Dear ALL,

The 2006 National Day and Moon Festival Celebration was a big success,
thanks to everyone's contributions!

I am excited to thank all performers and groups for your excellent
performance.

This year’s performance was held at the gym in Santa Clara Mission
College; the decoration work was much harder, but we successfully "made"
a stage using the ground, thanks to all the valuable professional advise
from our artists and hard work from volunteers.

The on-stage program began at 2: 30 PM, following the General Consulate
Mr. Peng and the VIP’s speech.  Over 80 talented performers representing
15 organizations performed 18 outstanding shows, including:

- the well known ballet piece from <White hair girl> was fantastic, the original Da
Chun大春.  Mr. Shi / Zhongqi and 喜儿 Xi-Er – Zhang / Jing performed so
well that many older audiences were brought back to 30 – 40 years ago; 
The audience was warmly touched, some even to tears;

- Mr. Xia’s professional Acrobatic – “Happy Chef" was breath taking and
entertaining for everyone;

- Popular Chinese instrument - Gu Zheng and the bamboo flute were played
so joyfully;

- Li/Yi & Ma/Chunxia’s 小品 was so funny that many of us couldn't stop
from laughing;

- Bayland, HongYe & the SV Chorus Dancing groups dressed in colorful
dresses and danced gracefully;

- Solo and duets singing were complemented by each singer’s special skills;

- Beijing Opera attracted more adults by performing with beautiful
dresses and clear voices;

- Shao Lin Gong-Fu by Shaolin monks was a big eye opener, impressing and
surprising everyone;

- Mini opera by UC Berkeley Students was especially exciting;

- Taiwan native singer Rose Wen’s song was so powerful, everyone stood
up and danced with her;

The show was such a success that during the performances, some of the
audiencse wanted to know when and where NEXT year's performance would be
held!

Many thanks to our wonderful MC Li/ZhiJian and Xiong/LiPing for making
the transitions smooth and flawless.

The off stage children's program attracted a lots of "little friends".
The jump house was filled with kids all the time; the riddles were
challenging yet fun, and even the adults had a hard time; other fun games were not easy to beat either .


Many thanks to our volunteers:

Wen/Feng (Beijing Normal Univ) for arranging the jump house and games,
Wang/Xing & Yang/Qing (Beijing Normal Univ) for set up and organizing
the riddle games.
Zhou/Meiling (United Youth Enrichment School 联合中文学校) and
Wonderland Chinese School for providing the riddles and games.

Special thanks to

- Yu/JingJiang & Ann Woo for their professional advice about setting up the performance.

- Zhu/Hua (SFBA Yan Xin Life Science), flyer designer and editor.

- Liu/Zhuo (Star Bridge) for his responsible work as stage supervisor.

- Jin/Ying (Peking University) our promotion writer and editor.

- Shi/YongXia (Beijing Normal Univ) in charge of the power point program
introduction.

- Zhang / Chun, our treasurer for her diligent work.

- The Chinese Consult of Education for their strong support all the way, plus 2 boxes of great prizes for the riddle game: colorful T-shirt, art pieces, hat, computer mouse
pad & etc, which made the riddle place a hot spot for adults and children.

Finally, thanks to
- Lin/Shengheng (林昇衡) for his non-stopping hard work for months to
make this event a big success!

- ALL of our back stage heroes who worked hard for months in order to
make this event happen. Forgive me for not being able to list all your
names here, thank you, and thank you!


Best regards,

Wang/Li (BNU)



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