MCCC Song And Dance Troupe was formally established on September 6,
2008. Its purpose is to promote Chinese culture and enrich the community life
of Chinese amateur, to participate in multi-cultural exchange and performances.
The chief of MCCC Song and dance troupe
is Hong Zeng. The following administration
team members are Qi Zhang, Hong Chen and Jinlei Lin.
There are several clubs under MCCC Song and dance troupe. The clubs open
to adults only. The membership fee is $30/year. Welcome to join the clubs.
Chair of Chorus Club: Zhaohui Wang (zhaohui_wang53188@yahoo.com)
The Chorus Club meets every other week
at 7:30-9:30pm on Friday in Brookfield.
The first meeting starts on Oct.3, 2008.
Chair of Dance Club: Zhihong Zhang (lucyzhang2007@gmail.com) and
Jianghong Zhou (jianghongzhouzhou@yahoo.com).
The Dance Club meets once every week at
2:15-3:45pm on Sunday in MMCS, room 172. It starts on Oct.5, 2008.
Chair of Chinese Music Instrument Club: Qiuzhen Xue
Chair of Forks Song’s Club: Yaoju Chen
2008 Holiday Folk Fair International Update -
From November 21 to November
23, the Milwaukee
Chinese Community
Center will be participating in Holiday Folk Fair 2008 as a
representative for China.
We need volunteers to help at our Food, Market, Exhibition and Art booths. All
shifts will be six hours long (10:00 am - 4:00 pm and 4:00pm - 10:00 pm). We
also need help on Spring roll/Dumpling Making and Shuttle Service. Please see
the attached quick and easy signup sheet for more information and fill it out
with the days/shifts in which you are available. In additional, we sell the
discount HFF tickets at $8 each. Please contact Sam Tang or Ping Feng at pfeng@wi.rr.com for detailed information.
2008 Holiday Folk Fair International General Chair:
Zhenjiang Sun
General
Co-Chair: Hanzhe Gao ( Cunji Gao /Shaoying Chen), Sam Tang (Liang Tang/Ping
Feng), Connie Wu (Zhiming Wu/Xiaojin Wang) and Jerry Mao (Li Mao/Dadong Xi)
Food
Booth Chair: David Liu (Gaosheng Liu/Baohong Sun)
Marketing
Booth Chair: Steve Sun (Jianguo Sun/Nianhong Liu)
Art
Booth Chair: Franklin Zhu (Zitao Zhu) (Wei Zhu/Xiaohe Wang)
Exhibition
Booth Chair: Tong Wang (Zaiping Wang/Xiaoyun Zhang)
Dance
Team Leader: Hong Zeng and Zhihong Zhang
The
MMCS main registration for 2008 Fall
is closed. There are total 220 students
registered. This year by adding two K classes, the total number of the classes
is up to 19.
The
MMCS first parent meeting
was held on Sep.28 at Lalumiere Language
Hall of Marquette University. The
meeting most focus on education updating, school security, school financial
spending report, 2008 Holiday Folk Fair and parent involvement and future MCCC
and MMCS. In order to provide our children a good environment the school asks
every parent help on school security task. With your willingness and enthusiasm
to support our collective cause MMCS will be filled with even more success
school year. Thank you so much for your help.
The parent duty guideline is posted on the MMCS web site http://www.mmcsweb.com/cms/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=21
and the schedule for parent duty is at http://mmcsweb.com/main/docs/parent_duty2008Fall.htm.
MCCC Chinese New Year Party Planning Committee and
sub-teams have been formed.
The first planning meeting
was held on Sep. 21, 2008. As a tradition, our Chinese New Year party
focus is MCCC families as has been. The current
scheduled date is tentatively Saturday, Feb 7th, 2009, depending
on venue availability. We will have student performance, dinner and post dinner
performance by the MCCC art troupe. Hong Peng is the event chair. If you have
any suggestions and questions, please contact her at hong.peng@med.ge.com.
The
MMCS/MCCC participated in the Asian Festival
held
between 36th and 41st on National Ave. on Sep. 20, 2008. We had a
culture booth and dance performance during the day. Several MMCS parents and
students contributed their valuable time in organizing and participating in the
event. Special thanks go to Peng Gao, Zhengjiang Sun, Yi Hong, Xiaohe Wang,
Franklin Zhu, Andrew Zhu, Baohong Sun, David Liu, Hong Wu, Sabrina Wang, Christine
Melching ,Qiong Yang, Tong Wang, Xiaoyun Zhang, Ming Peng and her parents.
The 39th Badger Open chess tournament
was held in Waukesha on Saturday, September 20, 2008. MMCS students Alena Huang, Sabrina Huang, Michael Tang and Shawn Ge attended the tournament and took home a team trophy. Congratulations to our participants!
Top level Performance from China -
The
Milwaukee Chinese Times has invited the China
top-level performers to come to Wisconsin
for Chinese performance. They will come to Milwaukee on 10/31(Friday), give performance
on 11/01 (SAT) and leave on 11/02.
Hopefully this will give another opportunity for Milwaukee residents to know Chinese culture.
Mingtao Jiang, Hong Zeng and Qi Zhang will direct the task force for this show.
They will locate the site for performance, determine the ticket price and ways
for ticket sale, have a press release, and place media advertisement.
*If you would like anything to be added to the MMCS / MCCC newsletter, please contact the newsletter editor Tong Wang at pianoman518@gmail.com.
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