Asian American Students in Alliance at UIC

Get your food and towel ready for our Beach Day Potluck!! 🏖 On Mon, Aug 12th, meet at UIC Montgomery Lounge by 2pm to commute with us or at the 12th St beach by 3pm 🚇 Must sign up to attend! (form in our bio) 🌊 We'll see y'all there! 🏊‍♀️

🐼AASIA GRADUATES PT. 3🎓

🙌More congrats to these AASIA graduates as well! We will miss them all, but we’re excited for their future🎊

🏃‍♀️From the College of Applied Health Sciences, our 2022-23 Historian Intern Anika Patel has graduated! She graduates with a major in Integrated Health Studies🏋️‍♀️

📸From the College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts, Danny Ngo Nguyen graduates with a major in Fine Arts🎨

🐼AASIA GRADUATES PT. 2🎓

🥳We have a couple more AASIA members graduating this semester. Some of our AASIA alumni have plans for further education👏

🧩Ulises Hernandez, this past year’s Public Relations Officer, double majored in Applied Psychology and Sociology. He plans to apply to grad school for a Masters in Psychology in one year🔮

🥼From the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Hyun Kim graduates with a major in Psychology. He will be going to UPenn for med school🩺

👩‍⚕️Farzeen Qadri, AASIA’s Secretary from the 2022-23 year, graduates with a major in Biological Sciences and a minor in Kinesiology. She plans to spend a year volunteering and studying for the MCAT before applying to med school💉

🐼AASIA GRADUATES PT.1 🎓

🎉 Congratulations to everybody who has graduated this semester. Our AASIA alumni are going out to the world to do great things‼️

👔From the Business College, we had two people graduate with a major in Information Decision Sciences: Hanan Tauseef, this past year’s webmaster, and Galvin Flores 😎

Revealing the SECOND half of our lineup for IMAGINASIAN 2024!! 🐞✨️ Featuring the Chicago Flying Fairies, VSA Fan, Chemical X, FIA Liwan, neXus, and Treblemakers!🕺💃 Make sure to get your tickets to be able to support your organization! 🐝

We're thrilled to unveil the first half of our lineup for IMAGINASIAN 2025!! 🍄✨️ Featuring EVO, VSA Hat, Speedbump, APHIG, and KASA. 🕺💃 Get ready for an electrifying experience, and don't miss out on supporting your organization! 🦋

Volunteers for ImaginAsianare needed! 💃🕺

We need people for:
set up ~ 5-6pm
tickets/ushering ~ 5:45-6:15pm
during event, helping with games
and keeping the event going ~6-8:30pm
clean up ~ 8:20-9pm

Sign up form is in the linktree in our bio!

Day 4 of Interns 📍

Welcome Muneeba as our VPI Intern!! ✨️

It's day three of intern reveals‼️
Welcome our PRO intern Jibran Syed!!! 🍽

Intern Post Reveals!

Introducing our Webmaster Intern, Axel!! 🖥

IMAGINASIAN RECAP‼️🏖️

What a way to end the semester :’) Thank you to our performers, you all did absolutely amazing and we were blown away by your talent! 🤸‍♂️

Thank you to everyone who came to cheer on the performances! Congrats to those who won our games and to our raffle winner on winning the big panda! We hope you had just as much fun as we did :)

And with that, good luck on your finals, enjoy your summer, and see you all next semester! 🌺☀️

Your 2022-23 Historian Alya Luteyn signing off!🫡🫶

Do you or some one you know loooove cute and cuddly plushies? Well lucky for you we’ll be holding a raffle at ImaginAsian for a 3 FOOT PANDA!🐼

To enter the raffle:
1 ticket - $3
3 tickets -$5

Best of luck to you all!🏖️

AASIA has a cute raffle prize to give out for ImaginAsian! Get the chance to win a 3 FOOT PANDA🐼 If you or someone you know is a fan of cute and cuddly plushies, this raffle is for you 🏖️

To enter the raffle:
1 ticket - $3
3 tickets - $5

Best of luck to you all!🥰🏝️

We’ve gone one more set of ImaginAsian performers to introduce you all to! Meet…

KPiB! The brothers of KPiB are part of an Asian American service and social fraternity dedicated to community, higher learning, and promotion of respect and discipline!🌴

EKC! They are a non-audition dance group that was formed in 2014 and takes dancers from all levels of experience! They dance to variations in K-pop🐠

VSA Hat! This is the third subgroup of VSA Cultural, and they utilize traditional Vietnamese hat dance and Vietnamese music in their performances🐙

That’s all for performers everyone! Come out April 28 to watch these amazing performances and have a good time🌺🫰

Are you curious to see who’s performing for ImaginAsian? Don’t worry, we gotchu😎🌺 Introducing…

VSA Fan! They are the second subgroup in VSA Cultural and their choreography incorporates the smooth movement of fans! 🪷

APhiG! Founded in 1994, they are the first Asian American interest sorority and can be found on campus! The sisters of APhiG strive to promote sisterhood and friendship🌸

Chemical X! They are a K-pop and J-pop cover dance team based in Chicago, and are a group of friends that come from different backgrounds and levels of dance experience! 💃

Have any questions about ImaginAsian? Well we’ve got you covered! 🏝️

ImaginAsian is an event meant for everyone to join! If you’re wondering if the event is ticketed, please refer to our ticketing post🫰🐳

Thank you to everyone who came to the AARCC x AASIA collab GBM! It was great hearing what you all had to say during our discussion on Asian American superheroes in Hollywood :)

And a big thank you to for collaborating with us, we appreciated you coming out and having this much needed discussion!

Meet the performers!

AASIA is excited to announce ThLB, VSA Modern, and Token Crew will be performing for ImaginAsian! 🏝️

ThLB is a social fraternity on UIC’s campus. The main pillars of the fraternity are truth, leadership, and brotherhood. 🐳

VSA Modern is a contemporary dance subgroup of VSA Cultural that draws inspiration from traditional Vietnamese dance and Western contemporary styles! 🐙

Token Crew is a diverse group of dancers of different races, sizes, and levels of dancing experience. 🌴

ImaginAsian Pre-Order tickets are available NOW! Link to purchase tickets are located in our linktree :) The deadline to buy tickets is April 21 at 11:59PM🏝️

Pre-Order: $5
At the Door (April 28): $8

AASIA is proud to present our annual spring semester event, ImaginAsian! 🏖️

ImaginAsian is a spring variety show aimed to unite the Asian American community at UIC and Chicago through fashion, fun, and entertainment! The theme for this year’s event is… Tropical! 🦀🏝️ So dress up for a day at the beach and enjoy the amazing performances and games we have planned for you all! We can’t wait to see you all there 🐼🏖️

Please save the date!
🐙 April 28th, 2023
🐠 6-8:30 PM
🐬 SCE Illinois Room

OMG AARCC x AASIA GBM⁉️⁉️⁉️

Join us as we discuss the complexities of Asian American Superheroes in Hollywood! Get the chance to talk about heroes like Shang-Chi or Miss Marvel, as well as discuss how Asians can be represented in Hollywood. We will meet on April 17 from 4-5:30PM in SCE 605!🦸🏻‍♀️

AASIA SOCIAL⁉️⁉️

Yes you’re seeing that correctly everyone, we have our last boba social coming up April 11! Hangout with us, enjoy the nice weather, and get some yummy boba from Gathers🧋

For those who want to walk with us to Gathers, we’ll be meeting in front of SCE Dunkin @ 6:15PM😋

Hope to see you all there😍😍🧋

Are you interested in getting more volunteering hours? Would you like to help set up an amazing event with us? ImaginAsian, our annual spring variety show, is coming up soon and we are looking for volunteers to help us out! 🏖️

The link to sign up is located in our bio; spots are limited, so sign up quickly! The form will CLOSE next Thursday (4/13) @ 11:59PM 🐚🦀

UNICEF x AASIA GBM RECAP‼️

Thank you to everyone who came and made beautiful cards! We’re positive the kids will enjoy looking at them ☺️ And a BIG thank you to for collaborating with us, we had so much fun!

Gooooood afternoon AASIA! We are happy to announce our next GBM is a collaboration with ! We will be making cute cards for children at local hospitals 💌 💐 This is a really great opportunity to log in your volunteering hours and brighten up a child’s day!

Join us on April 3 in SCE 605 from 4-5:30PM; supplies for card making will be provided. We can’t wait to see the amazing cards you’ll make 🐼💌

Hellooooo and happy Saturday AASIAns! In honor of our discord being official, we have decided to hold a social on our server!

Join us as we play Among Us and hangout! Get to know members and possibly be one of the lucky three who win a prize in our giveaway 🤪

The social will be on Tuesday, March 14 from 7-9PM. If you haven’t already, please join the server so can play with us >:)

Attention AASIAns! We are holding a fundraiser on March 9 from 11AM-3PM in the Quad! We will be selling Asian drinks like chai and Vietnamese coffee as well as Parle-G biscuits☕️
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Chai: $3
Parle-G: $1.50
Chai + Parle-G: $4
Vietnamese coffee: $4

Come out and support us!🐼

Happy Wednesday AASIAns! We hope midterm week is treating you well :’)

We have some exciting news: Applications for the 2023-24 Executive Board are now open! Gain leadership skills, make connections, and be part of an amazing and dedicated team😎🫡

Applications can be found in our linktree, and the deadline to apply is MARCH 6 @ 8AM sharp!

Arts and Crafts GBM Recap‼️‼️

Thank you all for coming to our GBM on Monday, we loved seeing your wonderful art and creativity! Whether it was painting or making origami, everyone’s creations looked amazing :)

And a biiig congratulations is in order to the winner of our cultural painting competition, Riya () ! Your painting was something truly special and beautiful to behold ☺️🐼

Goooood morning AASIANS! We have a very exciting GBM coming up soon! 🐼

Our arts and crafts GBM will be on MONDAY, February 20 from 4-5:30 in SCE 605. Join us to paint amazing artwork and have fun with friends! Bonus points if you paint something cultural, as the best one will be featured on our instagram (a prize may also be included hehe)! Can’t wait to see you there🎨

To paint, there will be a $2 fee for the canvas. AASIA accepts Venmo () and cash!