Lunar New Year with the Family

Family being together is one of the most important parts of Lunar New Year. Today is filled with activities for the whole family. Play with Yale Police for trivia in the morning, move with Shifu Shirley Chock for Tai Chi in the afternoon, and tune into the 2021 Ivy League Lunar New Year Gala live on Youtube. See full details below.

Lunar New Year Trivia with Yale Police Department

February 13, 2021 at 11:30 am EST

Join the Yale Police Department (YPD) and test your Chinese New Year knowledge. YPD has created an interactive Lunar New Year trivia game for Zoom. There will be five rounds, and the top three from each round will win a prize! Winners will receive a DIY shadow puppet kit designed by Eli Whitney Museum & Workshop. Presented by Yale Police Department and Yale-China. This event is open to the public.

YPD Trivia with On Your Own

If you missed the live event with Officer Ross, there is still a chance to play the Lunar New Year trivia with your friends and family using the Kahoot links from YPD below. There were five rounds of 10 questions each. Test your Lunar New Year knowledge with your friends and your family!

Play round one here.

Play round two here.

Play round three here.

Play round four here.

Play round five here.

Meet Martha Ross, Yale’s Community Engagement Officer

Martha has been a Yale Police Officer for about 6 years and Yale’s Community Engagement Officer for about 3 years. Watch the interview to find out more about the community she serves and why she loves her job.

Small Space Tai Chi

Join Shifu Shirley Chock from Aiping Tai Chi Center as she leads a class in tai chi. Tai chi has numerous mental and physical health benefits, including reducing anxiety and depression challenges and increasing cognitive and physical functions. Presented by the New Haven Museum. The workshop will be streamed live on the New Haven Museum’s Facebook page. Visit this page on Feb. 13 at 2:00 pm.

About Shifu Shirley Chock

Shifu Shirley Chock is the Co-Director of the Aiping Tai Chi Center. Shifu Shirley has a life-long love of martial arts that began with watching Chinese wuxia (martial arts) movies with her grandfather when she lived in Taiwan as a child. She watched her grandfather practice tai chi in the courtyard inside their house in Taipei. Shifu Shirley graduated from the University of Chicago with a degree in economics and pursued a career in finance. She studied martial arts in New York before moving to Connecticut in 2001 and began studying wushu under Grandmaster Aiping Cheng. She soon discovered her passion for internal martial arts and switched her studies to tai chi, bagua, and qigong. Shifu Shirley specializes in the Yang and Sun styles of tai chi, tai chi weapons, and Chinese Health Qigong. She is the head Health Qigong instructor at the Center. She combines her passion for tai chi and her experience in the field of learning and development to help others learn tai chi and experience all its extraordinary health benefits. Shifu Shirley is a certified corporate wellness specialist and developed Aiping Tai Chi Center's Tai Chi for Workplace Wellness program utilizing her leadership experience in large, complex organizations within corporate, non-profit, and government sectors.

About Aiping Taichi Center

The Aiping Tai Chi Center was established in Connecticut in 1996 by Grandmaster Aiping Cheng, one of the world's foremost authorities in Chinese Martial Arts (CMA). With over 40 years of training, competing, coaching, and teaching at the highest levels, few can match her credentials. The Aiping Tai Chi Center uses traditional teaching methods to provide students with the deepest understanding of tai chi. Hundreds of students have benefited from Grandmaster Cheng's expert knowledge in both traditional and contemporary Chinese martial arts. Many of her students have won multiple awards, competitions, and championships both in the United States and China.

For more tai chi, visit Aiping’s Twitch channel here for free tai chi and qigong classes with Shifu Shirley!