“Happy Chinese new year, happy Chinese new year...” , with Chinese cheerful music, the local time of February 16, Evergreen Park school was holding the  Chinese New Year Celebration with more than 800 students and teachers attending. The event was organized by Wang Jingli, a Chinese teacher volunteer of Confucius Institute in New Brunswick (CINB), and collaborating with school teachers and students. Mrs. Teng Jing, the foreign director of CINB, Chinese families and students families were invited to attend this event.

The show opened with playing a cheerful new year song and many students photos which were taken at Chinese art classes and culture classes as screen background, many smiling faces represented that they enjoyed Chinese class very much. 

Chinese new year celebration mainly included the dragon dance performance, the fabulous dragon was created by Wang Jingli, the school art teachers, and Chinese dragon club students who took 22 days to make it. After that, under the leading of G1 students, all the teachers and students danced together.

Chinese club students had a Chinese new year presentation to show out the customs and characteristics of Chinese new year to audience and performed a fan dance “Chun Xiao”. G5 students performed a Chinese poetry reciting “Climbing Guanque Building”, “A Tranquil Night” and “The Willow”, accompanied by melodious classical music slowly outflow, Chinese landscape pictures, the students clear pronunciation brought the audience into the unique artistic conception. Then, music teachers and two students brought the solo musical instrument play, Chinese folk song “Jasmine flower”, Canadian folk song “Red river valley” and “Croatian rhapsody”. The melodies were beautiful, the rhythms were distinct, each had its own characteristics, the teachers and students were applauding with music beat.

Chinese and foreign students performed Chinese calligraphy with Mrs. Wang’s classical “Jing hong dance”. The three students held up calligraphy works and wished all the people “Happy Spring Festival, good luck the year of the dog, the blessing of a hundred lucks”.

At the end of the show, more than 800 people sang “Chinese happy new year" song. During the Chinese cultural question-and-answer session, hundreds of students raised their hands to answer questions. The principal sent gifts of red envelope to the students who answered right. The scene was very lively.

 Finally, Mrs Panagiotakis, the principal of Evergreen Park school said a few of words to express her gratitude, “ thanks to the support of CINB, offered a very good opportunity to teachers and students to understand Chinese colorful culture, make them had a real sense of “Chinese new year”. She also expressed her willingness to strengthen cooperation with the CINB and continued to carry out the Chinese program. She said “happy New Year” in Chinese to the audience to express the New Year's blessing. The school's New Year celebration ended successfully.

After the event, CINB received congratulations and thanks from the Chinese community families. Due to the help of CINB, not only make more Chinese children identity to inherit their own Chinese culture, but also for local children to learn more about the Chinese culture, with an open mind to accept and embrace difference. They also expressed their willingness to help and support the program and wished the CINB a better development in the new year.

常青园学校八百余人热闹欢庆“中国新年”

      “欢乐中国年，欢乐欢乐中国年......”伴着欢快的新年音乐，当地时间2月16日常青园校内张灯结彩，热闹非凡，全校800多名师生正“欢度中国新年”。本次活动由新布伦瑞克省孔院汉语教师志愿者王静丽教师组织，与该校师生合作举办。新省孔院外方院长滕菁女士，当地多数华人家庭，外国学生家庭应邀参加。

      活动开场，舞台背景随着音乐节奏播放着学生在汉语文化、艺术课以及活动前的准备工作照片，一张张开心的笑脸流露出学生们对汉语课和中国文化的喜爱之情。新年活动主要包括《龙舞》表演，由志愿者教师王静丽、该校艺术老师及中国龙俱乐部学生22天合作打造的“中国龙”首秀，并在一年级学生的领舞下，全校师生跳起了《中国新年之龙舞》的舞蹈；汉语文化俱乐部学生奉上了中国新年介绍，向全校师生讲解、展示了中国新年的风俗习惯和特色，之后在王老师和EA老师的带领下，表演了扇子舞《春晓》；五年级学生带来了唐诗朗诵《登鹳雀楼》《静夜思》和《咏柳》，悠扬的古典音乐缓缓流出，配上中国风景图画，学生们字正腔圆的诵读把现场观众带入了别样的意境之中；接着，由音乐教师和两名中外学生分别带来了乐器独奏，中国民歌《茉莉花》，加拿大民歌《红河谷》和《克罗地亚狂想曲》。曲调优美，节奏鲜明、各具特色，伴着音乐节拍，在座师生纷纷鼓掌；中外学生带来的书法展示及王老师的《惊鸿舞》把此次节目推向高潮，三位学生高举书法作品，预祝所有人“春节快乐，狗年大吉，百福呈祥”；临近节目最后，八百余人齐唱《新年快乐》歌曲；在中国新年和文化问答环节，数百名学生举手抢答，校长向学生送上新年红包礼物，全场笑语不断、掌声连连、好不热闹。

      最后校长致词，常青园学校校长Mrs. Panagiotakis 向新布伦瑞克省孔院表达了感谢，感谢新省孔院的项目支持，让全校师生了解了丰富多彩的中国文化，过了一次真正有意义的“中国年”。她表示愿加强与新省孔院合作，继续开展中文项目。最后用汉语“新年好”向在场观众表达了新年的祝福。至此，常青园学校新年庆祝活动圆满落幕。

      活动结束后，新省孔院收到了华人社区家庭的祝贺和感谢，感谢在新省孔院的帮助下，使得更多华人孩子认同并传承中国文化，同时也让当地更多的孩子能够了解了中国文化，以开放心态接纳和拥抱不同。并表示愿意支持孔院项目，预祝新省孔院在新的一年有更好的发展。