Dear Member,

I hope your Festive Season has been truly festive and you are looking forward to our next meeting which, need I remind you, will be at Will’s Quills, 164 Victoria Avenue, Chatswood at 2.30 PM on 7th February.

This time we have in store for you a real treat – our Treasurer, Maggie De Courcy will be showing you how to paint on gold paper. Maggie has very successfully mastered this particular technique and has generously agreed to share her knowledge with us.

As you know we have recently been involved in many activities, and this has been generating new interest in our Society. I am happy to welcome as new members

Janet Twigg-Patterson from Canberra, Anne McPherson, Howard Doyle, Trevor Vale and Keith Capell. Welcome to you all!

Perhaps this is a good time to once more consider the aims of our Society. As always we would like to receive some feedback.

Ask yourself what expectations do you have from your Society, what would you like like it to be, what are you prepared to do to improve it? We would like to hear from you either by phone, email to mirrahai@bigpond.net., Phone No 02 9452 3055, or Maggie at maggiedc@bigpond.net.au Phone No 02 9878 1530 or a short note to our POBox 163, Frenchs Forest 2086. We could make this the subject of our next meeting discussion.

Now to more practical things. Daisy Hsu who has until now looked after our refreshments and organized it very efficiently, will leave the country for a while, and we badly need someone to take over her activity. There is not much to do except provide tea, coffee, cups, milk as well as some biscuits, for each meeting. I’m sure that a few minutes with Daisy would put you in the picture. Please let me know if you are willing to take on this job.

TRIP TO SHANGHAI

The Australian Chinese Friendship Society has organized a Study Tour of three weeks in Shanghai. Someone brought a brochure at the last meeting and already 5 of us have decided to join. The price is $ 3400, all included and a trip to the Yellow Mountain (Huang Shan) is thrown in as well as three weeks of tuition in Chinese Painting with an interpreter. The cost includes Visa fee, Airport taxes, tuition, materials, tipping, room and board and the tour to Huang Shan.

The course is run under the auspices of the Institute of Foreign Trade where the course will be held.

Accommodation is in the International Students’ House. The rooms are basic but clean. There are two rooms per unit with airconditioning, colour TV, shower/bathroom and a utility room. Lessons are in the morning and the afternoons are free to explore the city if you so wish. In the weekends there will be organized outing and sightseeing

Any further information you can obtain from Margaret or Janice. Sorry about the short notice, but you are still in time, they will take bookings until the first week of February.

The dates of the trip are 17th March 2004 till 8th April when you come home.

Now that the Festive season is well behind us, it would be nice to resume our Yam Cha lunches. Please let us know if you have any preferences as to the day of the week. The best would be to ring Maggie who generally is in charge of its organization.

And now it only remains to me to wish you all

KUNG HEI FAT CHOI

I look forward to seeing as many of you as possible at the next meeting.

Your Secretary,

Mirra Hainsworth.

PS. Could those of you who receive this newsletter by email confirm to me that you have received it, as I seem to have missed some of you last time.

The Australian Chinese Painting Society

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