Pyongyang

On the 20th of March 2008 in Pyongyang, DPRKorea, there has been successfully held the Torch bearing function for the Opening Ceremony of the 3rd International Martial art Games in Bangkok, Thailand April to be officiated by the IMGC in cooperation with the Bangkok International Martial Art Games Organizing Committee (BIMAGOC).

The Celestial Tai Chi College is please to announce that our co-founder Eng Chor Khor has been granted the title of “Grand Master of Tai Chi Chuan” by the International Martial Art Games Committee (IMGC).

In his citation, Grand Master Jong Jae Hun, the President of the IMGC writes: “You, as a Master of Tai Chi Chuan, have devoted yourself to pioneering the Chinese Martial Art history in Australia and also to cultivating the Human Value; Truth, Right Conduct, Peace, Love and Non-violence among the numerous martial artists through the decades of years of education in your country and overseas."

The Melbourne Fringe Festival is an annual alternative arts festival and runs for three weeks from late September to early October, usually overlapping with the beginning of the mainstream Melbourne International Arts Festival. It includes a wide variety of art forms, including theatre, comedy, music, performance art, film, and cabaret, and has expanded in recent years to embrace digital art and circus performance as well.

There was an official opening of the Fringe Festival at the Federation Square site on 27 September 2007, and the College was invited to perform at the opening.  We performed the Lotus Qi Qong and Tai Chi Levels 1 and 2 to the audience of several hundred and were warmly applauded.  The official placard at the site included the College as one of the sponsors of the event.  The public was able to watch on a TV screen, our College performances at our Park Lessons that had been previously recorded.

Thank you to all who helped make the event a success.

- Margaret Rogers