The FCC confusion

Now, this is going to be a rather confusing entry. Even for me, as a former president of the Shanghai Foreign Correspondents Club, it took a while to get all this. When I returned to Shanghai at the end of last year some FCC-board members said they were really upset that another club, the Foreign Culture Club at Julu Lu, had taken over this famous acronym that belongs to the foreign journalistic community. Well, that has not stopped them from organizing meetings there now too.
Anyway, I was scanning the internet in vain today for any online rumors on the FCC in Shanghai, when I stumbled into the FCClub in Shanghai, who is throwing a really nice get-together coming Tuesday. Now, they do not explain what FCC stands for, but it really seems to have a nice sound.

FC Club Media Night brings together journalists, publishers, editors, communications and marketing & sales professionals, artists, designers, photographers, amateur media creators, public relationship, advertising & events professionals and other interested collaborators. Essentially the people who create and consume media who have an interest in seeing the ‘media industry' evolve for everyone's benefit. We are the people who communicate our thoughts and ideas near and far.

That is how you sell an event. When I checked it, the event had close to one hundred people who rsvp-ed already.
Unfortunately, the Shanghai FCC is having is anual membership meeting - in a desperate effort to survive in a fast changing media landscape - in this other FCC at Julu Lu. (I hope you are still with me).
Both meetings I cannot attend, because of too many other obligations, but it would be tough to make a choice here.