering lesson in the power of food as a medium to process emotions.

ABOUT SLANT'D

Slant'd is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit independent publisher reimagining publishing to be more accessible, equitable, and joyful for AAPIs everywhere. Our dream is to become the creative home for AAPIs to experience personal growth, creative expansion, and meaningful connection. Jenn Lam is our Director of Programs, a founding Board Member, and a heart-led artist and brand marketing consultant that finds deep joy in the messy unknown. Here at Slant’d, she works to craft an abundant haven for Asian Americans to freely play, connect, and celebrate their personal stories.

EAT BITTER - OUT NOW - purchase here

A beautiful, fearless, dynamic exploration of food and feelings from a distinctive new voice – for fans of CRYING IN H MART, BUTTER and MIDNIGHT CHICKEN.

Eat bitter is a Chinese proverb meaning ‘endure hardship to taste sweetness’. For Lydia Pang, it embodies the struggles of her Hakka ancestors – a Chinese ethnic group subjected to forced migrations whose ingenuity produced a distinct food culture based around fermenting and foraging.

Pang develops the philosophy of eating bitter as a tool to reframe the most challenging moments of her life, from burning out and pushing her marriage to the brink to struggles with fertility and caring for a parent. As she plates up eight favourite recipes for us, we taste char siu pork her Gunggung cooked on Sundays, silly eggy noodles her father made when her sister was ill, bone broth she boiled in New York while desperately homesick, and homegrown courgettes in her current home in rural Wales as a means of marital reconnection.

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All ticket proceeds go directly toward supporting our mission of making publishing more accessible, equitable, and joyful for AAPIs everywhere.

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Rose's Pineapple Shorts Hub Takeover
Jun
26

Rose's Pineapple Shorts Hub Takeover

Rose has played soccer her whole life- and every 4 years, World Cup fever hits different. Anyone else feel the same??

As one of our AAPI Women Incubator winners, Rose is back at the Hub and we're SUPER excited to announce @rosespineappleshorts World Cup Residency at The Hub every Friday 11am–5pm this summer!

Whether you're a local or just passing through, all are welcome to swing by for:

🆓 FREE World Cup viewing

🆓 FREE co-working w/ cafe atmosphere

🧋 Bake + Bev Combo: $10 pineapple short + tea/coffee service

🛍️ Souvenirs & gifts from @rosespineappleshorts + other local businesses

Featuring Tea + Coffee Friends!

📅 June 12: Grand Tea + Imports

📅 June 19: Of Tea

📅 June 26: Favor Coffee Co.

📅 July 3: Uju Studios

📅 July 10: Dae Tea

📅 July 17: Alcove Coffee Co.

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Rose's Pineapple Shorts Hub Takeover
Jul
3

Rose's Pineapple Shorts Hub Takeover

Rose has played soccer her whole life- and every 4 years, World Cup fever hits different. Anyone else feel the same??

As one of our AAPI Women Incubator winners, Rose is back at the Hub and we're SUPER excited to announce @rosespineappleshorts World Cup Residency at The Hub every Friday 11am–5pm this summer!

Whether you're a local or just passing through, all are welcome to swing by for:

🆓 FREE World Cup viewing

🆓 FREE co-working w/ cafe atmosphere

🧋 Bake + Bev Combo: $10 pineapple short + tea/coffee service

🛍️ Souvenirs & gifts from @rosespineappleshorts + other local businesses

Featuring Tea + Coffee Friends!

📅 June 12: Grand Tea + Imports

📅 June 19: Of Tea

📅 June 26: Favor Coffee Co.

📅 July 3: Uju Studios

📅 July 10: Dae Tea

📅 July 17: Alcove Coffee Co.

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Rose's Pineapple Shorts Hub Takeover
Jul
10

Rose's Pineapple Shorts Hub Takeover

Rose has played soccer her whole life- and every 4 years, World Cup fever hits different. Anyone else feel the same??

As one of our AAPI Women Incubator winners, Rose is back at the Hub and we're SUPER excited to announce @rosespineappleshorts World Cup Residency at The Hub every Friday 11am–5pm this summer!

Whether you're a local or just passing through, all are welcome to swing by for:

🆓 FREE World Cup viewing

🆓 FREE co-working w/ cafe atmosphere

🧋 Bake + Bev Combo: $10 pineapple short + tea/coffee service

🛍️ Souvenirs & gifts from @rosespineappleshorts + other local businesses

Featuring Tea + Coffee Friends!

📅 June 12: Grand Tea + Imports

📅 June 19: Of Tea

📅 June 26: Favor Coffee Co.

📅 July 3: Uju Studios

📅 July 10: Dae Tea

📅 July 17: Alcove Coffee Co.

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Open Office Hours
Jul
13

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.

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Rose's Pineapple Shorts Hub Takeover
Jul
17

Rose's Pineapple Shorts Hub Takeover

Rose has played soccer her whole life- and every 4 years, World Cup fever hits different. Anyone else feel the same??

As one of our AAPI Women Incubator winners, Rose is back at the Hub and we're SUPER excited to announce @rosespineappleshorts World Cup Residency at The Hub every Friday 11am–5pm this summer!

Whether you're a local or just passing through, all are welcome to swing by for:

🆓 FREE World Cup viewing

🆓 FREE co-working w/ cafe atmosphere

🧋 Bake + Bev Combo: $10 pineapple short + tea/coffee service

🛍️ Souvenirs & gifts from @rosespineappleshorts + other local businesses

Featuring Tea + Coffee Friends!

📅 June 12: Grand Tea + Imports

📅 June 19: Of Tea

📅 June 26: Favor Coffee Co.

📅 July 3: Uju Studios

📅 July 10: Dae Tea

📅 July 17: Alcove Coffee Co.

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Open Office Hours
Jul
24

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.

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Open Office Hours
Aug
5

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.

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Open Office Hours
Aug
10

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.

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Open Office Hours
Aug
28

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.

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Open Office Hours
Sep
2

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.

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Open Office Hours
Sep
14

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.

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Open Office Hours
Sep
25

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.

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Ice Cream Social
Jun
21

Ice Cream Social

Introducing Missus Softee! The 2nd feature by writer/director Cinder Chou. Come meet the team and celebrate pride at this ice cream social!

Join our Ice Cream Social fundraiser at The Welcome to Chinatown Hub to support production of Missus Softee, Cinder Chou's sophomore feature.

Set in 2005, Lincoln, a newly out Taiwanese-American teen, spends her last summer before college in the off-brand Missus Softee truck trying to outscoop ice cream rivals, work on her gaydar, and make enough money to escape Jersey.
The Ice Cream Social is "Sundae" June 21st from 1pm-4pm

Ticket admission includes one ice cream and one raffle ticket. Additional raffle tickets will be available to purchase. Short speeches by some of the production team and raffle drawing will be at 3pm. The playlist will be period appropriate, dress code: aughts optional!

Space is limited so get your tickets before your chance "melts" away!!

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Rose's Pineapple Shorts Hub Takeover
Jun
19

Rose's Pineapple Shorts Hub Takeover

Rose has played soccer her whole life- and every 4 years, World Cup fever hits different. Anyone else feel the same??

As one of our AAPI Women Incubator winners, Rose is back at the Hub and we're SUPER excited to announce @rosespineappleshorts World Cup Residency at The Hub every Friday 11am–5pm this summer!

Whether you're a local or just passing through, all are welcome to swing by for:

🆓 FREE World Cup viewing

🆓 FREE co-working w/ cafe atmosphere

🧋 Bake + Bev Combo: $10 pineapple short + tea/coffee service

🛍️ Souvenirs & gifts from @rosespineappleshorts + other local businesses

Featuring Tea + Coffee Friends!

📅 June 12: Grand Tea + Imports

📅 June 19: Of Tea

📅 June 26: Favor Coffee Co.

📅 July 3: Uju Studios

📅 July 10: Dae Tea

📅 July 17: Alcove Coffee Co.

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Hub Closed
Jun
19

Hub Closed

The Hub is closed on Jun 19th, 2026 for Juneteenth.

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Test Thursday: Three Dishes
Jun
18

Test Thursday: Three Dishes

Join us and 3 Dishes for a Taiwanese lunchbox pop-up! On Thursday, 6/18, 3 Dishes will bring everyday Taiwanese comfort food to The Hub. Choose your protein, and your lunchbox comes with three classic, veggie-forward Taiwanese sides. Boxes are first come, first served, so come early!

Bonus: We're teaming up with a guest chef for a limited run of handmade zongzi (sticky rice dumplings). Those are pre-order only, so reserve yours through the Google Form below!

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Rose's Pineapple Shorts Hub Takeover
Jun
12

Rose's Pineapple Shorts Hub Takeover

Rose has played soccer her whole life- and every 4 years, World Cup fever hits different. Anyone else feel the same??

As one of our AAPI Women Incubator winners, Rose is back at the Hub and we're SUPER excited to announce @rosespineappleshorts World Cup Residency at The Hub every Friday 11am–5pm this summer!

Whether you're a local or just passing through, all are welcome to swing by for:

🆓 FREE World Cup viewing

🆓 FREE co-working w/ cafe atmosphere

🧋 Bake + Bev Combo: $10 pineapple short + tea/coffee service

🛍️ Souvenirs & gifts from @rosespineappleshorts + other local businesses

Featuring Tea + Coffee Friends!

📅 June 12: Grand Tea + Imports

📅 June 19: Of Tea

📅 June 26: Favor Coffee Co.

📅 July 3: Uju Studios

📅 July 10: Dae Tea

📅 July 17: Alcove Coffee Co.

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Open Office Hours
Jun
8

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.

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Unpacking AANHPI Grief: Demystifying and Making Space for Grief and Loss
Jun
3

Unpacking AANHPI Grief: Demystifying and Making Space for Grief and Loss

Grief is the natural response to loss of all kinds, but we are rarely given space in our everyday lives to acknowledge it. As human beings with intersectional identities living in a grief-illiterate society, how do we make space for grief, individually and in community?

​In this interactive talk with Chinese-American grief coach and author Charlene Lam, we will debunk myths about grief, and address cultural taboos about talking about grief, death and dying. Together, we will name what we’ve been carrying and create opportunities to engage with grief through personal reflection and community witnessing.

​All participatory elements are optional. We will have time for Q&A and open discussion. A pop-up installation by The Grief Gallery will be on display. Attendees are invited to bring an object that represents who or what you’re grieving – for instance, a memento of a person, pet, place, identity, or anything else you’re mourning – to add to the collective display.


​About Charlene:

Charlene Lam is a certified grief coach, speaker, and the author of Curating Grief: A Creative Guide to Choosing What to Keep After a Loved One Dies.

​After her mother died suddenly in 2013, she started presenting exhibitions with her mother’s belongings, which became the foundation for her Curating Grief® framework. As curator of The Grief Gallery®, she presents international exhibitions featuring the belongings of loved ones lost, including installations in Los Angeles, Toronto, and London.

​Her TEDx talk, “What Grief and Soy Sauce Taught Me About Life After Loss,” has been viewed more than 20,000 times.

​A proud Chinese-American New Yorker like her late mother, Charlene is based in Lisbon, Portugal. She works with clients worldwide (and really wants you to ask her about the soy sauce in her mother’s kitchen.)

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Open Office Hours
Jun
3

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.

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AI on Main Street: How Chinatown's Small Businesses Are Using AI - #NYTechWeek
Jun
2

AI on Main Street: How Chinatown's Small Businesses Are Using AI - #NYTechWeek

Join us to learn how Chinatown's small business owners are adopting AI tools — and meet the people making it happen.

Welcome to Chinatown was designated by Governor Hochul as New York State's AI training hub for small businesses. We've been putting that mandate to work in Chinatown, training local shop owners, many of them immigrants running legacy businesses for decades, to actually use AI in their work.

Come hear from the owners about what they've been doing, talk with the technologists who worked with them, and grab some food and drinks with us.

This event is a part of #NYTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem.

Learn more at www.tech-week.com

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Intro To Mahjong by Green Tile Social Club: May Session
May
26

Intro To Mahjong by Green Tile Social Club: May Session

Join us and Green Tile Social Club for a night of Mahjong!

*Tickets for this event will be available starting 1 week before the event date on GTSC's website.*

Hong Kong mahjong, taught the gtsc way 🤝
The night will begin with a dedicated 1.5 hour mahjong lesson taught in groups of six. your gtsc teacher will run you through the complete basics — terminology, role recognition, core game constructs — before real-time instructing you thru an open hand game

Once you’ve graduated to closed hand, stay and enjoy your new playing chops till we get kicked out at 10 🫡

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Hub Closed
May
25

Hub Closed

The Hub is closed on May 25th, 2026 for Memorial Day.

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Sip & Paint Minis
May
24

Sip & Paint Minis

​Join Counterspell Games at Welcome to Chinatown, as we teach you how to create and paint a new fantasy character, while you sip a selection of coffee from Alcove!

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Open Office Hours
May
11

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.

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Open Office Hours
May
6

Open Office Hours

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