Asian Culture Center of TN

Asian Culture Center of TN

Asian Culture Center of TN

Asian Culture Center of TN

Asian Culture Center of TN

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Our Mission

Our mission is to create a welcoming community by sharing our Asian Arts and Cultures. The Festival strives to bring together people from various cultural backgrounds, to promote peace, harmony, unity and a healthy lifestyle. We are promoting a diverse and harmonious society that prepares today’s children to take the stage as true global citizens.

This project was supported in part by federal award number 21.027 awarded to Knox County by the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Arts & Culture Alliance.

About Kumi Alderman

Executive Director

Kumi Alderman graduated from Yamaguchi University  in Business/ Accounting degree. Then she traveled all over the world as a Tour Conductor based in Tokyo, Japan. Learning about many different belief systems, arts, and lifestyles, she came to realize that people are essentially the same beneath their skin and their layers of culture.

In the last ten years of organizing the Knox Asian Festival, Kumi has manifested her passion of bringing the richness of traditional Asian arts and culture to the mountains of East Tennessee. She hopes to ignite imaginations and inspire, especially the younger generations, believing that mutual understanding is the foundation for world peace.

On November 20th, 2018, Kumi was presented with the Certificate of Commendation by the Consulate General of Japan in Nashville for her distinguished service in contributing to the deepening of mutual understanding and friendship between Japan and Knoxville.

Currently, Kumi serves on the boards of the University of Tennessee Knoxville’s Institute for Public Service and Knoxville Community Media. She is also a member of the Chief of Security Advisory Council on Diversity for Knox County Schools, and serves on the Counselor Advisory Board at Cedar Bluff Middle School.

Her dream is to build on the incredible successes of the Knox Asian Festival to create an Asian Culture Center in Knoxville.

About David Gras

Board Advisor

Dr. David Gras holds a PhD in Entrepreneurship from Syracuse University, an MS in Marketing from Clemson University, and a BA in Management from Texas A&M University. His research focuses on the antecedents of business performance and competitive advantage. Within these areas, Dr. Gras explores the financial impacts of corporate social responsibility, new venture diversification, strategic decisions, and entrepreneurial characteristics. Dr. Gras has taught numerous classes in entrepreneurship (e.g. introduction to entrepreneurship; opportunity recognition; values-centered entrepreneurship) and strategic management at the University of Connecticut, Syracuse University, and Texas Christian University.

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Our Impact

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Our History

The Asian Culture Center of TN (ACCTN) was founded in 2014 with the aim of promoting culture, diversity, and unity in the community. There is so much that a community benefits from every time there is a cultural event organized. People not only develop an open mind about other people and their cultures, but the host community also becomes a center of interest for individuals and organizations looking to boost the economic capacity of that particular community. Therefore, as a highly focused organization interested in developing cultural diversity and understanding in our Tennessee community, we have strongly focused on popularizing Asian culture, which has grown popular in the area.

Our Educational Program

 Japanese Outreach Initiative

Help us to create a Japan Outreach initiative program. During their two-year placement with your organization, JOI coordinators enhance the local community’s understanding of Japan by expanding outreach programming beyond the current capabilities of the hosting organizations. The program also helps to cultivate a new group of individuals in both Japan and the U.S. who will take leading roles in grassroots exchange.From planting elementary school students’ first seeds of interest in Japan to strengthening sister city/state relationships and linking high schools and colleges with partner institutions in Japan, JOI coordinators bring Japan and the U.S. closer, one person at a time.

Our Upcoming Events

11th Knox Asian Festival

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What We Do

We promote Unity and advocate for global citizenship. When we become “global” citizens, i.e., citizens of the world with mutual obligations for the benefit of others beyond our national borders. Others assert that an education for “global citizenship” is essential for young people if they are to gain the skills, attributes and knowledge necessary to be successful in their chosen careers. Still others claim that global citizenship is the status of being when one’s identity transcends, even as it respects, geographical and national borders; that one’s social, political, environmental and economic actions occur in an interdependent world; and that one’s responsibilities or rights are or can be derived from membership in a broader human grouping, feeling welcome and at home wherever we find ourselves.

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