2015 News
Read through news from 2015.
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2015 September Culture Month: Music and Nature
This year Confucius Institute Day and Mid-Autumn Festival both fell on 27 September. Many events were organised and supported by our Confucius Institute in celebration. In Wellington, however, September Chinese Culture Month was celebrated on the very first day with a special musical visit from Xiamen University.
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Lest We Forget 为了不忘记过去
The poignancy of our nation’s ANZAC centenary was reflected at the Confucius Institute’s Autumn Poetry Evening, held at Wellington Library on 22 April.
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Victoria University’s Confucius Institute opens New Zealand’s fifteenth Confucius Classroom at Wellington Girls College
The New Zealand Minister of Education Hekia Parata joined Chinese Ambassador to New Zealand Wang Lutong and his wife Madame Yang Pengbo, the Mayor of Wellington Celia Wade-Brown, and Confucius Institute Senior Consultant Tony Browne in celebrating the opening today of a new Confucius Classroom at one of New Zealand’s most famous secondary schools.
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Musical collaboration sees in the Lunar New Year
Chinese classical and contemporary music-making at Te Kōkī New Zealand School of Music (NZSM) celebrated the beginning of Chinese New Year on campus on 20 February.
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2015 Mandarin Language Assistants
Victoria University’s engagement with schools in Wellington and the lower North Island has resulted in 38 Chinese graduates joining the Victoria University Confucius Institute's Mandarin Language Assistant programme this year.
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VUW Confucius Institute welcomes 21 Mandarin Language Assistants from China
Confucius Institute at VUW welcomes 21 Mandarin Language Assistants (MLAs) from China to work in 30 primary, intermediate and secondary schools in lower North Island.