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Going into its fourth year, ASEP continues to provide an array of classes to the students of Meyerholz that enriches their exposure to Chinese language and culture. The ASEP winter showcase has been a tradition to highlight what the students have accomplished in the fall. It's an evening for families and friends to appreciate performances and art displays from the ASEP classes. This year's ASEP winter showcase will be held on December 9th, Wednesday, 7:00pm at the Meyerholz GLC. Admission is free and everyone is welcome to come and enjoy the evening.
ASEP offers ten classes this school year. Cartoon Drawing, led by Daniella Topham, had the kids enjoying pencil drawing and clay modeling. The Claymation students had a wonderful time with Karen Tseng and Wendy Chew. The Claymation class is taught in Chinese and the students were doing the projects as groups, each group wrote an original story together, created the background set, made all the clay characters and used a computer animation program to make their movie on a PC. The Chinese Dance I students learned a lantern folk dance and Chinese Dance II students learned a special choreographed dance tailored for the girls called "The Ladies and the Koi." Both dance classes are taught by Debbie Wu.
Lion Dance is a performing art that represents an exiting and visible part of Chinese culture. With many students returning to Lion Dance, the classes were split to level I and level II. With such a large class, Sifu Stephen Chew brought the students together in a performance called, "Unity." This year, Sifu Jeff Hung challenged the Percussion class with offset variations to bring us the "Diamond Warrior.” Sifu Bidu taught our young Wushu I class the " Five Stances Fist" set and Wushu II the "Long Fist" set. The Chinese Flute class is a new addition to our performing art class this year. It is taught by Yu Zhang and he has quickly taught the students two musical pieces.
The After School Enrichment Program classes are established and administrated by CLIP parent volunteers. The ASEP classes wouldn't be able to run without our dedicated teachers but also all of our class coordinators and committee members. A big thanks to the following ASEP committee members who have gone above and beyond to make ASEP another great fun year for the kids; Angela Sun, Anne Brosnahan, Judy Chow, David Ma, Debbie Rosenthal, Donna Lowe, Eileen Voon, Ellie Lai, Ruth Shih, Hsinyi Lee, Joy Cheng, Kathleen Lee, Kimberley Hubble, Marge Sung and Matthew Heydinger.We also want to thank CLIPCO, the CUSD district, Ms Alfonso and her staffs and all the parents’ volunteers who help to make ASEP possible year after year.
Meyerholz CLIP After school Enrichment Program
Wendy Chew/Jessie Chou asep@googlegroups.com
ASEP Registration and Information (pdf)