The Victoria Canada China Friendship Association (VCCFA) will present an “East meets West Gala Fundraising Concert” for the Victoria Conservatory of Music and the Chinatown Care Centre.
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Date: April 17, 2010, 12:00 – 4:00 pm
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Dinner: Golden City Restaurant, 6:30 pm
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This gala concert will feature Pianist May Ling Kwok and Violinist Terence Tam. May Ling Kwok is a recording pianist who is currently teaching the University of Victoria and the Victoria Conservatory of Music. Terence Tam is the Concertmaster of the Victoria Symphony Orchestra. They will perform one of the most romantic Chinese violin concerti entitled “Romance of the Butterfly Lovers”. Well established Chinese musicians and opera singers from Los Angeles and Vancouver will perform a variety of popular Chinese classical music and Cantonese operas. Following the concert, a fund raising dinner will be held at the Golden City Restaurant. The Victoria Chinese community is enthusiastically behind this event. The Chinese Consulate General in Vancouver has also pledged gifts in support of this concert.
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You can support this event in many ways, such as:
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(a) Attending the concert - ticket price varies from $25, $35 and $50.
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(b) Attending the fund raising dinner. Dinner ticket is $30 each ($5 is for the fund raising event).
" V; `9 E: L! l (c) Donating a gift to be sold at the dinner.
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(d) Placing an advertisement in the Concert Program. Advertising
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is accepted till March 25.
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For further details, contact Thomas Leung at 250-220-6138 or via email at
thomasleung@shaw.ca 
