The Chinese Cultural & Arts Institute would like to thank you for your support of our goals!
The Chinese Cultural & Arts Institute’s new
Cultural Center in the Pennsylvania State Capitol Region:
Project: Rehab of a building for a new Chinese cultural center in the Capitol Region
Location: Camp Hill
Description: The new center will be of a traditional and modern Chinese architectural
design mix where it can be accommodated. The new center will house multiple professional dance studios along with classrooms,
display space, conference & reception space, and black box theater space, and 50 parking spaces.
This is the new home of the Chinese Cultural & Arts Institute.
Project Size: $2,000,000+ and growing, estimated based upon other similar sized projects. Estimate only. No final architectural drawing and plans yet.
The Center’s main focus will be as an arts and cultural center, hosting art events, cultural expositions, artists on tour, national and international tours, and as a showcase for local artists in the community. We envision having one black box theater (100 seating), 2 dance studios, 4+ classrooms, museum and arts display area, library, cultural & conference area, office space for CCAI, and potential area for artists in residence. Other features of the center include: small kitchen, and maybe surrounding traditional gardens on the 1.1 acre grounds.
As a cultural & arts community center, it will be open to all that would like to learn about the arts and culture of China and the Orient. We will expand our current offering of classes to cover all age groups and interests. These classes that CCAI currently offers: children’s and adult traditional cultural dances, children’s and adult language, calligraphy & Chinese painting, traditional Chinese music & opera, Chinese culinary to cultural classes, adult business language, paper cutting, clothing & costuming, poetry, gardening, etc.
The Center will bring more community involvement in the local Chinese and Asian populations and culture. The Center will act as a meeting place for people to gather and meet. This will help all generations get together in one place: Chinese Lunar New Years celebrations and dinners; activities during the day for retired people, activities for youth, meetings and gatherings on local issues affecting the ethnic community.
With the arts and museum display area, we hope to bring artistic and ancient artifacts displays to Harrisburg and
Central PA. CCAI has already been asked to host these traveling expositions traditional Chinese art with our prior center.