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SAN GABRIEL VALLEY CHINESE CULTURAL ASSOCIATION (SGVCCA)

Home to Southern California’s longest steam-breathing Chinese Dragon!


The San Gabriel Valley Chinese Cultural Association was founded in 1968 to share and preserve Chinese culture, and to share these interests with the community at large. SGVCCA is a family-oriented organization, dedicated to teaching cultural classes such as lion and dragon dancing, instrumentation, Chinese watercolor, calligraphy, martial arts, and crafts for all ages. 

The SGVCCA Youth group represents the future leaders of the organization. Its goal is to develop leadership qualities that will help youth members become well-rounded and successful individuals through teamwork. A major part of developing these skills is by the numerous public and private events it partakes in, such as participating in local parades and events, and even appearing in TV shows, such as Law and Order: Las Vegas, Good Day LA, a Maroon 5 music video, UPS commercial, L.A. Clippers half-time shows, and many more. It also performs in numerous events like grand openings and private weddings.

In addition, SGVCCA has been the only group that has a steam blowing, custom-made Chinese dragon in Southern and Northern California.  If you have seen a red and black dragon that blows steam from its mouth, you would have encountered SGVCCA’s Barney.

With great pride in our history, we invite you to join the family!

 
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Lion Dance

What is lion dancing?

Lion dancing is a traditional dance in Chinese culture and other Asian countries in which performers mimic a lion’s movements in a lion costume (on the right) to bring good luck and fortune.

We teach classes that consist of lion dance fundamentals, instruments (that go along with lion dancing), and exercising!

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Dragon Dance

About once every other year SGVCCA teaches people of all ages how to dragon dance. Performers dragon dance with a dragon (on the left) and hold the pole with two hands, moving the poles and dragon a certain way to do tricks.

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