Ontario Chinese Cultural Network

04/03/2026

04/03/2026

📅 April 2026 Event Calendar

📌Apr 2: Lan Yu Film Screening and Q&A
📌Apr 4: Hong Kong Studies in Canada Research Day
📌Apr 5: Chinese Soul, Funk & Disco | Spin & Talk with DJ Swee
📌Apr 10-30: Li Zhuyu Solo Exhibition Almost Home
📌Apr 10: Soup Dumpling Making Class
📌Apr 11-12: Canada's Forgotten Battle: The Defence of Hong Kong (1941-1945)
📌Apr 11, 18: Eats & Beats Mini Mart Noodles & Needles Market
📌Apr 18: Explore a Hidden Corner of Chinese Culture through Photography TCCSA
📌Apr 18: Lucky Knot Workshop
📌Apr 26: Mandarin Storytime Markham Public Library
📌Apr 30-May 3: The Festival of Literary Diversity

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02/28/2026

02/28/2026

📅 March 2026 Event Calendar

📌Until March 20: LunarFest GTA: Lunar Lanterns .gta

📌Mar 1: Community Music Schools of Toronto Lunar New Year Event Community Music Schools of Toronto Toronto Chinese Orchestra
📌Mar 1: Canada-China Culture & Art Association: Spring Festival Gala 2026
📌Mar 2: Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library Seminar: Un/settling Intimacies in Speculative Hong Kong
📌Mar 2 Studio Mooi: Lunar New Year Mahjong Night Studio Mooi
📌Mar 5: Munk School Event: Reimagining China Studies - Taiwan as a Springboard for Exploring the Sinosphere Asian Institute, University of Toronto
📌Mar 7 and Mar 22: Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library: Open House Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library 利銘澤典宬
📌Mar 7: York Centre for Asian Research: Consuming Home - Memory, Community Building, and Hong Kong Canadian Futures York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR)
📌Mar 8: Royal Ontario Museum Talk: Untold Stories of the Chinese Art Collection Royal Ontario Museum
📌Mar 8: Sunny Tang Martial Arts Centre: Lion Dance Workshop Sunny Tang Martial Arts HQ
📌Mar 20: Toronto Short Film Festival Screening: Generational: The Story of Asian Roots Collective T.O. Short Film Festival
📌Mar 20-21: CCNC-SJ Forum: 20 Years After Redress - Activism, Resilience and Collaboration Ccncsj

02/21/2026

DEADLINE EXTENDED! Submit a proposal to the Chinese Instrumental Music Symposium 2026 (Toronto, ON) by March 15, 2026!

Share your ideas, music, and research on Chinese instrumental music in Ontario and across Canada through presentations, roundtables, workshops, and performances,
culminating in a evening community concert.

All are welcome to apply at: cim-symposium.ca

📝 Submission Deadline: March 15, 2026, 11:59PM EST
📣 Notification of Acceptance: April 2026
🎓 Symposium Date: August 1, 2026
📍 Location: York University (Toronto, Canada)

02/17/2026

🏮OCCN wishes you a happy and healthy Year of the Horse! 🐴

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02/15/2026

Chinese Instrumental Music Symposium 2026
Screening Committee Introduction: Dr. Hippocrates Cheng

Hippocrates Cheng 鄭靖楠 is an assistant professor of music theory and composition in the Binghamton University Music Department. He is a composer, theorist, ethnomusicologist and multi-instrumentalist from Hong Kong. In 2024, he completed his Doctor of Music Composition with a minor in ethnomusicology at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. His composition teachers included professors Don Freund, Eugene O'Brien, David Dzubay and Aaron Travers.
As an award-winning composer, Cheng writes contemporary classical music, new music for Asian instruments, jazz and music for interdisciplinary productions. As a multi-instrumentalist, he performs overtone singing, piano and viola while also practicing qin, dan bau and phin pia.
He draws on music theory, composition, ethnomusicology and sound studies in his research of both traditional and contemporary East Asian music. This intersectional approach is exemplified by his research on the music of the Hong Kong composer Doming Lam, the player piano and piano rolls in early jazz history, and braille music notation. His papers were selected by conferences hosted by AMIS, IAML, ICTMD, ISJAC, APME, AMS, the CUNY Graduate Center, the University at Buffalo, the University of Southern California, the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Humboldt University, University College Dublin, the University of Malaya and the Korean Performing Arts Institute of Chicago.
In June 2024, his chamber opera on anti-Asian hate, All of US, was premiered as the winning work commissioned by the Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel, Indiana. In the summer of 2024, he was selected for an exchange program funded by Indiana University (IU) and the Free University of Berlin (FUB). During his residency in Berlin, he conducted research and created new works.
He is currently working on a creative research project titled "East Asian Music in the Contemporary World."

02/15/2026

Chinese Instrumental Music Symposium 2026
Screening Committee Introduction: Dr. Jui-Ching Wang

Jui-Ching Wang, D.M.A., is professor at Northern Illinois University where she teaches music education and world music courses and coordinates world music program.
Wang received her bachelor's degree in music from Soochow University in Taipei, master's degrees in piano performance and music education from Northern Illinois University, and her doctorate in music education from Arizona State University. She has published refereed articles in Philosophy of Music Education Review, the International Journal of Music Education, the Journal of Band Research, the Journal or Historical Research in Music Education, the National Association for Music Education's (NAfME) General Music Today and Music Educators Journal, the Orff Echo, Piano Magazine, and in non-music journals, such as Education about Asia and Pacific Historical Review.
Fluent in Chinese, she has published articles on the topics of music and culture, music education, and world music in The Performing Arts, Taipei Chinese Music, Music Browse, and the Journal of Aesthetic Education. She is also a contributor to the New Grove Dictionary of American Music (2nd edition), Oxford Handbook of Asian Philosophies and Music Education, and Teaching Asian Art: Content, Context, and Pedagogy, a National Art Education Association (NAEA) publication.
To promote world music pedagogy, Wang organized the Teaching World Music Symposium at Northern Illinois University in April 2015 and 2025. As a clinician advocating the study of music as culture, she has provided training and demonstrations for in-service teachers and music students in the U.S., Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, China, and Taiwan to help them expand their cultural horizons through music. She has served on the Editorial Board for the International Journal of Music Education (2016-22) and Music Educators Journal (2022-present). A Fulbright Scholar, Wang studied traditional Javanese children's singing games, tembang dolanan anak, in Yogyakarta, Indonesia in 2016-17.

Website: cim-symposium.ca

02/14/2026

Chinese Instrumental Music Symposium 2026
Screening Committee Introduction: Dr. Matthew P**n

Currently Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire, Matthew P**n’s career embraces an eclectic range of interests. As a music theorist, his research primarily focuses on issues of musical form and the analysis of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Western music; however, he also pursues secondary interests in music perception and harmony in Japanese anime music. He has articles published in Music Theory Online, Music Theory Spectrum, Indiana Theory Review, Journal of the International Conductors Guild, and Frontiers in Psychology, and has presented papers at the Society for Music Theory, Society for Music Perception and Cognition, and regional conferences in Canada and the United States.

As a conductor, Matthew serves as the music director of the St. Croix Valley Orchestra, located on the border of Wisconsin and Minnesota, as well as the Chippewa Valley Youth Symphony in Eau Claire. He was most recently the music director of the Strings Attached Orchestra in Toronto, a community string orchestra whose charitable mission involves bringing live music to hospitals and long-term care centers. Prior to that, he served as conductor of the Toronto Chinese Orchestra and assistant conductor of the Kindred Spirits Orchestra, McMaster University Choir, and McMaster Women’s Vocal Ensemble (now the Cantemus Vocal Ensemble). He maintains close connections with the performing arts scene in Toronto as music director of the ME & Lau Family Foundation’s biennial concerts, which feature professional musicians working alongside students with intellectual disabilities, and as artistic advisor of the Canadian Chinese Orchestra (an orchestra consisting of traditional Chinese instruments).

Matthew holds Ph.D., M.A., and M.M. degrees from the University of Toronto, a B.M. and diploma from McMaster University, and an A.R.C.T. diploma from the Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto). He previously taught music theory at Oberlin College & Conservatory and the University of Toronto, and conducting at Tyndale University in Toronto.

Website: cim-symposium.ca

02/14/2026

We are pleased to introduce the Members of the Screening Committee for the upcoming Chinese Instrumental Music Symposium 2026: Dr. Matthew P**n, Dr. Jui-Ching Wang, and Dr. Hippocrates Cheng. Learn more about them in the coming days!

For more information, visit: cim-symposium.ca

02/08/2026

02/08/2026

📅 February 2026 Event Calendar (Part 3/3)

📌Feb 21: Woodside Square Lunar New Year Celebration
📌Feb 21: Markham Museum Lunar New Year Celebration
📌Feb 21: Willowdale 2026 Lunar New Year
📌Feb 21-22: Lunarfest GTA
📌Feb 21-22: Loohoo Lunar Neigh Year Market
📌Feb 21-22: Toronto Chinatown: Lunar New Year Celebration
📌Feb 21-22: Ten Ren's Tea: Golden Horse New Year Festival
📌Feb 21, 22, 28: Pacific Mall Lunar New Year Celebration
📌Feb 22: Oakville 2026 Lunar New Year Celebration
📌Feb 22: Vaughan Lunar New Year Celebration
📌Feb 26: York Region Chinese Heritage Month Celebration
📌Feb 26: Brampton Lunar New Year Celebration
📌Feb 27: CCCDA & TCMS: Golden Bell Laureates Chinese New Year Concert
📌Feb 28: Toronto Symphony Orchestra: Year of the Horse - A Lunar New Year Celebration