Celebration of AsiaWeek - Honorary Chairs and Special Guests

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Join us to celebrate the launch of Asia Week in New York City with this exciting signature benefit event: A Celebration of Asia Week: AllThingsArtASIA.

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Honorary Chairs

Mira Nair
Academy Award-nominated filmmaker and long-time activist
BD Wong
Award-winning stage, film, and TV actor
Vivienne Tam
Acclaimed global fashion and technology designer

 

 

About Chef Bao Huynh

Chef Michael "Bao" Huynh, one of the most celebrated Vietnamese chefs in the world with numerous restaurants city-wide, presents his prolific range of tastes* at the reception and a signature dish at dinner. His delectable creations, boasting a unique and sophisticated Vietnamese slant, will be enjoyed by all.
*sponsored by Bao & Company

 

Performers

Teodross Avery, "Sony Innovator" awardee and acclaimed jazz saxophonist

 

 

 

 

Sahar Javedani, Artistic Director of compani javedani, a contemporary dance theater ensemble

 

 

Special Guests

Thuy Diep
Vietnamese Fashion Designer
Creative Director of the women’s ready-to-wear label THUY

Gale Harold
Popular stage, film, and TV actor

Henry Howard-Sneyd

Auctioneer, Sotheby’s

Chef Michael Bao Huynh


David Henry Hwang

Acclaimed playwright, two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Bernard Kalb
Founding Anchor, CNN Reliable Sources
Veteran Journalist (CBS, NBC, and the New York Times)
Former State Department spokesperson

Alia Khan
Fashion designer, Design Altitude Inc.

Joe Klein
Columnist & journalist, Time news group
Author, Primary Colors

John Liu
New York City Comptroller

Rudresh Mahanthappa
Innovative alto-saxophonist & composer

Fern Mallis
Senior Managing Editor of IMG Fashion
Creator of New York "Fashion Week"

 

Professor Matthew McKelway
Atsumi Associate Professor of Japanese Art at Columbia University

His Excellency Le Luong Minh
Permanent Representative
Mission of Viet Nam to the United Nations

Hafez Nazeri
Award-winning Iranian composer & singer

Christiane Noll
Award-winning Broadway actress & singer

Chef Pichet Ong
Renowned pastry chef

Adam Platt
Contributing Editor & Restaurant Critic, New York magazine

Alice Schroeder
Author, The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

Auguste Soesastro
Indonesian fashion designer, Kraton Auguste Soesastro

Nancy Tingley
Acclaimed scholar and exhibition curator
Curator of Asia Society Museum’s exhibition Arts of Ancient Viet Nam

Guy Trebay
New York Times Style reporter, Pulitzer Prize nominee

Tod Williams & Billie Tsien
Founders, Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects
Winners of numerous NYC AIA and World Architecture Awards

 

 

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