Activities

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2026/2-5 

CBC exhibited past 5 years posters at exhibition LEGENDS: Athleticism in Asian/American Art, curated by Jayne Cole, explores the intersection of art and sports through the work of contemporary Asian and Asian American artists. Godwin-Ternbach Museum at Queens College (CUNY) in Flushing, New York.

Press: Unpacking Asian/American Athleticism at “Legends”

2026/4/19 

CBC is hosting “Field Day” at Queens College on Sunday, April 19, a day of free and open basketball competition at the school’s gym anchored by a FLOATER Book talk with Wilson Lew of at the museum. 

Photos by Dominick Totino

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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

DJ kiptok in orbit with tea ritual performed by Austin Kim and Lu Zhang motion, still, the extremes; inhabit, depart, the unity of offense and defense... titled “opposite circles shares the same center 相对的圆享有同样的心,” presented by Chinatown Basketball Club at Culture of Batheing.

poster by Lu Zhang

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2025/12

2025/12/9 

A Suspension of Outcomes: FLOATER

2025/10/12 

2025 CBC Autumn Classic 3x3 Tournament and MiniMarket

Poster by Sean Catangui

2025 CBC MiniMarket

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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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.

Poster by Dustin Lin

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2025/5/18

Chinatown Basketball Club and Baxter Street Camera Club co-presented Headshot by Photographer Tommy Kha.

Poster by Yuling

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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.

Poster by Paloma Alejandra

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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)