On Monday, June 16, the Chicago Chinese Culture & Arts Society was invited to perform at the Chicago Cantonese Association’s founding and first staff inauguration ceremony.

On June 14, 14TH ANNUAL AMEC CONGRESSIONAL GLOBAL CHAMPIONS GALA 2025 was held at the Yellow Box Theater in Naperville, a western suburb of Chicago. Chicago Chinese Culture and Arts Society’s Dance Team was invited to perform the dance “Legend of the Blue Bird.”

Our team was invited to perform the dance “Legend of the Blue Bird,” and we are proud to have taken part in this important global event. We are especially grateful to the AMEC for inviting us to participate and hope that we did justice to their kind invitation.

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Promo of the Event 14th AMEC Global

On JUNE 14, members of the Chicago Chinese Culture & Arts Society performed at AMIGOS DE Gunsaulus 100-Year Anniversary Celebration

May 10th, CCCAS Participated in Asian American, Native American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Celebration

Celebration in Chicago’s Chinatown at Chinatown Square

Wishes everyone a happy Dragon Boat Festival! May 31st, Saturday, CCCAS’s members celebrated the Dragon Boat Festival at McKinley Park.

Spring is here, and the Chinese community in Chicago held a spring banquet to celebrate the beginning of the new year!

The 2025 Asian Lunar New Year celebrations continued with CCCAS participating in a singing performance at the Chicago Lantern Festival Song and Dance Gala on February 12th and on February 16th at the Jaozi Dumpling Banquet held by United Chinese Americans (UCA) at River Trail Middle School in Mount Prospect, IL.
A highlight of the awards presentation was CCCAS President Ye Liu receiving the “Outstanding Community Contribution Award.”

• On February 8, 2025, the 11th day of the Chinese Asian Lunar New Year calendar, the Chicago Chinese New Year Lantern Festival, Temple Fair and Garden Party was held at McKinley Park in Chicago

Organized by the Chicago Chinese Culture Arts Society (CCCAS), MAHA, and the Chicago Park District, with more than 50 associations and institutions, gathered in the park’s auditorium’s.

The website of www.chineseofchicago.com highlighted some photos of the activities that happened at this year’s Chicago Chinese New Year Lantern Festival, Temple Fair, and Garden Party.

USCN News:

2025第三届芝加哥华人春节庙会游园联欢会2月8日隆重登场千人联欢

The 2025 3rd Chicago Chinese Spring Festival Temple Fair held a grand ceremony on February 8th with thousands of guests

• Nearly a thousand people, from all walks of life, including community representatives, government agencies, banks, art groups, and residents of various ethnic groups in the surrounding areas, along with other Chicago residents, attended this celebratory event.
• The many guests gathered together and immersed themselves in the festive holiday atmosphere and indulged in the charm of Chinese culture by making dumplings, glutinous rice balls, rice cakes, folding lanterns, cutting window flowers, painting fans, writing large Chinese characters, origami, paper cutting, kicking shuttlecocks, folk songs and dances, Tai Chi fan performances, and other colorful activities. All participants felt the joy of these holiday season traditions.
• Article from Sally

Enjoy some photos from our event at McKinley Park. Hope you had fun, too!

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On February 1, CCCAS first participated with a singing performance at the Spring Festival Gala for the Year of the Snake organized by Northwestern University Chinese Students and Scholars Association (NUCSSA.)

Later in the day, CCCAS performed a dance routine for the Chinese New Year Showcase event with the RDFZ Art Troupe under the auspices of The Chicago Philharmonic Orchestra and the Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China in Chicago

Our dance team, CCCAS, was very well received at DePaul University’s Chinese Lunar New Year Spring Festival Gala on January 29th. I thought the dance team did an outstanding job.