31 Days of Asia! May 2015
Friday, May 1
Tibetan Meditation: An Introduction
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
The Jung Center
Authors and Asia: (Re)Imagining America
6:00 pm
Asia Society Texas Center
Saturday, May 2
15th Annual Houston Dragon Boat Festival
8:30 am - 4:30 pm
Texas Dragon Boat Association
Sunday, May 3
Breakfast Yoga Club Houston
9:00 - 11:00 am
Asia Society Texas Center
Artists Talk: Margarita Cabrera, Tony de los Reyes, and Zhi Lin
2:00 pm
Asia Society Texas Center
Monday, May 4
Kathleen Lee’s All Things Tending Towards the Eternal
7:00 pm
Brazos Bookstore (Book Signing)
Tuesday, May 5
Exhibition: Unfolding Worlds: Japanese Screens and
Contemporary Ceramics from the Gitter-Yelen Collection,
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Wednesday, May 6
Bon Ga Garden (Korean)
11:00 am - 10:00 pm
9861 Long Point Rd, Houston, TX 77055
Thursday, May 7
Leo Bar: Asian Pacific American Heritage Month & Cinco de Mayo
6:00 - 8:00 pm
Asia Society Texas Center
An (Uncaffeinated) Evening of Tea and Meditation
6:00 - 8:00 pm
The Jung Center
Friday, May 8
Exhibition: "A B C D"
6:00 pm
Lawndale Artists Studio Program Exhibition at Lawndale Art Center
Saturday, May 9
Boy Scouts American Cultures Merit Badge Workshop
12:00 pm
Asia Society Texas Center
Art Tour: The Other Side: Chinese and Mexican Immigration to America
3:00 pm
Asia Society Texas Center
Lecture: The Japanese folding Screen: Form, Function, History, and Aesthetics
4:00 pm
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Sunday, May 10
Exhibition: Heart and Seoul: Growing Up in Korea
12:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Children's Museum of Houston
Monday, May 11
U.S.-China Relations: A Conversation with Ambassador Cui Tiankai
12:00 pm
Asia Society Texas Center
Sahaja Meditation
6:30 - 7:30 pm
Kendall Neighborhood Library
Tuesday, May 12
Fung's Kitchen (Cantonese/Dim Sum)
11:00 am - 10:00 pm
7320 Southwest Fwy #115, Houston, TX 77074
Wednesday, May 13
Intro to Organic Tea Tasting
7:00 - 8:00 pm
The Path of Tea
Thursday, May 14
Asia Society Presents! APERIO Performs Music by Marty Regan
7:30 pm
Asia Society Texas Center
Friday, May 15
Exhibition Preview: Round Trip: Bicycling Asia Minor, 1891
4:00 - 6:00 pm
On View Through September 27
Asia Society Texas Center
AKA Serial Killer
7:00 pm
A Part of the Museum's "Reflections of a New World:
Japanese Protest and Art on Film" series
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Saturday, May 16
AsiaFest
11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Asia Society Texas Center
Sunday, May 17
AsiaFest
11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Asia Society Texas Center
Monday, May 18
Japanese Garden in Hermann Park
9:00 am - 6:00 pm
Tuesday, May 19
Nu Café (Chinese)
12:00 pm - 11:30 pm
9889 Bellaire Blvd #1128, Houston, TX 77036
Doing Business in China, 5:00 - 8:00 pm
Asia Society Texas Center
Wednesday, May 20
Exhibition: For a New World to Come:
Experiments in Japanese Art and Photography, 1968-1979
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Thursday, May 21
Tasty Thai Cooking Class
6:30 pm
Sur La Table (City Centre)
Friday, May 22
Shobana's KRISHNA
8:00 pm
Wortham Theater Center
Saturday, May 23
9th Annual World Yuanji Day
7:30 - 9:30 pm
Sugar Land Town Square
Sunday, May 24
Crow Collection of Asian Art (Dallas, Texas)
12:00 pm- 6:00 pm
Buddha's Birthday Celebration Ceremony
9:30 am - 3:30 pm
Chung Tai Zen Center of Houston
Monday, May 25
BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir
4:30 - 6:30 pm
Sanyukt Satsang Sabha Service
Exhibition: China's Lost Civilization: The Mystery of Sanxingdui
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Houston Museum of Natural Science
Tuesday, May 26
Kim Son (Vietnamese/Chinese Dim Sum)
11:00 am - 10:00 pm
Multiple locations
Wednesday, May 27
Szechuan Cooking at Home
6:30 pm
Sur La Table (Sugar Land)
Golden Dragon Acrobats
8:00 pm
Miller Outdoor Theater
Thursday, May 28
The Lion and the Dragon
7:00 - 8:30 pm
Houston Museum of African American Culture
Friday, May 29
Exhibition: The Art of Gaman
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Holocaust Museum Hoston
Distinguished Leaders on Asia:
The Honorable Kevin Rudd, Former Prime Minister of Australia
12:00 pm
Asia Society Texas Center
Saturday, May 30
Karma: The Wheel of LIfe
8:30 pm
Miller Outdoor Theater
Sunday, May 31
Exhibition: The Other Side: Chinese Immigration to America
10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Asia Society Texas Center
Exhibition: Samurai: The Way of the Warrior
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Houston Museum of Natural Science
To download a pdf of the calendar, please click here.
Image: Hung Liu, In the Garden 1, 2005, Oil on canvas, Courtesy of Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, © Hung Liu