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Asian-American Cultural Centers

Here are links to cultural centers around the U.S. focusing on events and activities aimed to educate others about the culture of Asian-Americans.
Asia Society
This organization's prime objective is to educate and motivate the Asian community by providing essential discussion and events in their various centers all around the world. Their website is excellent for up to date online and live events.
Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center
This organization based out of San Francisco, California exists to support and nurture the Asian Pacific Islander community in the Bay Area by collaborating, producing, and sponsoring artistic and cultural events.
Asian American Arts Alliance
This organization was founded in 1983 by a group of artists, activists, and community leaders to raise public awareness of Asian American arts.
Asian-American Cultural Center
Based in Austin, Texas, its mission is to provide the facilities, expertise and unique space for the sharing of culture between the East and the West in the American Experience.
Asian-American Pacific Resources at the Smithsonian
The Smithsonian in Washington D.C. has an excellent page where you can find cultural centers focusing on Asian-American Pacific issues in the D.C. Metro area.
The Center for Korean American Culture (CKAC)
A Flushing, Queens, New York based, grassroots, community, non-profit cultural organization. Its mission is to engender within young Korean Americans a pride in their heritage and their capacity to contribute to society, to provide a cultural voice, to promote a progressive awareness, amongst Korean Americans and within non-Korean communities, of Korean American Culture
China Institute
Established in 1926, this nonprofit, non-partisan educational and cultural institution promotes the understanding, appreciation and enjoyment of traditional and contemporary Chinese civilization, culture and heritage, and provides the cultural and historical context for understanding contemporary China.
Hmong Cultural Center Inc.
A community organization dedicated to providing services along with the latest information related to the exciting cultural heritage of the Hmong people worldwide.
Institute of Chinese Culture (ICC)
Founded in Houston in 1970 and became the first non-profit, formally chartered Chinese language school and cultural organization in Texas. It was established to promote and preserve the Chinese culture and heritage within a multicultural community.
Japanese-American Cultural and Community Center
A non-profit organization with a mission to preserve and encourage an appreciation of Japanese and Japanese-American heritage and cultural arts specifically in the Los Angeles, California area.
Korea Society
An organization in the United States dedicated exclusively to the promotion of greater awareness, understanding and cooperation between the people of the United States and Korea by arranging a wide array of timely, informative, and stimulating programs in the areas of business, public affairs, education, intercultural relations and the arts.
Korean Cultural Center
The Korean Cultural Center (KCC) serves the general Los Angeles public by providing information about and performances of Korean culture.
Shakunage Consulting Inc.
Dedicated to promoting, nurturing, and developing awareness of the Japanese culture and to enhance Japanese/ American business and individual friendships through the mutual understanding of each other's cultures.
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