Every year a team of dedicated students from San Jose State University work together to provide the community with stories about culture, dreams, and life obstacles. We, SJSU VSA, decided to name the show “Ảo Ảnh” or “Mirage” — Keeping the pure tradition of maintaining and promoting of Vietnamese culture.
Unfortunately, this year’s Culture Show is facing drastic financial decisions. Due to budget cuts facing our State school, we are no longer financially supported by our school. Furthermore, the theater rental increased by 27%. Even with this unbearable challenge, we must continue this tradition for the 34th year. Although we ran fundraisers and sought sponsorships, the amount of money we collected is only 50% of the total cost. In order to break even for the show, we must sell the majority of our tickets.
We have gathered over 70 volunteers to bring to the audience the best of nostalgia as well as laughter throughout the cultural presentation of the show. Not as defined by physics, SJSU-VSA’s “Mirage” reflects the desires: the visions of hope, and of dreams of the second generation Vietnamese students. We want to show the visions of nostalgia and love. We hope to be successful this year so we can continue to carry VSA to the 35th year.
We hope our friends, family, classmates, and community can support our ambition to make this show happen. On top of finals, work, and family, we hope these sleepless nights can encourage the future generations to work as a team and never give up on a tradition that made SJSU VSA so strong. Please help us by purchasing pre-sale tickets ($10/General, $12/Will Call, $25/VIP) or by contributing a small donation.
Please visit us at www.sjsuvsa.net/cs12 or contact cultureshow@sjsuvsa.net
Thank you everyone for the support, and thank you to our hard working members of SJSU for giving up their time to make this show happen. We are looking forward to June 2nd, so please join us in this unforgettable night!
Vietnamese version of Culture Show poster
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/371352242896675/
Website: www.sjsuvsa.net/cs12
Thanks to our Sponsors for Culture Show
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Website www.sjsuvsa.net/cs12
Direction to SJSU Morris Dailey Auditorium and Parking
SJSUVSA ELECTIONS 2012-2013
Spring 2012 is almost over, which means graduations, and ELECTIONS. We will be having our annual elections to elect new officers for the upcoming year. These elections are very important because this will allow the current officers to move on, and allow the new officers bring in the NEW into SJSUVSA. Without these elections and officers moving on, or staying back, SJSUVSA will cannot be maintained, resulting in the closure of our fantastic club. So, please take the time to nominate someone or yourself as the new face of SJSUVSA.
Please, visit this link to nominate either yourself or someone for officer.
Below is more information regarding SJSUVSA ELECTIONS 2012-2013
Deadline: You have till 04/25/12 at 11:59pm to either apply to be an officer for 2011-2012 or NOMINATE someone to be in cabinet.
Applying - If you’re applying to be an officer. Please pick up to 3 positions and no more than 3. Please explain why you qualify for the position under 6 sentences per position. Once points are accumulated, and if you win more than 1 position you can decide which position you want to take and drop the others, or take up all positions.
Nominations - Please nominate who you think would be a good candidate for certain positions. Please explain under 6 sentences why that person deserve to be in office.
Please don’t play around and take this seriously. These are the people that are going to take over VSA next year, the future of VSA will be in their hands!
Positions:
President *
Vice President (Co-Vice President, Internal/External)**
Treasurer*
Secretary (Historian/Webmaster)
Fundraising Chair
Community Service
Activities Chair
Cultural Heritage Chair
Culture Show Chair***
ICC Representative
*Positions that are mandated by Student Involvement.
**External Vice President will mandate the responsibilities of an ICC Representative
***Position to continue SJSUVSA’s Annual Culture Show
You can request the Constitution by emailing CONTACT@SJSUVSA.NET
ELECTIONS: 5:30pm at Guadalupe Room, Thursday April 26, 2012 Two-Minutes Speeches by each candidate, followed up by a Q/A Session.
(Election date is subject to change to another date to allocate more time for active member voting and nominations approval)
Please, visit this link to nominate either yourself or someone for officer.
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SJSUVSA <3 KIDS
Do you like to work with kids?
If so, THEN THIS EVENT IS FOR YOU.
We will be working with 100 kids from this elementary school in promoting the Vietnamese culture through these various activities:
1) Rice Hat Making
- Little kids will be making rice hats out of crafts
2) Spring Roll Making
- Helping little kids learn the art of spring roll making
3) Traditional Dancing
- Preserve and promote our old school cultural dances.
4) Skit - Vietnamese Myth and Stories
- Help them understand how these myth and stories and how it links to our culture
5) Sports (Vietnamese Shuttlecock Game)
- show them how to properly play the game
The kids will be split equally through 5 stations, and will be rotated through all 5 stations.
Teachers/Staff will be with us, so we will not be alone and this will allow us from need to do any documentation that would require working with kids.
We do not need to purchase anything, all you have to bring is yourself and a positive attitude.
We will have a short meeting to go over the logistics and how each event works.
Due to certain stations being popular, volunteers will be drafted randomly into each categories.
***NOTE: CLICKING ATTENDING DOES NOT MEAN YOU ARE A VOLUNTEER.
YOU MUST FILL OUT THE DOCUMENT BELOW.
If you bail out then you bail out on the kids. :(
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AhTd2CqHNC_SdFg4NzhzdkNJMDNUeE51U0NoX1FPTnc
Carpool can be arranged.
Coming up next: Culture Show Audition & Singing Tryout this week
Check the Event Calendar
General Meeting #2
Hello everyone,
Thank you to those who came out to our meeting last week. We had a big turn out this week with many new faces, and high hopes for the rest of the semester.
Last semester was about bonding, so that means there needs to be some competition right? That’s correct. This semester we will be having our family competition which will occur for the next couple of weeks, and at the end there will be a grand competition. COME TO THE MEETING FOR MORE INFORMATION.
Just a quick recap of last week’s general meeting family competition:
- At 2.5 points: Phuoc (Luck) & Tho (Health)
- At 1 point: Loc (Wealth)
TODAY
Come out to our 2nd General Meeting
When: Every Thursday, 5:00pm - 6:30pm.
Where: Guadalupe Room, Top (3rd) Floor of Student Union.
We will have information regarding this year’s Culture Show, and much more.
ALSO, the continuation of our family competition. WEEK 2.
For more information and questions, please contact us at contact@sjsuvsa.net.
Founded in 1978, the Vietnamese Student Association of San Jose State University (SJSU VSA) is a non-profit student-based organization that serves the Vietnamese community by preserving and promoting Vietnamese culture and traditions. We strive to maintain the Vietnamese culture to generations that were born and/or raised outside of Vietnam. We promote diversity to all ethnic groups willing to learn the Vietnamese culture. We strive to unite with other colleagues to create an enlightening atmosphere and encourage education as well as leadership. We strive to promote cooperation, participation, and communication to work towards a common goal.
