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We wish to congratulate Danny Quon for being elected Lion Dance Director for the Hon Hsing organization. Danny has supported us in many events and has encouraged closer ties between our groups. In his new role, we look forward to continue working closely with him.

Happy New Year! We hope everyone enjoyed the holidays and is looking forward to a new year filled with fun challenges and exciting new opportunities.

Already we have a special Lion Dance performance scheduled for this upcoming Saturday evening, and looking further ahead we have the annual Chinatown New Year Parade, which is a huge event that celebrates the Chinese New Year. Every year the parade gets bigger and bigger, so we’re expecting the largest turn out yet. The Parade will take place on Sunday, February 10th, 2008 and we encourage everyone to come out and help and have fun!

To give those who may be new a taste of what the parade is like we have updated our Videos section with a brand new clip from our performance last year, so do check it out!

Welcome to the first day of summer!

We’re halfway through year, and now we’re gearing up for the big summer season:

1)First up, on July 1st we have a lion dance show in celebration of Canada Day. There’s always a big turn out with lots of VIPs, lion dance teams, and traditional folk dancers. It’s going to start early this year, so everyone who’s considering coming down to Chinatown that Sunday should start around 9AM!

2)Then less than a week later on July 7th, we’ll be seen performing kung-fu down at the Chinatown Night Market. That will be a Saturday night evening and should be lots of fun with food, games, and a cheering crowd.

So mark your calendars for July 1st and 7th! We’ll post more details as we get closer to the shows and we hope to see you down there!

On Saturday, March 31 we performed a lion dance at the Lee’s Society building and their two new lions were eye-dotted. At their banquet in the evening we performed a lion dance and performed a kung fu demonstration. Pictures from those two events have been added.

We would like to wish everyone a Happy Chinese New Year!

We would like to remind everyone that our annual Chinatown New Year Parade is happening Sunday February 18th 2007. It’s a special day this year as it is occuring on the actual New Year day and we hope everyone will come out and have a lot of fun.

Friends and famliy are welcome and there is a huge turnout every year so come early if you can! If this is the first time you are attending the parade, we meet at our Hoy Ping Association location on 440 Main Street Vancouver BC.

Time: Doors open at 9:30am. (Please do not come later than 10:30am)

Place: Hoy Ping Association (click for map)

Uniforms: will be provided

So kids and parents come down and celebrate the Chinese New Year with everyone, have fun, eat, and maybe you’ll even get on TV!

We will be performing a 15-minute lion dance routine followed by a 15-minute martial arts demo at Kwantlen College (72nd Ave & 126 St., Surrey) from 7:30-8:00 tonight. The martial arts sets will be mostly weapons sets (including sword, broadsword, halberds, deer horns and long-handled sabre).

Amen/Raymond and Ricardo/Clement opened the evening with an innovative lion dance involving two huge candy canes. Amen then took over as M.C. The kung fu demonstation was an opportunity for our younger students and for some newer students who have not previously performed. They all did very well.

Ricardo and Leon did not perform during the kung fu demos but did go up for karaoke. Hopefully, they will return to kung fu for the next show.

Linda and Jason performed both kung fu and karaoke… demonstrating lethal technique.