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NZ Chinese Calligraphy Competition

27 August 2024

The Calligraphy Competition is organised by UC's Confucius Institute (CIUC). It's open to all Aotearoa  | New Zealand school students and tertiary institutions. Native and non-native speakers of Chinese are welcome to enter. Winning entries are collected and published by CIUC in a book. Learn more about our NZ Chinese Calligraphy Competition.

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2023 Calligraphy Competition

The Calligraphy Competition

The Calligraphy Competition is organised by the Confucius Institute at the University of Canterbury and is open to all Aotearoa New Zealand school students and Tertiary institutions. Both native and non-native speakers of Chinese are welcome to enter. Winning entries are collected and published by CIUC in book form.

Registration Form for the 14th Aotearoa NZ Chinese Calligraphy Competition 2023

Competition entries are due by 23 June 2023. Please send the Calligraphy work and Registration Form to jingying.zhao@canterbury.ac.nz.

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Registration Method

The calligraphy competition is open to both online group registration and individual registration. Participants can register as a group at their school or as an individual.

Submission Requirements

The calligraphy competition accepts both hard and soft brush calligraphy works in any style and with content of your choice. Participants are encouraged to choose poems, songs or blessings that represent traditional Chinese culture.

Tournament Progress

Submission deadline: 2023.6.23

Judging time: early July 2023

Announcement of winners: August 2023

Award ceremony and prize distribution: October 2023

Awards

The calligraphy competition includes both hard and soft pens, and is divided into primary, secondary and tertiary groups according to the age of the participants, which are subdivided into native and non-native speakers, with a total of 12 groups, each with first, second, third and merit prizes.

Resources

Student individual online registration formGoogle Docs Registration Form

School group registration form: Group Registration Form for Schools

Hard Pen worksheet2023 Hard pen grid

Soft Pen Calligraphy Paper Application:  Please send an email with your address and the number of students participating to jingying.zhao@canterbury.ac.nz, and the calligraphy paper will be sent to you.

Link for the 2022 Collection: The 13th Calligraphy Collection

For more information, contact Jingying Zhao:

Email: jingying.zhao@canterbury.ac.nz
Phone: +64 3 3691494

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