Chinese Embassy Cultural Exchange Event

CIUM Director Suhan Chen and Montana Rocky Mountain Ballet Theatre (RMBT) were invited to join cultural exchange events at Chinese Embassy at D.C. During the exchange, RMBT dancers not only presented the classical dances featuring American West, but showed their understandings of Chinese culture by performing Chinese ballet dances from the classical Chinese ballet pieces and greeting people in Mandarin Chinese. Chinese Ambassador to the US, Ambassador CUI Tiankai, Montana Senator Steve Daines, and Montana Congressman Greg Gianforte attended the event.

2018 CI Day - Chinese Cultural Week Series

As our annual featured event, CIUM host our Global CI Day Celebration: Chinese Cultural Week in 2018. The Event started at the beginning of October, 2018, with a display of Chinese picture books at Montana Book Festival and on campus. The highlight of this year's celebration includes Chinese Opera and Music Recital by CI of Chinese Opera at Binghamton University (NY) free and open to the public at Dennison Theater on campus on Oct 12 (Friday) at 7:00 pm. A Chinese opera and music interactive workshop will also be held at Flathead High School (Kalispell) introducing the traditional Chinese arts and music to the students in Kalispell on Oct 11. The Chinese Cultural Week series also included several other Chinese cultural workshops at local K-12 schools.

Chinese Dancing Workshop

CIUM held three Chinese dancing workshops in January of 2018. The workshops were taught by Ms. Ming Yang Davis, the former leading dancer from the Central Ballet of China. During the workshops, students were able to learn a variety of Chinese traditional dances: the ribbon dance to celebrate Chinese festivals, the Chinese fan dances, and the ethnic peacock dance. The workshops were co-host by CIUM's long-time community partner --- Rocky Mountain Ballet Theatre.

2018 Chinese New year Celebration

Confucious Institute at UM held 2018 Grand Chinese New Year Celebration on Sunday, Februry 11, 2018. UM President Seth Bodnar attended the Celebration and addressed to the audiences. He has also demonstrated his exceptional Chinese language skills by greeting people and introducing himself in Mandarin Chinese for about 5 mins. Please click here for Montana Kaimin's report for this event. We are looking forward to working with all of you in this great Year of Dog !

Chinese Cultural Experience Corner

The CIUM has set up a Chinese culture experience booth at the annual International Cultural Festival at UM campus on April 8, 2018. The booth displayed a variety of Chinese cultural elements: the shadow puppets, the Chinese abacus, Chinese picture books of attractions, Chinese papercutting, and Chinese calligraphy sets etc. Thousands of community people stopped by our booth, receiving their Chinese names in Chinese characters, learning writing Chinese characters with Chinese brushes, and trying on the Chinese paper-cuttings etc.

President's State of the University Address

Former President Royce C. Engstrom delivered Annual State of the University Address on Friday, August 28, 2015. CI is honorned to be mentioned:

"Programs like Confucius Institute are reaching out to provide education to even younger students in the K-12 system."

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Welcome! The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center is the proud home of the only Confucius Institute in the Northern Rockies region, a cooperative partnership between the University of Montana, the Office of Chinese Language Council International (Hanban) and Southwest University of Political Science and Law (SWUPL) in Chongqing, China. The Confucius Institute is part of an international network of Confucius Institutes dedicated to providing education, public programming, and teacher training on Chinese language, history, culture, and current affairs.