Activities & Events
How to participate?
The 2025 Chinese New Year Banquet is just around the corner! Join us on February 1, 2025, at 6:00 PM for an exciting celebration filled with cultural festivities, traditional performances by students, and delicious food. Don’t miss out on this wonderful event!
Learn more about the Chinese New Year Banquet
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Our traditional events
New Students Meeting
The CSSA new students meeting is organized once every year for students mainly coming from China and other mandarin speaking countries. It provides an opportunity for new students to learn experiences, ask questions and connect with current students. The meeting is conducted in Chinese and usually before the semester starts.
Chinese National Day Celebration
The Chinese National Day celebration acts as an ice-breaking event for students coming from China. It provides an opportunity for the local Chinese community to gather together, and for Chinese students to meet new friends. This event is celebrated annually on October 1.
CSSA Lecture
Every year CSSA hosts the lecture event to bring the community together and have an engaging learning experience outside the confines of the classroom. The idea of the CSSA lecture is to bring well-known speakers to the TRU campus, at little cost to the local community, to bridge misunderstandings between different cultures. The lecture event covers economic, political and cultural topics and has become a popular event among students and faculties.
Watch our previous lecture event: Why the world needs China with Cyrus Janssen
Spring Festival Gala
Spring Festival Gala was initially introduced by China Central Television and is the most-watched entertainment show globally, recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records.
Watching the Spring Festival Gala show has been a tradition of Chinese people for many years. Family members return to where they were born and raised to reunite with their parents to spend the night together. They prepare meals for the entire family and enjoy the meal while watching this show.
Watch our 2022 TRU Spring Festival Gala on YouTube
Chinese Movie Screening
Kamloops theatres usually do not screen Chinese movies and this has been a long demand from our members. CSSA works with Cineplex and Kamloops Film Society to put up the most requested Chinese movies here in Kamloops.
Events we participate
Back-to-School BBQ
The TRUSU Back-to-School BBQ is the biggest event of the year, traditionally hosted on the first Friday of a school year. It is a time students, staff, faculty and members from the broader community get together for the afternoon. TRUSU invites over one-hundred campus and community groups, including the Chinese Students & Scholars Association to set a table with information, free giveaways and prizes.
Learn more about Back-to-School BBQ
Idays
Idays or international days is a one-week event that engages TRU’s faculty, staff and students, alongside the wider community in learning, dialogue, storytelling and festivities that focus the mind and the heart on how culture, diversity, sustainability and innovation can interact to form a positive and inclusive foundation for a vibrant community. Chinese Students & Scholars Association receives regular invitations to participate in the fashion show, which is held on the last day of the event as a grant celebration.
Kamloops Chinese Cultural Association
Chinese Students & Scholars Association works closely with Kamloops Chinese Cultural Association (KCCA) to promote cultural exchanges and diversity among the local community. KCCA was incorporated in 1977 with a vision to enhance community, contribute to the betterment of our children, and to the society in which we live. The Association has a University Scholarship and Bursary Foundation Fund and we contribute to the City of Kamloops for enhancing the Kamloops Chinese Heritage Cemetery.
Kamloops Multicultural Society
Kamloops Multicultural Society was founded in 1975 and is a registered non-profit umbrella organization for many local cultural and ethnic groups. The society brings together all various cultural groups of Kamloops began in the early 1970s. Chinese Students & Scholars Association receives regular invitations to participate in their Canada national day drumming events and various cultural exchange events.
Further questions
If you have any further questions, please feel free to reach out to our entertainment committee at entertainment@trucssa.ca.