Winnipeg Chinese Cultural and Community Centre

This event was also honored to invite visits and speeches from many important guests.

此外，本次活动也有幸邀请到诸多重要客人的来访和演讲。

Hon Philip Lee: WCCCC president, former Manitoba Lieutenant Governor
Terry Duguid: Member of Parliament for Winnipeg South
Jennifer Chen: Member of the legislative assembly for Fort Richmond
His Worship Scott Gillingham: Major of Winnipeg
Hon. Dan Vandal: Member of Parliament for Saint Boniface - Saint Vital
Malaya Marcelino: Member of the Legislative Assembly for Notre Dame, Minister of Labour and Immigration
Flordeliz (Gigi) Osler: Senator

The presence and speeches of the guests added honor to our event, and affirmed the ongoing friendly cultural exchanges between China and Canada. The speeches not only included the historic friendship between China and Canada, but also expressed great anticipation for more frequent and deeper cultural exchanges between the two countries in the future. This event allowed everyone to experience the power of inclusive and diverse cultures, inspiring Chinese Canadians to collaborate for the betterment of our shared home.

各位贵宾的出席和发言，为我们的活动增添了荣耀，更是对中加两国之间不断进行的友好文化交流的成果的肯定。演讲内容不拘泥于过去中加的友好历史，也有大量的对于未来两国间更加频繁且深入的文化交流的憧憬。这一活动让所有人感受到了包容多元的文化的力量，也激励在加华人共同为了建设更美好的家园而合作。

On July 1, 2024, WCCCC represented Winnipeg and completed the event "Coast to Coast Drumming" successfully with several cities across Canada. Even the weather was rainy and overcast, the inclement weather did not dampen the enthusiasm of volunteers and guests who eagerly joined our event, making the drumming celebration lively and colorful. The WCCCC extends gratitude to all cooperating community organizations, volunteers, and guests. The successful completion of this event is a result of the concerted efforts of all participants. We thank everyone for their longstanding efforts in promoting understanding, exchange, and integration of multiculturalism. Your enthusiastic participation is a significant force in continuously strengthening the deep friendship between China and Canada.

2024年7月1日，温城中华文化中心代表温尼伯与加拿大十余城市共同圆满完成了Coast to Coast Drumming加拿大国庆节击鼓庆典活动！虽然Canada Day当天阴雨绵绵，但恶劣的天气也没有阻挡志愿者和来宾们热情高涨的前来加入我们的活动，共同将本次击鼓庆祝活动办得有声有色。温城中华文化中心，感谢所有合作的社团组织，感谢所有的志愿者和来宾们。本次活动的圆满完成，是所有参与者们齐心协力共同实现的，感谢大家多年来为多元文化的理解、交流和融合所作出的努力，大家热情的亲历付出，是中加深厚友谊不断延绵的重要推力。

Thank you Bear Clan Patrol Inc!

Friday with Bear Clan Patrol Inc
KThank you to members and volunteers for helping us make a difference.

Thank you everyone for helping us celebrate our sister city relationships around the world. WCCCC played key roles in the twinning of Winnipeg with both Chengdu and Taichung. We were asked to help celebrate the beautiful culture of Chengdu and Sichuan province.

Big congratulations to co-chairs Nina Lam and Christopher Leung Shing for a successful exhibition and all the volunteers from Manitoba Great Wall Performing Arts and Winnipeg Chinese Cultural and Community Centre !



📸: Rosana L.S.

Join the volunteers from WCCCC and Manitoba Great Wall Performing Arts at Sister City Day at the Forks from 12-5pm in honour of . They will be hosting the Chengdu booth.

Join us at The Leaf for Canada Day!

Congratulations!

https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/video/c2864164-year-of-the-dragon-explained?binId=1.1206882&__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar

Year of the Dragon explained CTV’s Ainsley McPhail dives into the ins and outs of the Lunar New Year

Get your Year of the Dragon token in honour of Lunar New Year this February 3 at the Royal Canadian Mint.

Grow the Game Winnipeg Jets – Apna Hockey Winter First Shift

The First Shift programs will offer all participants to opportunity to take part in a learn to play program for the sport of hockey. The program will provide all participants a full set of equipment as well as six on-ice sessions taking place on Saturday afternoons this fall or winter at no cost to the participant. The goal of the program is to provide a fun and safe atmosphere for participants and their families to try the sport of hockey. All sessions will take place at Seven Oaks Arena, with equipment fitting taking place at hockey for all centre prior to the first on-ice session in January. The program is open to participants born between January 1, 2013, and May 1, 2018.

The programs will see Jets Hockey Development partner with Apna Hockey to provide an engaging experience for all that attend. Apna Hockey is a South Asian based hockey network that aspires to connect and mentor South Asian hockey talent. Apna Hockey is not limited to South Asians, they encourage all Canadians to participate in Apna Hockey camps. Multiculturalism is a beautiful aspect of our country, and we envision Apna Hockey to bring out players of all ethnicities and backgrounds. Apna’s ground breaking work in Edmonton and Calgary has laid the foundation for growing the game of hockey through introducing the sport and mentoring young players with diverse backgrounds. Their success has been noticed across North America, with the organization winning the 2020 NHL Willie O’Ree Community Hero Award for their work.

Once registration is complete participants will be split into two groups with one group on the ice from 12:30pm – 1:30pm and the second from 1:45pm – 2:45pm. All participants are asked to arrive 45 minutes early the first week to ensure enough time to put on equipment.



Winter Grow the Game First Shift Dates:



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Night one is in the books. Thank you everyone who came out. Folklorama continues throughout the week. Come and check out the Chinese Pavilion at 180 King Street for performances, Chinese-Canadian cuisine, souvenirs and of course culture. There will be lots of culture.

Week 2: Chinese Pavilion Listen to 2 of the Chinese Pavilion Ambassadors introduce their Pavilion! Folklorama runs August 6-19, 2023. We'll see you there!

Join us in Chinatown for Folklorama’s Chinese Pavilion this week.

Join us in Chinatown (on Treaty 1 territory) for a return of our Canada Day celebration! Afterwards, meet us in Bridgwater to watch our friends and partners at Winnipeg Chinese Senior Association for their Canada Day coast to coast drumming!

Happy Canada Day!

Our Nina shares her congee recipe with the Winnipeg Free Press. Read her family’s journey to Canada and try her recipe.

Congee comfort When Nina Lam was growing up, congee was the dish her mother would make whenever she felt under the weather. The savoury rice porridge with its silky smooth texture came in especially handy after visi...

Tomorrow, Honourable Senator Yuen Pau Woo, the Honourable Senator Victor Oh and Action! Chinese Canadians Together (ACCT) Foundation will be hosting a National Remembrance event in the Senate of Canada Chamber on the 100th anniversary of the enactment of the Chinese Exclusion Act in Canada.

This event is an opportunity to recognize the longstanding relationship between Chinese Canadians and Indigenous Peoples in Canada, to enhance a sense of pride and belonging, and to take action against racism.

Join the event via livestream from the Senate of Canada. Community leaders from across the country will be in Ottawa to acknowledge this racist act and to move forward to creating an equitable, diverse and inclusive space for all Canadians on the land of the Indigenous Peoples. Canada’s history is far from pure, but we look ahead to hope, understanding, reconciliation.

Date: June 23, 2023

Location: The Senate Chamber

Time: 2-4 PM CT

National Remembrance Event National Remembrance of the 100th Anniversary of the Enactment of the Chinese Exclusion Act in Canada Date: June 23, 2023 Location: The Senate Chamber Time: 3-5 PM ET On June 23, 2023, the Honourable Senator Yuen Pau Woo, the Honourable Senator Victor Oh and Action! Chinese Canadians Together (ACCT)...

WCCCC board member sits on the Winnipeg Jets Advisory Board and has been working with them on a Grow the Game Initiative with Asian, Filipino and South East Asian kids. They rolled out our first camp May 10-June 14 with great success.

If you know of any kids of Asian descent who is in the age categories of U7, U9 and U11 and interested in any of the attached hockey camps, please comment below or DM. We will DM you contact info for Allan.

We are now recruiting volunteers and performers for the return of Folklorama’s Chinese Pavilion. More information in the link.

Winnipeg Chinese Cultural & Community Centre Winnipeg is a city of many cultures of which the Chinese community has always been an integral and significant part. Over the last few decades, as the number of Chinese immigrants increased, so has the need for redeveloping Winnipeg’s Chinatown.

We continue Asian Heritage Month with this great piece on Davey from our friends at Skate Canada / Patinage Canada.

Davey Howes: Staying Connected and Pushing for Change The echoes of the path forward come from the youth of today and they reverberate the same messages we have heard from their role models; the path to better representation lies in visibility. We spoke to 16-year-old David Howes (who prefers to be referred to as Davey), who is the current Canadian nov...

We’re back! Join us at the Chinese Pavilion Folklorama at the WCCCC. We cannot wait!

Check out this year’s official poster! Our dragon and our very own Kevin from Shao Lei Taichi Wushu Institute.

More photos from Saturday night’s FascinAsian community screening of Big Fight in Little Chinatown.

What a great event to watch a thoughtful documentary about North American Chinatowns in our very own Chinatown. Thank you FascinAsian and filmmaker Karen Cho for bringing Big Fight in Little Chinatown to the WCCCC for a community screening.

ATTN. Saturday Night Party and Secret Screening has relocated to Winnipeg Chinese Cultural and Community Centre (180 King St.) , several blocks away from original Secret Screening location.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may of caused.

Prior to Saturday Night Party and Secret Screening, we will be having a FREE COMMUNITY SCREENING of Big Fight in Little Chinatown !!!

Join us: www.fascinasian.ca/chinatown

One of our longest-serving volunteers, Anita has been nominated and shortlisted for the Top 25 Immigrant award presented by Canadian Immigrant Magazine and RBC. To vote for Anita or any other amazing community leader, please check out the link.

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"You can usually only find these stores in predominantly Chinese communities. When Cho comes across one of these shops in a Chinatown, she therefore knows that there are actual Chinese residents living there. The Chinatown in question isn’t simply a tourist destination."

https://povmagazine.com/karen-cho-on-the-fight-to-keep-chinatowns-big-and-small/

Join us for May 6 FascinAsian FREE COMMUNITY SCREENING of Big Fight in Little Chinatown at Winnipeg Chinese Cultural and Community Centre

More info: www.fascinasian.ca/chinatown

Karen Cho on the Fight to Keep Chinatowns Big and Small - POV Magazine An interview with Big Fight in Little Chinatown director Karen Cho on telling the stories of Chinatowns throughout North America.

We are so happy to partner with the FascinAsian film festival on this screening of Karen Cho’s Big Fight in Little Chinatown.

To kick off Asian Heritage Month, shop at participating local Chinatown businesses to get a free poster.

Recently, our Graphic and Print Technician (GPT) program students participated in the 2023 Year of the Rabbit banner design competition hosted by Downtown Winnipeg BIZ and the Winnipeg Chinese Cultural and Community Centre. Students submitted 30 entries to the contest and wowed us with their creativity.

Learn more about MITT’s Graphic and Print Technician program by visiting MITT.ca/GPT

Tune in to 101.5FM at 1 PM CT for interviews with Tina Chen and Sonja Lundstrom. Find out about the Lunar New Year at the Winnipeg Chinese Cultural and Community Centre and what's happening at the Scandinavian Cultural Centre.

The New Year is a fantastic time, an opportunity for reflection and celebration. Looking outside the west, there are even more celebrations after December 31. One of those Celebrations is the Lunar New Year.

Now that we're in the Year of the Rabbit, or the year of the cat for Vietnam, it would be fun to learn more about this tradition across Asia. Who better to tell us than historian Tina Chen?

Listen in on U Radio: https://u-channel.ca/u-radio/

The Chinese community celebrates Chinese New Year. However, there are other Asian communities that also celebrate the lunar new year. Each culture has their unique way of ringing in a new calendar year.

How cultures are celebrating the Lunar New Year Professor of Asian history, Tina Mai Chen shares how the Lunar New Year is celebrated in many Asian cultures