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Report from the Program Committee

Mrs Lena Wong, Chair

It is my pleasure to report that the Program Committee succeeded in having another fruitful year. Once again, I would like to thank our fellow Directors for their support and all our staff members for their dedication. I would also like to welcome our new staff member, Ms Linda Wong, who started working for the Centre last December and is doing a wonderful job for the program office.

Programs and events can never be run smooth without the support of sponsors, teachers and instructors; I am most grateful to all of them. I salute all our volunteers as they have been helping us in running special events, as well as daily routine operations. Over 6000 hours were contributed to the Centre this year.

The cores of the Centre's programs in the last fiscal year included:

Chinese Cultural Courses

We have coordinated 171 courses with enrolment of 1700 students. Currently we have 17 interest classes and courses, including Ballroom Dance, Bead Ornament, Bubble Tea for Business, Cantonese for English Speakers, Cantonese Opera Singing, Cartooning for Children, Chinese Brush Painting, Chinese Ink Painting, Chinese Calligraphy, Go Chess, Mandarin for English Speakers, Martial Arts, Qi Gong for Health, Tai Chi, Tai Chi Sword/Blade and Vegetarian Cooking. As for our Chinese School, we have 35 students.

Children's Courses and Programs

Chinese-Language Summer Camp for students aged 4–15 was held in July and August 2001. Apart from the widely used Cantonese dialect, this camp introduced to student with some basic knowledge of Mandarin, therefore, the camp provided training in both dialects. Over 120 students participated in this program.

Same as the past two years, we have organized a Chinese Culture Camp for children adopted from China. The FCC Toronto Chinese Cultural Camp was held in August 2001 and again in February 2002. This eight-week camp's programs included Mandarin lessons and Chinese arts and crafts for both mothers and children.

March Break Opera Program was organized jointly with Canadian Opera Company. This program encouraged children to explore aspects of opera through an interactive and hands on approach including classes in music, drama and design. Led by professional artists a great presentation was held on the last day of the program.

Programs for our Youths

A group of 18 students joined our 4th China Study Tour and spent three weeks in four major cities of China. This trip gave them opportunities to strengthen the knowledge of Chinese Culture, to explore the career areas of international business and some Mandarin language training. This tour was definitely one of the most memorable experiences for all our participants.

We held our 2nd Chinese Canadian Youth Conference and Youth Achievement Award 2001 in November 2001. Students from various universities and high schools formed the Board of Committee with Ellen Wong and Jacky Sin as co-chairs. There were four topics for presentation in a debate format and four achievement awards were given on Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Athletics and Leadership & Community Service. The youth of the year award went to Xiao Nan Yu of National Ballet.

Our annual “Searching for our Roots” trip was held March 2002 and was led by Dr and Mrs Cheung, Our youths, Daniel Yeung, Adrian Wong and Frederick Cheung, along with Fairchild TV crew, went to Guangdong Province, China to film another set of memorable stories. Four episodes were televised. This event has proven to be most interesting and educational.

Special Events and Community Festivals and Celebrations

We have held quite a number of special events between July 2001 and June 2002. Such as, The Health Awareness Day, Hong Kong Day at Woodbine, Golf Tournament, The Hong Kong Ballet presenting The Last Emperor, The Mid-autumn Festival, Jews in Shanghai, Year of the Horse Stamp Unveiling, Chinese New Year Festival for FCC, Chinese New Year Events for CCC including ROM Friday Night, Chinese New Year Dinner and Chinese New Year Festival Celebration and Chinese New Year Arts and Crafts Service, Chinese Canadian Entrepreneur Business Conference, Orchid Show 2002, Asian Multicultural Celebration, Leaps and Bounds – Images of Chinese Women Since Foot binding Symposium, Mahjong Extravaganza and of course our Imperial Ball 2002. All these events required great efforts and manpower, my congratulations to all the chairs and appreciation to all sponsors, volunteers and our staff members.

Dr Hin-Shiu Hung Art Gallery Exhibitions

We have 17 exhibitions held over the past twelve months, of which the exhibition by Mr Pak Lee Ho, Jews in Shanghai, Mr Stephen Yau and Mr Lik Fong Ng had drawn a remarkable crowd to the Centre.