BXSCC Continues Partnership with Bard High School Early College – Baltimore |
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| Fall 2024 to Spring 2025 |
The 2024-2025 school year program included: June 16th: Spring award announcements for underclassmen announced at Fun Day |
BXSCC Announces 2025 Leadership Team |
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| December 2024 to March 2025 |
The BXSCC was pleased to welcome our leadership team for the 2025 term. Congratulations to our new Vice Chair (Chelsea Nakabayashi), Secretary (Sam Walczak), and Treasurer (Justin Lipsky)! Their terms will run through the end of 2026. Continuing officers on our Executive Committee included Xin (Cindy) Wang as Chair and Hosea Chew as Member-at-Large, both through the end of 2025. Continuing appointed officers included Robin Su as Business Subcommittee Chair and Jeannette Felton as Education Subcommittee Chair. For the latest information on our Subcommittees and Functional Teams, please visit our Leadership page. |
BXSCC Awarded Marilyn Hatza Memorial SHINE Grant |
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| December 2024 |
The BXSCC’s activities in 2025 were financed in part with State Funds from the Maryland Historical Trust, an agency of the Maryland Department of Planning which is an instrumentality of the State of Maryland. However, project contents or opinions do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the Maryland Historical Trust or the Maryland Department of Planning. |
BXSCC Holiday Party |
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| December 12th, 2024 |
The BXSCC hosted a holiday party for all current members and a few special guests to celebrate our 2024 accomplishments and our exciting anniversary year to come! Thanks to Sam Walczak & John Facelo for organizing, Peter Chang Baltimore for the venue and food, and all attendees for their time. This was the first in-person BXSCC holiday party since December 2019. |
Baltimore Sister Cities & Friends Fall Social |
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| November 12th, 2024 |
Thank you for joining us at R. House (301 W 39th St., Baltimore, MD) for a fantastic fall meet-and-greet! We were excited to bring together friends, old and new, to celebrate our city’s diverse cultures and connections through food traditions from around the world. This in-person gathering was an evening filled with fun, laughter, and community spirit. See the BSC event webpage for details. |
Sister Cities International Young Artists & Authors Program on a Resilient and Sustainable Urban Future |
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| April to August 2024 |
Youth in Baltimore, our sister cities around the world, and other locales participating in the Sister Cities program were invited to join this annual contest. The 2024 theme was “ClimateScape: Resilient Cities for Tomorrow’s Climate”. In August 2024, 16-year-old CHEN Yiqi of Xiamen was named the second-place winner of the photography category for her piece “Urban Charm”. Yiqi described her photo as follows: “Xiamen is a civilized coastal tourist city that attaches great importance to reasonable and scientific planning between urban construction, citizen transportation and marine ecological protection. The work constructs Xiamen’s ecological environment, urban architecture, citizens’ health, etc., fully demonstrating the concept of Xiamen’s coastal ecological construction of “harmonious coexistence of man and nature”.” See the corresponding Sister Cities International webpage and winners announcement for more details, including depictions of the young artists and their work. |
The BXSCC Joins Baltimore Sister Cities’ Booth at Johns Hopkins University’s Democracy Day Community Engagement Fair |
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| August 22nd, 2024 |
The BXSCC was honored to join the 2024 fair for incoming college freshmen at JHU to learn about local Baltimore organizations and the opportunities we bring to both students and wider Baltimore community. Learn more about this event and BSC’s participation via JHU’s Hub article: “New student orientation devotes a day to democracy” |
Youth Ambassadors Student Travel Program Resumes! |
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| July 21st to August 5th, 2024 |
After a five-year hiatus, the Youth Ambassadors Program resumed! Seven students and four adults from the Baltimore region traveled to our sister city of Xiamen, Maryland’s sister province of Anhui, and China’s capital Beijing for over two weeks. Media Coverage:
The Youth Ambassadors Program staff, participants, & parents thank the following entities for their generous financial support of the 2024 program: The Baltimore Community Foundation‘s Van Buskirk International Exchange Fund and Bard College. Financial support was also provided by Jeannette Felton and Xin (Cindy) Wang. We also thank the Office of Baltimore City Mayor Brandon Scott, the Office of the City Council President of Baltimore, the Office of the Secretary of State of Maryland, the Embassy of the United States in Beijing, Xiamen Airlines, Xiamen University, the Xiamen Municipal Government’s Foreign Affairs Office, Huangshan University, the Anhui Province Foreign Affairs Office, the Anhui Province Department of Education, the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the United States, the Nakabayashi family, and many other individuals and organizations for their support including in-kind donations. In honor of our late treasurer and Youth Ambassadors program co-founder Arella Yan Liu, the BXSCC provided special need-based funding for select participants under the “Arella Yan Liu Scholarship Program”. For more information, including the 2024 itinerary, visit our overall program webpage: https://bxscc.org/youth-ambassadors-program/ |
The BXSCC Joins Baltimore Sister Cities’ Booth at Artscape |
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| August 2nd to 4th, 2024 |
The BXSCC team was honored to join BSC – rain or heat – at Baltimore’s very own arts and culture festival this summer! Recent programs and opportunities were shared with the Baltimore community and guests. |
BXSCC Leadership Visits to Xiamen |
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| June and July 2024 |
BXSCC Chair Xin (Cindy) Wang and Member-at-Large Hosea Chew made visits to Xiamen in 2024! Connections were reforged with the Xiamen Foreign Affairs Office, Xiamen Information School, Xiamen University, and other partner organizations. Many thanks to our Xiamen hosts and supporters back home in Baltimore for making these visits possible! |
Bard High School Early College Baltimore Partnership |
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| Fall 2022 to Spring 2024 |
The 2023-2024 school year program included:
The 2022-2023 school year program featured a calligraphy demonstration and class by master calligrapher Bing-jib Huang 黃秉驥, a luncheon featuring food from long-time Charles Village institution Orient Express, and awards for top students. The BXSCC and BHSEC-Baltimore thank participating students, parents, colleagues, and our corporate partner BGE Asian American Resource Group for their support of this programming. |
Asia North 2024 |
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| May 3rd to June 1st, 2024 |
The 6th annual Asia North community exhibition and festival celebrated Baltimore’s Charles North (a.k.a. Station North) neighborhood’s constantly evolving identities as a Koreatown, arts district, and creative center. Co-presented by the Towson University Asian Arts & Culture Center and the Central Baltimore Partnership. For more information, visit the festival website. |
Baltimore Welcomes the Deputy Mayor of Xiamen and Other Xiamen Dignitaries |
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| May 13th to 14th, 2024 |
A delegation led by Xiamen Deputy Mayor LIAO Huasheng (in charge of education and health) and including representatives from the Xiamen Health Department, Commerce Bureau, and Foreign Affairs Office visited Baltimore over two days in May. While in Baltimore, the delegation met with representatives of Johns Hopkins Medicine; discussed healthcare and education initiatives and exchanges with Baltimore’s Deputy Mayor for Equity, Health, and Human Services Dr. Letitia Dzirasa; discussed commerce, trade, port and other business opportunities with representatives of Baltimore Development Corp., and an array of ongoing and upcoming exchanges with members of the BXSCC and other city government representatives. |
18th Annual National Committee on U.S.-China Relations CHINA Town Hall: Local Connections, National Reflections |
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| April 9th, 2024 6:30 to 9:00pm Baltimore City Hall |
National Speaker (via webcast): Local Speaker (in person): The BXSCC, in cooperation with the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and Baltimore’s Office of the Mayor and Office of the City Council President, hosted a town hall on U.S.-China relations at 6:30 pm on Tuesday, April 9th at Baltimore City Hall. This event included national speaker Dr. Kurt Campbell (then U.S. Deputy Secretary of State) via webcast, local speaker Robert Daly (Director of the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States) in person, and a buffet-style Chinese meal from NiHao. For more information, visit https://chinatownhall2024baltimore.eventbrite.com |
BXSCC Announces 2024-2025 Leadership Team |
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| January to March 2024 |
The BXSCC was pleased to welcome our leadership team for the 2024-2025 term! Continuing officers on our Executive Committee included Xin (Cindy) Wang as Chair (through the end of 2024) and Hosea Chew as Member-at-Large. Continuing appointed officers included Robin Su as Business Subcommittee Chair and Jeannette Felton as Education Subcommittee Chair. Suzy Schlosberg joined the team as Assistant Secretary. For the latest information on our Subcommittees and Functional Teams, please visit our Leadership page. |
Baltimore-Xiamen Sister City CommitteeAn International Partnership