AKA’s annual Lunar New Year dinner!
Collaboration of Chef Hope and Shinsen
More details here!
Join us for our Annual Holiday Party!
Four deported adoptees speak. All legally adopted by US citizens, they have been deported back to Ethiopia, Jamaica, Korea, and Morocco after growing up as Americans. Hear their stories about being forced to leave the place they pledged allegiance, and sent back to countries where they didn't know anyone, speak the language, or understand the culture.
Learn how Reiki can open and activate your heart chakra in our first healing circle with Heather Schultz Gittens (Founder of Huh Healing Hub and a Certified Usui Reiki Master).
Join us on Saturday October 23rd from 2:00pm-5:00pm (Vital Climbing Gym) and 5:30pm-7:30pm (Brooklyn Brewery) as we close out the month. Feel free to attend either one or both of the events that day!
We’re so excited to kick off our Adoptee Forums with Nicole Chung, author of the bestselling memoir All You Can Ever Know! Join us for a conversation exploring what it’s like to publish, edit, and write about adoption as an adoptee.
This year marks the Also-Known-As 25th anniversary, and in recognition of this milestone occasion, we are hosting the 25th Anniversary Weekend: Celebrating the Global Adoptee Community, from September 17 - 19, 2021. More info on the event page here!
Registration is now open for our popular Korean language classes. After a successful online summer, classes will again be online for fall. Thanks to the Education Center of the Korean Consulate of NY, the cost is an incredible $100 for 15 weeks of instruction! See the language page for more details.
Fall mentorship is back in-person and going to be a blast! Sign up now for our Youth or Teen Mentorship program!
In the first panel of its kind, four transgender intercountry adoptees explore how the complexities of being both adopted and transgender inform their personal understanding of race, family, and identity. Join us for these and other personal insights with an amazing cast of panelists.
Join us for a reading by four adoptee poets as we challenge invisibility and complicate our understanding of what it means to be Asian American.
The 2021 Also-Known-As Adoptee Excellence Scholarship, now in its third year, is accepting applications through April 30! A grant of $1500 will be given - see more details here!
Celebrate the lunar new year with dumplings that you’ve made yourself. Learn from our favorite chef Hope Johnson as she walks you through both vegetarian and meat dumplings!
Join us in our continuing series for Also-Known-As' 25th Anniversary -- a 2-day pass to view the documentary Forget Me Not, culminating in a discussion with director Sun Hee Engelstoft, as she shares what she learned while making this film and investigated the underlying reasons for the availability of Korean children for adoption.
In this 70 minute online sound play, we will experience music through a series of games. We will investigate sound and emotion, dramatize movement, play with rhythm and vocalization, and reflect on the music that surrounds us. No prior musical experience or knowledge is required.
See the event page for more information.
Registration is now open for our popular Korean language classes. After a successful online fall, classes will again be online for spring. Thanks to the Education Center of the Korean Consulate of NY, the cost is an incredible $50 for 12 weeks of instruction! See the language page for more details.