AACC 2025 11/20/24 Holiday Meeting/Photo Shoot Honoring Awardee Designates

This is information for the The Holiday Meeting and Official Photo/Video Shoot Honoring Our 2025 Awardee Designates For the Asian American Coalition of Chicago 42nd Annual Lunar New Year 4723 / 2025 Celebration Extravaganza

I N V I T A T I O N

You are cordially invited to attend

The Holiday Meeting and

Official Photo/Video Shoot

Honoring Our 2025 Awardee Designates

For the Asian American Coalition of Chicago 42nd Annual Lunar New Year 4723 / 2025 Celebration Extravaganza

Hosted by The Indonesian American Community

Upcoming on Saturday, February 22, 2025

at the Hyatt Regency O’Hare

Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Korean American Cultural Center of Chicago

BISCO Hall

9600 Capitol Drive, Wheeling, Illinois

6 p.m. - 9 p.m.

Please note the KCCoC campus has several buildings and addresses. We will be in BISCO Hall, 9600 Capitol Drive, Wheeling, Illinois. (Not at the main address previously listed on our early calendar as 9925 Capitol Drive.)hWe

We are excited to present this holiday meeting celebration at KCCoC’s beautiful new BISCO Hall and hope you all can join us in person!

We will have Korean food and the possibility of Korean cultural and youth entertainment!

In addition to honoring our awardee designates, we are inviting sponsors and celebrity presenters who are invited to appear at the February 22, 2025 gala.

We have booked a professional photographer. It’s important that we stay on shoot schedule due to the sheer volume. A schedule follows.

Update #1: There will be no AACC general meeting in December - we are cancelling that, and any board meeting, since the Board recently met in added meetings. Should something highly pressing come up, it will be added back.

Update # 2: We are still using the 3rd Wednesday December date, optional for any needed AACC 2025 Committee meetings (December 18, 2024 6 p.m.)

RSVP’s by COB November 15, 2024

aacc112024.eventbrite.com is where people should please register. Please use the form so we have complete information and so it draws into the central schedule.

If you are a Board Member or Awardee and cannot attend, please let us know upon receipt of this by e-mail to [email protected]

TICKETS/ADS

We will have tickets and ads sales (and sponsorships) offered on-site on November 20, 2024. Awardee designates and others interested should bring their filled out Pledge/Ticket Form and their check, or can Zelle to [email protected] Tickets are first funded, first seated.

Please see Ticket Order/Pledge Form for February 22, 2025 with payee info, and the first AACC press release issued earlier.

The sponsorship package is also linked on our website.

www.aacchicago.org

E-Mail

[email protected]

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Martino Tangkar

2024-2025 President

Asian American Coalition of Chicago

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WE THANK YOU... !

Venue Underwriter

Korean American Cultural Center of Chicago

Reception Sponsors

Kay Kihwa Rho

(And others in formation.)

Gift Bag SWAG

Including

Grace Printing & Mailing, Skokie, Illinois and

ENERI Communications (Mini-Notebooks)

ENERI Communications

Charity Media Partner and Agency of Record

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PRELIMINARY

DRAFT SKED (Rd #1 11/11/24 9:20 a.m.)

(Please do NOT arrive earlier than 6 p.m when the event starts.)

6 p.m. Sharp - Youth Who Excels Awardee Designates Photos At Backdrop Station and Video Shoot As Needed At Video Station (10 Individuals)

6 p.m. Networking Reception (We are inviting sponsors, invited celebrity presenters and are honoring our awardee designates.)

6:30 p.m General Planning Meeting (15-20 Mins. - Brief) - President and Executive Producer's Reports

We will have Korean Food and possibility of Korean cultural and youth entertainment!

Light Dinner Refreshments

Right After the Brief Meeting

6 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Networking, Ticket and Ad Sales Open Throughout the Evening

6:45 p.m. Exemplary Community Service Awardee Designate Photo Shoot At Backdrop Station and Video Shoot As Needed At Video Station (Part 1) (10 Individuals) At Backdrop Station

7 p.m. Stop for***** AACC BOARD OF DIRECTORS GROUP PHOTO *****

On BISCO Hall Stage (20 Board Members)

7:30 p.m. Exemplary Community Service Awardee Designate Photo Shoot At Backdrop Station and Video Shoot As Needed At Video Station (Part 2) (10 Individuals)

8:05 p.m. Other Awardee Designates if Present (Grand, Pan Asian, Entrepreneurial TBD) (1-3 Individuals)

8:15 p.m. (Approximately) Production Team Group Photo (Backstage)

8:30 p.m. (Approximately) Earlier if Possible

INDONESIAN HOST COMMITTEE Group Photo on BISCO Hall Stage (Approximately 10-20 People)

8:45 p.m. Tear Down/Load-Out

9 p.m. SHARP

Adjournment

Thank you all so much for your support this far, We have to raise a BIG amount to put on a great show in these economic times, where presenting and food and labor costs have so greatly risen. We so greatly appreciate you!

Q's and ADA requests [email protected]

Please feel free to contact Irene Cualoping at ENERI Communications at (312) 635-0888 or [email protected], should you need anything.

Host or Publisher Asian American Coalition of Chicago 2025