Chinese Family Camp

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Chinese Family Camp 2021 - It's Online!

VCFC 2021 will be from Sunday, July 18 to Sunday, July 25

 

Click here to view the VCFC 2021 Schedule

Click here to get to the Registration Page

We're doing some VCFC Intro Sessions every Wednesday night. Click here for more info.

Send an email to campdirector@chinesefamilycamp.com for more information.

 You may be asking: "What is Midwest Chinese Family Camp?"

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Click here for the CFC 60th Anniversary Reunion and Camp Session photo album

Our multi-family, multi-state, multi-generational, multi-media, multi-ethnic camp has been running continually since 1958, though we have been able to trace our ancestral camp roots back to the Tang Dynasty (a dynasty also famous for its invention of a popular and refreshing orange flavored beverage) What keeps us going is the strong relationships we've built, a major dose of fun, and committed leaders and volunteers! In July 2020, we managed to create an ENTIRELY VIRTUAL CAMP Online! Campers from West Virginia, North Carolina, New York, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Washington, California, Florida, Montana, Oregon, and probably a few more places participated from the comfort of our own homes. Check out the latest news here Some of our original camper families continue to attend, and some of their children and grandchildren, and even a few great-grandchildren! We also are delighted to have a strong and consistently jubilant contingent of families with adopted Chinese children who have grown up with the camp over the last decade. As in the past, one of the primary goals of Camp is to provide a safe and fun-filled environment where every child can build a healthy, strong and positive self-image in the company of other Chinese Americans. We form deep, decades long friendships among all generations as families and individuals return year after year, and new campers join us for a week of fun!

"We don't know what camp is going to look like in the future.

It could look a lot of different ways.

But this is an incredibly unique and special group.

Stay connected.

Be open to whatever comes and use your gifts to keep camp alive."

Sheila Wang, 2012

 

Educational and Fun Activities

Camp activities include: Chinese arts and crafts, Chinese language and culture instruction, swimming and other sports, evening games, dances, snacks, and many other fun activities.

We have also revived the ancient Chinese art of team body sculpture, as shown in the artistic offering below entitled "Distant Mountain, Falling Water, Some Poems, Don't Have to Rhyme"

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A Word About Festival Night

The week of Camp concludes with Festival Night filled with musical performances, skits, songs and lots of laughs!

We have used Festival Night to pursue our long-term project to recover and perform music and lyrics from the dynastic Chinese archives, mostly from those Chinese literati who were able to express their most somber and tragic emotions, often referred to, in American vernacular, as the "Blues."

Recently recovered poetry and musical discoveries include:

Camp Information

When?

July 18-25, 2021

Cost?

FREE!

Where

It's a Virtual/On-line/Electronic Camp!

Interested? Questions? Requests? Contact Us!

CFC President Elysa Chao president@chinesefamilycamp.com  Camp Director Lawrence Wang campdirector@chinesefamilycamp.com
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