Chinese Culture Connection

📁 CCC ARCHIVE ｜ No.02 · 1987-1988
Forty years ago, our founder and the sisters of the Songzhu (Pine and Bamboo) Sisters Association brought a whole China Day to a Massachusetts classroom.
"Who says the Chinese are just a loose pile of sand?" they asked.

#华夏文化协会 #松竹姐妹会

🗳️ Know your candidates for the Fifth Middlesex District State Senate race — Malden, Melrose, Reading, Stoneham, Wakefield, and Wi******er!

Attend the Online Candidate Forum hosted by Chinese Culture Connection on Wednesday, August 19, from 6:30 to 8:30 PM via Zoom.

Scan the QR code or visit bit.ly/4wYDVyx to register.

Huge thank you for our partners at Democracy Hubs, Mass Senior Action Council, MassVOTE, Mystic River Watershed Association, Malden Safe Streets, Urban Media Arts - UMA, Pride in Malden, Massachusetts Voter Table, American Association for Arab Women (AAAW), Engage Malden, and Malden Jewish Alliance - the real one.

🌟 Seniors, it's your time to shine! 🌟 Our Annual Healthy Senior Celebration returns on Saturday, August 22nd (10:30 AM–12:30 PM) at the Malden Senior Center — and we're looking for performers! 🎤💃🎻

Sing, dance, play an instrument, read a poem — every talent and every passion is welcome on our stage. 🧡 Come share your joy with the community!

📩 Ready to perform? Email [email protected] or scan the QR code to register.
👉 Swipe to relive the magic from last year! ✨

📁 CCC ARCHIVE ｜ No.01 · 1986
Opening our archive with a 1986 exhibition of Qing Dynasty embroidered purses. 🐲
翻开华夏文化协会四十年旧档案的第一页：一场清代刺绣荷包展。

Creativity · Storytelling · Family

So many precious family stories were preserved at our One Minute Family Story Collage workshop: learning to ride a bike for the first time with mom 🚲, dressing up for Malden's Gaming District parade, exploring caves with dad, fun visits with grandparents in Canada 🇨🇦, a love of strawberries 🍓, and several volumes of "how much I love my mom and dad" ❤️

A huge thank-you to Sharon Santillo for leading the workshops!

Want an adult session of storytelling and collage? Comment below! 👇

Funded in part by the Malden Community Connections Grant to bring the people of our community together.

✍️ Pick a family story: perhaps a trip, a holiday, a sleep-over, any shared adventure and make a small storybook about it.

✂️ In this relaxed, family-friendly workshop led by artist Sharon Santillo, you'll turn a one-minute family story into a small collage keepsake to take home. All materials provided — feel free to bring a few photos to include in your collage!

🌟 Bonus: Sharon is bringing a typewriter, so you can type out your very own title, letter by letter.

RSVP requried: bit.ly/44JxSb6
Two sessions avaliable.

Our youth leaders showed up in full force to support, connect, and protect our local community at the recent Exploring Malden River event! From civic engagement, problem gambling prevention, mental health awareness, check-in, children's activities, and so much more.

🗣️ One of these student volunteers shared their experience from the weekend:
"By utilizing my multilingual skills while doing table outreach and event support, I was able to communicate efficiently and effectively. By doing so, I made community members feel more comfortable—especially those whose first language wasn't English."

✨ Want to get involved? If you are a high schooler or a parent/caregiver, reach out to Haley at [email protected] for more info!

Founded in 1985, Chinese Culture Connection (CCC) has spent over four decades connecting cultures and building community. In 1999, we put down roots in Malden, and we've been growing alongside this city and its community ever since.

Thanks to the support of the Malden Community Connections Grant, we've had the chance to reopen CCC's archives — revisiting old photos, documents, and the many small moments that make up our story. And we'd love to share that journey with you, the community that's walked alongside us all these years.

Over the coming weeks, we'll be sharing:
📸 Historic photos from our archives
📂 Documents and records from years past
💬 Stories of connection, culture, and community

We hope you'll follow along as we look back on where we came from — and forward to all that's ahead. 🌱

Special thanks to Lu Xi for all her help scanning and sorting through our archives!