AAPI Creatives & Social Impact Market - Asian Creative Festival 2025

Welcome to the AAPI Creatives & Social Impact Markat curated by A*E Pop Up during Asian Creative Festival 2025! Join us in person at Chelsea Market - Wine Vault for a day filled with creativity, culture, and community.

ACE (AAPI Creatives & Entrepreneurs) is a collective connecting independent creatives and consumers with an emphasis on supporting emerging AAPI creatives and small businesses. We will be featuring over 30 unique vendors and artists, and invite you to shop, dine, & celebrate with us!

We aim to spread joy and inspiration by highlighting the diversity of our community, cultures, and changemakers - creating a physical space for everyone to experience authentic stories about the AAPI identity. We are part of the Asian Creative Festival, a special weekend program of AAPI organizations, speakers, talent, and community.

RSVP here for first priority entry into the Creative & Craft Market, and to be entered into exclusive product raffles!

Art & Illustration

• Authan Chen: Imaginative art in both traditional and digital medium, inspired by queer pop culture, botanical illustrations, mythology, and anthropology
• Cissy's Art Cafe: Prints, stickers, and other stationery items, ft. cozy colorful scenes inspired by friendship, cute animals, and nature
• Lazi Sooz: a Brooklyn based artist with a mission to sprinkle cuteness and silliness into everyday life through stationery and crafts.
• Looky Goods: Reimagining Chinese culture in a new and cute way through a variety of art mediums, to find the joy and nostalgia that still shines through all the complications of being third culture
• Miiasoey: A HongKong artist sharing her stories through drawings, stickers, tote bags and so much more
• Panda Cub Stories: A web comic series about Chinese culture, Sichuan food, and living with ADHD, ft. illustrated recipe cards, art prints and posters of food art
• The Ghost Egg: Art and stationery that features kawaii ghost illustrations, inspired by fantasy landscapes and scenes with an East-Asian influence
• ZoTo&Co: Two sisters’ collaborative hand-crafted arts, jewelry, and decor shop that celebrates being cheeky and playful

Fashion, Apparel & Jewelry

• Buhayin: Handmade jewelry and accessory brand translating to “revive” in Tagalog, featuring original and unique pieces from pre-loved goods.
• DAWANG: Modern traditional Chinese aesthetics fashion - building Asian American community through fashion & sharing culture with a wider audience
• Divinity Boutique NYC: Unique fashion including one of one hand-painted & cropped jackets, statement pieces
• Filthy Mari Atelier: A one woman production of handmade polymer clay jewelry and air dry clay trinkets
• FLEURENZ: A Filipina-owned jewelry business with a goal to make everyone feel beautiful, confident, and empowered with high-quality and long lasting 14k gold-filled jewelry

• Hooks and Luxe: Jewelry and home decor with the perfect blend of elegance and sustainability, created by hand using eco-friendly materials
• Mona Jewelry: Blending Eastern aesthetics with modern craftsmanship, with meticulously crafted one-of-a-kind pieces inspired by nature and poetry
• NUNCHI: Fine jewelry brand powered by culture, self-expression, and impact. Inspired by the Korean concept of “Nunchi”, awareness that’s harnessed into actions that promote balance and harmony

Design, Decor, Wellness, and more

• Gordon & Li Li: a bilingual children's brand teaching Mandarin through books, activities, plushies, an app, and merchandise
• Lumpy Studios: A design venture to create handmade products where nostalgia meets modernity, founded by a team of diverse Asian engineers and designers – hailing from Thailand, Laos, Korea, and Taiwan
• Sad Boiz Co: Hand made jewelry and decor featuring the face ._.
• Space Type: An independent type foundry, design studio, and risograph press based in Brooklyn, NY, rooted in playful expression and experimentation
• Yellow Cloud Studios: Creating cute hand-beaded charms inspired by the whimsical beauty of birds and nature

Food & Beverage

• Happy Tuna: Fresh, tasty and healthy sushi and crispy rice, with a variety of alternative rice and plant-based protein options
• Hoyehh Chili Oil: A Chinese-Vietnamese chili oil crafted by the Trinh family, drawing from Cantonese culture, the unique food experiences of kids of immigrants, and the tale of the Monkey King
• Mofa Cafe: Authentic herbal teas and soups that promote health and wellness, blending generations of Taiwanese herbal expertise with modern innovation
• Reprise Health: Holistic wellness brand dedicated to bringing traditional Eastern medicine into the modern world, with herbal remedies crafted into accessible, everyday solutions
• Cafe Kibo: Tea and coffee drinks that feel both familiar and novel, a tribute to the artists' childhood dog & inspired by Japanese and Thai roots
• Petit Dough: Specializing in handcrafted pastries and bread infused with unique Asian flavors, blending creativity with high-quality ingredients
• Simply Noms Bakery: A small-batch home bakery run with love, inspired by the delicate flavors of Asia and the artistry of French pastry techniques
• Yellow Pear Coffee: Coffee and snacks that combine flavors the founder loves and grew up eating, founded after a few years of working as a barista
• Wild Mannered (formerly Neat Beverages): all-natural shareable soju cocktails, made with real fruit, and inspired by the communal drinking experience

Thank you to our partners and sponsors:

• Chelsea Market
• Singapore Global Network
• Renaissance
• Happy Tuna
• JP Morgan Chase
• Omnicom

Thank you to our in-kind donors who are providing exciting raffle & shopping prizes!

• To be announced

We will also be raising awareness and selling awesome merchandis to support AAPI Nonprofits. Check them out ACF's website - Social Impact Hackathon.

Please check out directions to the space and latest details on our Instagram @acepopup !

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