The welcome we provide for our Chinese guests is our first gesture as a community towards Hangzhou and will be returned when 15 LACHSA students visit China next Spring. These LACHSA students, representing every arts major were selected based on an application process which highlighted their desire to participate in this international experience. Our students will be accompanied by academic dean Cara Livermore, Mandarin teacher Candace Chiang, and dance chair Gina Buntz. Click here to see which students will be travelling to China The visit by Hangzhou allows us to strengthen two very important relationships to the LACHSA community. Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich will welcome the students on Tuesday, October 4th and formally recognize them as guests of LACHSA at the Los Angeles County Hall of Administration. As many of you know, Supervisor Antonovich is one of the founders of LACHSA; his support for LACHSA has only grown since then. UCLA, a destination for many LACHSA alumni, will be the site of the official naming of LACHSA as a Confucius Classroom on Monday, October 3rd. LACHSA is one of three schools in the region to earn this designation. A celebration with officials from throughout the region. LACHSA is proud to partner with UCLA in strengthening our language programs. Opportunities like the LACHSA/China Exchange are intended to be much more than interesting experiences or merely memorable. As artists and scholars, our students are able to explore what it means to be human by examining the universal traits that bind us together irrespective of race, language, or nation of origin. The arts are one way into this exploration. The LACHSA/China Exchange is another. | 
