About Us
What makes us so different?
- The Chinese Canadian Children's Choir of Canada (C5) is a not-for-profit organization based in Ottawa. It has focus on developing a fundamental understanding of music, life, emotional expression, and intercultural communication for children between the ages of 5 and 16. It provides an East-meets-West experience and helps to raise the cultural awareness and confidence of young Canadians. It promotes the learning of languages and cultures through singing Chinese, English and French songs, and enables children to learn to appreciate and to embrace the spirit of multiculturalism in Canada.
- Mission: To develop a deep understanding and love of humanity, world cultures, and languages. Also to promote the development of a fundamental understanding of music, life, expression of feeling, and intercultural communication.
Distinction
- C5 is recognized for the quality of its programming and for its focus on Canadian and Chinese cultures. It works to foster an environment of sincerity, dedication, and responsibility through the combining of histories, traditions, languages and cultures of the World. C5’s repertoire includes songs composed by its own members, one of which received a gold medal in a Chinese children’s song writing competition held in Beijing.
- C5 supports its members’ development through an active program of choral learning and performance. In the practice of learning and operations as a choir, C5 will nurture strong parent-conductor-student relationships with close ties to the community. It undertakes to foster, recognize and appreciate the contributions and achievements of its members. Our choir teaches members Chinese and Western songs, a fusion of the two, and helps them to develop a better sense of cultures with a focus on the Chinese, English, and French languages.
Target Audience
C5 aspires to become widely recognized for the quality of its music, its positive way to develop and nurture its members in the Chinese community in Ottawa. It also works on attracting local communities interested in Chinese cultures in general and in Chinese music in particular. C5 has focus on cultural exchanges between Canada and China nationwide, it extends its stage in Canada, China and countries around the world when applicable..