Chung Wah Cultural Development and Activities 文化与活动发展部

Cultural Development and Activities Subcommittee

Chung Wah Associations cultural activities consist of the: Lion and Dragon Dance Troupe, Chinese Cultural Dance Group, Chinese Orchestra, Beijing Opera Group, Cantonese Opera Group, Line Dancing Group and New Vogue Group. Our Cultural Groups continue to complement the work of the Association in promoting Chinese culture to the wider community. Chinese New Year is always a busy time, one of the highlights being the highly successful multicultural concert of the Perth Chinese New Year Fair. The Lion and Dragon dance troupe is progressing very well under the leadership of Ben Lim. We have introduced a leadership team and stabilised the team with the same 20 members for the past three years. We have enhanced our training by inviting a Malaysian coach twice in the past year, to Perth to assist the group. Chung Wah Lion and Dragon Dance Troupe are already taking performance bookings for 2019 Chinese New Year. Two major clients, Lobster Shack in Cervantes and Fremantle Festival have already forwarded their performance requests since July this year. Yudy Kodratjaya from Westindo Group is sponsoring the team jackets and uniforms for 2019. The team is currently preparing to compete for a traditional lion dance competition overseas in April/May 2019. The Chinese Cultural Dance group 'Chung Wah Dance' continues under the direction of Jen Nie Chong, with Min Zhu as the dance teacher/choreographer. There are ten dancers who train every Saturday afternoon. Notable performances were for Ausdance Dance Day, Swan Festival of Lights, Southlands Boulevarde Shopping Centre Lunar New Year Event, City of Canning Mid Week Eats, and Corymbia Multicultural Festival, City of Cockburn China Pop Up and Coogee Live, where we danced together with an Aboriginal Dance group and didgeridoo live music. leadership role since 1/1/2018. The orchestra has attended ten performances in 2018 so far. Teresa has also organised an annual concert on the 23/9/18 for family and friends and for introducing Chinese instruments to the local community. Member numbers have increased from 14 in Term One to 26 in Term Three. Teresa has organised one professional erhu instructor to teach every second week, one student dizi instructor and one student lute instructor to teach every week. She also bought a set of PA system in order to provide more desirable outcomes for their performances. Teresa has also set the purpose for the orchestra as “Promote traditional Chinese music, Preserve cultural heritage”（宏扬华乐.继承传统）,to promote and inherit Chinese music to everyone in Perth. The Chung Wah Line Dancing Group have been very active throughout the year, dancing every Saturday and Sunday. Introducing a beginners’ session on Saturdays attracted a lot more dancers to the Saturday regular line dancing class. Due to the popularity of the line dancing held weekly at Balcatta Chung Wah Cultural Centre, it was able to contribute $11,000 towards the new stage curtains, as well as towards the general maintenance of the Cultural Centre. The Group also partially sponsored the Chung Wah Lion Dance Troupe performance uniforms. The Chung Wah New Vogue Group had been dancing for many years every Sunday at the Balcatta Chung Wah Cultural Centre.The members enjoy the dancing as well the friendship of many years dancing together. Our Beijing Opera and Cantonese Opera groups train every week and are starting to receive more performance requests. Since Zhi Chen left the Chung Wah Chinese Orchestra at the end of 2017, Teresa Tan has taken over the I would like to thank all the Chung Wah Cultural groups’ members for all their hard work over the past year.

Jen Nie CHONG Chair, Chung Wah Cultural Development and Activities

中华文化与活动发展部 中华会馆的文化团体包括：龙狮团，中华舞蹈团，民 乐团，京剧社，粤剧社，排排舞和新时尚舞蹈。我们的文 化团体不断的补充扩大，成为会馆向更广泛的多元文化 社区推广及传播中华文化的主力军。中国新年永远是一 个热闹繁忙的时期，其中一个亮点是珀斯中华新年文化 节系列活动之一的，广受喜爱的大型多元文化“开幕式” 文艺演出。 中华龙狮团在团长林民耀(BenLim)先生的领导下， 进展非常顺利。过去三年里，龙狮团引入了一支领导团 队，并与20名龙狮队员们一起稳健成长。在过去一年 中，我们两次邀请马来西亚教练到珀斯指导我团的训 练，从而进一步的提升了我们的狮艺功底。中华龙狮 团已经开始为2019年春节进行表演预订。自今年7月 以来，两个龙狮团的主要客户-西澳龙虾工厂（Lobster Shack）及弗里曼特尔节（Fremantle Festival）已经 向我团预订了新年的醒狮表演。来自Westindo集团的 Yudy Kodratjaya先生慷慨赞助了龙狮团2019年的夹克 和制服。该队目前正在为参加2019年4月至 5月的海外传 统舞狮比赛进行相关的训练和准备。 中国民族舞蹈团（中华舞蹈）继续在张娟妮（Jen Nie Chong）女士的领导下，在舞蹈教师朱敏的指导下有 声有色的进行着，每周六下午有10位舞者在进行舞蹈排 练。特别值得一提的表演包括Ausdance舞蹈日、Swan of Lights、Southlands Boulevarde购物中心农历新年 庆祝活动、Canning市Mid Week Eats活动、Corymbia 多元文化节、Cockburn市China Pop Up以及在Coogee Live节日当天，我们在神奇的澳州土著乐器迪吉里杜管 的现场演奏中，与原住民舞蹈团一起载歌载舞。 自陈志先生于2017年底卸任中华民乐团团长以来， 王惠兰（Teresa Tan）女士于2018年1月1日起担任领导 角色。今年来，民乐团已参加了10场演出。王惠兰女士

还于今年9月23日为家人和会员朋友组织了一年一度的 音乐会，并向当地社区介绍了中国乐器。会员数量从第 一学期的14个增加到第三学期的26个。她精心组织了几 名专业的乐器老师为学生们授课，例如每两周授课一次 的专业二胡教练以及每周一次的在读笛子教练和在读琵 琶教练。此外，她还购买了一套音响系统，以便为民乐团 的演出带来更加完美理想的演奏效果。王团长还将乐团 的目标口号定为“宏扬华乐.继承传统”，意在将中华民 乐推广给珀斯的每一个人。 中华排排舞团一直以来都非常活跃，每周六和周日 都吸引着排排舞爱好者们相约在文化中心里伴着轻松愉 快的音乐，踏出轻盈的舞步。每周六的排排舞基础课程 更是吸引了许多初学者前来加入。由于中华排排舞每周 在中华文化中心举行的活动广受欢迎，我们有幸得到中 华排排舞成员们对文化中心的维护、舞台幕帘置换及龙 狮团的表演制服的资助。 多年来，每个周日，中华新时尚舞蹈团坚持不懈地在 中华文化中心的舞池里翩翩起舞。成员们一边享受着舞 蹈带来的快乐，一边持续着团员间多年共舞的友谊。 我们的京剧和粤剧社每周都会进行训练，并开始接 受更多的表演预订。 我要感谢所有中华文化团体成员过去一年的辛勤工作!

张娟妮 中华文化与活动发展部主任