UPCOMING EVENTS
TONIGHT: Screening of Award Winning Documentary Feature Film Earl
July 21, 6 pm
New York Asian Film Festival, the Beatrice Theater in the SVA Theatre, 333 West 23rd Street
New York, NY
Cost: $15
Register: https://www.nyaff.org/nyaff25/films/earl
Catch one of these two advanced screenings of the award-winning documentary feature film Earl, directed by Ty Kim, ’86, which profiles the American composer Earl Kim (1920-1998). Screenings are being held next month in New York and Santa Clara.
Earl recovers a vital voice from American music's margins. The film centers on Korean American composer Earl Kim, whose radical aesthetic—reducing music to whispers and precise silences—emerged from trauma. From an impoverished California childhood to flying over Nagasaki one day after the atomic bomb, Kim spent decades transforming devastation into sparse, unbearable beauty. An outsider who taught composition through poetry rather than rules at Harvard, Kim persuaded Samuel Beckett, famously resistant to musical settings, to collaborate. Through interviews with students recalling unconventional methods and performers struggling with demanding scores, filmmaker Ty Kim confronts a broader cultural question: Why do we so easily forget the artists who demand the most of us? Watch the official trailer here.
Asian American Pioneer Medal Symposium and Ceremony 2025
July 25-27
Cost: Tickets start at $209; use the discount code GSTAARC25 for 25% off, valid through July 19.
Register: https://ticket.aafuturefoundation.org/
We’re excited to invite you and your community to the Asian American Pioneer Medal Symposium and Ceremony 2025, taking place from Friday, July 25 to Sunday, July 27 at Stanford University. This event is co-hosted by the Asian American Scholar Forum and the Asian American Research Center at Stanford (AARCS) and focuses on bringing together and uplifting a distinguished community of scholars, researchers, and thought leaders committed to advancing excellence and innovation in engineering and the sciences. You can view the registration page and full agenda here. We hope your community will be part of this important celebration and conversation.
Houston: Saturday Dinner at Mala Sichuan Bistro
July 26, 6:30 pm
Mala Sichuan Bistro, 1201 Westheimer Rd Suite B, Houston, TX 77006
Cost: $30
Register: https://groups.stanford.edu/networks/events/132762
Hosted by the Stanford Club of Houston and the Stanford Asian Pacific American Alumni Club (SAPAAC). We're excited to invite you to join us for dinner at Houston gem Mala Sichuan for a night focused on enjoying delicious food and sharing ideas for general programming and Asian Pacific American programming in the Houston area. This is a great opportunity to share your ideas, connect with fellow alumni, and help shape upcoming events in our community. Registration is open to all and includes a full dinner for $30. Plus, enjoy complimentary wine from Stanford alumni-owned wineries.
New York City Summer at the Museum Cocktails - SAPAAC x Asia Society
July 30, 6-9 pm
Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue, New York, NY
Cost:
- A limited number of complimentary tickets are available for Stanford recent grads (Classes of 2021-2025). Register on the Stanford Groups event page while these complimentary tickets last: https://groups.stanford.edu/networks/events/135228
- All other alumni can purchase a Stanford discounted ticket directly on the Asia Society event page: https://asiasociety.org/new-york/events/art-summer Please use the promo code ALUMNISUMMER to buy a discounted ticket ($16 with Stanford discount; originally $20)
Join Stanford and Yale alumni in NYC for a summer evening at the museum! We are delighted to be in partnership for this event with Asia Society—who are generously offering our members a discount and a limited number of complimentary tickets (for recent grads from Classes of 2021-2025)—and the Association of Asian American Yale Alumni (AAAYA) for our SAPAAC x Yale x Asia Society Art of the Summer Cocktail Hour.
Wander through the Asia Society Museum’s latest art exhibits, sip on delicious cold drinks, and enjoy music spun by a live DJ. We look forward to celebrating the glorious New York summer with you!
SAPAAC Open House: Meet the Board & Learn How You Can Get Involved
Thursday, July 31, 5-6 pm PT/ 8-9 pm ET
Virtual
Cost: Free
Register: https://groups.stanford.edu/topics/9361/events/133867
Want to know more about what the SAPAAC Board does? Ever thought about running for the Board? Interested in getting involved with SAPAAC as a volunteer? SAPAAC wants you!
Join the SAPAAC Board on Zoom for an informal open house with current board members and get an overview of SAPAAC's role as an alumni organization, how the board operates, what each of our committees do (Events, Membership, Advocacy & Education, Communication & Technology), and information about how members can get more involved as volunteers or run for the board in our upcoming August election. Q&A will follow the presentation.
"The Monkey King" at San Francisco Opera - Pre-Performance Reception and Talk
November 22, 6:30-7:30 pm
War Memorial Opera House, 301 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, CA
Purchase your ticket here: https://www.sfopera.com/OFFERS Enter code STANFORDNIGHT30 to receive a discount price.
RSVP: https://groups.stanford.edu/topics/9361/events/132680
Join us for an exclusive pre-performance reception before the Nov. 22, 2025 performance of San Francisco Opera's exciting world-premiere opera, The Monkey King. We'll meet on the Loggia of the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House to enjoy hosted wine and remarks by Dr. Clifford "Kip" Cranna, PhD '84, San Francisco Opera's Dramaturg Emeritus, about the creation of this brand-new opera.
Based on the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West, this action-packed opera combines high-energy music and text with puppetry, dance, Peking opera, and Buddhist sutras to tell the tale of the Monkey King’s beginnings.
Award-winning director Diane Paulus and puppeteer Basil Twist conjure up a whimsical world of gods, tricksters, superheroes, and rebels. Huang Ruo’s soaringly beautiful, energized score and David Henry Hwang’s, Stanford '79, incisive libretto blend traditional Chinese and contemporary Western styles into an extraordinary work that gives new voice to this enduring story. Carolyn Kuan makes her Company debut on the podium.
