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Moving office notice |
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The CEDP Chinese Centre has moved out of the Community Base and is temporarily located at 31 Davigdor Road, Hove. We are aiming to move into the BMECP Resource Centre around September this year. Please note that the Chinese Centre is not a drop-in centre until it’s properly relocated. All of the activities and events will be held outside the office. Please see notice of each event for details. Sincere apologies for any inconvenience this might cause. |
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Chinese New Year 2008 |
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The Chinese New Year 2008 Project was a great success. The atmosphere of Chinese New Year in the city was strong and cheerful due to a variety of activities we held before 17th February. The event at the Dome was very popular, during the height of the performances audience numbers exceeded the capacity of the venue. The lantern parade made a perfect finale with 150 beautiful festive lanterns held by joyful children, while colourful dragons and lions dancing along side. Both television and newspapers reported on the success, including ITV, BBC, the Argus and others, including very positive comments, write-ups, photographs and vibrant film footage.
This year’s celebration had been developed to include city-wide events. Side events included the HK artist exhibition in the Phoenix Gallery, the Mayor’s Chinese New Year reception, a business seminar, the Chinese traditional craft workshops at Brighton Museum and school workshops on Chinese arts and culture with more than 3,800 students involved.
We had the widest partnership this year, including Brighton and Hove City Council, Brighton and Hove Chinese Society, Same Sky, Yellow Earth, China Now, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton Museum, Brighton Dome, Pavilion Gardens and Icon Productions.
This year’s event was sponsored by the Arts Council, Brighton and Hove City Council, University of Brighton, University of Sussex, Varndean College and Mott MacDonald Ltd.
We would also like to thank all of the volunteers’ intense hard work—their kind contribution was crucial to the whole event. |
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'Explore the Difference' School Programme |
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Explore the Difference is the Chinese language, culture and arts in UK schools programme. The development of the programme reflects the rise in demand for Chinese in this country. It includes Chinese Day Workshops, Chinese Clubs and extensive Chinese language tuition in schools.
We run the Explore the difference programme Sussex wide and have recently decided to expand the programme to reach an even wider geographical audience, due to increasing demand and popularity. Students have had great fun and been culturally enriched exploring many activities including, Chinese language, calligraphy, martial arts, lion dancing, paper crafts and dragon making. They have also enjoyed Chinese traditional stories and films, playing Chinese games and eating Chinese food the Chinese way!
With Beijing Olympics fever increasing as we near August we have many Chinese Days booked in June and July. Our team is very excited and busily preparing for the coming wave of events. |
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Mandarin and Chinese Culture course with the University of Brighton |
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The summer term Mandarin and Chinese Culture course has started. This adult evening course is run with the University of Brighton for anyone wanting to learn about Chinese language and culture. All our tutors have a solid teaching background and the classroom assistants are friendly and professional to assist with study. We also organise social events to practice Chinese in a real environment, which is always fun and encouraging for the learners. The cultural sessions include both traditional and updated topics. Speakers with real experience are invited to give talks regularly. |
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Education and culture exchange
and potential China Town |
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Organized by CEDP-Chinese
Centre and hosted by UK International Education
Alliance Ltd, Shan Dong University of Light Industry,
president Prof. Yan and senior staff of the university
visited University of Sussex, University of Brighton
and City College in Brighton and Hove. The Mayor
of Brighton and Hove city council councillor Carol
Theobald and councillor who is in charge of cultural
and communication attended the lunch meeting at
the Emperor of China on 6th July 2007. Discussion
including the education and culture exchange programmes
and potential business development regarding the
investment of China Town plan in Brighton, which
was carried on by both parties. The meeting also
involved well established investment company from
China -- board director of the company Mrs Zhen
Qian. She is very interested in setting up sister
city link between Brighton and NanTong city and
bringing new business into Brighton. It shows
the bright future for the development of new business
links. |
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Chinese language and arts in school programmes. |
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Following the successful Chinese school day
in St. Nicolas and St. Mary’s School, CEDP --
Chinese Centre runs another two "Chinese
Days" at Cross-in-hand and the Forest School
for boys. Over 1000 students in these three
schools experienced the Chinese lion dance,
language, music, films, KongFu, TaiChi, painting,
paper cutting, trying costumes, games, workshops
and wonderful Chinese food. Most of them have
tried almost everything. They really enjoyed
the language and cultural activities and some
of them had showed their interest and have joined
and will join Chinese lunch and after school
clubs delivered by professional training at
CEDP- Chinese Centre. More schools will be invited
to include the "Chinese Day" programme
into their school this September.
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Children Club and Arts Group activities |
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Chinese lion dance and traditional
dance are always welcomed by people. Our Children
Saturday club and members of CEDP arts group which
joined the Hasting Festival (need correct name
for it) and were the most popular programmes there.
Children and young people worked extremely hard
as a team and presented their achievement not
only in this festival, but also in the Brighton
Carnival on 22 July 2007 and Music Festival on
20th Oct 2007. Workshops in related areas will
be run for Chinese and none-Chinese young people
to develop new performances aimed at the Chinese
New Year 2008 on the 17th Feb 2008 in the Dome.
The workshops are funded, everyone is welcome. |
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Chinese Language and culture
training run in the Chinese Centre and schools |
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To meet the needs of Chinese
language learning, there are over 6 different
levels of Chinese courses run by professional
teachers from CEDP Chinese Centre. Courses will
be run in the Chinese Centre, local primary, secondary
schools and colleges, and the University of Brighton.
They include from short courses such as "Fun
Chinese for Kids", to New Concept Chinese,
Chinese GCSE, A-level leading to HSK ( Chinese
government run Chinese profession exam recognized
internationally) and Chinese diploma course have
and will be run in Brighton and Hove. Which students
have enjoyed very much. We are hoping to get over
1000 learners to be involved and support them
to the degree level in the Sussex area. |
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Life in the UK training programme |
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To support Chinese community members understanding
of the systems in the UK, to educate them in becoming
good British citizens, the "Life in the UK"
training has been run by professional teacher
Nancy -- CEDP co-ordinator since March 2007. So
far, there are 6 people have passed the first
three months training. The test is run by British
official testing centre. We will carry on running
this type of trainings and will be able to deliver
related trainings for all levels in your needs. |
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University Link Programme |
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Arranging by CEDP -Chinese Centre,
sponsored by UK International Education Alliance
Ltd. the Deputy president of Guang Xi University
(P.R.China) Prof. WeiYi Huang visited the University
of Sussex and the University of Brighton. Staff
and students from Brighton and Sussex University
have visited Guang Xi University in the past two
years. This visit will empower not only those in
the academic field, but also those in education
with culture exchange links for both Universities.
The first group of Guang Xi University students
will arrive in Brighton for a three weeks experience
of the city, starting from 23 July. They will enjoy
their stay not only as English learners, but also
as culture ambassadors for GuangXi University. |
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More activities |
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Friday night activities, Saturday
Clubs for Children, young people, women and elder
people in Chinese language, culture, Royal eight
movements, TaiChi and traditional dances have been
run and will be carry on running in the CEDP Chinese
Centre. |
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