ROTTERDAM CHINESE NEW YEAR

FEBRUARY 10 TO 25, 2024

FOUNDATION

CHINA FESTIVALS ROTTERDAM
China Festivals Rotterdam Foundation aims to promote promotional activities and the economic development of Chinese festivities in Rotterdam as well as to promote the preservation of Chinese culture and to do anything related or conducive to the above.
The foundation seeks to achieve this goal by organizing activities and raising the funds needed for them. The foundation may not make distributions to a founder or to a director. Expenses incurred by directors in the performance of their duties will be reimbursed to them by the foundation.
China Festivals Rotterdam Foundation is a public benefit corporation (ANBI).
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ARJAN CHAN
CHAIRMAN
"For decades, the area around West-Kruiskade has been the beating heart of the Chinese-Dutch community in Rotterdam, of which Wah Nam Hong has been a proud part since 1986. As a second generation Chinese Dutchman, I have a warm heart for the Chinese-Dutch community and its many cultures. In particular, the celebration of Chinese New Year: the biggest event on the West-Kruiskade that since the 1980s has been attracting the Chinese-Dutch community, residents from all over Rotterdam and surrounding areas. The highlight is the classic lion dance, which adorns the West-Kruiskade year after year with dragons, dancers and musicians.
After a brief hiatus from 2000 and with the establishment of China Festival Foundation (SCFR) in 2010, former chairman Adriaan Schaap brought the festivities back to life. In 2015, I was given the honor of taking over the gavel from Adriaan Schaap. The SCFR has the ambition, together with its partner Vivre productions, to expand the Chinese New Year in Rotterdam into a national celebration. Chairing the SCFR gives me the opportunity to contribute to the representation and preservation of Chinese-Dutch cultures in the Dutch cultural landscape. For many, Chinese New Year is a time of being together, eating together and celebrating together. With family and friends. In the city of Rotterdam and throughout the Netherlands."
ANNELIES LESQUILLIER
SECRETARY
"I've been volunteering half my life. Also in addition to my regular job. When asked by the chairman of Shopkeepers' Association City Boulevard (West-Kruiskade and 1st Middellandstraat) if my communications consultancy would take on the shopping street management, I said a resounding yes. Within no time I fell in love with the street, its shopkeepers and residents.
Speaking of volunteering, I think that's where it was invented. The celebration of Chinese New Year is one of the highlights of the year. So cool to be able to contribute to that as a volunteer as well. First as board advisor and in 2010 as secretary. I hope to do this for a long time to come."
KWONG WAH CHOY
TREASURER / VICE PRESIDENT
"From 1961 to 2006, I worked in several Chinese Hospitality companies in Rotterdam, including my father's restaurant, Fi-Long. After he sold this restaurant at the end of 1975, I worked as manager at restaurants Hong Kong - Ocean Paradise and Hotel-Restaurant King's Garden, among others. At that time, the Chinese New Year had been celebrated on the West-Kruiskade for years and a small part of Chinese Culture was passed on and introduced to Rotterdam.
This was, and still is, a happening every year. At the same time, I was asked to become vice president of the City Boulevard Shopkeepers Association. I accepted, which allowed me to contribute to the safety and success of the West Kruiskade. Since 2010, as vice president and treasurer, I have been responsible for the China Festivals Rotterdam Foundation and am very happy with that."
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The RSIN/tax number of the Foundation is 8229.255.52.

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