We held an Olympics Panda Art Competition for primary schools. It drew over 500 entries from 30 schools from prep class to grade 6. There was a great variety of styles and materials. As well as plenty of pandas and bamboo, there were pandas on the beach, super pandas, macho pandas and girlie pandas, caged pandas and underwater and space pandas. All prize winners received certificates and folk art paper-cuts.
We recently had a session on traditional Chinese medicine with a local practitioner. She had time to take volunteers' pulses and have a short 'consultation' with them.
Two new books have been published this year and they deal with Tasmanian Chinese. Tin Dragons by John Biggs and Ching Chong China Girl: from fruitshop to foreign correspondent by Helene Chung. Both books touch on the nineteenth century immigrants, the twentieth century taunt "Ching Chong Chinaman" and the 21st century 'Trail of the Tin Dragon' tourist project in north east Tasmania.