Lunar New Year 2024 Highlights
Highlight video from SEAC Lunar New Year Celebration.
Cross-Cultural Learning
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Highlight video from SEAC Lunar New Year Celebration.
In Asian communities, adult daycare has been traditionally underutilized in spite of the fact that it has the ability to provide social, psychological and health benefits to seniors and their Read More …
Drivers navigating their way west to east from Broadway toward the lake and visa versa on most of the through streets between Lawrence and Hollywood have noticed they no longer Read More …
This summer the South-East Asia Center – Bridge International School students enjoyed learning about the world around them. A full day curriculum was planned for everyday that involved exploring history, Read More …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Morning of January 12, 2022 47th Ward Alderman Matt Martin delivered in person 2,000 KN95 masks to our Center for our senior services clients and our child care parents. Pictured Read More …
Throughout its 40-year history in the neighborhood, the South-East Asia Center (SEAC) has enjoyed preserving, beautifying, and enhancing the vibrancy of the Uptown-Edgewater neighborhood. In 1981 SEAC (“seek”) moved into Read More …
New Life News Association of Chinese from Indochina 4707 North Broadway, Third Floor, Chicago, IL 60640. (312) 989-6927 January 1985 Volume 2 Number 1 Why Americans Act & Think Strangely Read More …
The South-East Asia Center is providing childcare for essential workers such as those working in healthcare facilities or grocery stores. The fee in April and May for parents earning under Read More …
UPDATE 3/31/2020 : According to the Census Bureau, the deadline to reply to the census has been extended to August 14, 2020. The public is strongly encouraged to respond online. Read More …
It is a good idea to know the aldermen who represent your community. In Chicago, each individual building address is located within one of 50 “wards” and each “ward” is Read More …