API Circle Holiday Celebration!

Once again, RAMS is very pleased to be a community supporter of the exciting & fun API Circle event. The API Circle is an alliance of San Francisco Bay Area Asian & Pacific Islander American leaders and organizations with the mission to create meaningful relationships and collaborative efforts that are cross-generational, ideologically neutral and diversely representative.

The first API Circle’s project was the Asian Pacific American Closing Night Celebration which was held at Carnelian by the Bay in San Francisco on Tuesday, May 31st, 2011 in conjunction with over 30 community partner sponsors, generous food donors, and over 50 co-hosts, supporters, and volunteers as well as over 600 guests in attendance. As a follow-up to the last very successful event, the next project is an end of the year holiday celebration gathering and the planning is currently underway!

When: Thursday, December 1 • 6:30pm - 9:00pm
Where: Oakland Asian Cultural Center, 388 Ninth Street, Suite 290, Oakland, CA

Your co-hosts are in the planning stages right now, but expect the same wonderful features ...
- GREAT people
- TERRIFIC co-hosts and co-sponsoring organizations
- AWESOME entertainment
- highlighting & supporting community non-profits and their work
- food & drinks
- raffle drawings

All are welcome so please help us spread the word by inviting your friends to attend too! Guests need not be over 21.

RSVP:
Eventbrite: http://apicircle-endoftheyear.eventbrite.com/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=132753860162219

This will be inter-generational & multi-ethnic event and just a whole lot of fun!

Your co-hosts:
Chris Chang - Christopher Do - Claire Chang - Colbert Tse - Doreen Lew - Jason Kwan - Jenny Lau - Jonathan Leong - Kavoos Bassiri - Keesa Ocampo - Manufou 'Fou' Liaiga-Anoai - Melanie Lew - Nwe Oo - Paul Yep - Ron Lee - Rose Chung - Ryan Takemiya - Sandra Siharath - Stephanie Balon Wong - Taiko Fujimura - Tamiko Wong (Partial list)

Community supporters:

American Legion Cathay Post #384 - Asian American Donor Program (AADP) - Asian Peace Officers Association (APOA) - Bay Area Benefit - Books for the Barrios - Community Health for Asian Americans (CHAA)- Genki for Japan - JAB - Lunar Giving Circle - National Association of Asian American Professionals - San Francisco (NAAAP-SF) - Oakland Asian Cultural Center (OACC) - Pacific Asian American Women Bay Area Coalition (PAAWBAC) - Pacific Islander Community Partnership-SF Samoa - RAMA - RAMS, Inc. - SEACHAMPA (South East Asian Cultural Heritage & Musical Performing Arts) - TaiwaneseAmerican.org - Taiwanese American Citizens League (TACL) - Taiwanese American Professionals (TAP) - Wa Sung Community Service Club - Weaving Through Change (As of this date)

Business Supporters:

Blue Salud Special Events - Merriwether & Williams Insurance Services - Jewelry by TR (As of this date)

P.S. This location is close to BART, paid parking for $2/hour is available downstairs, and there should also be some street parking available but carpooling is suggested (greener and it's more fun, right?). http://www.oacc.cc/visit/directions.html

Attire: Ethnic or cocktail (which means more fun than business attire) suggested - but business or business casual is fine too.

Things are just getting started so please let API Circle know if you can help in either of the following ways:

Volunteer: http://tinyurl.com/apavolunteer

Donate: http://tinyurl.com/apadonation

Hope we will see you on December 1st!

Photo credit - Mukumbura on Flickr