On October 20, the Confucius Institute hosted a Chinese teacher training session on the subject of Chinese teaching resources. The special guests were Ms. Ma Yamin and Ms. Li Xinying from Iceland International School of Hong Kong, who are the… [more]
From October 15 to 17 in Calgary, the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada hosted a conference entitled “Canada’s Asia Challenge: Knowledge and Skills for the Nest Generation”. Dr. Wei Li attended the conference on behalf of the Confucius Institute in… [more]
On October 19. 2014, St. Pauls United Church held the annual celebration of Women’s Day. The CIE was invited to provide a workshop on Chinese knots. Chinese Knots are one of the Chinese traditional handcrafts, which symbolizes good fortune and… [more]
The Confucius Institute provides free Chinese culture workshops and sessions to schools. Every year, the CIE teachers visit more than 35 schools to provide a variety of Chinese culture sessions, including, Chinese dough art, paper cutting, Chinese knots, calligraphy, Chinese… [more]
The Confucius Institute was invited to provide the Chinese cultural support to Edmonton Chinatown Senior Care Center on the occasion of their 10th Anniversary celebration. Three teachers from the Confucius Institute participated in this event and they displayed the Chinese… [more]
During Reading Week, teachers from the CIE were invited to go to schools to read Chinese stories for the students. Kathy Guo and Steven Sun went to Kildare School and did the Chinese stories to lower grades as well as… [more]