Wellington News and Events

This month we are going to hold an exciting event in the city centre.  Get registered by 20 May, so you can enjoy the wonderful presentation, film and the Chinese food! Please feel free to pass this email to your friends and colleagues.  BEAUTY OF CHINESE CHARACTER 汉字之美 – Presentation by local artists Stan Chan & Judy Huo  Sponsored by the Confucius Institute at Victoria University of Wellington  A free Chinese language and culture night with a Chinese film, NARROW STREET … [Read more...]

Date: Thursday 24th May 2012 [Sorry, this film is not available.  See the next announcement for this date.] Time: 7.00pm Venue: Committee Room One, Wellington City Council, 101 Wakefield Street Gold Coin Donation Lost Indulgence (秘岸) 2008 [104 minutes]. The film is a family drama about the relationship between a mother and son (Jiang Wenli and Tan Jianci) after the sudden death of his father (Eric Tsang).  The relationship becomes complicated when they take a secretive young woman … [Read more...]

The Wellington Branch President's Report was presented at the Annual General Meeting on 21 March 2012.It is indeed a privilege and pleasure to present the President’s report for the year 2011/2012. I believe it has been once again another successful and very active year for the Branch with 9 well attended events. These included 8 Branch meetings and the Chinese New Year Spring Festival Banquet celebrating the year of the Dragon. Attendance at Branch meetings has been often up to 80 and … [Read more...]

Date: Thursday 29th March 2012 NOTE: This is a departure from the usual timing (3rd Thursday) due to WCC renovations. Time: 7.00pm - 9:50pm  NOTE: Due to the length of this film, the screening will start promptly at 7pm. Venue: Committee Room One, Wellington City Council, 101 Wakefield Street  Gold Coin Donation  Farewell My Concubine 霸王别姬 [170 minutes] with English subtitle.  Director: Chen Kaige 导演: 陈凯歌. Starring: Leslie Cheung, Zhang Fengyi, Gong Li, Ge You, Jiang … [Read more...]

In 2011 Mandarin Corner will be joining with the Wellington Chinese Language School to present the 2011 Annual Dinner on THURSDAY, 1 DECEMBER 2011, 6.30 – 8.30pm at DRAGONS CHINESE RESTAURANT, 25 TORY ST, WELLINGTON The dinner is supported by the Confucius Institute at Victoria University You are warmly invited to this first Joint Annual Dinner.  Your family and friends are also welcome! For further details, see the Programme and Menu. $30 per person ($15 for children), pay cash on … [Read more...]

Date: Wednesday 23 November Time: 7.00pm – 9:30pm Venue: Committee Room One, Wellington City Council, 101 Wakefield Street 7-7:30pm –NZ Chinese Language Association National AGM 7:30 Feature Film—Life 人生 (105 minutes with English subtitles) Director: Wu Tianming; Starring: Zhou Lijing, Wu Yufang Adapted from the novel with the same title, this is a tragedy that occurs in “modern” China.  Through a vivid description of the frustrated life story of Gao Jialin, a high school … [Read more...]

Date: Wednesday 26 October  Time: 7.00pm - 9:30pm  Venue: Committee Room One, Wellington City Council, 101 Wakefield Street 7-7:30pm - Documentary—Waterside Region South of the Yangtze River江南水乡 7:30 - Feature length Documentary — A Review of the Centennial Development of China's Film Industry 百年光影  [100 minutes with English subtitles]  China's first movie was made in 1905 when great changes were taking place in Chinese society. Films, as vivid records of the times, … [Read more...]

Date: Wednesday 28 September Time: 7.00pm - 9:30pm Venue: Committee Room One, Wellington City Council, 101 Wakefield Street. Gold coin donation. Shower (洗澡), director Zhang Yang, starring: Jiang Wu, Zhu Xu, Pu Cunxin (姜武, 朱旭, 濮存昕), 92 minutes Shenzhen businessman, Da Ming, goes home to Beijing when he thinks his father has died. He finds his father hard at work at the family's bathhouse (the false message was a ruse of Da's mentally-handicapped, exuberant brother, Er Ming, … [Read more...]

Date: Wednesday 24 August Time: 7.00pm – 9:30pm Venue: Committee Room One, Wellington City Council, 101 Wakefield Street Turn Left Turn Right (向左走,向右走), director Jonnie To, starring: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Gigi Leung (金城武 , 梁咏琪), 100 minutes.  This is a movie about two people (Gigi Leung and Takeshi Kaneshiro), who are destined to be together but by some twist of circumstances they never find each other.  Preceded by a documentary 7:00 – 7:30pm.     … [Read more...]

Date: Wednesday 27 July  Time: 7.00pm – 9:30pm  Venue: Committee Room One, Wellington City Council, 101 Wakefield Street Life Show (生活秀), director Huo Jianqi霍建起, starring Tao Hong, Tao Zeru (主演: 陶红 / 陶泽如 / 潘粤明)  105 minutes. Adapted from a famous novel written by novelist Chi Li, Life Show tells the story of Lai Shuang Yang, who runs a restaurant in a Chongqing night market, with a real-life-touching story and filming techniques. It praises and … [Read more...]

Date: Thursday 23 June Time: 7.00pm - 9:30pm Venue: Committee Room One, Wellington City Council, 101 Wakefield Street (please note the venue and date change, we have moved back to Wellington City Council meeting room.) 24 City (Chinese: 二十四城记/二十四城記; literally: The Story of 24 City) is a 2008 film directed and co-written by Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke. The film follows three generations of characters in Chengdu (in the 1950s, the 1970s and the present day) as a … [Read more...]

Date: Wednesday 25 May Time: 7.00pm - 9:30pm Venue: Committee Room One, Wellington City Council, 101 Wakefield Street (please note the venue change, moved back to Wellington City Council meeting room.) 7.00pm - Chinese Documentary: I wish I knew 海上传奇（hai shang chuan qi) [2010] Focuses on the people, their stories and architecture spanning from the mid-1800s, when Shanghai was opened as a trading port, to the present day. Director: Jia Zhang … [Read more...]