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Summer Activities 2025 Ages 5 to 12
Bridge International School – Chicago SUMMER FUN For Full Information about Summer Fun 2025 or to ENROLL NOW Call (773) 989-7433 Understanding the World Around Us Providing a Global Vision Read More …

Mothers Day Luncheon Celebration 2025
Video highlights of Golden Diners and senior services celebration for Mothers Day. Children prepared special handmade cards to share with guests.

Uptown Lunar New Year Parade 2025
South-East Asia Center students, staff and parents at Chicago Uptown Lunar New Year Parade 2025 Photos: Anelyn Jablo, Erik Peterson, Francoise Le.

Highlights of Lunar New Year 2025 Year of the Snake Celebration
Lunar New Year Celebration—Year of the Snake Saturday, February 1, 2025 11:30 AM Furama Restaurant, 4936 N. Broadway, Chicago Masters of Ceremonies: Mr. Mike Blasi, Dr. Jili Sun and Ms. Read More …

Winter Solstice Celebration 2024
Winter solstice celebrations have a rich history that spans thousands of years and various cultures around the world. The winter solstice is an astronomical event marking the shortest day and Read More …

Article I – Celebrating Diversity or Celebrating Commonalities
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
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
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 V Small-Picture Dangers, Big-Picture Benefits
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 …

Golden Diners at South-East Asia Center
The Golden Diners Program offers older adults (60 years of age and older) and their spouses of any age, an opportunity to have a healthy, nutritious meal each day while Read More …

Jewel-Osco Assists SEAC with COVID Shots
South-East Asia Center (SEAC) hosted a vaccine clinic at the end of September that served about 95 community and team members. The number of people coming in for vaccines was Read More …

Coalition for Limited English Speaking Elderly Celebrates 35 Years
In 1989 Peter Porr and San O were co-founders, along with several other leaders of ethnic organizations, who created The Coalition of Limited English Speaking Elderly (CLESE). The founders realized Read More …

Mother’s Day Luncheon Celebration 2024
Community seniors gathered to enjoy a delicious traditional style Chinese meal with chicken, shrimp, bok choy and mushrooms at the South-East Asia Center Golden Diners luncheon on Broadway and Winona. Read More …

Lunar New Year 2024 Highlights
Highlight video from SEAC Lunar New Year Celebration.

Ainslie Viaduct Demolition
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 …

Thank You From PreK Parent
Dear Ms Anelyn, Ms. Dana, Ms. Janet, Ms Xiaomin, Ms. Lilia, Ms. Denise, M. Uke, Ms Ariana and all the staff at the SEAC PreK classroom, Thank you for preparing Read More …

Summer Fun and Learning at Millennium Park
Children ages 6 to 12 from our Bridge International School summer program enjoyed a full day trip to Chicago’s downtown Millennium Park escorted by SEAC staff, parents and volunteers. This Read More …

ESL Calendar April 2023
Calendar of scheduled activities for ESL Students. Download PDF version here.

Fun Family Reading Event
Encouraging KINDNESS through READING at a Fun Family Reading Event Parents brought their children ages 2 through 12 years old to read and enjoy Cross-Cultural GAMES & ACTIVITIES. The event Read More …