On February 9, Concordia University of Edmonton organized a Chinese New Year celebration with more than one hundred students and staff in attendance.
The CIE was specially invited to participate. At the event, the CIE brought two performances for the celebration – a Lion Dance and Erhu (Chinese Violin) performance.
During the celebration, Chinese food was provided and attendees participated in Chinese games, like using chopsticks to pick up marbles.
All the participants enjoyed learning some new aspects of Chinese culture.
One week later, the first Mandarin and Chinese culture class started at Concordia with the support from the CIE. Now about 15 students, professors and administrators began attending the classes. Hopefully this will be the start of Chinese language and culture education at Concordia.