2008 : Year of Rat

Chinese New Year Celebration featuring children games and folk art

Food, Drink, Game, Learning, Prize

Objectives:

1. Provide students an excellent opportunity for planning, collaboration and participation, as well as exercising their Chinese skill in a real event
2. Allow students to have an in-depth understanding of Chinese culture
3. Improve students communication, presentation and negotiation skills in Chinese, as well as their know-how on Chinese etiquette
4. Train students on teamwork, organizing skills and other social skills
5. Improve parents-children and classmates relationships

Take a look of last year’s event: 2007, year of pig, new year celebration photo gallery

Now have a sneak preview of this year’s: 

For this year’s celebration event, Metro Square had Mr. Chen Chih-Feng specially design a set of 12 zodiac logo art inspired by children drawing and folk art.  All event posters, flyers, game passes, game site door frames / props and stage settings are featuring this special set of zodiac logos, and this set of zodiac logos alone will get your appreciation just by looking at them.  Mr. Chen is professional 2D designers, besides designing corporation branding/marketing artwork, he has helped many students get into the some prestigious art schools.  Below are the 12 lovely zodiac logos:

Stage Performance Menu and Brief Description

Standing 2-man comedy performed by Westerner and CBC:

Jamie Rodrigues, Financial industry professional, 3-year Chinese learning, partners with Jessica Wu, Chinese school veteran.  They will showcase their fluent Mandarin Chinese, guitar and flute skills.  You will have some idea on the hot trend of overseas Chinese learning and coolnss of mastering Chinese language.

1^st image at right: folk dancing educated Jessica is teaching Jamie traditional fan dance
2^nd image at right: Jessica and Jamie are having an interview from Toronto Chinese radio station – CCB

Singing & Dancing by “White Horse”: check out Westerner’s English/Chinese bilingual skills

Michael Schad, student of Ms. Li Jingming (?) in Upper Canada College, runner-up of street dancing competition, and also naming himself “white horse” in Chinese, will play guitar and sing a Chinese song (translated from its original English version)  he learnt from his Chinese class and finish up with street dancing with Chinese pop music.

Lion Dance by CBC:

CBC (Canada Born Chinese) Qin Yiming and Qing Yijin (?), sister and brother, have learnt many years of Chinese Kungfu.  They are regular performers for various events in Canada and USA.

Watch animation and learn Chinese:

former radio host Ms. Huang Lihua (?), uses animation to tell you stories and asks questions.  You answer the questions in Chinese, first correct answer will win you a prize.  Let’s see how good your Chinese is.

Chinese traditional music instruments performance:

Featuring Yang Qin, Er Hu and Gu Zheng, by 3 very young performers, Chinese traditional music makes this overseas Chinese New Year event more “China-ish”.

Danforth Angels Choir: smile and voice from a group of 3-year-old

Ms. Julia Song's 3-year-old singers always win the loudest applause. 

Led by the seniors: crafting, singing, dancing

“China Knot” artist, close to 80-year-old Ms. Zhang Guizheng(?) will sing and dance to celebrate the New Year and teach everyone how to stay young and active

Game Sites Description:

After passing the following 12 game sites and have your game pass stamped, you can go to prize claim section to try your luck.  Pick a gold coin from 300 holes, the number on the gold coin is the prize number.  This “hole poking” prize claiming brought lots of excitement to the participants last year, and everybody thinks it’s “cooler” than regular lucky draw box.