Ascend New England × Bamboo Circle Winter Soirée

Ascend New England and BCNC’s Bamboo Circle share a Winter Soirée Thursday, December 3, 2026, from 6:00 to 9:00 PM at Pao Arts Center, 99 Albany Street in Chinatown. Food and drinks are part of the night. Members are listed at $20; non-members at $25. Ticket proceeds go to Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center’s work with recent immigrant families. Ascend’s page still says registration details are coming soon—watch that URL for checkout rather than inventing a third-party ticket link. BCNC also points people to its Amazon gift list for holiday wishes; that ask sits beside the ticket, not instead of it.

Ascend is the national pan-Asian professional network. New England already used Pao Arts for its September ERG Summit, so Albany Street is familiar geography for chapter regulars. Bamboo Circle is BCNC’s network of young professionals ages 21 to 35 who support the Chinatown neighborhood center. Putting them together means corporate Ascend members and Chinatown-serving volunteers share one room. The night before, AREPA’s CRE holiday is at Democracy Brewing; this is the community-and-career Chinatown stop.

Early- and mid-career Asian professionals who want a low ticket that funds BCNC will fit. A members-only MassBio badge the following week or a ten-seat SABA dinner will not feel like Pao Arts. Confirm dress and capacity when Ascend opens registration.

Pao Arts sits on Chinatown / Tufts Medical T geography. Intimate soirées fill once checkout goes live, so move when the Ascend form appears. Keep the confirmation email; treat the Amazon gift list as optional philanthropy on top of the door price.