Community Living Campaign

Cultivating connections to help seniors and people with disabilities age and thrive at home.

Cultivating connections to help seniors and people with disabilities age and thrive at home.

Events & Celebrations

CLC Does Carnival in the Mission

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It as a grand cultural celebration and CLC was an active part of it this year, thanks to a great team of folks lead by Miguel Hurtado & Marie Jobling.  Thanks go out to Yvan Torres, Maia Veres, Connie Adachi, Molly Hankwitz, Olivia Franco, Mark Huynh, Paul Hickman, Jennifer Walsh, Betty Traynor, Alan Lam, Robin Nasatir & Jon, Laura Atkins, Wanda Liu , Noah Weaker, and CanXin Tang. 

Some of us had to look twice, as we had only seen each other on Zoom!  But it was fun to reconnect, to reach out to a new community with a collection of material in Spanish as well as promotion for our many programs.  Special thanks to Sam, Miguel, Yvan, Maia and Karla Soumala for helping get material ready for this special event.  

Carnival was an incredibly diverse and wonderful event that brought ten’s of thousands of folks of all ages together to enjoy themselves after two years plus of isolation.   We met and talked to lots of people in Spanish, Chinese and English.  Now we need to figure out what to do next to let more people know about what CLC has to offer.   In the meantime, enjoy Mission Local’s write-up and great pictures of the Caravan parade 
 

Honoring Mothers and Fathers in a Festive Celebration

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The CLC Chinese Community Programming, includes tech training, cultural events, exercise and Chinese and English language cultural exchanges.  And a recent online gathering brought together over 140 participants to enjoy a rich array of talent with song, dance, and the joys of just being together.  The event also showcased the growing video talents of the computer class students.   Enjoy this student developed overview of the richness of this event.  Thanks go to Wanda Liu, Fiona Ren , Donna Li and Peter Karpathakis for bringing this production to life. 

https://vimeo.com/828869718?share=copy

Meals on Wheels – We Celebrate and Thank You!

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We celebrate and congratulations the San Francisco Meals on Wheels Organization on the opening of their new warehouse site.  And we send our heartfelt thanks as MOW has given our grocery delivery program a home a couple years and now is supporting our move to their new site along with URI, which runs the delivery program in the Bayview.  Walking over the site, we heard the booming voice of non-other than former director, Ashley McCumber, who returned for this special occasion.  See the pictures and meet Vernice Ross and Roland James  in their new office space. 

Connect with Tech Week – Golden Gate Park Photo Walk

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Good Work Everyone

We have Dropbox links to pictures of our big events this year.  Let’s start with the Golden Gate Park Photo Walk!  Enjoy this video produced by students in the Chinese language classes to memorialize this walk in the park.

Golden Gate Park Photo Walk.  https://vimeo.com/830462143?share=copy

 

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Connect with Tech Week – Mission Photo Walk

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Harvey Castro returned to lead this year’s Photo Walk in the Mission District.  Harvey provide a quick course to help participants take their best pictures looking at setting, perspective, using apps effectively, saving pictures to share with others.  Then they struck out on a guided tour to practice in the surrounding neighborhood.  Take a minute to enjoy what they saw!

 

 

Preserving Pictures and Documents Through Scanning

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At part of Connect with Tech Week, CLC hosted a Preserving Memories event in our office at 1663 Mission Street, Suite 525. With a host of different scanners and staff help in English, Spanish and Cantonese, we helped a grateful group of participants learn. how it is done and take home their valuable images and documents on a CLC flash drive.  Watch for more scanning events in the near future.  For more information, contact event@sfcommunityliving.org. 

Lunar New Year Celebrations Help Welcome the Year of the Rabbit

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The Chinese Community programming, under Wan He (Wanda) Liu has grown and expanded, building community and reducing isolation with computer classes, signing classes, cross-cultural celebrations and now Tai Chi in Chinese in the Crocker Amazon neighborhood.  Take a look of images from their most recent celebration to welcome the year of the rabbit.

 

Chinese-Language Students Celebrate Community & New Tech Skills

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Chinese New Year Celebration Flyer

Join us on February 7th for the a Chinese New Year celebration by the tech and singing students

Thank you letter to Chinese-Language Programs Manager, Wanda Liu.

A thank you Letter to Chinese-Language Programs Manager Wanda Liu by one of the students describes how important the classes are to her.

Led by Wan He (Wanda) Liu, CLC’s Chinese Programs Manager, the Chinese-language tech classes and singing classes are coming together again to share their talents. Join us on February 7 from 3pm-5pm for a Chinese New Year Celebration showcasing a variety of song, dance, and video. Since they started the celebrations several years ago, the students have moved from single performance on Zoom to sophisticated videos that bring together photos, video, and multiple student performers. 

This series of classes has been very meaningful to the students, creating a strong virtual community where they can support each other and continue learning from home. As student Amy C. wrote, the patient instruction and range of classes and celebrations has made her feel younger and more engaged. (See the letter at right) 

As show in the photo gallery below, we all had a wonderful time at the Christmas celebration in December, and were quite impressed by the quality of the performances. Don’t miss the video below! We’re looking forward to seeing what new delights the students will share in February.