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• AAS Video Contest (thru Mar 15)

  • Start
    January 15, 2025
  • End
    March 15, 2025
  • Location
    Online

  

  The Asian American Stories (AAS) 2025 Video Contest is now open. The 2025 theme, "My Gift to America," should showcase uplifting and inspirational stories of Asian Americans and their contributions to society.

  DETAILS: 

  • Contestants are to submit, in English, a video of less than one minute and an accompanying essay of less than 150 words.
  • Share your story with millions.
  • Engage with acclaimed filmmakers & influential community leaders.
  • Get a ticket (worth $150) to the award ceremony. 
  • Win up to $5000 in prizes or grants for your future production.
  • Win a sponsored trip to Washington D.C.
  • Attend UCA National Conference and present your video to thousands.
  • First 20 submissions will receive AAS T-shirt.
  • Deadline for submission: March 15th
  • Time to vote: March 16th to April 1st
  • Award Ceremony: May 1st in Milpitas

  TWO DIVISIONS:

  • Youth Contestants (aged 12-18)
  • Adult Contestants (aged 19 and above)

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• CHCP Traveling Exhibit @ ACCC (thru Apr 25)

  • Start
    February 24, 2025
  •  
    10:00 AM
  • End
    April 25, 2025
  •  
    3:00 PM
  • Location
    Avenidas Chinese Community Center, 4000 Middlefield Rd, Bldg H5, Palo Alto, CA 94303

  

  CHCP’s traveling exhibit, Pioneering the Valley: The Chinese American Legacy in Santa Clara Valley, is a 14-panel color display depicting the history and contributions of the Chinese in Santa Clara Valley through photographs and text.
  

  Visit CHCP's traveling exhibit on display at the Avenidas Chinese Community Center (ACCC) in Palo Alto thru April 25th. For questions, call 650-289-5409.

  Corporations, community centers, schools, and other organizations are welcome to reserve the traveling exhibit for display. Contact Chris Jochim at info@chcp.org.

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• CAH Museum Open

  • When
    March 08, 2025
  •  
    11:00 AM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    Chinese American Historical Museum, 635 Phelan Avenue, San Jose, CA 95112

  The Chinese American Historical Museum (CAHM) is housed in the Ng Shing Gung building, which is part of History Park, located in Kelley Park, San Jose.

  Admission: Free
  

  For more information (including parking, directions, slideshow, and virtual tour): visit our Museum page.

   

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• Seminar: Writing Family History with Artificial Intelligence (thru June 22)

  • Start
    March 08, 2025
  •  
    11:00 AM
  • End
    June 22, 2025
  •  
    4:00 PM
  • Location
    Various Bay Area Libraries

  

  Various Bay Area libraries will be hosting a FREE seminar on the subject of Writing Family History with Artificial Intelligence. All sessions are in-person.

  Location/Date/Time

  • Santa Clara Library, 2635 Homestead Rd, Santa Clara, Feb 1, 1 - 3 pm
  • Cupertino Library, 10800 Torre Ave, Cupertino, Mar 1, 11 am - 1 pm
  • El Cerrito Library, 6510 Stockton Ave, El Cerrito, Mar 8, 11 am - 1 pm
  • San Leandro Library, 300 Estudillo Ave, San Leandro, Mar 22, 1:30 - 3:30 pm
  • Atherton, 2 Dinkelspiel Station Ln, Atherton, Apr 9, 11 am - 1 pm
  • San Carlos, 610 Elm St, San Carlos, Apr 16, 11 am - 1 pm
  • Castro Valley Library, 3600 Norbridge Ave, Castro Valley, Jun 22, 2 - 4 pm

  Summary

  • Hands-on Writing Family History with AI Workshop
  • Blend of theory, demonstration, and practical application
  • Explore storytelling fundamentals and AI-generated narratives
  • Learn to use AI as a writing coach and create personalized stories
  • Share family anecdotes and insights with fellow participants 
  • Discover where to publish family stories online – FREE

  Explore the fusion of storytelling and artificial intelligence at this Writing Family History with AI Workshop. This interactive session merges theory, demonstrations, and sharing for a dynamic learning experience. Learn storytelling fundamentals, from traditional tales to AI-generated narratives. Discover how AI can enhance your writing process and create captivating stories. Dive into movie-making techniques and unleash your storytelling prowess through personalized videos. Bring your creativity and laptop, and craft your own AI-assisted family stories. Share and connect with fellow participants, exchanging family anecdotes and insights. No prior experience necessary, just bring your creativity and curiosity, plus an internet-ready laptop with a word processor.

  About The Speaker: Ron Chan

  Ron is a seasoned lecturer on family history documentation principles, captivating audiences worldwide at Genealogy Workshops and libraries. As a published genealogy author, he has a passion for storytelling, teaching innovative methods to breathe life into ancestral tales. Ron is the Founder of the Bay Area Chinese Genealogy Group, dedicated to preserving ancestral stories. He is also Co-Founder of the Chinese American GI Project to honor veterans' legacies and a CHCP Advisory Board Member working on CHCP's Oral History Project.

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• Seminar: Digitize & Document Your Family History (thru Sept 20)

  • Start
    March 12, 2025
  •  
    11:00 AM
  • End
    September 20, 2025
  •  
    3:00 PM
  • Location
    Various Bay Area Libraries

  

  Various Bay Area libraries will be hosting a FREE seminar on the subject: Digitize & Document Your Family History. All sessions are in-person.

  Location/Date/Time

  • Gilroy Library, 350 W. Sixth St, Gilroy, Feb 15, 1 - 3 pm (Note Date Change)
  • San Leandro Library, 300 Estudillo Ave, San Leandro, Feb 22, 1:30 - 3:30 pm
  • Atherton Library, 2 Dinkelspiel Station Ln, Atherton, Mar 12, 11 am – 1 pm
  • San Carlos Library, 610 Elm St, San Carlos, Mar 19, 11 am – 1 pm
  • Rockridge Library, 5366 College Ave, Oakland, Mar 29, 1 – 3 pm
  • Alameda Main Library, 1550 Oak St, Alameda, May 3, 1 - 3 pm
  • Palo Alto Rinconada Library, 1213 Newell Rd, Palo Alto, May 10, 1 - 3 pm
  • San Mateo Library, 55 W 3rd Ave, San Mateo, Jul 12, 1 – 3 pm
  • Santa Clara Library, 2635 Homestead Rd, Santa Clara, Sept 20, 1 – 3 pm

  Summary

  • Utilize AI for oral history, scanning, photo restoration, and management
  • Explore case studies for weaving family sagas with multimedia
  • Discover free resources and best practices for legacy preservation
  • Learn tools for creating a digital family heritage library

  Dive into a realm where physical artifacts meet virtual storytelling. This session immerses you in the art of utilizing artificial intelligence for oral history creation, scanning, photo restoration, photo management, movie making and storytelling. Explore real-life case studies illustrating how to intricately weave your family’s saga using multimedia methodologies. Discover invaluable free resources and best practices to preserve your family’s legacy. By session end, you’ll learn about tools and techniques to create a digital family heritage library, that will be a timeless treasure for generations to come.

  About The Speaker: Ron Chan

  Ron is a seasoned lecturer on family history documentation principles, captivating audiences worldwide at Genealogy Workshops and libraries. As a published genealogy author, he has a passion for storytelling, teaching innovative methods to breathe life into ancestral tales. Ron is the Founder of the Bay Area Chinese Genealogy Group, dedicated to preserving ancestral stories. He is also Co-Founder of the Chinese American GI Project to honor veterans' legacies and a CHCP Advisory Board Member working on CHCP's Oral History Project.

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• CAH Museum Open

  • When
    March 15, 2025
  •  
    11:00 AM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    Chinese American Historical Museum, 635 Phelan Avenue, San Jose, CA 95112

  The Chinese American Historical Museum (CAHM) is housed in the Ng Shing Gung building, which is part of History Park, located in Kelley Park, San Jose.

  Admission: Free
  

  For more information (including parking, directions, slideshow, and virtual tour): visit our Museum page.

   

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• CHCP Beautification Visit to Iris Chang Park

  • When
    March 16, 2025
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Iris Chang Park, 688-694 Epic Way, San Jose, CA

  

  CHCP invites you to visit Iris Chang Park to celebrate Women's History Month and to honor Iris Chang. Iris Chang was a Chinese American journalist, author of historical books, and political activist. She is best known for her best-selling 1997 account of the Nanking Massacre, The Rape of Nanking, and in 2003, The Chinese in America: A Narrative History. 

  The 2.6-acre park near Montague Expressway and Seely Avenue was inaugurated in 2019 to honor Iris. The park's six installations were very thoughtfully researched and beautifully created to carry on Iris' messages of personal activism for democracy and freedom for all. Through brief discussions at several of the park's installations having quotes from Iris, we will be able to know a little more of her perspective of life and what one’s role might be to improve world and community relationships.

  Next we will clean and beautify the park to honor Iris, while also celebrating Women's History Month (March), Earth Day (April 22), and AAPI month (May). Some yard/landscape maintenance tools will be available, but best if you could bring your own broom, greenery disposal bags, small clippers, rake, sunhat, kneeling pads, gardening gloves, etc.

  This is a free event with refreshments served after the clean-up session.

  Please RSVP to CHCP Director Brenda Hee Wong at brenda.wong@chcp.org or 408-228-2424.

  To learn more about Iris Chang:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_Chang 

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• CAH Museum Open (during Women's Heritage Day)

  • When
    March 22, 2025
  •  
    11:00 AM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    Chinese American Historical Museum, 635 Phelan Avenue, San Jose, CA 95112

  

  The Chinese American Historical Museum will be open on March 22 from 11:00 am to 3:30 pm. 

  From 11:30 am to 3:15 pm, for Women's Heritage Day at History Park, CHCP will be "Celebrating the Contributions of Chinese Women," past and current, presented by CHCP's Student Docent and Cultural Ambassador Program (SDCAP), and author, Russell Low, in the Chinese American Historical Museum, 2nd Floor, at History Park.

  

  CHCP's SDCAP will screen several short videos. These videos, created by members of SDCAP, celebrate contributions and accomplishments of Chinese women from past and present. Two Bay Area women being celebrated are CHCP Advisory Board Member/Historian Connie Young Yu and author/journalist Iris Chang.

  Author Russell Low will present and discuss his new book, "The Exceptional Life of Tye Leung Schulz."

  The Chinese American Historical Museum (CAHM) is housed in the Ng Shing Gung building, which is part of History Park, located in Kelley Park, San Jose.
  

  Admission: Free

  For more Museum information (including parking, directions, slideshow, and virtual tour): visit our Museum page.

  For more information about Women's Heritage Day: CLICK HERE

  

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• Locke Foundation Film Premiere: "Voices: Chinese Women of the Delta"

  • When
    March 22, 2025
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:30 PM
  • Location
    California Museum, 1020 O St, Sacramento, CA 95814

  

  Don't miss your chance to attend the premiere of award-winning filmmaker Min Zhou's documentary “Voices: Chinese Women of the Delta,” presented by the Locke Foundation - Oral History Project (LF-OHP) and Locke Prior Residents and Descendants Association (LockePRDA), and hosted by the California Museum as part of its Women's History Month programming.

  “Voices: Chinese Women of the Delta” explores the sacrifices and contributions of women immigrants from China, as told by their descendants. The film examines how marginalized and discriminated against in the wider society, Chinese women suffered further repression within the male-dominated Chinese culture. Invisible and voiceless, their own community gave them little consolation or support in a country that viewed them as aliens and granted them few rights or standing. Yet the women's previously untold stories reveal an indomitable resilience that shaped families, communities, and the course of California history.

  CLICK HERE to view a preview of the film.

  The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker and documentary participants.

  Light refreshments will be served to ticketed guests. No food or drink is allowed in the auditorium.

  $30.00 advance tickets also provide entry to all current California Museum exhibits, including "Gold Mountain: Chinese Californian Stories."

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• C100 Webinar: Chinese American Excellence in Business & STEM

  • When
    March 27, 2025
  •  
    1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    Online (via Zoom)

  

  Join the Committee of 100 and The Asian American Education Project for a three-part series that examines the rich contributions of Chinese Americans to U.S. society, both historically and in the present day. The content was sourced from Committee of 100’s report “From Foundations to Frontiers: Chinese American Contributions to the Fabric of America.”

  Specifically designed for Grades 6-9 educators and open to everyone, the series addresses three main topics: (1) the impact of the Perpetual Foreigner Stereotype on Chinese Americans, (2) Chinese American contributions in food, arts, and film, and (3) Chinese American contributions in business, science, and technology.

  Event Highlights:

  • Gain Tools and Resources: Educators will be equipped with strategies and free lessons. 
  • Learn All Year: These three 1-hour workshops are being offered for free and are spread throughout the school year. 
  • Earn Credits: Attendees will earn New York City Department of Education CTLE credits through The Asian American Education Project.

  

  

  Workshop III: Chinese American Excellence in Business & STEM
  Thursday, March 27, 2025
  1:00 - 2:00 PM PT (4:00 - 5:00 PM ET)
  4:00 - 5:00 PM PT (7:00 - 8:00 PM ET)

  This workshop will be offered twice on Thursday, March 27 to accommodate educators in different time zones. Each session will present the same content.

  Chinese Americans have found success in the fields of business and entrepreneurship and science and technology. Their ability to thrive in these industries has been impacted by immigration policy at different moments in American history, yet Chinese Americans have found ways to adapt and survive. In this workshop, participants will learn about early Chinese American contributions to business and STEM, and how they made progress in later decades up to the present. Participants will gain classroom resources for teaching these contributions in the classroom.

  REGISTER HERE

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• CAH Museum Open

  • When
    March 29, 2025
  •  
    11:00 AM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    Chinese American Historical Museum, 635 Phelan Avenue, San Jose, CA 95112

  The Chinese American Historical Museum (CAHM) is housed in the Ng Shing Gung building, which is part of History Park, located in Kelley Park, San Jose.

  Admission: Free

  For more information (including parking, directions, slideshow, and virtual tour): visit our Museum page.

  
  

   

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• Ching Ming

  • When
    April 04, 2025

  

  Ching Ming, Grave Sweeping Day, is a traditional Chinese celebration honoring ancestors. This custom is observed as a traditional and cultural ritual rather than a religious practice.

  Ching Ming unfolds in a picnic-like atmosphere and is observed as a time for happy communion with ancestors rather than a somber occasion. On this day, families visit the cemeteries of their ancestors to pay their respects with offerings of flowers, incense, imitation paper money, and food. They also sweep and clean the gravesite.

  For more details: Visit our Ching Ming page (part of our Virtual Library).

  
  

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• SBHCACC/CHCP Ching Ming Ceremony

  • When
    April 06, 2025
  •  
    12:00 PM
  • Location
    Historic Chinese American Cemetery, 300-A Curtner Ave, San Jose, CA 95125

  

  Join the South Bay Historic Chinese American Cemetery Corporation (SBHCACC) and CHCP for the Ching Ming ceremony on April 6th at the Historic Chinese American Cemetery in San Jose.

  Come to experience this Chinese ritual that will respect and honor the Chinese pioneers of the Santa Clara Valley. The Ching Ming ceremony is a traditional and cultural ritual and is observed in a picnic-like atmosphere, as a time for happy communion with ancestors.

  CHCP will be participating in this event, to include presenting paper ingots for ceremonial offerings and taking part in reading the names of those buried there.

  For more information and to RSVP:  2025 Ching Ming Jie

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• Seminar: My China Roots and the Chinese American Experience

  • When
    April 27, 2025
  •  
    2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Burlingame Library, 480 Primrose Rd, Burlingame, CA

  

  What you will learn

  • Research tools and resources to discover your China roots
  • Oral histories of a Chinese American family’s struggles
  • How 150 generations of family genealogy was found 
  • ChiAm checklist of online, live and local genealogy groups
  • Interviews from Angel Island Immigration National Archives 
  • Experience a visit to a Chinese ancestral village

  Abstract  

  This multimedia session offers key resources to help you find and explore your China roots and access Chinese American research tools. Showcased are the struggles and assimilation of a Chinese American immigrant family through oral histories of hardship, poverty, segregation, discrimination, and a city’s formal apology—80 years in the making—came to life. Unsure of where your ancestral village is in China and how to find your jiapu (ancestral lineage book)? Learn how 150 generations of family genealogy was documented in China. You’ll receive a checklist of research resources – where to ask live and virtual questions, and details on attending a paid three-day Chinese American Genealogy Conference or joining the free Bay Area Chinese Genealogy Group. Can’t read Chinese? No problem using a Chinese to English translation tool. Discover how the National Archives in San Bruno can help uncover your Chinese ancestors’ interviews at the Angel Island Immigration Station, where 175,000 Chinese immigrants entered the U.S. between 1910 and 1940.

  About The Speaker: Ron Chan

  Ron is a seasoned lecturer on family history documentation best practices, captivating audiences worldwide at genealogy workshops and libraries across the San Francisco Bay Area. As a published genealogy author, he has a passion for storytelling and teaches innovative technologies to bring ancestral tales to life. Ron is the Founder and Executive Director of the Bay Area Chinese Genealogy Group, dedicated to preserving ancestral stories. He is also a Co-Founder of the Chinese American GI Project, ensuring that veterans’ legacies are not lost, forgotten, or ignored. As a CHCP Advisory Board Member, Ron is a contributor to CHCP's Oral History Project. Ron shares with you how to capture and share family struggles of the past so future generations can embrace, remember, and learn from those who came before.

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