Austin Chinese-American Network partners with volunteers to donate meals to homeless during pandemic – on KVUE News
AUSTIN, Texas — Austin Chinese-American Network (ACAN) Vice President Hugh Li said the organization has donated about 1,500 meals to homeless communities in the past two weeks. “Food is a huge part of our culture and it is also a way for us to show our love and our care to people around us – friends, neighbors,”…
ACAN In Action – COVID-19 Relief Effort April 1, 2020
Serious Work on April Fool’s Day Today we set out to help LifeWorks Austin whose young residents are experiencing medical, emotional and economic vulnerability as a result of #Covid-19. 3 ACAN volunteers, partnering with a local Chinese restaurant House of Three Gorges (http://www.houseofthreegorgestx.com/, 三峡人家), delivered 40 freshly made Chicken Fried Rice meals and >40 homemade…
ACAN In Action – COVID-19 Relief Effort March 29, 2020
Defeat the Hunger, Defeat the Virus Camp Abbott, by 183 and Montopolis, is now a small tent city on a 5-acre tract housing about 200 homeless people. Managed by Texas Department of Public Safety and ATX HELPS, people here are experiencing significantly more hardships due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The coronavirus has not only brought…
ACAN In Action – COVID-19 Relief Effort March 27, 2020
ACAN and 优品教育(Premier Education Partners, www.premier-edu.com ) COVID-19 Relief team calls for the Austin community to join us at Miles for Lives! Jog-a-Thon ACAN has been organizing many Covid-19 relief efforts.
ACAN In Action – COVID-19 Relief Effort March 26, 2020
We are all in this together 💕💕 After making 320 homemade meals for downtown shelters on Tuesday, today we took on a smaller but as critical a job: delivering meals to Youth experiencing homeless LifeWorks Austin ❤️. We thought the youth might like pizzas & hot dogs better: so that was what we did. But…
ACAN In Action – COVID-19 Relief Effort March 25, 2020
KIND AND GENEROUS – Part II Covid-19 is hitting all of us really hard, but it is hitting the underprivileged groups in Austin Metro many times worse. Providing daily meals to the homeless shelters housing >2000 people throughout the City has become an urgent need. Answering desperate calls from agencies and community groups, ACAN and…
ACAN In Action – COVID-19 Relief Effort March 22, 2020
In this worst of times of Covid-19 pandemic, what exactly are “our capacities to be kind and generous, and to see beyond ourselves and our own interests”- Lawrence S. Bacow? ACAN’s answer: a lot.
ACAN In Action – Covid-19 Relief Effort March 20, 2020
Harvard President Lawrence S. Bacow offered these words to his students as they vacated campus last week: “…COVID-19 will test our capacities to be kind and generous, and to see beyond ourselves and our own interests, … May we all proceed with wisdom and grace.” Those are powerful words, and here is an example of…
PRESS RELEASE: 2019-nCoV and ACCF2020
By now, we are sure everyone is very much tuned in to the public health emergency that is engulfing China, and to a lesser degree, yet increasingly, the rest of the world. In the past couple of weeks, we have witnessed with a heavy heart a huge swath of Central China locked down, impacting tens of millions of people during what is traditionally the most festive and most intimate time of the year. From a distance of thousands of miles, we can still acutely feel the worries, the pains, and the desperations of our families, friends, and fellow countrymen across the ocean.
ACAN Member Holiday Fundraising Drive ACAN会员年终筹款活动
Dear ACAN members, It is that time of the year, finally, after a long and brutal Texas summer that I thought was going to go on forever. Roast turkey and pumpkin pie, jingle bells and mistletoes – yes indeed, it’ll soon be the holiday season once again. Thanks to the hard work and dedication of…
ACAN families enjoyed camping workshop at Inks Lake State Park
[Noah Liu] Austin Chinese-American Network partnered with Texas Outdoor Family, a program under Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to host a private camping workshop for members on 9/7-8 at Inks Lake State Park. Our 18 participating families learned important camping and outdoor skills such as setting up a campsite, building a fire, and cooking outdoors. Participants also had the chance to go kayaking, hiking, fishing, stargazing and geocaching within the park. Our families all enjoyed the event greatly, especially the children! We hope that we can organize a similar event sometime in the future.
PRESS RELEASE – Peking Opera
Two special performances of the Taipei Li-Yuan Peking Opera Theatre and Maestro Bao-Chun Li are proudly presented by Buddha’s Light International Association, the Foundation for Chinese Cultural Heritage, the C. F. Koo Foundation, and the Austin Chinese-American Network
Community Presence
ACAN member CJ’s (a.k.a. Earthworm) presence in our community is bigger than life! She is a person with one of the biggest heart (for people in need) that I know of. With an incredible amount of energy, she marches on and, along the way, gathers a big crowd with her to serve the community. Here…
First ACAN Member Meeting Observation
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First 2019 ACAN Board Meeting Highlight
-By Michelle Bao On April 24, 2019, ACAN President Peter Chao lead the first board meeting in 2019 at his residence. He opened the meeting by summing up ACAN’s achievement in 2018. He then continued by sharing his vision for the future. According to him, ACAN has grown from a small Non- governmental Organization (NGO)…
20th Annual Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Cultural Month
On May 1st, proudly representing Austin Chinese-American Network (ACAN) the Performing Arts Group (PAG) helped kick off the celebration of Asian American Heritage Month organized by Asian-American Employee Network (AAEN) at the City of Austin.
华盟摄影爱好者的新春’’大餐’’
撰稿 英文/许瑾 中文/明清摄影 华盟摄影组 奥市华盟于3月6日在The Heritage at Hunter Chase的活动中心举办了一场摄影专业讲座。这次讲座讨论了单反镜头的分类和参数，并专题讲解了花卉摄影及微距镜头的应用。大约有30多名摄影爱好者参加了讲座活动，其中不乏摄影初学者和老把式。