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About Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco
CCC’s policies are driven by our deep commitment to racial justice rooted in the organization’s and our peoples’ experiences with xenophobia and racism, as well as our community’s mobilizations against those forces. We were founded as a cultural anchor in Chinatown by Chinese American activists coming out of the civil rights movement in order to combat inequity by transforming dominant and regressive narratives about our community.
Our immediate mission is focused on Chinese diasporic communities, and because of the activist history through which we were founded, we make connections between that immediate root and pan-ethnic Asian American communities and in solidarity with other communities of color. While a third of San Francisco is Asian American, because of funding inequities and white supremacist culture, there are still relatively few artistic opportunities to tell our community’s stories; which in turn means there are few narratives that connect Asian American experiences to struggles for justice and the stories of people of color more broadly.
Under the aegis of the Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco, Chinese Culture Center (CCC) is one of the leading and most prominent cultural and arts institutions in the city of San Francisco.
The mission of the CCC is dedicated to elevating underserved communities and giving voice to equality through education and contemporary art.
Founded in 1965, Chinese Culture Foundation opened its primary program site, Chinese Culture Center, in 1973. Our work is based in Chinatown and San Francisco’s open and public spaces, and other art institutions.
In 2014, CCC opened 41 Ross, an experimental community art space located in one of the most historic alleyways in Chinatown.
CCC has five decades of experience embedded in the community leading complex public art projects and events supported by Grants for the Arts, San Francisco Arts Commission, the SF Municipal Transportation Agency, among others. Recently, the CCC was selected for the prestigious “Our Town” grant funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.
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(415) 986-1822