ACA Detroit

ESL Classes (12:30 pm to 2:30 pm) at the Chinese Community Center
2019-01-31 12:30 - 14:30, 2019-02-07 12:30 - 14:30, 2019-02-14 12:30 - 14:30, 2019-02-21 12:30 - 14:30, 2019-02-28 12:30 - 14:30, 2019-03-07 12:30 - 14:30 UTC | Chinese Community Center, 32585 Concord Drive, Madison Heights, 48071, United States
ACA’s Chinese Community Center offers free ESL classes every Thursday from 10:00 am to 12:00 am (Class 1) and 12:30 am-2:30 pm (Class 2).
Lin Feng teaches the class to improve your English skills. The classes will support proficiency in the English language in reading, writing, listening and speaking.
No registration required, but feel free to call and let us at 248-585-9343 to let us know you’re coming.
Additionally, Chinese hot lunch is available during lunchtime. Over 60 years old: $3; Under 60 years old: $4.

美國華人協會的華人活動中心提供免費的ESL(英語作為第二外語)的課程，每周四，第一次課從上午10點到12點，第二次課從下午12點半到2點半。
Lin Feng教這門課程，為了提高您的英語能力。這門課將幫助您在閱讀、寫作、聽力和口語上熟練地使用英語。
不需要註冊，但是請致電告訴我們，你會來。
此外，午餐時間我們有可口的中餐提供，請致電訂餐。餐費：60歲以上：$3; 60歲以下：$4.

Canton Summit Center- Lunar New Year Party
2019-02-01 10:00 - 12:00 | Canton Summit Center, 46000 Summit Pkwy., Canton, MI 48188,, United States
ACA Canton Center will hold a Canton Lunar New Year Celebration to celebrate Chinese New Year with friends from all walks of life in the community. The celebration contains free lunch, Potluck, Chinese Culture Display, Song and Dance Performances, etc. Companies, individuals and non-profit organizations are welcome to set up a booth to celebrate the festival with us: $100 for business, $50 for individuals, $40 for non-profit organization and $25 for students. For more sponsor options, please feel free to contact us.

Online Registration, the free admission, on Eventbrite, please click here.

To see a series of ACA Lunar New Year Celebration events, including Chinese version, please click here.

ACA’s Digital Inclusion Program Update
2019-02-03 13:00 - 16:00 | Chinese Community Center, 32585 Concord Drive, Madison Heights, 48071, United States
The Association of Chinese Americans (ACA) is partnering with Comcast to offer the Digital Inclusion program to students ages 14-21 who have an interest in digital technology. This will be the seventh year ACA has worked with Comcast and the curriculum will also include courses from EverFi.
There will be one class this year that will meet every Sunday for 3 hours at the Chinese Community Center in which the tentative start date and time is Sunday, October 28th from 1-4 pm.
The program will run throughout the school year and will end in May 2019 with the tentative graduation day on Saturday, June 8th. The program is limited to 20 students and participants need to also provide a minimum of 50 hours of community service in order to graduate from the program.
The program will focus on:
– Leadership and diversity
– Personal development
– Workforce development
– Financial literacy
– Digital literacy and responsibility
– Hardware and networks
– Media production
– Teaching and facilitation
– Entrepreneurship
Participants who complete and graduate from the program will receive their own personal computer and program certificate along with EverFi certificates.
To register or for more information, please contact David Liou at dliou@acaccc.org.

Computer Skills Improvement Classes (1 pm to 3 pm) at Chinese Community Center
2019-02-04 13:00 - 15:00, 2019-02-11 13:00 - 15:00, 2019-02-18 13:00 - 15:00, 2019-02-25 13:00 - 15:00, 2019-03-04 13:00 - 15:00 | Chinese Community Center, 32585 Concord Drive, Madison Heights, 48071, United States
Computer skills 计算机技能课程：2019年 1月7日-4月29日，每周一，下午1点-3点（关于ESL 课程，请点击查看）
上课地点：美华协会活动中心 32585 Concord Drive, Madison Heights MI 48071
课程目的是通过课程培训，使妇女能拥有更强的生活工作技能，提高独立生活能力，避免成为家庭暴力受害者。
记得尽早报名因课程很受欢迎, 更是要先腾出您的资源和时间来改善或更新您的生活和/或工作技能 !
有关详细信息或任何问题，请参阅海报信息。
注册请致电：248-585-9343。

Computer Skills Improvement Classes: 1/7/2019 to 4/29/2019, every Monday, from 1 pm to 3 pm.
Address: Chinese Community Center 32585 Concord Drive, Madison Heights MI 48071
The aim of the course is to improve women’s living and working skills so that they will have strong and independent living skills and avoid becoming victims of domestic violence.
This series of classes is very popular with the public, please spend your precious time to improve and update your life and working skills.
For more details or any questions, please review info from the fryer.
Registration at phone number: 248-585-9343.

ESL Classes at the Detroit Service Center
2019-02-05 10:30 - 12:00, 2019-02-12 10:30 - 12:00, 2019-02-19 10:30 - 12:00, 2019-02-26 10:30 - 12:00, 2019-03-05 10:30 - 12:00 | Detroit Service Center, 4750 Woodward Ave., Ste. 211 , Detroit, 48201, MI, United States
ACA’s Detroit Service Center offers a free ESL class every Tuesday from 10:30am-12:00pm.
Stanley Mosley, a long time ACA volunteer, known as Mo Lao-shi (莫老师) to his students, teaches the class using Chinese and English. The class emphasizes basic, conversational English and employs a variety of fun and varied topics to stimulate discussion and encourage in-class practice. Topics covered thus far in 2018 have included visiting the doctor, international travel, and dreams! Mr. Mosley gears his teaching especially to the seniors who frequent the center, but any and all age groups are welcome! The class goal is to expose students to new words and phrases that are useful for every-day life.
No registration required, but feel free to call and let us at 313.871.1790 to let us know you’re coming.
Additionally, Chinese hot lunch is available after class each week. Over 60 years old: $3 ; Under 60 years old: $4.

Detroit Service Center- Lunar New Year Open House (Reschedule) -- 美华协会底特律服务中心农历新年开放日 (重订时间)
2019-02-05 11:00 - 13:00 | Detroit Service Center, 4750 Woodward Ave., Ste. 211 , Detroit, 48201, MI, United States
由于本周三极寒天气，原定于本周三，1月30日的美华协会底特律服务中心的农历新年开放日将推迟到2月5日周二上午11点到下午1点。望请原本计划参加活动的朋友互相告知。
美华协会底特律服务中心农历新年开放日是本协会多年以来的一个传统活动，向底特律中城区域社区展示中国文化，庆祝中国新年的活动。活动中将有免费中式午餐，书法以及文化展示，底特律华人历史展示，水饺展示等活动。欢迎各界朋友参加支持美华协会的底特律服务中心农历新年开放日活动！共同传递展示优秀的中华新年文化！
Due to the extremely cold weather on Wednesday, the ACA Detroit office Lunar New Year Open House scheduled for this Wednesday, January 30 will be postponed to next Tuesday, February 5, from 11:00 am to 1 pm. We appreciate that the friends who planned to participate in the event will inform and remind each other.
The ACA Detroit Service Center Lunar New Year Open House has been held for many years by the Association of Chinese Americans. It presents Chinese culture to the Detroit Midtown and celebrates the Lunar New Year. There will be free Chinese lunches, calligraphy and cultural displays, the Detroit Chinese history show, dumpling cuisine and displays, and other fun activities. ACA welcomes friends from all walks of life in the community to participate and support and share the joy with us!

ACA will provide a free Chinese New Year Lunch, decorations and a Chinese Culture Display, and Chinese calligraphy and bookmark booths. Free and open to all community residents, visitors, or those who work in Detroit. Please invite your friends to come and experience New Year vibes.

Online Registration, the free admission, on Eventbrite, please click here.

To see a series of ACA Lunar New Year Celebration events, including Chinese version, please click here.

ESL Classes (10:00 am to 12:00 am) at the Chinese Community Center
2019-02-07 10:00 - 12:00, 2019-02-14 10:00 - 12:00, 2019-02-21 10:00 - 12:00, 2019-02-28 10:00 - 12:00, 2019-03-07 10:00 - 12:00 | Chinese Community Center, 32585 Concord Drive, Madison Heights, 48071, United States

2019 ACA Lunar New Year Banquet - Golden Harvest Restaurant
2019-02-09 17:00 - 21:00 | Golden Harvest Restaurant, 6880 E. Twelve Mile Rd., Warren, 48092, United States
Check-in starting at 5PM, the evening will include an authentic, 10-course gourmet Chinese dinner, entertainment and performances, silent auctions including Delta airline international round-trip tickets, jewelry, art works etc. Admission ticket price Members: $50; General: $60; Patron: $100; Table of ten: $500; Community/non-profit organizations: $500/table; Corporate sponsorship: $750/table. We invite all community members and supporting organizations to purchase tickets and join in the celebration for a strong built Chinese Americans community! For more sponsor options, please feel free to contact us.

Online Registration, the free admission, on Eventbrite, please click here.
To see a series of ACA Lunar New Year Celebration events, including Chinese version, please click here.

ACA Lunar New Year Lantern Festival
2019-02-16 11:00 - 15:00 | Chinese Community Center, 32585 Concord Drive, Madison Heights, 48071, United States
ACA will hold a grand Lantern Festival at the Chinese Community Center in Madison Heights, which will be featured with fun New Year games, New Year couplets writing, New Year handcrafting and face-painting, food and snacks making. No admissions required but registration needed. Come here with your family for a joyful Lunar New Year weekend filled with delicious food and amazing performances! In addition, collaborating with the volunteer team of Wayne State University School of Medicine, Free health screen for the community will be provided. Contact ACA if you would like to set a booth in this event, food and handcrafts preferred. Price of each booth: $100 for business, $50 for individuals, $40 for non-profit organizations and $25 for students.

Online Registration, the free admission, on Eventbrite, please click here.

To see a series of ACA Lunar New Year Celebration events, including the Chinese version, please click here.

Macomb Center- Lunar New Year Celebration
2019-02-22 11:00 - 13:00 | Macomb Center, 21885 Dunham Rd, Clinton Twp, MI 48036,, United States
ACA Macomb Center associated with Macomb County will hold this event, featured with various performances, delicious Chinese food, Chinese culture display, and free health screen, which is supported by the volunteer team of Wayne State University of Medicine. Community residents are welcome to join. The celebration open booths for companies, individuals and non-profit organizations. Price for a booth: $100 for business, $50 for individuals, $40 for non-profit organizations and $25 for students. For more sponsor options, please feel free to contact us.

Online Registration, the free admission, on Eventbrite, please click here.
To see a series of ACA Lunar New Year Celebration events, including Chinese version, please click here.

Asian Anti-violence Community Discussion Meeting
2019-02-23 15:00 - 17:00 | Chinese Community Center, 32585 Concord Drive, Madison Heights, 48071, United States
On February 23, Saturday, from 3PM to 5PM, ACA will hold the first Asian anti-violence community discussion meeting at Chinese Community Center. The event will be supported by the Healthy Asian American Program at the Eastern Michigan University. The main purpose of this community discussion meeting is to understand the domestic violence, abuse, etc. of the Asian community and conduct a certain degree of investigation. This will further benefit and develop the Asian community mental health services and humanities services.
ACA is planning to recruit about 10-15 volunteers, especially those who are or have suffered from domestic violence, bullying, abuse, cold violence, and limited life or financial freedom, to participate this meeting. At the same time, this seminar also welcomes enthusiastic volunteers who know or know that their friends are suffering from domestic violence. This discussion will be conducted anonymously and the discussion will not have any impact on the current family situation. In addition, all participants will receive a cash gift card for their volunteering efforts.
For registration and more details, please contact: Kaikai Chen, Program Manager for Community Health, at 248-585-9343.

Last Boat Out of Shanghai -- A talk and book signing by Helen Zia
2019-02-24 13:00 - 16:00 | Chinese Community Center, 32585 Concord Drive, Madison Heights, 48071, United States
By Helen Zia
Ballantine Hardcover
ISBN 9780345522320
eISBN 9780525618867
On Sale 1/22/19
Book order is $25 per copy. Limited copies are available. Come early and get yours counted!
“Last Boat out of Shanghai is based on the dramatic, real-life stories of a generation caught up in the mass rush out of Shanghai in the wake of China’s 1949 Communist Revolution, with startling parallels to the struggles faced by emigrants today.
As China’s richest, most modern and westernized city, Shanghai was home to sophisticated intellectuals, entrepreneurs, and a thriving middle class when Mao’s proletarian revolution emerged victorious from the long civil war. Terrified of the horrors the Communists would wreak upon their lives, citizens of Shanghai who could afford to flee in every direction. Seventy years later, the last generation to fully recall one of the most tumultuous events of the twentieth century have opened their story to Chinese American journalist Helen Zia. From these moving accounts, she weaves the story of four young Shanghai residents who wrestled with the decision to abandon everything for an uncertain life as refugees in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the U.S.”
More info is available with advanced reviews from Amy Tan, Gish Jen, Lisa See, Stanford Prof Gordon Chang and Harvard Prof. Elizabeth Perry at www.helenzia.com and https://www.amazon.com/Last-Boat-Out-Shanghai-Revolution/dp/034552232X/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
About Helen Zia:
Helen Zia is the author of Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People, a finalist for the prestigious Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize and referred to by President Bill Clinton in two separate speeches in the Rose Garden. She coauthored, with Wen Ho Lee, My Country Versus Me, which reveals what happened to the Los Alamos scientist who was falsely accused of being a spy for China in the “worst case since the Rosenbergs.” She was Executive Editor of Ms. Magazine and is a founding board co-chair of the Women’s Media Center. Her articles, essays and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, books and anthologies, receiving awards for her ground-breaking stories.
The daughter of immigrants from China, Helen has been outspoken on issues ranging from human rights and peace to women’s rights and countering hate violence and homophobia. Her work on the 1980s Asian American landmark civil rights case of anti-Asian violence is featured in the Academy Award-nominated documentary, Who Killed Vincent Chin? and she was profiled in Bill Moyers’ PBS series, Becoming American: The Chinese Experience. In 2008 Helen was a Torchbearer in San Francisco for the Beijing Olympics amid great controversy; in 2010, she was a witness in the federal marriage equality case decided by the US Supreme Court. Helen is a board co-chair emerita of the Women’s Media Center; she received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the Law School of the City University of New York for bringing important matters of law and civil rights into public view.
She is a Fulbright Scholar and a graduate of Princeton University’s first coeducational class. She attended medical school but quit after completing two years, then went to work as a construction laborer, an autoworker, and a community organizer, after which she discovered her life’s work as a writer.
To see advanced Praise and Reviews for Last Boat out of Shanghai, please click here.

16th Annual APACC East West Business Connection
2019-03-06 09:30 - 15:30 | Laurel Manor 39000 Schoolcraft Livonia, MI 48150, Laurel Manor 39000 Schoolcraft Livonia, MI 48150,, United States
(Click the flyer to see 2018 participating buyers and suppliers)
This global supplier diversity matchmaking event attracts nearly 350 attendees including more than 50 Corporate buyers who will meet one-on-one with minority business owners (W/MBEs) throughout the Midwest based specific procurement needs.
Venue:
Laurel Manor
39000 Schoolcraft
Livonia, MI 48150
Date & Time:
Wednesday, March 6, 2019
9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Cost:
Member Ind. Registration: $80.00
Future Member Ind. Registration: $105.00
Member Exh Table (Incl 2 Reg): $325.00
Future Member Exh Table (Incl 2 Reg): $450.00
For Sponsorship opportunities, please contact Alysia Green at alysia@apacc.net
To attend as a Buyer, please contact Sarah Lalone at sarah@apacc.net
To register, please click here.
