In a two-part event series, JUCCCE collaborated with Paul and Rob from Trendformers to create a discussion in the Shanghai community revolving around how to define culture in a city. The event culminated in an interactive public graffiti art event at 50 Moganshan Road, near Changhua road. The first part was an open workshop led by Program Director Lucy Luo and facilitated by JUCCCErs, which was held at Slurp! Restaurant at Changping Road on the 17th June 2015. It was a loosel

Olympic bronze medalist in sailing and two-time winner of the America’s Cup Craig Monk spoke to JUCCCErs about his experiences as a world-class sailor in the Shanghai office on June 16th, 2015 . He shared with us the rigorous level of competition associated with high-level sailing, the ingenuity of modern boat design, and the potential for sailing to transform the culture of a city. Did you know boats could fly? In high-level competitive races, 40 meter boats worth tens of mi

On Monday, June 1st 2015, a team of JUCCCErs celebrated International Kids’ Day with a group of 36 local primary school students (黄浦区卢湾一中心小学). We hosted a series of fun activities for the kids on the ‘Eat a Rainbow Every Day’ theme to learn about the health benefits of eating different colored foods. We started with a brief presentation complete with colorful vegetable costumes. Miss Pea, Miss Carrot and Miss Banana explained links between different colors and their potential

(Note: The following post was featured in the blog section of the Huffington Post.) Chinese kids are in a health crisis. Both the chubby little Emperor in a city and the malnourished Chinese kid in a rural village suffer from the downward spiral of changing diets -- from fresh-cooked meals to processed convenience foods loaded with sugars and salts. In one generation, the percentage of Chinese children who are overweight skyrocketed from 5% to 20%. Barry Popkin, a professor o