Asian Community Development Corporation

🔔 Interested in working at ACDC? We’re hiring for TWO full-time positions! ✍️ The Development & Communications Associate will support fundraising and communications by stewarding donor relations, overseeing ACDC’s social media channels, and supporting grants management. 👏 The Events Associate will lead planning and implementation of fundraising, donor cultivation, and program events. 🔗 To learn more and apply, please visit asiancdc.org/careers.

🎬 In August, ACDC hosted its 18th annual @filmsatthegate festival! 🍿Thank you to all who made this event possible! Whether you were a project manager, team captain, volunteer, or simply attended, YOU made this event a success! We’d also like to give a special shout-out to our film curator Jean Lukitsh, @leedanieltranphoto for taking photos, and our event sponsors and supporters @bostonoeoi, @salemfive, @unitedway, @eastwestbank, Cathay Bank Foundation, @teadoboston, and All Channel Films. Films at the Gate is so special because it brings together a community filled with talent. 🐼 Although FATG is over, we still have so many precious memories from the event. Enjoy some of our favorite moments and stay tuned for Films at the Gate 2025! 🎥 Video by Harrison Tran

🎉 A-VOYCE 2024-25 School Year Cycle applications are live from now until Monday, September 23rd!⁠ ⁠ 🤗At A-VOYCE, you will make new friends, gain leadership skills through community organizing and project planning, and learn more about Asian & Asian American identity and history. A-VOYCE is a standout addition to any resume! Plus, all youth completing the program will earn a 500$ stipend!⁠ ⁠ ❓A-VOYCE FAQ:⁠ ⁠ 🎒WHO: All high school-aged youth are invited to apply to A-VOYCE!⁠ ⁠ 📍 WHERE: A-VOYCE has two cohorts, one in Malden and one in Chinatown!⁠ ⁠ ⏰WHEN: A-VOYCE takes place twice a week after school hours from 10/2024 to 5/2025! The Malden cohort meets on Tues/Thurs and Chinatown meets on Mon/Wed.⁠ ⁠ 🔎HOW: To sign up for the Chinatown cohort, visit bit.ly/ctavoyce. For the Malden cohort, visit bit.ly/maavoyce!

🤗 ACDC wants to thank the generous donors who have supported youth programs this year. A-VOYCE alum (now an ACDC intern) Harrison Tran created this short video to share our gratitude and highlight the A-VOYCE Malden event, Seeds of Change, to educate residents about food access and to support more sustainable food consumption and waste practices. This event was organized by youth and made possible by supporters like you. 🤩 ACDC’s programs empower youth to be advocates and community organizers to shape their neighborhoods for and by the community! Contributions support youth skill-building, teaching artists, creating stipends for youth, creating impacts like food justice, organizing the recent Films at the Gate Festival, and more. ✨ In addition to enrichment programs, ACDC offers work experience and professional development opportunities through paid internships to high school and college students. Thank you for continuing to invest in local young leaders. 🔗 To find out more about A-VOYCE, visit asiancdc.org/avoyce

🤔Wondering what Films At The Gate looks like this year? Check out this quick walkthrough by one of our youth Project Managers, Susan! 📽️ There are two more days of Films at the Gate! Come by the Chinatown Gate from 5:30-9:30 PM today and tomorrow! ❗To learn more, visit asiancdc.org/fatg Instrumental: Supernatural-Newjeans

👀 Looking for something to do this weekend? Check out Films At The Gate, a 3-day, youth-led, outdoor film festival from 5:30-9:30 pm in Boston's Chinatown on August 23rd to 25th! 🍿 Enjoy community activities, live performances, and action-packed Kung-Fu movies with the Chinatown community! The best part is that this event is FREE and open to all members of the public— no tickets necessary! 🔗 To learn more, visit asiancdc.org/fatg.

🎉 On August 10, ACDC celebrated the art of lion dance with exciting performances and beautiful art. Thank you to everyone who came! 🌟Everyone had the chance to enjoy Lion Dance performances and participate in a beginner lion dancing workshop at the Hudson Street Stoop by the American Cultural Center (AACC). We are delighted to have everyone try out the lion dance moves! 🦁Ths was a one-day-only solo exhibition of Boston-born and raised artist Kevin Nguyen (@alldumplingnorice), featuring restored historic lion heads and two new original lion heads. The lion heads Kevin restored was displayed for event participants to view up close. We hoped everyone could enjoy viewing the magnificent lion heads up close! 🥰We are grateful to volunteers from AACC who made this event possible! Also shout-out to artist Kevin Nguyen who partnered with ACDC on this event! 📸Photos by Reina Matsumoto.

🫵 What do you know about Chinatown? Here is what attendees who went on ACDC's Chinatown Tour had to say! 🗺️ You too can learn about the history and development of Chinatown, from early immigration to present-day gentrification with ACDC! Register now for ACDC's first public tours happening THIS WEEKEND on August 24th & 25th from 4-5 PM. This month’s tours are in collaboration with Films at the Gate (@filmsatthegate). After the tour, join in on ACDC’s annual FREE 3-day, outdoor film festival, organized by ACDC’s A-VOYCE youth! 🌟 Public tours will be $25 per person and capped at 20 people. Tours are also still available to school groups, nonprofits, organizations, and corporations through October 31st, 2024. ❓ To learn more or book a tour, visit the link in our bio or go to linktr.ee/acdctours.

🎥 Did you know Chinatown was once the home of many movie theaters? 🎞️ During the 70s and 80s, martial arts films were all the rage in Chinatown! These theaters were a big part of Boston's social scene. Residents and folks from all around the Boston area would come together and watch films with their community! However, as home video rentals became more popular, these theaters began to close. 🍿 ACDC's Films At The Gate (FATG) preserves Chinatown's movie theater legacy. This youth-led outdoor film festival brings together the Chinatown community through activities, live performances, and classic kung-fu movies. FATG will be on August 23rd-25th from 5:30-9:30 PM at the Chinatown Gate. 🔗 To learn more, please visit asiancdc.org/fatg.

🎉Great news! On August 6, Governor Healey (@massgovernor) signed the Affordable Homes Act into law! We are thrilled to celebrate the official signing of the Affordable Homes Act and happy to see our administration taking the first steps to address our housing crisis. 🏠This historic act will add $5 billion of resources for affordable housing across MA, as well as several important policy changes that will make creating housing easier so that all residents can have safe and affordable places to call home. 👍ACDC's Executive Director, Angie Lou, had the chance to meet with the Secretary of Housing & Livable Communities Ed Augustus after the signing of the Affordable Homes Act. (2nd photo) 🌟Stay tuned for more updates!f