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SUMMARY:What is the Language of Taste? (Sponsored)
DESCRIPTION:Third Program of the Four-Part Series “What Can Become of Us?” \n\n\n\nCo-presented by Stanford Institute for Advancing Just Societies (IAJS)\, Zócalo Public Square\, and BRIC\, with support from our community media sponsor\, Epicenter NYC \n\n\n\nNew York City has always been a center for Americans on the move; a magnet for newcomers\, who carry with them languages and flavors from home that take root anew. Kreplach and pierogi in the East Village. Xiao long bao in Flushing. Manti in Sheepshead Bay. Unsettled in the movement of peoples and cuisines is whose palate determines quality\, and whose tongue sings history. How does taste evolve in a multicultural society? Can we keep native words and ways\, even as we relish the language of the times? Who plays host\, who guest\, and who gets a seat at the table?  \n\n\n\nThis program is inspired by Speak Sing Shout: We\, Too\, Sing America (2025) by Pakistani American artist Sarah K. Khan. The piece\, eight blue and white porcelain serving vessels featuring images of spices\, delicate flowers\, and incense as depicted in the 16th-century Sultanate period recipe book The Book of Delights\, is commissioned by IAJS and will be on view at BRIC in Brooklyn from October 7 to December 23\, 2025. \n\n\n\nJoin IAJS and Zócalo Public Square at BRIC to view the artwork and experience a performance by Khan. A panel moderated by Stanford IAJS faculty co-director Brian Lowery and featuring James Beard Award-winning cookbook author and Jewish cuisine expert Joan Nathan\, community organizer and immigration activist Power Malu\, and food studies scholar Krishnendu Ray will follow\, exploring how what we eat\, and where it’s from\, shape our sense of identity. \n\n\n\nWe invite our in-person audience to continue the conversation with the artist\, speakers\, and each other at a post-event reception with complimentary drinks\, small bites by street vendors from the Street Vendor Project and EatOffBeat\, art-viewing\, and music by DJ Kofta. Get more details and RSVP here. \n\n\n\nEpicenter is a proud community media sponsor \n\n\n\nAgenda:6:30 pm ET – Doors open6:30-7:15 pm ET – Check in and art viewing7:15-8:05 pm ET – Panel conversation (in-person & livestreamed)8:10-8:30 pm ET – Artist performance (in-person & livestreamed)8:30-9:30 pm ET – Reception
URL:https://epicenter-nyc.com/event/what-is-the-language-of-taste-sponsored-2/
LOCATION:BRIC House & Virtual\, 647 Fulton St\,\, Brooklyn\, New Mexico\, 11217\, United States
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SUMMARY:Opening Reception: Music of Many Colours
DESCRIPTION:This exhibition brings together artists exploring the enduring relationship between music and cultural identity. Across traditions and generations\, music serves as both archive and amplifier—carrying ancestral memory\, voicing resistance\, and shaping collective belonging. The works presented here have a broad range of references connected to personal experience\, memories\, specific albums\, songs\, genres\, subcultures and performances through which identities are shaped\, contested\, celebrated\, and reimagined. \n\n\n\nThe title Music of Many Colours takes its name from a collaborative album by Nigerian musician and political activist Fela Aníkúlápó Kútì and American jazz-funk pioneer Roy Ayers. Fela stands out globally as the influential innovator of Afro-beat who used his music to speak truth to power. \n\n\n\nBy exploring the intersections of auditory and visual form\, the artists foreground the ways music transcends language and borders while remaining rooted in lived experience. From references to folk traditions and diasporic soundscapes to reinterpretations of contemporary popular culture\, these works invite viewers to consider how music shapes personal and communal narratives.
URL:https://epicenter-nyc.com/event/opening-reception-music-of-many-colours/
LOCATION:The Local NY\, 13-02 44th Avenue\, Queens\, New York\, 11101\, United States
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SUMMARY:Eastern Fire: An Underground Hip-Hop Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Join Epicenter NYC to usher in Spring and bring the heat to LIC with a night of choice underground hip hop.
URL:https://epicenter-nyc.com/event/eastern-fire-an-underground-hip-hop-showcase/
LOCATION:The Local NY\, 13-02 44th Avenue\, Queens\, NY\, 11101\, United States
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SUMMARY:Meet the Candidates
DESCRIPTION:Sunnyside Community Services invites you to meet the candidates running in New York’s 7th Congressional District Democratic Primary! This event is free but registration is required to attend. No campaign materials or signage will be permitted at the event. This event will also be livestreamed. \n\n\n\n\n\nModerators:Judy Zangwill\, SCS Executive DirectorS. Mitra Kalita\, CEO of URL Media & Publisher of Epicenter NYC
URL:https://epicenter-nyc.com/event/meet-the-candidates/
LOCATION:Sunnyside Community Services Main Site\, 43-31 39th Street\, Sunnyside\, New York\, 11104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book Club: A Guardian and a Thief
DESCRIPTION:Join Epicenter in our first joint book club with World’s Borough Bookshop! \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nIn a near-future Kolkata\, Ma\, her two-year-old daughter\, and her elderly father are just days from leaving the collapsing city behind to join Ma’s husband in Ann Arbor\, Michigan. After procuring long-awaited visas from the consulate\, they pack their bags for the flight to America. But in the morning they awaken to discover that Ma’s purse\, containing their treasured immigration documents\, has been stolen. \n\n\n\nSet over the course of one week\, A Guardian and a Thief tells two stories: the story of Ma’s frantic search for the thief while keeping hunger at bay during a worsening food shortage; and the story of Boomba\, the thief\, whose desperation to care for his family drives him to commit a series of escalating crimes whose consequences he cannot fathom. With stunning control and command\, Megha Majumdar paints a kaleidoscopic portrait of two families\, each operating from a place of ferocious love and undefeated hope\, each discovering how far they will go to secure their children’s future as they stave off encroaching catastrophe. \n\n\n\nA masterful new work from one of the most exciting voices of her generation.
URL:https://epicenter-nyc.com/event/book-club-a-guardian-and-a-thief/
LOCATION:The World’s Borough Bookshop\, 3406 73rd Street\, Queens\, NY\, 11372\, United States
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