Alongside the weekly exhibition installation, Incidental Contact features a series of ongoing community activations across Chinatown, each Sunday brings new ways for the public to gather, move, and participate.
The programming is unfolding in real time. Event details and on-site documentation will be updated throughout the exhibition. Please check back weekly for the latest highlights and photos.
Sunday School Showcase
Columbus Park in Chinatown, Corner of Mulberry and Worth Streets
4 x 4 tournament (Sunday, May 11th, 1:30pm) Skills Challenge (Sunday, May 18th, 1pm) Mid Range Shootout (Sunday, May 25th, 10:30am) Training Week (Sunday, June 1st, 10:30am) 2v2 Tournament (Sunday, June 8th, 10:30am) 4 x 4 Wrap Up Tournament (Sunday, June 15th, 1:30pm)
Sunday School Showcase is a variety of friendly competitive events led by coach Josh and Reef.
4 x 4 tournament
Photos by Yuhan Shen
Here Forever Market By Send Chinatown Love
Sunday May 18, 12-6 PM, at Manny Cantor Center, 176 East Broadway
A vibrant community marketplace uplifting local small businesses, food vendors, and mutual aid efforts.
More details here.
Send Chinatown Love is a New York based, entirely volunteer run organization that supports Asian- and immigrant-owned small businesses across all of the city's Chinatowns.
Headshots with BAXTER ST by photographer Tommy Kha
Sunday May 18, 1–3 PM, at Columbus Park, Chinatown Live portrait station with photographer Tommy Kha, in collaboration with BAXTER ST Camera Club. This event is open to the public and perfect for recent graduates or professionals who want to refresh their look. A digital file will be shared with participants in the week following the event.
About BAXTER ST
Founded in 1884, BAXTER ST at the Camera Club of New York is one of New York City’s oldest artist-run nonprofit spaces committed to lens-based arts. Today, the organization is a socially engaged art incubator that prepares lens-based artists for their debut and helps them create sustainable practices to move forward with integrity. In addition to a year-round exhibition schedule, the organization hosts artist residencies, critique groups, and a public series of artist talks and workshops. Baxter St promotes artists of all ages, races, ethnicities, and identities whose work connects with global conversations on culture, human rights, environment, and equality. The organization is committed to uplifting artists by sharing ideas and resources and learning together to create profound and lasting change in our organization and communities.
About Tommy Kha
Tommy Kha (b. Memphis, TN) is a photographer currently working between Brooklyn, New York and Memphis, Tennessee. He is the recipient of the Hayes Prize, Next Step Award, Foam Talent, and NYSCA/NYFA Photography Fellow. He is a kung fu student under Sifu Ken Lo. Kha holds an MFA in Photography from Yale University, where he currently teaches.
Project Backboard Run
Sunday June 8, 3-5 PM, at Cherry Clinton Park A competitive Mini-tournament featuring some of CBC’s finest, celebrating the 10 year anniversary of Project Backboard.
Project Backboard is a 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to renovate public basketball courts and install large scale works of site-specific art on the surface in order to strengthen communities, improve park safety, encourage multi-generational play, and inspire people to think more critically and creatively about their environment.
Open Mic with Fuzhou America
Sunday June 15, 3-5 PM, at Pell and Mott Street
Closing Reception and Open Mic collaboration with Fuzhou America: stories, poetry, and performance as forms of contact and reflection.
Fuzhou America is an organization dedicated to fostering Fuzhou American history, culture, and community.
Artists Gathering at FAR-NEAR
A private gathering at FAR–NEAR for participating artists to connect, share, and reflect on themes of connection, intimacy, and self-discovery.
FAR-NEAR
is an artist-run cross-cultural book series and platform that broadens perspectives of Asia through image, person, idea and history to unlearn the inherent dominative mode. FAR–NEAR Studio Hours is an artist-run community space located in Chinatown, New York City, designed for the presentation, creation and connection of Asian artists across disciplines through talks, exhibitions, film screenings, workshops, roundtables and small gatherings.