RSO FEATURE OF THE WEEK: Hong Kong Student Association

HKSA’s mission is to promote awareness of the Hong Kong culture, traditions, and heritage. We also serve as a platform for Cantonese students to gather together and improve each other’s experience in college.

The Hong Kong Student Association (HKSA) is a non-profit organization at the University of Washington in operation since 1984. HKSA serves to promote Hong Kong culture and heritage to all students who are interested, and provide a place where Cantonese students can interact with each other. Although we are under the title, “Hong Kong”, we also represent other Cantonese-speaking regions in China, including Guangzhou and Macau.

Annual Events
SingCon- SingCon is an annual singing contest held by HKSA towards the end of the
academic school year. It is the flagship event of HKSA and one of the largest
events among the student associations at UW. The event started as a karaoke
singing contest, but it has grown to a full concert along with the establishment of
the name SingCon. SingCon has been expanding rapidly in the past decade, with
increasing participants from many other Washington schools.

Orientation Camp- This is a new event that we did this year. We understand that finding and making friends in college is difficult, especially for students who are away from home. We take the theme of having “camp” where new students spend some time together playing games and do activities as a way for them to make new friends and allow them to bond with our HKSA officers as well. This event has been regarded as a great experience for many students who have made their closest friends from the event. We play many games which some include scavenger hunting combined with tag, and others such as those on teamwork like charades.

Cantonese Classes- One of HKSA’s main goals is to provide a place where Cantonese speakers can gather and interact with each other. Practicing the language is considered the most effective ways to learn more about a culture and that is why we provided free, weekly Cantonese Classes this year.

Chinese New Year Dinner- Chinese New Year is the most important festival for Chinese culture and HKSA celebrates this festive occasion annually with its members. We provide traditional food, a great atmosphere, fun games and amazing raffle prizes. We even follow the traditions and give out red packets to our members!

Culture Shock- Culture Shock is a relatively new event. We hosted the event
with CSA and ThaiSA last year. Culture Shock is a food fair that brings together different cultural foods and performances to promote cultural awareness on campus and share different aspects of Asian culture with everyone.

http://students.washington.edu/hksa/
https://www.facebook.com/uwhksa
https://www.facebook.com/groups/uwhksa/
http://uwhksa.wordpress.com/
https://picasaweb.google.com/uwseattlehksa
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hksa_uw/
http://www.singcon.com/
http://www.youtube.com/hksasingcon
http://www.youtube.com/uwseattlehksa
https://twitter.com/hksasingcon
www.weibo.com/hksasingcon

Fun Fact: Not all of our officers can read Chinese or speak Cantonese.

We have many exciting events coming up in the next few weeks. Be sure to check out our websites and tune in for the upcoming events!