The Chinese Culture Center is proud to present One Root: One Love, an exhibition of photos, artifacts and visual impressions from 2011 In Search of Roots Intern’s trip to China.  There will be a ribbon cutting involving important partners who have supported In Search of Roots over the years, followed by the highlight of the afternoon:  the presentations by the Roots participants themselves.

舊金山中華文化中心隆重向您呈現《同根,同心》年展。此展的目的是通過資料，實物和藝術表現方式展現中華文化中心2011年度“尋根之旅”項目的中國行. 剪綵儀式嘉賓將包括常年不懈支持“尋根之旅”項目的各方合作夥伴。剪綵儀式后將進行的是開展慶典的重頭戲：“尋根之旅”學員的報告會.

Exhibition and Presentation: February 18 from 12:30 to 3:00 pm    二月十八日下午12時30分至三時

On display through February 25.

CCC Gallery Hours:
Tuesday – Saturday, 10am – 4pm.

 Students from Starr King Elementary school, a bilingual Mandarin immersion school, visit the CCC Gallery and In Search of Roots Exhibition

Watch the Chinese Culture Center’s In Search of Roots feature on KTVU.

Look for each of our In Search of Roots Interns’ essays in the Sunday Edition of Sing Tao Daily.

The Chinese Culture Center is pleased to present Spring Festival 2012: Year of the Dragon, its annual installation of activities and performances comprising the Bay Area’s largest indoor Chinese New Year celebration.

舊金山中華文化中心舉辦農曆春節新年慶會。這個傳統的一年一度盛會是灣區最大規模的室內慶祝春節活動。慶會由Verizon Wireless公司和富國銀行贊助。慶會設有工藝、遊戲和出售灣區各地藝術家、印刷商和書法家作品以及占算運程的攤位。中華文化中心的｢尋根｣成果展覽也將同時在文化中心畫廊開幕。該畫廊的小賣部有各種應節的本地及各國藝術家的作品出售。在新年慶會期間，文化中心將邀請灣區眾多藝術家和團體進行形式多樣的文藝表演，包括瑞獅、武術、音樂、舞蹈等等。

February 11 from 10am to 3pm
February 12 from 11am to 1pm
二月十一日， 上午十時至下午三時
二月十二日， 上午十一時至下午一時

Crafting with local artists and Chinatown artisans | Games and giveaways | Free entry to the Chinese Culture Center’s In Search of Roots exhibition | Seasonal sales on local and international contemporary artists’ work | Fortune telling with renowned Master Sun | Dance and Musical Performance
*Fortune telling reservations are limited, and are $30 online only. Day-of reservations are $40*

The celebration will feature a day of performances in the CCC Auditorium, showcasing traditional and contemporary Chinese talent from throughout the Bay Area. Noted Lion Dance troupe, the National Chinese Wu Shu Association, will open, followed by a full day of music, dance, and more. MC Mark Zhang hosts performances by:

Activities with Local Artists and Artisans include:

Prints with Niana Liu | Fabric Making with Vivian Truong | Fabric Costumes with Amy Ho | Traditional Paper Cutting with Hou Yumei | Terrarium Construction with Stephanie Lin | Calligraphy with Jacky  Zheng & Carol Koffel | Face Painting with Sophie Zhou |  Fortunetelling with Master Y.C Sun

The Chinese Culture Center’s Spring Festival 2012: Year of the Dragon is Presented by:

From the American Goe Association’s website:

The world’s smartest woman returns to San Francisco for the Twentieth Jujo Jiang Goe Tournament.  In what is often said to be the world’s most difficult game of strategy, continuing to defy computers unlike its eminent partner in strategy games, chess, Rui NaiWei has achieved what no other woman has in any similar intellectual contest.  Already undisputed as the most accomplished woman player in the entire 4,000 year history of the game, Ms Rui astonished the goe world when she became the first woman to reach the highest level of goe rating, 9-Dan.  Although the women earn their ratings playing with men, they had never been able to reach the almost sacred level of 9-Dan.  But Ms Rui shocked the goe world even further in 2000 when she won the most prestigious of Korean goe titles, the Kuksoo.  No woman had ever competed for a major title which included the men, being relgated to separate women’s titles.  Ms Rui’s accomplishment is unduplicated in any similar intellectual contest.  Except of course by herself when she again won a title with the men competing by winning Korea’s Maxim Cup, a title only open to 9-Dan players.

Join us this Saturday and Sunday Jan. 7 and 8 from 9:30am to 6pm for workshops on Goe in the CCC Auditorium. This event is free and open to the public.

CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS

Heritage Tours Curriculum Project

Agency Description:   The Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco is a respected community-based non-profit organization established in 1965 to foster the understanding and appreciation of Chinese and Chinese American art, history, and culture in the United States. The mission of the Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco is to preserve, promote, and influence the course of Chinese and Chinese American culture.

Position description:  The Chinese Culture Center seeks volunteers to develop content about Chinatown’s culture and history that will be presented each year to dozens of visiting school groups through our Heritage Tours. The goals of this project are to:

• Develop tour content that shares Chinatown’s dynamic role within American society and that challenges preconceptions about Chinese Americans
• Connect Chinatown’s history with state educational standards 
• Develop tours that are fun and interesting for kids

Volunteers can be anyone from teens to college students to retirees with a demonstrated passion for Chinese and Chinese American history and culture. Students and educators in Asian or Asian American Studies are welcome, as is anyone who has given serious effort to developing their understanding of Chinese America. The project will take place in three phases. All volunteers will participate in content development, with participation in other phases optional.

Schedule for 2012

• February & March: Content development.

Three or four meetings with research and writing as needed.

• April: Testing and revision. Docent preparation. 

Trial run the on weekends or weekdays, with debrief meetings

• May: Launch new tour.  Lead tours as needed.

Apply: Please email the following by January 14, 2012 to volunteer@c-c-c.org

• Resume
• Summary of your engagement with Chinese and/or Chinese American history and culture, and statement of purpose. 1 page maximum.

CCC Curator and Deputy Director Abby Chen has opened a show in Shanghai. Titled with the Mandarin-English homophone WOMEN我們, meaning both ‘women’ and ‘we,’ the show focuses on works by feminist and gender queer artists, and is one of the first of its kind in Shanghai.

Women 我們 features 13 artists, including Xian Rui 2010′s Stella Zhang and current CCC gallery featured artist Mu Xi, and one group work. On view in Shanghai through January 10 at EMG Gallery, in conjunction with the conference “International Chinese Women and Visual Representation,” held by Fudan University and University of Michigan.

The exhibition received rave reviews from Global Times and East Morning Daily:

  “Extending imagination,” Hu Bei, Drawing Their Own Conclusions, Global Times, 12/25/2011

“展现了女性主义多样的角度和丰富的肌理,” 朱洁树，千面女性 千种主义，东方早报，12/26/11

Opening Night

Dear members and friends,

Thanksgiving is a time of reunion and to renew our commitment to community service.
Your support this year has enabled art and culture to take a pioneering lead in transforming our community as well as in influencing the city’s dynamic art renaissance. We saw unprecedented growth in CCC’s membership, and we served over 33,000 members of the community with our diverse programming. Here are some highlights:

• Attendance for the Chinatown Music Festival exceeded 5,000, with a majority of
• audience members coming from low- and middle-income households.
• We are thrilled that hundreds of Bay Area schoolchildren participated in our Heritage Walk, ensuring that Chinatown takes an important role in our children’s education.
• We are proud to celebrate twenty years of the In Search of Roots program.
• We look forward to the work of our “11/11 Committee” in our newest initiative to support young and emerging artists and community activism.
• Our visual arts programming expanded to the world stage, with Xian Rui 2011’s White Ink exhibition garnering international renown and bringing the cutting edge of contemporary art to Chinatown.

We invite your support to ensure that the Chinese Culture Center will continue to grow with this momentum, to lead efforts to engage youth, to foster community bonds and to contribute to Chinatown’s economic revitalization. It is our goal to nurture the leadership of tomorrow, and to pass on our legacy to the next generation. Your membership and support will make an impact in building a community that values multicultural interaction and social justice.
We are grateful for your encouragement and hope that you will renew your membership today, and to help us achieve our Season of Sharing campaign goal of raising $20,000.
Your contributions can be made online, or mailed to
Chinese Culture Center
750 Kearny St., 3rd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94108

You are also welcome to call us at 986-1822, X 31.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart!

Mabel

親愛的中華文化中心會員、朋友們：

四十六年來，中華文化基金會一直致力於文化和支持藝術、弘揚，並把這個宗旨代代相傳。我的目標是通過藝術來培養我們的新領袖、建設社區和促進華埠的經濟發展。
在今年的｢和諧喜樂｣中華文化中心46週年慶會上，我們對蔡流輪醫生、江孫芸和楊紫燁三位傑出人士分別頒發了回饋社區終生成就獎、弘揚中華文化終生成就獎和藝術傑出成就獎，以表彰他們對中華文化中心以及華人社區的重大貢獻。我們衷心感謝他們的卓越服務，並對他們致以熱烈的祝賀。

今年九月份以來文化中心舉為的週年慶會、華埠音樂節和一系列重大活動都辦得非常成功。2011年各種各樣的活動服務了超過三萬三千人，光是華埠音樂節便有五千餘人參與，其中大部份來自中低收入家庭。我們的｢華埠城中城活動｣吸引了灣區數百名學童參加，使這項活動成為他們學習歷史的一個重要組成部份。我們今年的｢鮮銳｣藝術展已走出舊金山，有了世界性的影響。中華文化成為改變我們這個社區的先驅力量，並大大地豐富了舊金山的城市文化。

培養新領袖、造福社區和促進華埠經濟發展是我們的目標。明年，我們將繼續加強藝術和社會公義的聯繫，通過與其他機構的合作，為社區創造更加輝煌的未來。大家將會看到，在我們充滿活力和發展機遇的社區中，中華文化中心始終是一個朝氣勃發、不斷進步和光彩亮麗的團體。

我代表文化中心董事會及職員在此感謝社區的支持並望予厚望。我希望您們繼續支持， 參加成為文化中心的會員， 並慷慨樂捐， 協助我們的感恩節籌款活動。 我籌款可用支票或信用卡， 請電986－1822。

謹此致謝
鄧式美

 2011年12月10日特賣， 南京祭活動及冬季音樂會

Winter Sale   10 am- 4 pm
In the CCC Shop! Snatch up that painting you’ve been eyeing or pick up holiday gifts, a variety of jewelry, trinkets, books, art, and more! The Gallery and Shop will also be open, featuring our ongoing exhibition Liu Yin: Oh Chinese Boy…Don’t be Ashamed.

Nanking Ji With Bright Sheng 10am
Presented in partnership with the Rape of Nanking Redress Coalition, renowned composer and professor of music Bright Sheng visits CCC with a never before seen audio and speech presentation as part of Nanking Ji, an annual series in remembrance of the victims of the Nanking Massacre in 1937. A musician and John & Catherine MacArthur Genius Fellow, Bright Sheng will perform an original composition. Community leaders and diplomats will offer their thoughts on this 74th anniversary. Prof. Sheng states “The work is written in memory of the victims, not a recreation of the barbarity… but to tell a story from the world of one person who is not only a victim, but also a witness and survivor.” This event is free. Watch a video released by the Coalition here.

Winter Concert 2011
Featuring Melody of China 2:30 pm
購票或其他詳請可至電415 986 1822
The CCC is thrilled to partner with Melody of China for our 2011 Winter Concert! The ensemble specializes in contemporary and traditional guqin music and will be debuting a piece by renowned composer Gang Situ. Join us at 2 pm for a pre-performance discussion with the artists.

Liu Yin, "Embrace", pen, watercolor, paper; 28.5 x 37 cm

The Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco is thrilled to present “11/11! A Celebration of Youth,” an evening event inaugurating the CCC’s Young Artist Series.

Inspired by the first steps toward embarking upon a creative path, 11/11! pays homage to the liberation, anxiety, and artistic potential of youth.
Across Chinese cultures, the date 11/11 is a celebration of youth. Mainland China celebrates the freedom of singledom. In Hong Kong, the date is a celebration of young couples. And Taiwan has taken on a wholly different twist, honoring twins. But all interpretations of this holiday have at their core an honoring of and respect for youth and vitality. This makes the once-in-a-century 11/11/11 a singularly perfect date to inaugurate the Chinese Culture Center’s new initiative to highlight and promote emerging local and international artists. On this night, we will host a party for singles and couples (and even twins!) to rejoice in youthful creativity and energy. The event will honor a young Guangzhou-based artist and her first U.S. exhibition, “Liu Yin: Oh, Chinese Boy… Don’t Be Ashamed…,” alongside Jiang Xueman, a Shanghai artist who reinvents traditional calendars. Liu Yin’s work is now on view in the Chinese Culture Center gallery.

Visitors are invited to come to the Chinese Culture Center Gallery from 5pm to 7pm on Friday 11/11/11 for free refreshments, music, art, and revelry.

Brought to you by the Chinese Culture Center’s 1111 Committee – Matthew Tedford, Emmy Komada, Jenny Leung, YuehYee Thong, and Present Tense Biennial 2013.

The CCC Young Artist Series provides a venue for up and coming contemporary artists to engage our audience through multidisciplinary exhibitions and performances throughout the year. To learn more or become a CCC Young Artist, email galleryshop@c-c-c.org.

“As Chinese celebrations go, 1 1 is a new one, going back 10 or 15 years. But 11/11/2011 will be bigger than all the 1 1′s before and all 1 1′s for 100 years afterward.” – Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle

Jiang Xueman 《平安无事》 2009; 200cmX145cm

中華文化中心揭幕青年藝術家系列展

舊金山-舊金山中華文化中心將隆重舉辦“11/11! A Celebration of Youth,”活動,這場晚會將揭開CCC青年藝術家系列展序幕。這是我們邁向創新之路的第一步，我們將藉11/11！表達對青年一代的思想解放, 憂慮和其藝術潛力關注和敬意。

在華人當代文化中，11/11已儼然成為青年慶祝日。在中國大陸，年輕人在這天慶祝單身的自由。在香港，這是年輕夫婦的節日。台灣則賦予它完全不同的意義，在這天他們為雙胞胎而慶祝。對這個節日的所有不同的解讀其核心都在於對青春和活力的尊重和推崇。因此我們決定在11/11/11這個百年一度的日子里拉開中華文化中心新方向的序幕，在以後的活動裡更加突出和發掘新興的本地和國際藝術家。在這個夜晚，我們將為單身青年和夫婦們（甚至雙胞胎！）舉辦派對，來分享青春的創造力和活力。這次活動將推出一個來自廣州的青年藝術家和她在美國的首次作品展，“劉茵: 噢, 中國男孩…勿羞愧…”。另外，此次活動還將推出一位來自上海的藝術家江雪曼，她改造中國傳統的日曆，在其中加入了新鮮的元素。劉茵的作品現陳列於中華文化中心江可伯畫廊。

來訪者可於11/11/11週五下午五點至七點往中華文化中心畫廊。我們將提供免費茶點，音樂和藝術品以供欣賞。

該派對由中華文化中心11/11委員會舉辦—譚馬修，柯雁秋，梁凱欣，唐月儀，2013現在時雙年會

CCC's 1111 Committee: Emmy, Jenny, YuehYee, and Matthew

Held annually, the CCC’s Winter Concert Series celebrates musical artistry from the Bay Area and around the world. With its promotion of skilled classical, folk and contemporary Chinese music, Melody of China is a leading ambassador of our community, and we are very excited to hold our 2011 show in partnership with them. Join us at 2PM for an intimate talk with the performers and musicians of Melody of China, where you’ll learn more about traditional and contemporary Chinese music and its presence and influence in the Bay Area.

Learn more and listen to Melody of China here.

Saturday, December 10: 2PM-4:30
CCC Auditorium
750 Kearny St. 3rd Floor

Ticket prices include special discounts for seniors, students, and CCC members. We look forward to seeing you there!

The Chinese Culture Center is excited to announce the first U.S. exhibition of Guangzhou-based artist Liu Yin. Liu explores the anxieties and confusions of love, nature, and consumerism in modern life. Her bright and cartoon-like paintings and drawings create an ambiguity around one’s relationship to these sometimes alienating notions. Liu has previously exhibited in China, Italy, Germany, and Sweden. Her exhibition “Liu Yin: Oh, Chinese Boy… Don’t Be Ashamed” opens on October 27 and is on view through December 31. All works are for sale and reasonably priced. From Guangzhou, Liu Lin explores the anxieties and confusions of love, nature, and consumerism in modern life. Her bright and cartoon-like paintings and drawings create an ambiguity around one’s relationship to these sometimes alienating notions. Liu has exhibited in China, Italy, Germany, and Sweden. This is her first show in the United States.

“Liu Yin: Oh, Chinese Boy… Don’t Be Ashamed…” is curated by Jenny Leung and Matthew Harrison Tedford.

The Chinese Culture Center gallery is open from 10am to 4pm, Tuesdays through Saturdays.

無論是大眾媒體乃至商品文化，來自廣州的藝術家劉茵透過模糊與荒謬的黑暗手法反映了現代大都市生活。女學生對愛情的緊張通過素描與油畫是否呈現了真實的痛苦、亦或這只不過是一個十幾歲青少年所自導的滑稽情景喜劇？在這些作品中的“花朵腦袋男孩”可稱之為“情為何物”的美化版本，是只有戀愛中的青少年與電視製片人的腦袋裡能想像出來的事物。然而，從另一個以男孩為主題的作品這兒、我們卻可悲慘地看到開胸剜心的畫面！

大自然似乎與道義之間有著敵對的矛盾。在這系列作品中，枯萎的植物、不祥的魚與孤獨的島所代表的是唯一完全自然的環境。但是，在自然之中卻能夠模糊地發現、唯物主義是沒有緩刑的。消費主義的碎屑產生了一種與現代世界之間不太確定的共生。果汁盒不確定地洩漏著糖精及美味的汁液或者人血。

然而，這對她的環境來說卻又提供了一種脆弱的關係，劉茵的作品並不煽動絕望或恐懼。卡通般的字符與華麗色彩的渲染瀰漫著憂鬱而又溫暖的心。戲劇性的愛情、隔離的自然與異化的商品， 甚至被切斷而丟失的頭顱，透過劉茵的筆觸，都化作了一縷輕快與平易近人。

梁凱欣 與 譚馬修
助理策展人

Preview: “It’ll all be laid out through clever, quirky and cartoonish paintings.” – Lily Ko, SF Station

“Titled ‘Oh, Chinese Boy … Don’t Be Ashamed …,’ it consists of 12 paintings that form a cartoon story of schoolgirl romance.” – Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle

To see Liu Yin’s past work, visit her gallery below:

Find more images like this on Chinese Culture Foundation Artist Network