Mark your calendars for SATURDAY, September 22, 2012 for our first annual Moon Festival celebration, in collaboration with Princeton CSA; roughly 1-6PM.
This will be our major fall event! If you were at our Spring Carnival, this will be somewhat similar, but with more student group performances and some other improvements!
Princeton students interested in becoming a big sib/mentor, sign up here!
As for little sibs, we intend to open up new CAPS registrations once a year, during the summer. So if you would like your children to participate in CAPS for the 2012–2013 academic year, please sign up here by July 31.
Feel free to contact me with any questions, at either caps@princeton.edu or my personal email, ecai@princeton.edu
UPDATE 4/29: Communiversity pictures here
This upcoming weekend is very exciting for Princeton!!!
Friday, April 27 is our annual Asian Night Market. all the Asian groups on campus gather together to sell food and do performances. There will be 12 groups with tables/food stands, and I don’t even know how many performers – they will include bhangra dancing, sympoh (break dancing), Triple 8, and Japanese taiko drumming. The headlining act is this half-Taiwanese youtube artist Mree! CSA will have a table as usual. Continue reading
Thanks to all who came out to Carnival yesterday, we all had a lot of fun and we hope the kids did too! Thanks to Sympoh and Triple 8 for performing/teaching 🙂
Photos are now uploaded here, download as you wish!
Thanks again!
Elizabeth, Linda, Jessica
CSA Date Auction ~8:30-10:30
This is one of my favorite events, and I have been putting a lot of effort into planning it! A handful of mentors (including myself) will be up for sale! All proceeds go to the American Cancer Society.
Promo video
Princeton’s breakdancing crew Sympoh is having their annual show! It’s pretty cool to watch, and most of the members are Asian-American.
Please be in contact with your mentors about this. I don’t want to make this another big event like Triple 8, just because we are all so busy at this time with Auction the week before the and the Carnival the week after.
So – contact me about getting tickets, etc. if and only if your mentor is unresponsive and/or can’t buy you tickets but you would like to attend.
They haven’t released full details yet, I will keep you posted! I know there will be performances Thursday, Friday, and Saturday… that’s all they have said so far
Registration for the carnival will be open from now until Thursday, March 29. This deadline is FIRM.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEhTUTNxVnVTbUMtTFVfWUxkOGFiWXc6MQ#gid=1
Again, the event will be Saturday, April 14. We don’t have the exact schedule planned out yet but it will be approximately 10AM-4PM. We are planning to have some arts and crafts, some games, workshops (dance, etc.) and then a talent show. Lunch is, of course, included!
Also – and this is important – much to our disappointment, we ran into roadblocks at every single funding venue at Princeton. Somehow, this activity did not neatly fall under any of their jurisdictions. We are working on a couple last resorts right now, but it does look like we will be getting $0 in funding so we will probably have to charge a $20 fee per child. One of the departments said that we can apply again for funding if certain families indicate the $20 fee will be a hardship, so feel free to let us know if you feel the cost will be difficult!
Mark your calendars!
1) CSA is having their 2nd annual DATE AUCTION on Friday, March 30. We will be selling dates for the American Cancer Society!
CAPS mentees are welcome to attend (it’s free!)
2) An all-day CAPS event with workshops, performances, etc. tentatively planned for Saturday, April 7 (Easter weekend) April 14
3) Princeton TASA will be having their annual Night Market event on Friday 4/13 OR 4/20. It’s the biggest Asian group event of the year, it’s always super crowded and popular. I’m a bit hesitant to invite mentees just because it’s so crowded already
The next upcoming event is the annual dance showcase for Triple Eight, the East Asian dance group on campus. This should probably be interesting to all the girls but particularly the ones who dance, most of whom were assigned to mentors who are actually in Triple Eight.
Triple Eight does a wide variety of performance, from traditional and modern dance (set to modern Korean, Chinese, and Japanese pop music) to martial arts. Triple Eight hasn’t released a show teaser yet; here is a link to their performance at our Moon Festival event in September, a showcase of all their styles (traditional, martial arts, and modern).
There will be three show times: Friday 2/17 8PM, Saturday 2/18 5PM and 8PM. Continue reading