The New York State Assembly will be voting on a resolution supporting the 2019 Adoptee Citizenship Act on Monday March 16. Your visible support is important!
Come join us for our March 2020 Happy Hour with old and new friends! Have a chat and a laugh at the bar and meet other NY adoptees!
The session seeks to help adoptees reflect and gain further insight into personal experiences navigating adoptive names and birth names, how receiving an Anglicized name may affect identity and experiences over the course of one’s life, and how reclaiming birth names may be influential to one’s development.
Join us for our February Happy Hour at TAPHAUS33, the coolest bar in K Town! Have some brews, food, and a laugh at the bar and most importantly, meet other NY adoptees!
Join our workshop for adoptive parents to develop stronger bonds with your child, no matter how old they are!
Join adoptee and author of "A Team Of Their Own", Seth Berkman, and Olympian Marissa Brandt from Korea’s ice hockey team as they talk to Also-Known-As in an intimate setting!
Join Also Known As member Jota Sosnowski for a night of queer adoptee art! Come and see excerpts from documentaries, illustrations, and stand up comedy that follow the queer adoptee experience from the late 1980s - now.
Join Also-Known-As and FCCNY for a Lunar New Year Dinner Celebration! Open to all friends and family!
Help us bring attention to the need to give citizenship to all adoptees and show support for the upcoming NYC council resolution.
Thanks to the incredible generosity of the Korean American Association of New Jersey, Korean adoptees and their parents, SOs, and/or their children can join us for free at the first ever Korean Heritage gala!
It’s a biggest celebration of the year and it’s free for members. See you there!
So we might have to go home for American Thanksgiving…but before then why not have some Korean BBQ? It's a chance to mingle with Also-Known-As representatives, meet other NYC adoptees, and share a meal with friends.
What does it mean to be an adoptee from one of the world's largest adoption programs? Join the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) and Also-Known-As (AKA) for an evening of fascinating personal stories of Korean adoptees in honor of adoption awareness month.
Get a studio-quality professional family portrait in traditional or modern-style Korean hanboks! Also a cooking class and lunch - all FREE for members! Reserve your spot!
Join Certified Usui Reiki Master Heather Schultz for an open discussion about navigating your adoption journey and birth family search/reunion by setting safe and healthy boundaries with your relatives and friends. This two-hour forum includes a grounding meditation, writing exercise about your physical, emotional and mental limits, and group activity on building better boundaries.
AKA will be hosting an exclusive screening of documentary on remarkable birth family search in the Middle East followed by related discussion on searching for birth family and connecting with culture of birth family.
Come join us for our October Happy Hour powered by Kim Ondrako! Play Beer Pong with old and new friends or just have a chat and a laugh at the bar!
We couldn't be more excited to host an evening of the US premiere of Side by Side Project's video art installation!
Join us for a cocktail reception, and in-person commentary from the producers and some interview participants. As the gallery is invitation-only, this might be your only chance to experience this one-of-a-kind exhibit!