Chinese Lunar New Year Celebrations 2026 at The Open University by

Preparations started

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VIP visit

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Event starting

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music 音乐 and Dance 跳舞

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A selection of translated Chinese literature

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Calligraphy and fan dancing activities

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Attendees having a go with silk fans

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Ink calligraphy

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Our two performers together

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Ink painting of the horse

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Our wonderful student Daisy and dedicated Executive Dean Klaus-Dieter learning to paint the horse

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Practising fan dancing

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Attendees watch the live performances

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Milton Keynes Chinese Fusion Dance group

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Making herbal sachets... Very popular!

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Practising the sign for horse and happiness

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Participants enjoying the activities

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Horse prize from the raffle

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Fundraiser raffle for Milton Keynes Food Bank

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Watching the beautiful live bamboo flute music

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Plenty of fortune cookies!

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Our student Daisy teaching attendees how to say Happy New Year! in Chinese

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Tai Chi performance by expert instructor Feixia Yu

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Watching the live performances

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Herbal sachets ingredients and recipes

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Winning a prize in the raffle

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Qian and Andy, Directors of the Online Confucius Institute, open the event

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Beautiful live bamboo flute music

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A beautiful performance by Milton Keynes Chinese Fusion Dance group

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OCI team members and colleagues :)

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Artist Peter painting the horse and the bamboo

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Greg, LDS Colleague in Intermediate Chinese production team, copied the characters for Online Confucius Institute at The Open University beautifully and in excellent proportion 👏

London-based Chinese Language publisher Sinolingua came with some titles of translated Chinese literature

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Winning numbers! Get in touch with online-ci@open.ac.uk if you didn't pick up your prize!

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Keen learners

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Taming the dragons (poi ribbons)

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at 1st if you dont succeed....

OCI team at the ready

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One of our lucky winners won not one but two prizes

onlineci — 2026-02-12 08:26:23 UTC

Opportunity for colleagues and friends to meet up

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more fun dancing with fans & dragon poi ribbons

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taming the dragon (poi ribbon)

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A good attempt 👏

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