The Clarkston Community Center is a place where all residents of Clarkston and surrounding neighborhoods can come together to build a cohesive and successful community. The CCC strives to accomplish this by providing arts, sports, community development, educational and health programming that engages the diverse interests and needs of the local population.
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Yes 4 Health Teen Drama
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Up Coming Events
1st Annual Bridal and Fashion Show
Sunday - Jan. 17th / 4PM - 9PM
Food Samples Live Music and DJ Silent Auction Bridal & Consignment Fashions Cash Bar Groom's Cake Contest Door Prizes Jewelry Photographers Portrait Artists Complimentary massages ... and much more!
U.S. Census Bureau training
Jan. 7
Jan. 28
Theater du Reve
March 22 More information coming soon!
WRFG Bluegrass Festival
April 3, 2010 Please check back periodically as more information becomes available
Yoga Classes forming at CCC.
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Take Tina Rhythm Workshop coming 2010
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Computer Classes
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Summer Camp 2010
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Past Events
Hands On Atlanta Day
Home Depot / Woodstock
U.S. Census Bureau
Mayoral Debate
Summer Camp 2009
Bluegrass Festival 2009
Take Tina 2009
Oak Groove United Methodist Church assistance with clean-up
Last Updated on Tuesday, 05 January 2010 21:53
Soccer Youth Hit Goals on CCC Field
Youth, coaches, parents gather during Jan. 19 annual soccer tourney at Clarkston Community Center
More than 80 neighborhood children and teenagers from dozens of countries met on the soccer field at the Clarkston Community Center (CCC) Jan. 19, on a holiday that honors the United States' greatest civil rights campaigner, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The 5-a-side tournament, the fourth annual event, was open to boys and girls ages 6 and up, and was the first event on the field since it was resodded by some 150 volunteers brought together by KaBOOM, a nonprofit that creates safe places to play.
The tournament came the day before the inauguration of President Barack Obama, who, as an African-American, could not have been elected to the most powerful office in the world just forty years ago in Dr. King's time.
"Here we are in the middle of a multicultural neighborhood, on the King Day holiday, one day ahead of the inauguration of the first African-American president. We want to celebrate with something for the kids to do," said John O'Kelley, Executive Director of the Clarkston Community Center.
Much of Clarkston's international population arrived as refugees from other countries, survivors of the kind of violence that Dr. King condemned throughout his career. As part of the event, the CCC installed artwork on the soccer field fence showing the flags of the 30+ nationalities living in the area, including Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Burma and Somalia as well as the United States.
The CCC's partners in the tournament included Soccer in the Streets, the International Community School (ICS) in Decatur and the Decatur-DeKalb YMCA. Soccer in the Streets is an Atlanta-based nonprofit that uses soccer to teach life skills to "at-risk" kids in urban communities. ICS is a charter school, founded on a vision of the "Beloved Community" in which all people share in the wealth of the world, a vision popularized by Dr. King. The school is the setting of a yearlong profile of a refugee student by the Christian Science Monitor, at www.csmonitor.com/littlebillclinton.
2008 "Neighborhood Builder" Award to CCC
Bank of America Georgia President Milton H. Jones, Jr (left) and Shirley Mitchell, Market Development Manager, present CCC's John O'Kelley a welcome check.
The Clarkston Community Center was selected by the Bank of America Charitable Foundation, Inc. as a 2008 Neighborhood Builder award recipient under its Neighborhood of Excellence Initiative. The CCC was one of two winners selected from over 80 Atlanta non-profit competitors for this prize. In connection with this initiative, the CCC will receive $200,000 in core operating support ($100,000 annually for two years).