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Final Fortnightly Roundup for 2021 + Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays

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Welcome to our final Fortnightly Roundup of the year. It has been a fantastic year of activities and events here at the Confucius Insitute, and with the university semester now wrapping up, we are excitedly looking forward to the break and the new year ahead...

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OzAsia Festival wraps up + latest community events in the Aus-China space

Guilin, China

Welcome to our Fortnightly Roundup. OzAsia Festival has now wrapped up for another year. We were thrilled to participate in the program and look forward to seeing the festival back again from October 20 - November 6, 2022...

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Final week of Chinese Conversation Corner + enrol in HSK/HSKK testing

Yellow Mountains, China

Welcome to our Fortnightly Roundup. Over the weekend we participated in OzAsia Festival's Moon Lantern Trail. Here we hosted several cultural workshops sharing Chinese calligraphy, knotting, and paper cutting with the community. It was truly fantastic to be involved in such a vibrant event. 

We would also like to let you know that Chinese Conversation Corner is finishing up for the year...

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OzAsia Discount Codes + Updates

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The Confucius Insitute at the University of Adelaide is a program partner for the OzAsia Festival, and this year we have access to special discount tickets..

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OzAsia Festival Begins + New Nihao Mate Episode

gulangyu, china

Welcome to our Fortnightly Roundup. It's finally that time of year again with OzAsia Festival launching this Thursday, October 21... 

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OzAsia Festival arrives this month

Xiamen China

Welcome to our fortnightly roundup and welcome also to a new month. A signature event for the year, the OzAsia Festival, begins in just a matter of weeks. We will be participating in workshops on Sunday 24 October during the Moon Lantern Trail, an extended 4-day version of the previous 1 night Moon Lantern Parade. You can read more about this under Community Events inside...

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Happy Mid-Autumn Festival + New workshops announced

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The Mid-Autumn Festival is held on September 21 this year. To celebrate, yesterday we hosted a special Chinese Conversation Corner where participants learned how to make Mooncakes. We have also been supporting various university celebrations for the festival with traditional Chinese music performances...

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Plenty of exciting things coming up at CI

The Great Wall in Autumn

Welcome to this week's Fortnightly Roundup. Over the next month, we have many exciting things for you to look forward to such as new language and culture youtube episodes, a special Chinese Conversation Corner learning how to make mooncakes, and school holiday workshops teaching Taichi and Chinese Painting... 

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Registration closing soon for several programs and events

qingdao, china

Welcome to this week's Fortnightly Roundup. Our Chinese Conversation Corner has now been running back on campus for a couple of weeks and it's fantastic to see everyone again face-to-face. We look forward to seeing more of you in the coming weeks. Our team have also been busy preparing several new language and culture videos which we hope to release over the coming weeks so keep an eye out for those! A reminder it's your last chance to register for...

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New events announced in the Aus-China space

Wuzhen, Zhejiang Province

Welcome to this week's Fortnightly Roundup. Last week, we had our first Chinese Conversation Corner for the semester. Although it was delivered online due to Covid restrictions, we were glad to see many old and new friends join us, sharing stories and practicing Chinese together. This week, our Chinese Conversation Corner returned to campus. There are also quite a few new events coming up over the next few months. Of particular interest to readers may be the Elder Conservatorium's String Whispers Erhu Concert, the Chinese Language Teachers of SA State Conference and the OzAsia Festival which has now officially launched its 2021 program. More information on all this and more can be found inside...

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