Articles Featuring our Staff, Programs, & Events
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The Asian Center's Untold Migrant Stories program empowers young people to tell their stories through a variety of media.
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Nebraska Groups Help Refugees Settle In To The Good Life
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This article references our Finance Director and Vietnamese Community Advocate, Duy Linh Bui, and the sweet and salty beef stew that her husband creates with a Puerto Rican soda, Coco Rico, base.
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This article previewed our Lunar New Year event in 2017 and other Lunar New Year celebrations taking place throughout the Lincoln community.
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This article describes our Lunar New Year event that we host each year to celebrate the diverse cultures in our community and the significance of this holiday to many Asian cultures.
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Our signature annual fundraiser, Curry Clash, takes place on the first Thursday of November each year. This article describes the event and also includes a list of many Asian restaurants in Lincoln.
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The Asian Community & Cultural Center partnered with others in the community to help provide education and activities to newly arrived Yezidi women in Lincoln.
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This article describes the Lincoln Community Breastfeeding Initiative, a program that trained and employed a culturally and linguistically diverse group of Community Breastfeeding Educators to help support new mothers with the challenges of breastfeeding.
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Every year the Asian Center hosts a Harvest Moon Festival celebration in September at the Auld Pavilion at Antelope Park. Cultural performances take place throughout the whole afternoon and a variety of activities, informational booths, and food options are available.
Tasting Tour of Lincoln
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Sheila Dorsey Vinton from the Asian Community and Cultural Center takes us on a tasting tour of multi-cultural cuisine in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Urban Homestead Series
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In partnership with Community Crops and Open Harvest, we offer the Urban Homestead Series cooking videos.
Our Community Breastfeeding Educators
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In collaboration with Milk Works and Partnership for Healthy Lincoln, we have trained Community Breastfeeding Educators at the Asian Center.
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Our Women's Program Manager, Khamisa Abdalla, is a trained Community Breastfeeding Educator.
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Khamisa Abdalla speaks to mothers from the Nuba tribe who are breastfeeding their children.
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Our Cultural Programs Coordinator, Rebecca Reinhardt, is a trained Community Breastfeeding Educator.
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Rebecca Reinhardt speaks directly to Mandarin-speaking mothers who are breastfeeding their children.
Health Matters: Asian Community & Cultural Center
On this episode of Health Matters, Larry Williams sits down with Sheila Dorsey Vinton, Ha Nhieu, and Khamisa Abdullah about health programs and initiatives at the Asian Community & Cultural Center.
