# Event Details - **Event Name**: Asia North 2025 Opening Event - **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 02 May, 2025 at 05:00 pm – Fri, 02 May, 2025 at 09:00 pm - **Event Description**: Celebrate the grand opening of Asia North 2025 with music, food, and cultural performances!About this EventLocations: 16 W. North Ave., Motor House, The Club Car, Currency Studio, Mobtown Ballroom & CafeCelebrate the kick-off of Asia North 2025. Meet guest curator Phaan Howng and the artists featured in EXCEEDS EXPECTATIONS. Spend the evening learning Bollywood moves, take in the guzheng (Chinese zither) with a Baltimore twist, parade with dragon dancers, and dance to conscious hip hop, drum lines, drag queens, and more! Featuring performances from Qi Yu, Stepping Stones, Utpalasia, Mr. Mrs. Boots, Spike Yee & Proper, and Baltimore Chinese Dragon Dance. Enjoy a free still life drawing activity as part of artist Thea Canlas’s piece, “Still Life: Longing.” Savor dishes provided by the Baltimore Xiamen Sister City Committee. Hosted by Eva Barrie, Asia North 2025 performance curator.SCHEDULE:5:00 p.m.Exhibit opens at the 16 W. North Avenue, Club Car, Currency Studio, Mobtown Ballroom & Café, and Motor HouseDrop-in Still Life Drawing Art Activity by Thea Canlas at the Motor House until 9 p.m.5:45 p.m. Start enjoying food provided by the Baltimore Xiamen Sister City Committee at 16 W. North Ave.6:15 p.m.: Welcoming remarks at 16 W. North Avenue6:30 p.m. Performance by Qi Yu at 16 W. North Avenue6:50 p.m. Baltimore Chinese Dragon Dance procession to the Motor House7:15 p.m. Performance by Stepping Stones at the Motor House7:35 p.m.: Utpalasia Performance & Bollywood Workshop at Motor House7:55 p.m.: Baltimore Chinese Dragon Dance procession to Club Car8:10 pm: Mr. Mrs. Boots at Club Car***BIOSBALTIMORE CHINESE DRAGON TEAM is a dynamic, student-run organization proudly operating under the Baltimore Chinese School in cooperation with Dulaney High School. Our team, made up of enthusiastic middle and high school students from Baltimore County, is dedicated to celebrating and showcasing the rich traditions of Chinese dragon dance.Our young performers embody the core values of teamwork, collaboration, and dedication, bringing the dragon to life with every graceful movement. Through our performances, we inspire and captivate audiences across the region, fostering a deeper appreciation for diverse cultural traditions.EVA BARRIE (she/they) is an award winning creator, artistic leader, and educator. She is currently pursuing an individualised masters in dramaturgy in connection with liberation-based alternative creative infrastructures at Towson University.MR. MRS. BOOTS Taking traditional dance styles, injecting them with depravity, and mixing them with gender fluidity, this clown enjoys subverting expectations and pleasing the masses. These boots were made for serving- you’ll never be bored when Mr. Mrs. Boots is in town!PHAAN HOWNG (she/her) is a Taiwanese American artist who creates lush paintings and immersive installations that tease a post-human ecology defensively brandishing its landscape, what she calls an “optimistic post-apocalypse.” Her portraits of dense vegetal matter, appearing both luridly seductive and ominously aggressive, “choke out” the picture plane, obscuring what may lurk behind it to captivate the viewer, just as certain plants seduce pollinators, as well as humans. Inspired by ethnobotany history, Victorian botanical goth literature and the sublime of blockbuster action movies, Howng’s paintings remind the viewer of how plant life is still alien to us and that there is still much more we need to understand and learn about them. Her goal is to challenge the superficial way that we relate to plants, encouraging us to be better ecological stewards and make the changes needed to live in balance with our environment.Howng lives and works in Baltimore, MD. She received her BFA in Painting from Boston University in 2004 and her MFA from the Mt. Royal School of Art at MICA in 2015. The artist has presented solo and two-person exhibitions at galleries and museums including the Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, MD), the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery through Smithsonian Gardens (Washington, D.C) Dinner Gallery (New York City, NY), PRACTICE (Philadelphia, PA), and MonoPractice (Baltimore, MD), Art in Buildings (New York City, NY), Asian Arts and Culture Center (Towson, MD), and MoCA Arlington (Arlington, VA). Her work has been included in group shows at M+B Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), OCHI Gallery (Los Angeles, CA & Sun Valley, ID), Sean Kelly Gallery (New York, NY), Smithsonian Arts and Industry Museum, (Washington, D.C.), and No Place Gallery (Columbus, OH). Her work has been commissioned by CityCenter (Washington, D.C.), American Express Platinum and Meta. Her work has been written about in publications such as The New York Times T List, Smithsonian Magazine, Maake Magazine, Artnet, and the front page of the Baltimore Sun.SPIKE YEE & PROPER are a rapper/DJ duo based in Morgantown, WV. Both hailing from east Asian descent, they blend their cultures with modern Hip Hop and Electronic music for an easily digestible set that has been curated for audiences of all walks of life.STEPPING STONES is a key program of the Korean Culture & Art of MD. The Korean Culture & Art of MD (KCAMD) was established in 2002 to teach Korean values ​​to Korean minorities and to raise up future leaders through love of music and performing arts. In order to do so, Stepping Stones, a young generation drum team, was established.By educating the next generation about valuable cultural values ​​and establishing a layout that enables development by bringing out Korean culture, it can be used as a place to promote more and instill pride by providing opportunities to provide Korean traditional performing arts, encouraging artistic achievements and humanity in a range of fields, and it can be used as a place to promote the pride of Korean culture to the American society. It regularly maintains support from groups and organizations in the American community.UTPALASIA is a cultural heritage organization dedicated to the dance and music of South Asia and the Himalayas. They are members of the Prince William County Arts Council and have a long history with the Smithsonian Institution for their work in keeping traditional arts alive and vibrant as well as introducing them to new audiences. They are well-known for their original choreography in classical Indian Kathak, Nepali folk, Tibetan Buddhist, and Bollywood Fusion dance along with their unique interactive workshops.QI YU is a guzheng (Chinese zither) player and audio/video engineer currently based in Maryland. She began learning the guzheng at the age of six, training in both traditional and modern Chinese music. Yu later earned master’s degrees in world music and recording arts from Northern Illinois University, expanding her repertoire to include new music, world fusion, blues, rock, jazz, and electronic music. In 2019, she received a Grammy nomination for her work as an assistant recording engineer on Nathalie Joachim and Spektral Quartet’s album Fanm d’Ayiti.Asia North 2025 partners and sponsors include TU Asian Arts & Culture Center, Central Baltimore Partnership, Station North Arts District, Motor House, Currency Studio, Club Car, Mobtown Ballroom, Maryland State Arts Council, William G. Baker, Jr. Memorial Fund, Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, Citizens of Baltimore County, Orange Barrel Media/IKE Smart City, Johns Hopkins University, Korean Cultural Center Washington DC, Majer Studio, TU-BTU Presidential Priority, Community Housing Partners, Barkada Breads, Baltimore Changwon-Sister City Committee, Korean American Foundation – Greater Washington, Baltimore-Xiamen Sister City Committee, Mike Shecter, Neighborhood Housing Services, Neighborhood Design Center, NAAAP Baltimore, OTS Productions, Johns Hopkins Medicine Asian & Pacific Islander Employee Resource Group & Allies, Baltimore Improv Group, and Rosa Chang.*****Asia North 2025 Exhibition & Festival, May 2 – 31Various locations throughout the Station North Arts District, Baltimore, MD. Celebrate Baltimore’s Charles North – Station North – neighborhood’s constantly evolving identities as a Koreatown, arts district, and creative hub. Co-produced by Asian Arts & Culture Center and Central Baltimore Partnership https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events4/banners/ceb996b0-1ef7-11f0-be75-f9818eae8902-rimg-w1200-h300-dcffffff-gmir.jpg https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/cf104230-1ef7-11f0-b1a8-95aba4063b67-rimg-w1200-h600-dcfff0c5-gmir.jpg - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/baltimore/asia-north-2025-opening-event/100001321537206359 - **Event Categories**: art, entertainment, fine-arts, performances, workshops, exhibitions, dance, festivals, music, literary-art, bollywood-parties, parades - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Baltimore - **state**: MD - **country**: United States - **location**: The Club Car - **lat**: 39.3114069 - **long**: -76.6170344 - **full address**: The Club Car, 12 West North Avenue, Baltimore, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Asia North 2025 Opening Event - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/d8e9bda935c90c728fd93f1ec5a48e979fb015eeba3a889bb0ece39ac11e02cb-rimg-w1200-h628-dc161614-gmir.jpg?v=1745271058 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Asia North 2025 Opening Event being held? - **A:** Asia North 2025 Opening Event takes place on Fri, 02 May, 2025 at 05:00 pm to Fri, 02 May, 2025 at 09:00 pm at The Club Car, 12 West North Avenue, Baltimore, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Asia North 2025 Opening Event? - **A:** Asia North 2025 Opening Event is organized by Asian Arts & Culture Center at Towson University. - **Q**: Who is this event for? 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