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Kung Fu Wushu ACT gratefully acknowledges the great support provided by the ACT Government to our participation in the 2024 National Multicultural Festival for the Year of the Dragon.

KW ACT will be performing on Saturday  17 February, at 1.00 pm on the Akuna St stage.

KW ACT will run four workshops in Glebe Park: Tai Chi at 10 am; Women’s Self Defence at 11.15 am; Kung Fu at 1 pm, and Lion Dance drumming at 2.15 pm.

These events have all been facilitated by the ACT Government’s support.

KW ACT will also have a stall on Sunday 17 February in Glebe Park – everyone is invited to come along and talk with our various instructors and teachers.

Kung Fu Wushu ACT gratefully acknowledges the grant from the ACT Government for us to run workshops at the 2023 National Multicultural Festival. This is the 25^th anniversary of the Festival, and we are proud to be involved, and welcome the opportunity to show Chinese martial arts to the Canberra community.

We will have the following workshops, all in Glebe Park:

Saturday 18 February  

• 11.15 am to noon – Tai Chi with Dapeng Wang
• 12.15 to 1.00 pm – Women’s Self Defence with Ingrid Bean

Sunday 19 February

• 10.00 to 10.45 am – Drumming with Wilson Lo
• 11 to 11.45 am – Kung Fu with Neal Hardy

for more information go to: https://www.multiculturalfestival.com.au/ 

Kung Fu Wushu Australia will be hosting the Sanda World Cup in Melbourne, Australia November 2024 at the State Netball Hockey Centre.

For more information go to:
https://kungfuwushuaustralia.com/
https://kwvic.com.au/

On the June 5th Meeting of the KWA National Executive approval was given to
commit an official Australian Team to the  2022 World Junior Wushu Championships to be held from 2-1 December at Tangerang Banten Indonesia.

Preliminary registration for the event is 2 Sept 2022,  Final registration is 2 Nov 2022. The event allows for the following participants:

Taolu maximun 20 members
1 Taolu team leader
2 Taolu coaches
1 Taolu Team doctor
12 athletes
4 observers

Sanda max 19 members
1 Sanda team Leader
2 Sanda coaches
1 Sanda team doctor
11 athletes
4 observers

The event is significant as it is the first ’post covid’ international event.

A committee to manage the team selection will be in place shortly but what I need asap is any an indication member who wishes to attend and in what capacity and what athletes
are provisionally nominated from our member schools.

Some nominations have already been received but for any remaining nominations a close off date for the provisional nominations has been set at COB 11 July 2022 after which time the official, coach and athlete composition of the team will be confirmed.