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DHARMA DRUM VANCOUVER CENTER
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2015
10:00 AM – 3:10 PM
Time
10:00 –
10:30
10:30 –
11:00
11:00 –
11:30
11:30 –
12:00
Location/Event
Chan Hall
Dining Hall
8 Form Moving Meditation
Demonstration
Center
Saturday, February 21, 2015
Sitting Meditation
Demonstration
Seated Chan Yoga
Demonstration
Chinese Calligraphy,
Chinese Firecracker Craft,
Lucky Bracelet Making,
Loom Band Making,
Chinese Music Performance
Lantern Making
Chinese Calligraphy,
Chinese Firecracker Craft,
Lucky Bracelet Making,
Loom Band Making,
Chinese Music Performance
Lantern Making
Walking Meditation
Drumming Class
Demonstration
12:00 –
New Year Food Demonstration,
Vegetarian Lunch
13:00
13:00 –
13:30
13:30 –
14:00
14:00 –
14:30
14:30 –
15:00
15:0015:10
Meeting Room
10:00 AM – 3:30 PM
Drum Performance
Choir Performance
Chan Tea Ceremony,
Origami,
Chinese Calligraphy,
Paper Cutting,
Chinese Music Performance
Lantern Making
Chan Tea Ceremony,
Origami,
Chinese Calligraphy,
Paper Cutting,
Chinese Music Performance
Lantern Making
8 Form Moving Meditation
Demonstration
Sitting Meditation
Demonstration
Blessing & Prayer
See reverse for activity descriptions …
15:10-15:40
Drumming Class
DESCRIPTIONS OF ACTIVITIES
ACTIVITIES FOR ALL AGES
Drumming Class: Experience the power of our
Traditional Paper Cutting: Learn
large traditional drums in this hands-on introduction.
Perfect your rhythm, get some exercise and make
some noise!
to use scissors and paper to make
traditional New Year symbols and to
create all sorts of interesting patterns to
celebrate the New Year.
Chinese Calligraphy:
Learn to write traditional New Year
blessings and bring your own
calligraphy home for your front door.
Lucky Bracelet Making: Use thread to make a
traditional lucky bracelet for fortune, health and happiness
in the year of the sheep!
Origami: Transform a sheet of paper into a finished
Loom Band Making: Weave
sculpture. Origami promotes creativity, logical thinking
and hand-eye coordination.
colourful rubber bands into
friendship bracelets and lucky
charms.
Chinese Firecracker Craft: Learn to
make Chinese firecracker crafts to announce
the arrival of the New Year, and to further
symbolize one’s determination to do away
with the old and start with the new.
ACTIVITIES FOR TEENAGERS AND ADULTS
Meditation: The best way to relax and to reduce
Chan Tea Ceremony:
stress without any side effects! Learn simple
techniques to promote a calm mind, and to enjoy a
more harmonious life.
Do you really know how to sip a
cup of Chinese tea, savour the
fragrance and enjoy the true taste?
Then you need to experience the
ancient Tea Chan ceremony!
PERFORMANCES
Drumming: Combining martial art,
Choir: Consisting of four voice
drumming and Chan into one, this
performance is not only an art, but also
an illustration of moving meditation. There
are drumming classes before and after
the performance.
types (Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass),
this amateur retiree choir presents
harmonious vocals with a New
Year theme!
Chinese Music: Our talented musicians play the
guqin (the instrument of the sages, which is reputed
to be over 5,000 years old) and the guzheng (Chinese
zither - a larger and louder instrument, with similar
pitch and tonal quality).
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