It has been 25 years since the College commenced classes in Victoria. Like every year in the last 25 years, this year has been a good year especially as we celebrate our 25th anniversary. I look forward to our 25th Anniversary celebration dinner on 22 November where we come together, not only to celebrate this auspicious occasion of the college, but to share in a time of a warm fellowship amongst our Tai chi fraternity with good food. Please join us!
We continue to participate actively in the Wushu & Tai chi communities around us. At the local level the college again participated in the WTQA competition on 31August and winning 4 gold and 1 silver medals.
Congratulations to these people. We are proud of your achievements. On 31 May, I conducted a workshop at the WTQA Cross Training day which was attended by participants from various Tai chi schools.
At the international level, I attended the torch lighting ceremony of the International Martial Arts Games (IMAG) on 22 October in Pyongyang, North Korea a prelude to this year’s International martial arts games in New Delhi, India in December. GM Eng Chor remained a Board member of the Executive Board of IMGC, a position very well recognised in the martial arts world.
The College is also well recognised by our communities. This year the college was invited by a theatre company to be involved in a performance at the banks of the Maribyrnong River, a performance based on a research carried out by Victoria University depicting life along the Maribyrnong River. Thanks to Snr Instructor Margie Brett and her team for their contribution to this venture.
The College was also invited to give Tai chi performance at the Melbourne 2nd White Night celebrations on 21 February. We were also involved in many other festivals including Moonee Ponds, Ashburton, Doncaster, and Werribee among many others.
The College is also proud to be part of Alzheimer Australia in promoting dementia risk reduction and brain health program. We gave tai chi and qigong demonstrations throughout the day at the Alzheimer Australia marquee during the Box Hill festival in February, an obvious testimony that Tai chi helps in dementia and Alzheimer prevention.
As we continue to make our contribution to our wider communities, we remained focussed to nurture our Celestial College family who are our students, helpers, trainees, assistant instructors, instructors and senior instructors.
Our desire is that you continue to enjoy Tai chi and reap the manifold benefits this ancient health exercise gives. Thank you for your involvement with Celestial Tai Chi College and look forward to share Tai chi with you in 2016.
On behalf of Grandmaster Eng Chor together with Siew Ngoh and Beng Yan, I wish all of you ...a MERRY CHRISTMAS and a BLESSED NEW YEAR
Senior Master CHIN MIN
