South-East Asia Center

Lunar New Year Parade Highlights 2023

Posted onJanuary 29, 2023February 5, 2023

South-East Asia Center joined other community groups, friends and family to celebrate the Year of the Rabbit (for Chinese) and the Cat (for Vietnamese) in the 2023 Argyle Street Lunar Read More …

Family Resource Event

Posted onJanuary 21, 2023January 21, 2023

McCutcheon Elementary School hosted a pop-up Family Resource Event Friday, January 20th to support students in temporary living situations. Families experiencing homelessness were invited to learn about resources needed to Read More …

Emergency Mortgage Assistance

Posted onJanuary 12, 2023January 12, 2023

Eligibility Requirements: The homeowner must have experienced a COVID-19-related hardship after January 21, 2020. The homeowner must be delinquent on mortgage, property taxes, and/or condo association fees. The homeowner must Read More …

Chicago 48th Ward Aldermanic Forum

Posted onJanuary 9, 2023January 9, 2023

Ten candidates competing to replace Harry Osterman as Chicago Alderman for the 48th Ward, which includes parts of the Andersonville, Edgewater and Uptown neighborhoods, gathered to provide their point-of-view regarding Read More …

Winter Solstice Luncheon 2022 With 48th Ward Candidates

Posted onDecember 24, 2022December 24, 2022

Two 48th Ward aldermanic candidates Larry Svabek and Roxanne Volkmann joined the Golden Diners Winter Solstice Luncheon December 21,2022 at South-East Asia Center, 5120 N. Broadway, Chicago. Luncheon sponsors were Read More …

Thanksgiving Luncheon with 48th Ward Candidates

Posted onNovember 26, 2022November 29, 2022

Four 48th Ward aldermanic candidates introduced themselves while visiting The Golden Diners Thanksgiving Luncheon at the South-East Asia Center, 5120 N. Broadway, Chicago, November 23,2022. Luncheon sponsors were Tai Nam Read More …

5120 Broadway Building History

Posted onOctober 1, 2022November 26, 2022

The South-East Asia Center building at 5120 N. Broadway is one of the most architecturally interesting and unusual in the neighborhood with it’s stone detail and rooftop turret. Currently this Read More …

LIHEAP 2022 has begun

Posted onSeptember 20, 2022September 26, 2022

The staff at South-East Asia Center ready to help with applications for the annual low energy assistance program. Click here for details.

Mid-Autumn Festival South-East Asia Center Chicago 2022

Posted onSeptember 11, 2022September 11, 2022

Many cultures around the world celebrate the harvest period. Seniors at South-East Asia Center celebrated a Mid-Autumn Festival luncheon on September 9,2022. SEAC Director San O explained that this holiday Read More …

Your Childcare Choices

Posted onAugust 24, 2022November 26, 2022

DAYCARE * PRESCHOOL * AFTER-SCHOOL * ALL DAY SUMMER & HOLIDAYS Preparation for College and Life Balanced academics (lessons in science, math + human/social sciences important for life skills, business, Read More …

Preschool Graduation Summer 2022 | Bridge International School

Posted onAugust 23, 2022September 11, 2022

Golden Diners Father’s Day Celebration

Posted onJune 20, 2022July 8, 2022

48th Ward Alderman Harry Osterman, joins Theresa Mah, State Rep from the second district, together with State Rep candidates for the 13th District Hoan Huynh and Eileen Dordek Friday, June Read More …

Article I – Celebrating Diversity or Celebrating Commonalities

Posted onMay 22, 2022November 26, 2022

Most of us have grown up hearing, teaching, and learning to celebrate diversity. This now fashionable conventional wisdom grew out of the rebellious 60’s and early 70’s. We rebels, myself Read More …

Article II Zero-sum or Positive-sum: Group vs. Self-pride

Posted onMay 21, 2022November 26, 2022

We humans have divided ourselves into groups throughout history and around the world. Good start – we could better raise families, hunt, protect from animals, divide responsibilities, specialize, do big Read More …

Article III Beyond Tourist Approach to Deeper Understanding

Posted onMay 19, 2022November 26, 2022

Ethnic fests may be fun, appetizing, and entertaining. But sharing ethnic foods, music, dance, and costumes breaks few cross-cultural barriers. It creates few jobs, improves few schools, and evaporates few Read More …

Article IV Multi-cultural or Cross-cultural Perspectives

Posted onMay 18, 2022November 26, 2022

A first suggestion is to switch our terminology from multicultural to cross-cultural. The new adjective must go with an action. This action, I call “bridge-building.” Putting two ethnic groups together, Read More …

Article V Small-Picture Dangers, Big-Picture Benefits

Posted onMay 17, 2022November 26, 2022

When we take a big picture rather than focusing on one race, ethnicity, continent, or period of history, we find that deeper down we have common histories. Expanding our everyday Read More …

Article VI How Religious and Hero Holidays Can Bring Us Together

Posted onMay 16, 2022November 26, 2022

Holiday celebration can be unifying or inadvertently divisive. We all celebrate holidays for the same reasons. We celebrate spring, harvest, or heroes, for example. On the other hand, celebrating ethnic Read More …

Article VII STEM and Cross-cultural Insensitivity. Alternatives

Posted onMay 16, 2022November 26, 2022

Educators possess prodigious pedagogical tools to teach pure and applied sciences. However, despite our ostensibly best efforts, schools are graduating a mixed bag of good and bad apples. We graduate Read More …

Article VIII Do Schools Promote Cross-cultural Insensitivity? Alternatives?

Posted onMay 13, 2022November 26, 2022

Despite our best efforts, including those of us in the progressive 60’s to 70’s, hippies, teachers, preachers, police, and human rights advocate protesters have obviously still a long way to Read More …