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Chinese Dough Art Returns to Athabasca

139833124979371008CIE was invited by Landing Trail Intermediate School at Athabasca to provide a Chinese culture session – Chinese Dough Art for their event “Flying High”. This is their annual cultural activity and CIE provided the support to them for the… [more]

2015 CIE Summer Camp

1c0add15-ca50-4fc5-89b6-b41d501e1827Every year, the CIE provides a one week summer camp for YCT Scholarship recipients and also Chinese Bridge Competition Winners from Elementary Schools. 2015 is the 7th year for the CIE to offer this program. About 60 students attended the… [more]

Best Wishes to Molly Wu & Uni Liu

52d339d7-dcbe-48d5-87cc-9f9e52bb5406Two of our visiting teachers from Shandong Province completed their working term at the Confucius Institute in July of 2015 and will return to China. They are Ms. Hongqian Wu (Molly) and Ms. Zhengyu Liu (Uni). Both of them came… [more]

The CIE Participates in Multicultural Day

9da5b0a4-c3d2-43c3-8dce-fcbc1de47160The CIE was invited to participate in the annual Multicultural Day event hosted by the Canadian Multicultural Education Foundation on June 27,  at Centennial Plaza located in the downtown. The purpose of this event was to provide opportunity for Edmontonians… [more]

Chinese Culture Day for Seniors

f1500350-9af7-4fa8-86ae-d97193f1946cPartnering with the Canadian Multicultural Education Foundation, the Confucius Institute in Edmonton provided one day of activities at the CIE for about 120 seniors from different parts of Edmonton, giving experiences in  Chinese culture and Chinese cultural arts. The day… [more]