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Wow, can you believe it’s May already! 2007 is really humming along.

Last month our Hoy Ping Anniversary 2007 Show went quite well:

Intro Lion Dance: We debuted two new lions in an “Eye Dotting” (Deem Jing) ceremony. The two sleepy lions blinked and woke up, and entertained the crowd with their sharp steps and dance movements. The big surprise came when two additional lions shocked the audience by coming from the back of the restaurant and joined the two on the stage. The Four lions greeted and played with each other (the two on the stage even tried to play a few tricks). It made for an intriguing show and was very well received.

Forms Showcase: Many of our younger students performed for the very first time Tam Tui# 5 & 6! Other first-time highlights include our junior kids group demo of the full “Cross Battle Fist Form,” and Amen’s debut performance of our first “Three Section Staff” set.

Congratulations: One of our students, Alecia not only participate in our group Lien Bo performance, but also received an HP scholarship for her education at UBC. We are very proud of her achievement.

Surprise: Jason made his solo singing debut…watch out Johnny Seto.

Good job everybody! (for pictures from the evening, please check out our Photo Galleries!)

The calendar has been updated for May and for the first time, in a long time, there are no special events booked. It will be a time for us to work on new sets to get ready for the upcoming summer and fall events. Currently, a lot of the class is working on a double gwai set. All of the classes in May will be held at The Warehouse.

I have uploaded a number of photos (taken by Simo) from Saturday’s banquet and have added illuminating comments for the uninitiated. If you have some pictures from our events and want them added … email them to info@northernshaolin.ca.

At last Sunday and Tuesday classes at the Warehouse, we were joined by several dozen young Danish women who were visiting Vancouver as guests of the Warehouse. Simo will have some photos to share … although I am not sure what is included (probably lots of talking and little training).

Speaking of Johnny … he is threatening to submit his bio to this blog. Be still oh beating heart.

“City Lights” program of Novus TV made a clip on Chinatown Vancouver’s Chinese New Year parade.

Here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQqn-EZvDCE

You can find literally seconds of us at:

1:39 mins – our kids holding banner

2:28 mins – a bit of flag & lion

3:34 mins – cymbal players & featuring Ian on drum (go tell your friends on the forum! )

Enjoy…remember don’t blink…you might miss it!

Photos from some of our many events have been added. I’ll soon add photos from typical classes.

Hi guys!

I was searching Youtube and found 2 short video clips of us during the Chinatown New Year parade.

1)¬†http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEk9rI6aqK4¬†(sorry…this is the correct clip now)

Watching how Raymond and Collin shows off with the flag!!!

2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV0S8lrnVZw

Watch Brian exchanges lion with Ricky! Ricky delights the crowd of kiddies! Please keep control of the ladies!

We had a good turn-out for the Chinese New Year’s Parade this year. There were many new members who came and participated. We especially want to thank the parents of the younger members who greatly helped this year.

The number of spectators was up this year and was estimated at 60,000 people. There were also more participants marching in the parade than in last year and the parade still finished on schedule. Congratulations to our sifu who was the chief co-ordinator for this year’s parade.

This year, in addition to two lions we included a choreographed routine with Hoy Ping flags. Both our lion dance and flag routine were featured in the Channel M broadcast.

After the parade we took the lions to honour the Chee Dack and Sam Duck societies with lion dances.

At the Kwantlen College performance and at this event, we were pleased to have Vincent Taylor taking snapshots for a photographic display he is assembling. He has done previous collections on other multicultural events in Vancouver. We will soon have a selection of his photographs in our Photos section.

If anyone has interesting photographs of our group in the parade please send them to info@northernshaolin.ca (or email us to make arrangements). We have some new material we are getting ready for the Photos and Videos sections. Unfortunately, our member that was taking photos of us during the parade lost her camera afterwards.

We hope to add the Channel M footage to our site. Other recent media coverage we have received were a picture of our lion dancers (taken at the Hoy Ping site) in the Vancouver Sun , several photos by the Kwantlen student newspaper and a reference in the Lieutenant Governor’s website… stay tuned.

There will be no class this Thursday as we will be doing a lion dance in Metrotown for the Accenture group.

Greetings everyone! It was hard days night and we’ve been working like dogs. The rush of a Friday night show in Surrey was both fun and filling. Our sweaty efforts has not been forgotten by the good folks at Kwantlen.

You can go and check out a picture of our lion performance here: http://www.kwantlen.ca/anniversary/blockparty/photo_gallery.html

and check out an exciting clip of our lion dance here: http://www.kwantlen.ca/anniversary/blockparty/video_gallery.html

We have many more performance coming up so keep on practicing!

Happy New Year everyone!

Thanks for your support and hard work; our martial arts group enjoyed a very successful year in 2006. Last year, we participated in 16 events where we showcased both our lion dance and martial arts skills. Highlights included our first-time martial arts demonstration at the annual Kin Fung celebration, performance for Channel M’s promotional-marketing video production and the lion dance opening ceremony to kick off the CBA 100th anniversary banquet. To maintain momentum, our students must train hard by continuing to polish their current sets and challenge themselves with new (more difficult) routines.

In 2007, we will be re-aligning our Sunday classes to incorporate a more vigorous training program for our novice-intermediate members. We will also be expanding our training curriculum to include a new martial arts class at Lee’s Athletic Association.Our upcoming events are as follows:

January 19 – Lion Dance and martial arts demonstration at Kwantlen University College 25th Anniversary Block Party

February 18 – Lion Dance at the annual Vancouver Chinese New Year Parade

April 14 - Lion Dance and martial arts demonstration at Hoy Ping’s annual Spring Festival Celebration

Keep up the good work! We look forward to another great year in 2007.

“In light of the show next month, this Thursday’s class will be at HP in Chinatown. Harry has graciously volunteered to bring pizza for after training. Sifu’s bringing those tasty little oranges, and, of course, you can count on me to bring some leng cha. Cookies and other snackies welcome, as are all students, kids, parents, sweeties, etc”. – LK

Details of the January show will be posted on the calendar soon. – BM