Arab TV


Arab TV is a 30-minute weekly TV program intended to spread the word to our fellow Americans about the Arab heritage, culture and our activities as loyal Americans. In short, the Program is intended to let everybody know that we exist. ATV is open to include programs about other groups of the community. You may watch our Program every Thursday at 8:30 pm on the San Jose COMCAST Community Channel number 15 and various episodes online. AACC-SV Board member Mr. Vic Zikoor run the ATV Program.

You can help Keep ATV alive, here is how:

Any tax deductible donation to AACC is welcomed. You will get a DVD copy of your favorite program.

  • Make a tax deductible $500 or more donations to AACC. Your name will be listed as a supporter in the program credits. You will get a DVD copy of two programs
  • Make a tax deductible $1000 or more donations to AACC. Your name will be listed as a supporter in the program credits for 1 year. You will get a DVD copy of four programs.
  • Make a tax deductible $1500 or more Donation to AACC. Your name will be listed as a supporter in the program credits for 1 year. ATV will record a program about you and or your work.
  • Make a $10,000 Tax deductible donation to AACC, you will get all the above benefits but you will be listed as a life time supporter to ATV.

To donate email us at info @ aaccsv dot org with the subject line: “AACCSV DONATION”

Vic Zikoor
AACC VP/ATV Director

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Membership

Why Be a Member?

The center was established in 1987, to serve the social and political needs of the local Arab community. The current members of the Arab American Cultural Center (AACC) are vigilantly working to develop a unified Arab-American center for cultural learning and recreation. Built for all ages, the AACC asks for your help with the development and improvement of such a center.

Accomplishments already performed by the AACC include but not limited to:

  • The AACC has conducted several interviews with local televisions channels 2, 5, and 11, met with important newspapers such as the SF Chronicle and the San Jose Mercury News, and given lectures at local schools, mosques and churches.
  • The AACC joined with the Republican Arab American Committee (RAAC) in an effort to educate Bay Area residents of their voting rights, and to highlight issues discussed by Arab American nominees and other candidates.
  • The organization held several social and political events
  • Managed the Arab TV (ATV), which shows once every week. The ATV personnel have interviewed many dignitaries from the Bay Area such as Mayor Ron Gonzales, the Sheriff, the District Attorney, the FBI and many others. ATV covers about 150,000 houses from all different cultural backgrounds.
  • Helped a number of Arab refugees to settle in this area.

The AACC is planning a multitude of events ranging from dance and Arabic classes to voter education. By providing these extra-curricular activities to the Arab community, this center will become an essential component in presenting the Arab American generations. In order for this center to succeed, it needs YOU, the Arab community, to make it happen! Volunteers, educators, donations, and much more are crucial to making the AACC flourish. Volunteers are needed to fill the many available positions. Arab Americans must come together in these times of political injustice and rally together to enlighten the general public of their many causes.

How to Become a Member

Membership to the center is opened for all Arab Americans and their family and friends. A membership will allow you to vote, to use the different facilities of the center, will save you money with our activities discounts and it is tax deductible. Your membership will take us a long way in our effort to help the community.

Membership Levels

  • Family - $40.00 / year
  • Single - $25.00 / year

    • Please send your membership contribution with your name, address and email to our address:

    Arab American Cultural Center of Silicon Valley
    416 Park Ave., San Jose, CA 95110

    408-279-2722

Welcome

Mission Statement

Our Mission is to promote all different aspects of the Arabic culture and language to the community at large, and to organize and strengthen the Arab-Americans through advocacy of civil rights and access to referral community services.

This Website

In a continued effort to serve the Arab American community we are currently upgrading our web site to include many ways to keep community members such as yourself more in touch with the events and services that we, and other like minded organizations offer. Please check back often as we will be adding a great deal of information in the weeks ahead.

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About the AACC

Who We Are

The Arab American Cultural Center (AACC) of Silicon Valley, is a fledgling organization founded in 1989 to serve the needs of the expanding Arab American Community in the South Bay Area. An estimated 30,000 Arab Americans currently reside in the greater San Jose area. These include both native-born Arab Americans and recent immigrants who arrive almost daily in the South Bay, to study, live, work, and join their families. The center became a non-profit organization in 1996 under the umbrella of Arab American Congress Organization. The AACC of Silicon Valley became an independent entity in June 2004, retaining its 501 3c non-profit status.

Our Mission

The Arab American Cultural Center’s mission is to promote all different aspects of the Arabic culture and language to the community at large, and to organize and strengthen the Arab Americans through advocacy of civil rights and access to referral community services.

Our Services

The AACC is always striving to serve the community in every sense of the word. The services currently being offered are as follows:

  1. Represent the Arab American community to all media sources.
  2. Educate the community about their voting rights.
  3. Assist new immigrants with different community referral services from legal, to business, to medical, such as Healthy Family Program for health coverage.
  4. Conduct Arabic language classes.
  5. Manage and sponsor the Arab TV program in San Jose.
  6. Monthly Social and Educational events.
  7. Participate in multicultural events throughout the Bay Area.
  8. Annual summer picnic held in June.
  9. Annual fall banquet held in October.

AACC CONTACT INFORMATION

ARAB AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER of Silicon Valley ( AACC )
416 Park Ave., San Jose, CA 95110.
Telephone: 408-279-2722