On October 1, the Confucius Institute in Edmonton hosted the CIE Open House to celebrate the 4th Global Confucius Institute Day.
CIE prepared a variety of Chinese culture activities, such as performances, acupressure workshop, Chinese massage, Chinese traditional consultation, taste of China, Chinese dance, ping pong, Chinese traditional handcrafts and games, etc. More than 300 people attended this event.
Mr. Orville Chubb, trustee of EPSB, Dr. Lorne Parker, executive director of EPSB, Mr. Stephen Tsang, former president of ECBEA and Dr. Tian Liang, special Chinese adviser of Alberta Education, also attended the open house and also brought their greetings at the opening ceremony. They all expressed their appreciation of all the strong support from CIE to the Chinese language and culture programs at schools as well as at communities.
Many students from different Confucius Classrooms performed at the opening ceremony and also helped as the volunteers.
The open house was well received by the students, parents, teachers and local people and they were looking forward to coming back again next year.