SF Bay Area Cultural Childcare Connection

Happy Chinese New Year!

East Bay

February 4th:

Oakland Asian Cultural Center: Lunar New Year Celebration www.oacc.cc This celebration will feature Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Indian, Okinawan, Mongolian, and Korean cultures with entertainment, art & music, 11:00am-4:30pm, FREE admission

El Cerrito Library: Year of the Dragon Stories told by Cara Yen www.ccclib.org 1:00pm, FREE admission

North Bay:

February 20th:

Bay Area Discovery Museum, Sausalito www.bayareakidsmuseum.org Enjoy performances, crafts and food from 9:00am-4:00pm, $11/person

Peninsula:

February 2nd:

South San Francisco Library: Chinese New Year Story with author Oliver Chin, www.plsinfo.org/southsf Author Oliver Chin will read and sign his new book The Year of the Dragon at 4:00pm

February 3rd:

San Mateo County History Museum: Stories from the Past www.historysmc.org come listen to the reading of The Next New Year, a story about a Chinese New Year celebration, 11:00am.

San Francisco:

February 4th & 5th

Chinatown Branch Library, www.sfpl.org The China Dance School and Theater will perform a traditional Chinese dance performance at 2:00pm - FREE (Feb 4th)

Palace of Fine Arts Theater: Miss Chinatown USA Pageant, www.chineseparade.com Annual pageant for young women from around the US come to San Francisco to compete for prizes & scholarships, 7:30pm -  tickets: $35.00-$65.00 (Feb 4th)

Asian Art Museum, www.asianart.org Music, stories, arts & crafts from 11:00am-4:00pm, FREE (Feb 5th)

February 11th-12th

Chinatown: Chinese New Year Fair, www.chineseparade.com Street fair with acrobats, music, dancing, Chinese arts, 9:00am-5:00pm (Feb 11th & 12th)

Justin Herman Plaza: Chinese New Year Treasure Hunt, www.sftreasurehunts.com Hunt for treasure is neighborhoods throughout San Francisco, 3:30-9:00pm, $12.00-$45.00 (Feb 11th)

Davies Symphony Hall: Chinese New Year Concert, www.sfsymphony.org The San Francisco Symphony will feature Asian instruments, lion dancers, and Chinese calligraphers, 4:00pm, $25.00-$68.00 (Feb 11th)

Chinese Culture Center: Spring Festival, www.sanfranciscochinatown.com/events/springfestival.html Exhibits, crafts, food, performances, martial arts, folk & classical dances, and prizes! 11:00am-3:00pm

The weather is cold outside, but the savings are heating up at Cultural Care Au Pair this weekend!

New families who apply to the Cultural Care Au Pair program between Friday, January 20th and Tuesday, January 24th, 2012 have an opportunity to save $825.00! We will be offering new families a waived application fee ($75.00 value) and a $750.00 program fee discount, promotion code required. For details contact Cassandra Robinson at (650) 515-9713 or by email: cassandra.robinson@lcc.culturalcare.com

To qualify for these fantastic savings, families must be new to Cultural Care Au Pair and host an au pair by July 31, 2012, participating in the program a minimum of 30 weeks.

Is your family interested in learning about another part of the world? Argentina? Brazil? China? Germany? Ireland? Korea? Sweden? Thailand…or others? The au pair program is a cultural exchange program that allows young men & women to live with a host family for a year or more. Cultural Care Au Pair recruits from over 25 different countries.

Are you interested in giving your children the gift of a foreign language? Provide daily exposure to Spanish, Mandarin, German, French, or another language your family is interested in learning.  Research shows that children have an amazing ability to pick up languages from birth to 5-years old.

Does your family need childcare? An au pair offers a flexible schedule: split shifts, evenings, weekends, a regular date night, available to work when your family needs care. Au Pairs can provide up to 45-hours of childcare + child-related duties (laundry, light housekeeping, driving, cooking, etc.) each week, for a flat rate for all the children in your family. Cultural Care has a monthly payment plan that makes the cost of having an au pair comparable to local daycare fees.

To learn more about the Cultural Care Au Pair program contact Cassandra Robinson, (650) 515-9713 or cassandra.robinson@lcc.culturalcare.com.

New families who apply from January 3, 2012 through January 18, 2012 may receive a $75 application fee waiver, promotion code required. To qualify, families must welcome an au pair by July 31, 2012. contact Cassandra Robinson at (650) 515-9713 or cassandra.robinson@lcc.culturalcare.com for details.