Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville

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1 Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville General Information Contact Information Nonprofit Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville Address P.O. Box Nashville, TN Phone (615) Web Site Web Site Facebook Facebook Twitter Twitter At A Glance Year of Incorporation 2002 Chinese Arts Alliance CAAN 1

2 Mission & Impact Statements Mission Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville is established to promote awareness, understanding, appreciation, and enjoyment of Chinese visual and performing arts. We bring diverse arts and culture to the Middle Tennessee. Our programs are ranged from traditional Chinese dance to modern and contemporary dance that involved Eastern and Western artistic skills and elements. We also promote local visual artists, dancers, choreographers, and other artists with various disciplines. Our organization embraces diversity. We fuse different artistic disciplines into our creations. We also provide out-reach and arts education, especially Chinese arts, to our community, city and Middle TN. Background The organization started December 27, 2002 by Jen-Jen Lin who was Principal of the Nashville Chinese School ( ). Jen-Jen wanted to share her love and appreciation for Chinese culture and arts with the broader community so she started Chinese Arts Alliance to give the community a broader education about her Chinese heritage. As a performer and choreographer of traditional Chinese dance and western dance forms she brings her many years of performing and dance experience and training to the productions sponsored by the Alliance. Since then, CAAN has conducted numerous events and activities and provide the community in the Middle TN has the opportunity to experience Chinese arts, and culture. CAAN has produced and presented traditional folk stories in dance theater format like, "Magic Fan, a Monkey King story, " "Moon Goddess, a Moon Festival story," "MuLan, the Chinese famous heroine, "Dragon Pearl, about a boy becoming a dragon," "QiXi, a Chinese love story, " "Snow Lotus, a Tibetan folk tale, " and "Lost Horse, a famous Chinese fable." CAAN's modern and contemporary dance creations: CAAN has fused East and West dance with theater elements to tell contemporary Chinese experience. The sample of such dance works include "Clouds," "Links," "Entropy" "My Friends," "Journey," "NuShu," "The Tie That Binds," "Autumn Longing, " "Dragon Spirit, " Dragon Dialogue," among others. CAAN's Lion Dance and Drumming Team has performed hundreds of shows since it's inception in We have performed at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center, Music City Center, Ingram Hall, Langford Auditorium, Discovery Centers both in Nashville and Murfreesboro, Celebrate Nashville, Cumberland River Dragon Boat Festival, Rivers & Spires Festival among others. CAAN's Nashville Dragon Dance Team is one of a kind of performing up is rare and unique. We are proud to have it right in the backyard of Nashville. This dragon prop stretched to 60 feet and demands 11 people to perform the Chinese dragon dance. We started this team in CAAN will be celebrating its 15 anniversary. We are inviting everyone to join us for our celebration. CAAN's Visual Arts Team with Arts Build Community Education Program provides creative arts and crafts workshops and lessons to the general public, our main audience is children, seniors in addition to the general public. We have showcase our arts at CAAN's Chinese Summer Blast program, Martha O'Bryan Ct, TN Arts Craft, Intersection pre-concert activity, Blakeford Senior Community Center, and Brentwood Libary. CAAN is also responsible for hosting annual World Taichi and Qigong Day. CAAN has invited Taichi and Qigong practitioners to join together to present and conduct free presentation and work shops to the general public. This is to promote fitness, health and the arts of Taichi and Qigong. 2

3 Impact Goals: We are bridging the unique arts and culture among our society by doing the following events and activities: 1) Create and promote high quality arts that are in associate with Chinese themes and Asian experiences. 2) Produce and present traditional Chinese performing arts, such as Chinese dance, music, lion dance, and dragon dance. 3) Conduct successful events and programs that promote awareness, understanding, and appreciation of the Chinese arts and culture. 4) Increase funding sources to create and produce professional arts that are associate with Chinese theme. 5) Support arts in general, especially arts created by under-served population; and present arts to under-served populations as well as the general public. Major Accomplishments: 1) Produced and presented original dance theater productions. All performances received standing ovations with many compliments and positive feedback. They are Our Stories, Moon Goddess, Touching Clouds, MuLan & Poetry, Dragon Tales, and Across the Milky Way. Most recent endeavor is to present "Asian Fusion," a program that investigates how Eastern and Western dance elements fuse together! 2) CAAN's Lion Dance and Drumming team has been performing since We performed extensively throughout Middle TN, especially during the Chinese New Year Celebrations. We bring joys, cultures, arts, and excitements to the public. 3) We established "ABC Education Program." ABC stands for arts built connections, communication, and community. We use arts education as a venue to outreach young kids, socioeconomically disadvantaged population, and general public to be in touch with arts, especial Chinese arts. 4) CAAN's 60 feet long is one of its kind in the US. The dragon was rebuilt by 50 volunteers and artists after cutting and sewing 1500 dragon scales to complete. We invited Nashville Mayor Dean dot the dragon eyes and performed Dragon Dance performed by 11 dancers at the Chinese Dragon New Year Celebration in The events attracted more than 1000 people. 5) CAAN organized "Chinese New Year Celebration at Hillsboro Village" with the support of Vanderbilt University's Community Out-Reach and Government Relation Department. We created a program that celebrate the most significant holiday for the Chinese culture. We mixed with professional performing groups and students' presentations of their Chinese language learning from schools. 6) CAAN collaborates often with various organizations. We have collaborated wtih Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville Shakespeare Festival, ACT 1 Theater, TN Women Theater Project, VSA TN, former Renaissance Center, Vanderbilt University Dance Program, Vanderbilt Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University Community Out-Reach and Government Relation Department, Cumberland River Compact, and Centennial Performing Arts Dance Department and New Dialect Contemporary Dance Company. Needs -CAAN is looking for board members that are connected with business. -CAAN love to collaborate with talents with various disciplines. -CAAN needs funding to support artists, our program and production costs. CAAN is looking for sponsors. -CAAN needs marketing expertise to promote our unique programs. -CAAN needs expertise on video editing, music editing, graphic design to documents, and to promote our dance theater productions. -CAAN would like to have a facility to conduct regular rehearsals and teach classes to reach the entire community who can benefit from the unique art forms we offer. 3

4 Other ways to donate, support, or volunteer Donation: Go to Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville's website ( and click on Donate button. You may also mail a check payable to Chinese Arts Alliance, and mail it to CAAN, PO Box , Nashville, TN Please leave your name and contact information. It will be OK to be anonymous too. CAAN is participating Kroger Community Reward Program. Please register CAAN #23841 as the charitable organization that you would like Kroger to support. Support or volunteer: contact Jen-Jen Lin at ChineseArtsAlliance@gmail.com We welcome in-kind donations and volunteers. We are a creative arts group. In-Kind donation and volunteering can range from donating marketing skills, accounting services, managing social medias, web page designing, ushering, office supplies material, or even rehearsal and performing space will all be helpful for Chinese Arts Alliance. Service Categories Primary Organization Category Arts,Culture & Humanities / Dance Secondary Organization Category Education / Educational Services Tertiary Organization Category Arts,Culture & Humanities / Performing Arts Areas of Service Areas Served TN - Davidson TN - Williamson TN - Dickson TN - Rutherford TN - Franklin TN - Sumner TN - Wilson TN - Montgomery We serve mainly at the greater Nashville areas: Nashville, Brentwood, and Franklin. We also served at Murfreesboro, Dickson, Cookeville, Hendersonville, Clarksville, and Mount Juliet areas. We would like to venture further out in TN in the near future. Board Chair Statement Open to your children, grandchildren and the community the engaging world of Chinese music, dance and art with a gift to CAAN. Only through your gift will you introduce them to these colorful arts and throw open their windows of imagination. Your children and grandchildren and Nashville's residents - will thank you. 4

5 CEO Statement CAAN takes pride to offers unique programs and events that may not be found anywhere else in Middle Tennessee. CAAN serves to introduce the community to different kinds of arts and brings enjoyment to all of its audiences. CAAN is proud to share high quality performances and exhibits focused on Chinese stories, culture, and Asian experiences with the public. We rely on the public and governmental or private funding to support our events, programs, and endeavor. 5

6 Programs Programs Pop-up Chinese Dance and Music presentations Description CAAN presents mini theater to present Chinese dance, music and culture. We perform at smaller venue, like senior centers, schools, or libraries. We had also produced a Chinese fable story, "Lost Horse, A Blessing in Disguise." The dance theater is based on a text written by Liu An in 139 BCE. Population Served,, Major Dance Theatre Productions Description The Chinese Arts Alliance organizes and creates productions of Chinese stories or folk tales incorporating with traditional Chinese dance, costumes and art. Some stories presented were traditional, and some stories may be contemporary and address the immigrant experience or come from the rich history of Chinese folk tales. Population Served,, Chinese Lion Dance and Dragon Dance Teams We also create modern and contemporary dances that well present modern Chinese experiences and issues, especially focus on Asian American experience in America. Description CAAN's Lion Dance and Drumming team has performing since Whenever we went we brought excitements and joy to people. We also have estabaished CAAN's Student Lion Dance program that train young dancers to become Chinese lion dancers. We have been performing at various locations in Middle TN. The Lion Dance Team also runs a "Lion Dance Class for kids." This program offers opportunity for younger children have a chance to learn the lion dance skills. Population Served,, In addition to the lion dance groups, we also run Nashville Chinese Dragon Dance Team. Our dragon prop is 60 feet long and needs to performed by 11 people and musicians. It takes much efforts to coordinate the team to mobilize this huge magnificent dragon prop! We are proud to have such unique team in the Middle of TN. 6

7 World Taichi & QiGong Day in Nashville Description This a day that Taichi and QiGong practitioners and instructors get together and offer our community free workshops and demonstrations on Taichi and QiGong, an ancient Chinese martial arts and healing methods. This is the day that every corner in the world there are people practicing Taichi and QiGong. Population Served,, ASIAN FUSION Description Asian Fusion is a dance and music presentations. CAAN collaborates with various talents--dance, music, lighting, props designers, tea artists, martial artists, and more. We push the boundary of performing arts and create unique program to share with the public. Population Served,, CEO Comments Chinese Arts Alliance is entering its 15th year. Over the years, CAAN performances have included over 100 performers, six drums and lions, one Monkey King, a Moon Goddess, the great woman warrior Mulan, and a 60- foot long dragon. CAAN's first performance, Our Stories, told the famous Chinese fold story of Monkey King, CAAN's next performance, Moon Goddess, told the story of Hou Yi who was an archer who shot down nine suns in order to save the world and he married Chang-e. The next production was about MuLan, who pretended to be a man in order to replace her aging father who was called to battle by the emperor. Then, "Dragon Pearl" told how a boy became a dragon. And "QiXi-a famous Chinese love story." Each of these productions brought to life on the stage of Ingram Hall folk tales that have been told and re-told in Chinese hoes for centuries. CAAN has also brought more contemporary themes to the stage. "NuShu" was about a Chinese language that was spoken and understood only by women, and "Dragon Dialogues" presented three different voices from within a Chinese woman. The "Snow Lotus" and "QuYuan" dance pieces were set to music originally scored by composers in Beijing and Taiwan, and were performed by Vanderbilt Wind Symphony and the Blakemore Trio. "Looking Back" was nostalgia about the past, and the music was played by cellist Felix Wang from Blair String Quartet. Moving off of the proscenium stage, CAAN has brought Chinese folk culture to dozens of venues across town. "Chinese Story in Motion" was a pop up theater that was presented at smaller venues. "Lost Horse" was presented in schools, libraries and retirement homes. CAAN's lion dancers and drummers have performed at Schermerhorn Hall, the Nashville Dragon Boat Festival, the National folk Festival, the Frist Center for visual Arts, Discovery Ct. in Murfreesboro and many community centers and parks across the middle TN. We also push further to establish Chinese New Year Celebration at Hillsboro Village for 2 years. The event was one of the most successful community activities that Chinese Arts Alliance hosted. 7

8 Governance Board Chair Board Chair Ms. Sallie Mayne Company Affiliation Freelance painter Term Oct 2015 to Oct Board Members Name Affiliation Status Ms. Margaret Chong Metro Nashville Public Schools Voting Dr. Ray Friedman Dr. Cindy Hui-Lio Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt Voting Voting Ms. Jo A Lippe Community Volunteer Voting Ms. Sallie Mayne Voting Ms. Roberta Sanders Community Volunteers Voting Dr. Sherry Wang Dr. Felix Wang Tennessee Watershed Management Section Vanderbilt University Blair School of Music Voting Voting Board Demographics - Ethnicity African American/Black 0 Asian American/Pacific Islander 6 Caucasian 2 Hispanic/Latino 0 Native American/American Indian 0 Other 0 Board Demographics - Gender Male 2 Female 6 Unspecified 0 Governance Board Term Lengths 3 Board Term Limits 0 Board Meeting Attendance % 80% Written Board Selection Criteria? 8

9 Written Conflict of Interest Policy? No Percentage Making Monetary Contributions 100% Percentage Making In-Kind Contributions 100% Constituency Includes Client Representation Number of Full Board Meetings Annually 4 Standing Committees Administration Additional Board Members Name christine Lai Affiliation Vanderbilt University CEO Comments The challenges for our organization and board is marketing for our various events. The new social media is one of our challenges. Ten years ago, we just need to focus on the news paper publications. Now we need to hit many venues of publications that is overwhelmingly time consuming for our size of administration. We continuous searching for a board member or volunteers who can assist us to make better marketing strategies! Our other challenge is to find corporate sponsorship. We are conducting events with hundreds of attendees, sometimes reach out to over a thousands. We need corporate to sponsor us to ensure events will continue to grow and expand. Our most recent endeavor is "Chinese New Year Hillsboro Village." We would like to grow this event into a city-wide event in Nashville! 9

10 Management Executive Director/CEO Executive Director Ms. Jen-Jen Lin Term Start Dec Experience Jen-Jen Lin holds a Master of Fine Arts in Dance from the University of Illionis at Champaign-Urbana, and a Master of Science in Accountancy from Bentley Graduate School of Business in Boston. While in Taiwan, her Chinese dance compositions won several awards, and she was the artistic director of LanYang Chinese Folklore Performing Dance Company. In the U.S., she danced with the Chicago-based modern dance company, Jan Erkert & Dancers, taught dance at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA, and was a professor of dance at Trinity College in Hartford, CT. Her modern dance choreography won the Boston Moves choreography competition, and was presented at the Emerson-Majestic Theater. Jen-Jen founded CAAN in December, 2002, to continue pursuing her passion in performing arts as well as promoting Chinese arts. She choreographed and directed CAAN s evening length dance productions: Our stories,moon Goddess, Touching Clouds, MuLan & Poetry, Dragon Tales and Across the Milky Way. Jen-Jen was awarded Living Cultural Treasure Award by Scarritt-Bennett Center, Nashville, in 2000, and the Carell Fine Arts Artist in Residence in 2013 at the Harpeth Hall School. She has taught Chinese dance at the Nashville Chinese School, was Principal of the Nashville Chinese School , the initial Chinese language program teacher at Eakin School, presently teaches modern dance and Taichi at the Vanderbilt University s Dance Program, Taichi for Beginners at Centennial Performing Arts Studios, and is a Teaching Artist for the Arts Education s ArtSmart Program at the at Tennessee Performing Arts Center. Staff Full Time Staff 0 Part Time Staff 1 Volunteers 35 Contractors 25 Retention Rate 75% Plans & Policies Does the organization have a documented Fundraising Plan? Does the organization have an approved Strategic Plan? Number of years Strategic Plan Considers 1 When was Strategic Plan adopted? Mar 0 In case of a change in leadership, is a Management Succession plan in place? Does the organization have a Policies and Procedures Plan? 10

11 Does the organization have a Nondiscrimination Policy? Does the organization have a Whistle Blower Policy? Does the organization have a Document Destruction Policy? Affiliations Affiliation Year Tennesseans for the Arts 2003 Tennessee Association of Dance 2003 Tennessee Arts Commission 2004 Metro Arts Commission 2002 Nashville Arts Coalition 2005 Awards Awards Award/Recognition Organization Year Artist of the Week for "Tennessee Arts Online" Tennessee Arts Commission 2006 Featured arts group on ArtsBreak Nashville Public Television 2006 Best of Nashville-Bilingual Children Nashville Scene 2009 Summer Activity (Chinese Summer Blast) Best of Nashville-Best Food event (Chinese New Year Banquet) CAAN's director (Jen-Jen Lin) was featured at the Vanderbilt View magazine Jen-Jen Lin was the Carell Fine Arts Artist in Residence Critics' Picks on "ASIAN FUSION" dance and music production Report on CAAN's 2017 Ten Course Chinese New Year Banquet Artical on 2017 CAAN's Chinese New Year Hillsboro Villagge Nashville Scene 2011 Vanderbilt University 2012 the Harpeth Hall School 2013 Nashville Scene 2016 Green Hills News 2017 Tennessean 2017 Senior Staff Ms. Jo-Ting Wong Title Experience/Biography Administrative Assistant Administrative Assistant supports CAAN's Director on organizing events, coordinats volunteers, and assists adminitration duties as needed for Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville. 11

12 CEO Comments Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville is stretching each dollar at its budget to provide variety of arts program to all people. We would like to get enough funding and support to expand our programs and activities to let more people from the community to enjoy our arts. Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville collaborates with many organizations and out-reach to various communities including seniors, people of color, low-income communities, children, and schools in addition to the general public. 12

13 Financials Fiscal Year Fiscal Year Start Jan Fiscal Year End Dec Projected Revenue $38, Projected Expenses $38, Endowment Value $0.00 Endowment Spending Policy N/A Endowment Spending Percentage (if selected) 0% Detailed Financials Revenue and Expenses Fiscal Year Total Revenue $42,610 $41,089 $37,269 Total Expenses $39,566 $36,064 $36,944 Revenue Sources Fiscal Year Foundation and Corporation $0 $0 $0 Contributions Government Contributions $0 $0 $0 Federal $0 $0 $0 State $0 $0 $0 Local $0 $0 $0 Unspecified $0 $0 $0 Individual Contributions $10,565 $15,576 $11,606 Indirect Public Support $0 $0 $0 Earned Revenue $30,880 $25,512 $25,662 Investment Income, Net of Losses $1 $1 $1 Membership Dues $1,164 $0 $0 Special Events $0 $0 $0 Revenue In-Kind $0 $0 $0 Other $0 $0 $0 13

14 Expense Allocation Fiscal Year Program Expense $19,600 $25,031 $21,816 Administration Expense $19,966 $11,033 $15,128 Fundraising Expense $0 $0 $0 Payments to Affiliates $0 $0 $0 Total Revenue/Total Expenses Program Expense/Total Expenses 50% 69% 59% Fundraising Expense/Contributed Revenue 0% 0% 0% Assets and Liabilities Fiscal Year Total Assets $29,857 $26,814 $21,789 Current Assets $29,857 $26,814 $21,789 Long-Term Liabilities $0 $0 $0 Current Liabilities $0 $0 $0 Total Net Assets $29,857 $26,814 $21,789 Short Term Solvency Fiscal Year Current Ratio: Current Assets/Current Liabilities Long Term Solvency Fiscal Year Long-Term Liabilities/Total Assets 0% 0% 0% Top Funding Sources Fiscal Year Top Funding Source & Dollar Amount Program Revenue $30,880 Program Service Revenue $25,512 Program Service Revenue $25,662 Second Highest Funding Source & Dollar Contributions, Gifts Contributions, Gifts & Contributions, Gifts & Amount and Grants $10,565 Grants $15,576 Grants $11,606 Third Highest Funding Source & Dollar Amount Membership Dues $1,164 Investment Income $1 Investment and Interest Income $1 Capital Campaign Is the organization currently conducting a Capital Campaign for an endowment or the purchase of a major asset? No Campaign Purpose N/A Capital Campaign Goal $0.00 Capital Campaign Raised-to-Date Amount $0.00 as of 0 Capital Campaign Anticipated in Next 5 Years? No State Charitable Solicitations Permit TN Charitable Solicitations Registration - Expires June 2018 Registration No 0 Organization Comments CAAN has been using their funding wisely. CAAN has been in blue for the past several years. CAAN wishes 14

15 that their artists can be paid even up to the market rate for their artists, administrations and other personnel. CAAN wishes to move forward to pay professional artists for rehearsals in addition to the performances. CAAN continues to pay its artists for their performances. GivingMatters.com Financial Comments Financial figures are taken from the 990EZ only. 990EZ was prepared internally by nonprofit. Comment provided by Kathryn Bennett 4/17/17. Created Copyright 2018 The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee 15