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ANNUAL CHINESE NEW YEAR BENEFIT 2012
Year of Dragon (1916, 1928, 1940, 1952, 1964, 1976, 1988, 2000, 2012) Please join us for our Annual Chinese New Year party, at Cipriani’s 42nd Street in New York City. The evening includes a cocktail reception and a banquet style dinner, an awards ceremony, traditional entertainment, the Red Envelope collection and dancing. China Institute honors The Starr Foundation for their continued generous support of China Institute, and the internationally acclaimed operatic bass Hao Jiang Tian, the only Chinese singer with a consecutive record of 19 seasons at the Metropolitan Opera and an exponent in the cultural exchange between the U.S. and China, and his wife Martha Liao, founder of the Asian Performing Arts Council (APAC). Together they have been at the core of countless activities that celebrate and promote the understanding and enjoyment of Asian culture around the world. The traditional Red Envelope collection, in support of China Institute’s Summer Study in China scholarship fund, will follow the lion dance. The funds raised will provide support and an opportunity for many high school students from around the country to participate in an intensive language training program for six weeks (equivalent to one year of high school Mandarin) while immersing themselves in Chinese culture and society. Proceeds benefit China Institute programs. We do hope that you will be able to join us for this festive evening and continue our tradition of celebrating the Lunar New Year with friends and family! Friday, January 27, 2012 ~ 6:30 p.m. For tickets click here or download a form and fax to 212.628.4159 or mail to: China Institute For additional information, please call 212.744.8181, ext. 139 or lmcdonald@chinainstitute.org. |
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chinese new year party 2010
On Friday, February 19, China Institute hosted its annual Chinese New Year (Year of the Tiger) celebration at Gotham Hall in New York City. This year’s celebration honored renowned Chef Ming Tsai and Professor Renqiu Yu. While guests enjoyed cocktails and hors d’oeuvres, calligrapher Jim Zhang created special Chinese character paintings. A six-course family style dinner, a special Northern Lion Dance performance, an awards ceremony and dancing wound up this annual festive event. |
Ming Tsai
Renqiu Yu
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Photo Credits: Enid Farber Foto
Carolyn Hsu-Balcer and René Balcer dance the night away
Children greet the Northern Lion at Chinese New Year
New Year's Honoree Ming Tsai discusses
his childhood
James Chin and guest
Chinese New Year guest
Dana Tang waits as Jim Zhang finishes her calligraphy painting
China Institute member Carolyn
Hsu-Balcer looks on
as a guest takes an
orange (for good luck)
from the centerpiece
Virginia A. Kamsky, Chairman of the
Board welcomes
guests to Chinese
New Year
Chinese New Year Party 2009
On Friday January 30, 2009, China Institute celebrated its annual Chinese New Year party, the “Year of the Ox,” at Gotham Hall. Over 250 guests dined on a seven-course dinner and enjoyed the traditional Lion Dance, a Shaolin Monk performance and a special guest performance of Esmeralda’s tambourine variation by American Ballet Theatre’s Zhong-Jing Fang. Guests danced the night away and a good time was had by all!
Photo Credits: Ray A. Llanos
(l-r) Agnes Gund, Frederico Seve, Violy McCausland, Sara
Judge McCalpin
(l-r) Henry Tang and TrusteesWashington Z. SyCip and
Patricia P. Tang
Abel Sheng and Nancy Brenner
The lion dance captivates theyoung audience
(l-r) Sara Judge McCalpin, President, China Institute, Xia
Zhishun, Dong Xiaojun, Deputy
Consul General of the
Consulate of the People’s
Republic of China in New York
and Virginia A. Kamsky, Chair,
Board of Trustees, China
Institute
Jim Zhang treats a young guest to a calligraphy lesson
American Ballet Theatre’s Zhong-Jing
Fang
A Shaolin Monk in action
(l-r) Karen K. Hsu, Marie-Helene Weill, Trustee, Jerome Cohen
and Yvonne L.C. Wong, Trustee
(l-r) Joan Lebold Cohen, IreneShen, Jerome A. Cohen,
American Ballet Theatre’s
Zhong-Jing Fang, Fred Shen,
Fran Janis and Mitchell
Harwood
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chinese new year party 2011
The annual China Institute Chinese New Year celebration will be a fun filled evening with traditional New Year’s entertainment that will feature acrobats and the traditional northern lion dance, a multi-course family style dinner, a Year of the Rabbit awards ceremony and dancing. We will have a red envelope collection, in support of China Institute’s Summer Study in China scholarship fund, which will follow the lion dance. The funds raised will provide support and an opportunity for many high school students from around the country to participate in an intensive language training for six weeks (equivalent to one year of high school Mandarin) while immersing themselves in Chinese, culture and society. At Chinese New Year, a time of family gatherings, we honor Anna Hu, a devoted member who thinks of China Institute as her extended family. Ms. Hu has been described in the Wall Street Journal as the youngest of the top five contemporary jewelry artists in the world. “To me, creating jewelry is composing music. I particularly love Franz Liszt’s concept of the Symphonic Poems, where musical notes become the foundation of words, melody transforms lyric to story, and harmony expresses human emotions.” Ms. Hu combines her passion for music, and a gemologists’ imagination, to create unique contemporary jewelry art pieces. We do hope that you will be able to join us for this festive evening and continue our tradition of celebrating the Lunar New Year with friends and family! |
 Anna Hu |