FCC Chinese Culture Day
Schedule,
Culture
Day 2006 offers so many programs to choose from, we thought it would be a good
idea to share some of the schedule highlights in advance. And there are
fabulous arts and crafts, kite making and kite flying, shopping in the
Concourse and much more, throughout the day.
Remember, Culture Day is more than just a fun festival -- it's a once-a-year
event showing our children of all ages that we celebrate their vibrant and
beautiful cultural heritage and are proud of their Chinese identity. It
is an opportunity for Families with Children from
"Qi (Chi): Celebrating the Energy"
Explore the concept of Qi in Chinese culture at FCC's
Chinese Culture Day 2006!
Culture Day 2006 Schedule
TRAIN CONCOURSE:
9:30 -2 Welcome Center and registration
9:30-5:30 Marketplace open
FCC
Kiosk open
10:30-4:30 Arts and Crafts in South Baggage
Tunnel and Concourse
11:00 Wu Mei Kung Fu, Lion Dance - Throughout Concourse
12-3:00 Transformation! Face painting in Chinese styles
2:50 Silent
auction closes
3:00 Raffle
sales close
4:00 Raffle
prize pickup
CONCOURSE STAGE:
10:30 Ziranmen Kung Fu - Traditional Chinese
martial art that includes methods of flexibility, nei
gong (breathing and energy exercise), self defense, hand forms, weapons,
and body conditioning
11:00 Opening
ceremony and Lion Dance (throughout the site)
11:30 Rob Lok, clown
12:30 Mei Mei - Play & Learn/Dance
& Learn Chinese
1:30 Hong
Wang, acrobat
1:45 Demonstration:
Tai Ji Quan sword - Wu
Dang single sword and Double Dragon double sword
2:00 Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company
3:00 Raffle
drawing
3:15 Kevin
So, singer/songwriter
4:15 Drum
Spirit of China
GAMES AND ACTIVITIES TENT:
11:00-11:30 Opening lion dance parade
11:30-12:00 Dragon boat races
12:00-12:30 Chinese folk dancing: learn to dance
the Ribbon Dance
12:30-1:00 Kid's Kung Fu Workshop: Shao-Lin Kung Fu
1:00-1:30 Yoyo demonstration -
Enjoy a demonstration of the Chinese yoyo/try it yourself
1:30-2:00 Chinese Checkers and the
Chopstick Game
2:00-2:30 Kid's Kung Fu Workshop: Shao-Lin Kung Fu
2:30-3:00 Yoyo demonstration
3:00-3:30 Chinese folk dancing: learn
to dance the Handkerchief Dance
3:30-4:00 Closing lion dance parade
4:00-4:30 Chinese folk dancing: learn
to dance the Friendship Dance
CULTURE DAY CAFÉ TENT:
9:30-10 Song Nan Zhang - Children's book illustrator demonstrates how he
created the Chinese characters for his book, "Five Heavenly
Emperors.
10-11 Leslie
Li, author - Stretching followed by a children's reading of "The Jade
Stone"
11-11:30 Cathy Bao Bean, memoirist -- reads from "The Chopsticks/Fork
Principle."
11:30-12 Lin Fong-ONeill, author - "Mommy, Why?",
a book about differences
12-12:30 "The Seven
Sisters" Story theatre - Impromptu performance by children from audience
with props!
12:30-1:00 Song Nan Zhang, illustrator
1-1:30 Wei Shao, poet - will read from
her collection, "Pulling a Dragon's Teeth"
1:30-2 Traditional
Chinese Medicine workshop with author Letha Hadady
2-2:30 Mingmei Yip, author - reads from her collection,
"Chinese Children's Favorite Stories"
2:30-3 Ai-Ling
Louie, author - "Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story
from China"
3-3:30 Carrie Kitze, author -- "I Don't Have Your Eyes"
3:30-4 Poetry
writing workshop with Mingmei Yip
4-5 Poetry
slam/open mic with emcees Mingmei
Yip and Wei Shao: Read
and/or perform your own poem. Prizes to all participants!
OUTDOOR STAGE:
11:00 Demonstration:
Tai Ji Quan- internal
style of martial arts practiced to maintain health, featuring Chen Style Tai Qi and 24-form simplified form
11:30 Laurel
Project -- FCC Children with Mei-Yin Ng
12:15 Blue Sky
Asian-American Research Foundation Chinese Language Students
1:00 FCC
Chinese School of Long Island and Queens
2:00 New
York Chinese Cultural Center children's dances
3:30 Demonstration:
Wushu
SOUTH FIELD:
11-4 Lunch
tent open
11-5 Kite-making
Tent open
12:30 Demonstration:
Ziranmen Kung Fu - Traditional Chinese
martial art that includes methods of flexibility, nei
gong (breathing and energy exercise), self defense, hand forms, weapons,
and body conditioning
2:00 LGBT
families, Picnic Tent