K2 Friday Night

Cocktails, art, and music make a heady mix during K2 Friday Nights, where admission is free every Friday from 6:00 to 10:00 PM. Café Serai becomes the K2 Lounge, offering a special drink menu to accompany the evening’s DJ, Ushka. Explore all the galleries, dive deeper with an exhibition tour at 7:15 PM, and kick off your weekend with the Rubin. 

To mark the start of Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, the Coalition of Asian Pacific Americans is hosting a special K2 Friday Night at the Rubin Museum of Art. In addition to free access to all of the galleries, the evening will include a guided tour with Bhutanese artist Chimi Zangmo and the Rubin Museum’s Himalayan programs and communities ambassador Tashi Chodron. This interactive tour will highlight artworks from the Rubin’s newest exhibition, Reimagine Himalayan Art Now, and the Rubin’s collection. The tour begins at 6:45 PM and meets at the base of the spiral staircase. 

There will be a second guided tour of the galleries at 7:15 PM, which will also meet at the base of the spiral staircase.

Coming with friends? Learn about group reservations and tours.

About Coalition of Asian Pacific Americans

Since its inception in 1979, Coalition of Asian Pacific Americans (CAPA)’s mission celebrates Asian Pacific American (APA)* culture and heritage through events. This includes organizing the APA Heritage Festival, developing an online community resource, and organizing targeted small events to broaden our APA network. CAPA’s goal is to connect, communicate, and collaborate with communities to support, nurture, and develop ethnic, organizational and community relationships. CAPA works to support advocacy, through activities addressing the needs of our community. Community forums will connect and promote APA organizations, programs, and events all year round to assist in advocating and addressing community’s needs. 

*APA refers to a diverse group of individuals with ancestral ties to various countries, jurisdictions, and diasporic communities across Asia and the Pacific Islands, and those who are indigenous to the land.

About the DJ

Ushka is a Sri Lankan-born, Brooklyn-based DJ traversing genres across electronic club and bass music. She is one half of iBomba, a Brooklyn-based duo and party that has thrown immigrant- and people-of-color-centered parties for the last five years. She DJs from the perspective of a dancer, blending a wide range of club music from soca to dancehall, hip-hop to South Asian rhythms, Baltimore/Jersey club to baile funk, vogue cuts to kuduro, azonto to afrobeat, and more. When she isn’t crafting dancefloor spaces, Ushka is a political and cultural organizer.

Lead support for the Rubin Museum is provided by Bob and Lois Baylis, Barbara Bowman, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, Dharma Joy Foundation, Noah P. Dorsky, Fred Eychaner, Christopher J. Fussner, Agnes Gund, The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Global, the Estate of Lisina M. Hoch, Henry Luce Foundation, The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation, Mellon Foundation, Matt and Ann Nimetz, The Randleigh Foundation Trust, Shelley and Donald Rubin, Tiger Baron Foundation, and Ellen Bayard Weedon Foundation. 

General operating support of the Rubin Museum of Art is provided by  the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Daphne Hoch Cunningham and John Cunningham, Anne E. Delaney, Dalio Philanthropies, Janet Gardner,  Dan Gimbel of NEPC, LLC,  The Prospect Hill Foundation, Basha Frost Rubin and Scott Grinsell, Namita and Arun Saraf, Linda Schejola, Eric and Alexandra Schoenberg, Eileen Caulfield Schwab, Jesse Smith and Annice Kenan, Tsherin Sherpa, Tong-Tong Zhu and Jianing Liu, with generous donations from the Museum’s Board of Trustees, individual donors and members, and corporate and foundation supporters. 

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

The Rubin Museum’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature.

Photo by Filip Wolak