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As a heritage school based on the community resources, while we appreciate all generous support from the communities, we also completely understood the value of and responsibility for our return to the community. KKCS has been putting all its efforts to provide high quality of Chinese language and culture education to meet the expectation from the communities and the different needs from our students. Meanwhile, we actively organize and participate in all kinds of activities and events to make our contributions to the community. The following are some activities we have often involved in our community.
Boston Shines
Mayor Menino's year-round neighborhood clean up and community service program, Boston Shines 365, provides the tools and materials to help volunteers successfully complete projects in every neighborhood in Boston. KKCS joined this event every year to help to paint a community center, plant flowers, sweep, rake and pick up trash to make the communities more beautiful.
Annual Respect Elderly Event
To teach our children to respect the elder people, a treasure Chinese traditional culture, KKCS holds an annual respect elderly activity. We either invite the elderly people to come to KKCS or go to the senior nursing house to have a gathering party and art performance to the elderly people. Please click here for the report of the 2009 event.
Community Performances
As the most famous and at the top level of traditional Chinese instrument group in the Greater Boston areas, our dulcimer and drum class has been invited to perform at all kinds of important occasions and made a great success nationally and internationally. The following is the list of performance given by KKCS Dulcimer and Drum Ensemble in 2009-2010 academic year.
2009
August:
1. August 16, the Dulcimer and Dance classes attended the Annual Chinatown August Moon Festival. KKCS sold raffle tickets, and held the drawing.
September:
1. September 9, dulcimer performance for Taiwan Flood Relief Fundraiser, Empire Garden Restaurant.
2. September 19, Drum Performance for Que Shing Chinese Music and Opera Group 70th Anniversary Show, John Hancock Auditorium.
3. September 27, dulcimer performance for Que Shing Chinese Music and Opera Group 70th Anniversary Concert in the Performing Arts Center, KKCS.
October:
1. October 10, drums and gongs performance at Double Ten Celebration, City Hall Plaza.
2. October 28, the Hong Kong Arts and Education Delegation, lead by the Vice President of the Hong Kong Institute of Education, Dr. Chi Cheung Leung, visited KKCS. KKCS preformed dulcimer for the delegation.
3. October 31, dulcimer performance for Beijing Opera Group, Cambridge YMCA.
November:
1. November 20, Dulcimer performance at the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association Annual Conference. American Ballroom, Westin Hotel.
December
1. December 2, drum and dulcimer performance at the Chinese Merchants Association fundraiser, Quincy China Pearl Restaurant.
2010
February:
1. KKCS Chinese Dulcimer Ensemble was invited to perform dulcimer and drum to celebration Chinese New Year for the University of New Hampshire (Feb. 5), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Feb. 18), Tufts Medical Center (Feb. 19), Malden High School (Feb. 20), and Peabody Essex Museum (Feb. 27).
April:
1. April 4, drums and gongs performance, welcome banquet for Mr. Jack Yuan, Representative from the Republic of China.
2. April 29, dulcimer performance, Massachusetts General Hospital fundraising event for Autism, Mandarin Oriental Hotel.
3. April 30, drums and dulcimer performance, Hospitality Night, Simmons College
May:
1. May 10, dulcimer performance, Swearing-in Ceremony for Judge Paul Yee, KKCS PAC and China Pearl Restaurant
2. May 26, Dulcimer and drum performance, dance performance. Greater Boston Chinese Golden Age Center Annual Dinner, Chinese Pearl Restaurant
June:
1. June 5, Drum performance, Northeastern University Family Day, Fenway Park
2. June 12, Dulcimer and drum recital, Performing Arts Center .
In all, like water and fish, KKCS and our community cannot be separated: KKCS is part of community and the community is our supporter and sponsor. In today’s globalization era, our community has been becoming wider and bigger. Even the whole world is becoming a small village. Let’s work together shoulder by shoulder and hand in hand to make our school, our community, our society, our country, our world, and universe more beautiful and peaceful.
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Appreciation from KKCS