music – 华府青年 CYOC

Bringing Joy Through Music: CYOC Chamber Ensemble at CCACC Academy

By Ruichen Feng (operational director of CYOC Chamber Ensemble)

October 20, 2025 — Rockville, MD

Today was a truly memorable day for all of us in the Capital Youth Outreach Club (CYOC) Chamber Ensemble. Since our official founding on September 1, 2025, we have been rehearsing regularly, and this was our first community performance. We were honored to visit the CCACC Academy (Chinese Culture and Community Service Center), where we shared our music with about 50 preschoolers and 60 day camp elementary students.

华府青年CYOC Chamber Ensemble 正式成立：用音乐连接梦想与责任

By 华府青年媒体报道组 Ruichen feng

中文校正：Joy Wu, September 2025

2025年9月1日，在这个凉爽的初秋正午，CYOC（Capital Youth Outreach Club）的第一支弦乐团——CYOC Chamber Ensemble 正式开启了首次排练。随着第一首合奏乐曲的奏响，这支由16位热爱音乐的青少年组成的乐队宣告成立，开启了他们用音乐服务社区、传播文化的全新旅程。

Chinese Culture Festival – 2024

Author: Lucas Chen

If you went to Capitol Hill on August 31, 2024, you would have found Tai Chi performers, people playing Go, lion and dragon dances, and stuffed pandas. This is no normal day in DC, it’s the Chinese Culture Festival. Every year since 1993, it draws hundreds of people to gather at Capitol Hill, and clearly NOT for any political event.

The culture festival was created to spread awareness of Chinese culture, hence the name. Last year, my service group, Capitol Youth Outreach Club, volunteered at this festival, and my job was to walk around the city and do some advertising. This year, I switched to the reporter group. My job this time around was to take pictures and videos and write a report on the festival.