Activities
On paper, basketball is all about making shots, scrambling defense, and determining a winner and loser.
But basketball is also a form of storytelling, a way to share creativity, and an exchange of collective artistic dialogue that is supportive and critical.
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2025-2026
2026/3/22
Basketball As Ritual in Video and Film: The selection of short films by 8 artists and filmmakers proposes the court as both a sacred and open space for the weekly ritual of basketball and also exploring basketball as a form of collective creative expression and of personal meditation. The works range from documentary essays, fast-paced highlight mixtapes, and impressionistic montages.
Co-presented with Chinatown Partnership at First Chinese Baptist Church, 21 Pell Street, New York Chinatown
Poster by Caren Wenqing Ye. Photo by Daniel Huang
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2026/2/24
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2025/12
ICP Holiday Market + Apex Holiday Market
2025/12/9
A Suspension of Outcomes: FLOATER
Book launch, discussion, and signing with Chinatown Basketball Club
Poster by Xinyuan Qu
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2025/10/12
2025 CBC Autumn Classic 3x3 Tournament and MiniMarket
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Poster by Sean Catangui
2025 CBC MiniMarket
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Poster by Jessica Chen
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2025/10/5
Chinatown Basketball Club book talk: FLOATER, Blurring Basketball Lines. Pre-order the book.
Imagining an Alternative Basketball Aesthetics, ICP Photobook Fest. Panelists: Lu Zhang and Herb Tam of Chinatown Basketball Club; Xinyuan Qu (designer); Moderated by Lin Wang of linlin Plum (co-publisher).
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Poster by Xinyuan Qu
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2025/6/15
More Buckets Summer Tour, CBC co-presented with Project Backboard and Sacred at Cherry Clinton Park, designed by Andrew Kuo to celebrate 10 years of art, work and basketball.
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2025/5/18
Chinatown Basketball Club and Baxter Street Camera Club co-presented Headshot by Photographer Tommy Kha.
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2025/5/11-6/15
Chinatown Basketball Club presented Incidental Contact, a photography exhibition exploring basketball as a stage for connection, intimacy and self-discovery, curated by Sha Luo and Benji Zijian Hsu at Columbus Park.
With a series of community activations with collaborators BAXTER ST, Send Chinatown Love, Project Backboard, Fuzhou America.
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2025/2/11
Chinatown Basketball Club presented There is No Center talk at Professor David Hollander's class:
HOW BASKETBALL CAN SAVE THE WORLD An Exploration of Society, Politics, Culture and Commerce Through the Game
Cantor Film Center, NYU
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2025/2/7
Isogloss Workshop 2025: Critical Writing, Magazine Publishing, and Collective Practice
Zoom, New York, Friday, 20:00-23:00. Beijing, Saturday, Feb 8, 2025, 9:00-12:00
Herb TAM: Historical Asian American Periodicals
Herb TAM, ZHANG Lu: Basketball as the Community Medium: Chinatown Basketball Club (In English and Chinese)
2012-2024
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2024/10/19
ICP Open House 2024
84 Ludlow Street
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2024/10/13
2024 Autumn Classic 3x3 Tournament and MiniMarket
Columbus Park
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2024/9/21
A Day with Chinatown Basketball Club in Films
Metrograph, 7 Ludlow St
For one night only, Chinatown Basketball Club and Metrograph present a night of never-before-screened films and conversation at the intersection of basketball, art and Chinatown. These intimate portrayals of CBC characters and moods, by artists that are part of the group, will introduce audiences to a uniquely New York pick-up basketball and art community.
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2024/8/10
StillShop/StillLife Market
Washington Square Park
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2024/8/3
Talk Too Much Conference （Fuzhou America）
St. John's University
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2024/7/21
Open Mic (Fuzhou America)
Doyers and Pell Street
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2024/6/23
Website launch
Columbus Park Mulberry Street &, Baxter St
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2024/5/26
Clay Hang
Columbus Park Mulberry Street &, Baxter St
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2024/4/13
CBC Regional Runs 1 & 2 (Hosted by TDL)
High School of Fashion Industries 225 W 24th St.
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2023/10/8
2023 Autumn Classic 3x3 Tournament and MiniMarket
Columbus Park Mulberry Street &, Baxter St
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2022/10/30
Chinatown Basketball Club Sneaker Game
A CBC KICKS Exhibition
Columbus Park Mulberry Street &, Baxter St
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2022/10/15
3-point Shootout and Stay True Reading & Zine Swap with Hua Hsu and Yu & Me Books.
Columbus Park Mulberry Street &, Baxter St
After Hua’s reading at Yu & Me, everyone headed across the street for the 3-Point Shootout, an open competition to crown CBC’s sharpest shooter, which that year turned out to be Alex Zhang.
Scoreboard hand painted by Herb Tam. Mixtape cover by Hua Hsu. Book poster by Yu & Me Books