Asian Pacific American Heritage Week
APAHW is the University of Pennsylvania's week-long celebration of Asian Pacific-Islander American (APIA) heritage and culture.
Every year, we bring together speakers, faculty, student leaders, and hundreds of attendees across a week of events ranging from our Extravaganza kickoff to dinner with
Penn Asian American Studies department faculty and Big Asian, our annual charity talent show featuring students from our vibrant APIA community.
APAHW 2019 is still in the planning, so check back to this website later. This year, APAHW will have our freshman event on September 27th, and the remaining events will
be in the week of November 11-16th. Find out more on our Facebook page here!
APAHW 2019
Fresh off to Penn:
A First-Year Event
“Fresh Off to Penn” will touch on everything you can experience at Penn—from success and failure to Penn face and expectations vs. reality in college. What you will be doing is still TBD so check back later!
Extravaganza
Come celebrate an APAHW classic with Extravaganza and numerous student cultural groups, performing groups, and plenty of food! Performers: Pan-Asian Dance Troupe, PennYo A Cappella, K-Beats, Atma, NAACH, Penn Sori, Dhamaka, Penn Lions, Penn Dure, Thillana, Masala
"MasterChef" APAHW!
The masterchef event focuses on trying to get members of the API community more immersed into API food culture. We want to showcase the food in underrepresented API communities such as Pakistani and Indonesian food especially since East Asian foods tend to be more familiar with people.
RepresentASIAN
We will touch on the rise of Asian led films and TV shows like Crazy Rich Asians, work from William Yu, and content from Buzzfeed. Recreate famous magazine covers, movie posters - your photos will be edited to look like the published photographs and be a memento of your participation in this event!
Big Asian
Big Asian is our signature closing event, and we've added a new twist to highlight non-performing art as well this year! Come see our artists, singers, and dancers, eat dinner and desserts, and bid on contestants - all in an effort where proceeds go towards charity for the Indonesian earthquake.
Board members
Want to get involved? Reach out and we'll keep you posted!
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Katherine Li Marketing Tri-Chair -
Cheryl Li Logistics Tri-Chair -
Michelle Lu Executive Tri-Chair -
Amber Wang Programming -
Ben Fung Marketing -
Christine Zhang Programming -
Eric Zeng Marketing -
Florence Liou Programming -
Grace Jiang Marketing -
Grace Zhou Programming -
Harrison Chen Programming -
Helen Zhang Programming -
Howard Yuan Marketing -
Ilyssa Delos Reyes Programming -
James Feng Marketing -
Jashee Yang Programming -
Jason Chen Programming -
Jaya Sharma Marketing -
Jean Hsu Marketing -
Margaret Zhang Programming -
Melinda Hu Programming -
Michelle Xiong Programming -
Sabrina Tian Marketing -
Vivienne Chen Marketing
Learn more and get involved!
We're excited for APAHW 2019, and know it's not something we could do without the help of so many people involved. We're looking for student volunteers to help out with the events. If you want to get involved, reach out to us here!