Part of the British Council's UK NOW festival in China

Classic silent British film / Contemporary live music performance. Celebrating Anna May Wong, Hollywood’s first Chinese film star.

Date: 21-22 April 2012
Venue: MOMA, Beijing
Presented by Chinatown Arts Space

Asia premiere at Hong Kong Arts Festival (City Hall Theatre), February 2011
UK premiere at Royal Opera House (Linbury Studio Theatre), March 2010


PICCADILLY REVISITED

A brilliant new music score by British composers Ruth Chan and Suki Mok is played live on stage, to accompany the classic British film, Piccadilly (1929).

This famous silent movie directed by E.A. Dupont stars the legendary Anna May Wong, Hollywood's first Chinese film star.

Piccadilly Revisited is a chance to revisit Wong's incredible life story (born 1905), which more than 100 years later, still has strong resonance with the lives of overseas Chinese and the aspirations of people in China today.

This music / film show features additional video by Shan Ng and NY-based O Zhang, with text by Alice Lee and David Tse Ka-Shing, woven into the fabric of the film and music.

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Chinatown Arts Space in partnership with Asia House and supported by Shaftesbury PLC launches SUSTAIN – a new project to commission a third landmark piece of public art for London’s Chinatown.

• Sustainability at the heart of artists’ brief
• Contemporary sculpture positioned on the corner of Gerrard Place and Shaftesbury Avenue – above a famous Chinese herbalist’s shop
• A sculptor artist of East Asian descent to be commissioned

The search for the next sculptor artist to produce a striking, thought-provoking and contemporary piece of public art for London’s Chinatown has started this month. Chinatown Arts Space is delighted to be working with Shaftesbury PLC for the third time to improve, ignite and invent a new Chinatown. This ambitious project aims to deliver public art that fully captures the imagination of all those that visit, work or live in and around London’s vibrant Chinatown.

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Looking to expand your knowledge on Japanese cinema? The Japan Foundation is inviting those fascinated by all things cinema, or all things Japanese, to join the third series of Japanese Cinema for Busy People.

Whether you are a dedicated cineaste or a casual moviegoer, all are welcome to join! Experts in the field will hold lectures assessing significant topics in Japanese cinema, past and present. As a complement to the BFI and Japan Foundation season Two Masters of Japanese Cinema: Kaneto Shindo & Kozaburo Yoshimura, fill your Wednesday evening with a cinema lecture – without having to do the homework!


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Free Urban Youth Junk Drumming Workshop and Performance Opportunities!

Friday 8th June 2012 - 2:00pm - 5:30pm – Southbank Centre

Chinatown Arts Space presents, an Urban Junk Drumming Workshop for young people of 15 - 21 years old!

Venue: The Blue Room – Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX


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Asia House will be hosting an exclusive Private View of the Utopias Exhibition on Thursday 17 May from 17.30. A VIP tour of the exhibition will be preceded by an address by the Singapore High Commissioner and Asia House Chairman Sir John Boyd. Drinks and canapés will be served.

The Utopias Exhibition is a showcase of the personal reflection, research, and dialogue between the two artists who participated in the Singapore International Foundation and the British Council, Singapore's Artist-in-Residence Exchange (AiRx) programme.

Singaporean artist Michael Lee created a series of miniatures in the form of digital prints and etchings. These pieces pay homage to the utopian visions in creating iconic architecture; conversely to imagine a world following the extinction of the human race. British artist Bob Matthews researched on Singapore as a Garden City. The two artists also jointly created a series that captured small-scale personal utopias during their residency in London and Singapore.


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Sitarist Mehboob Nadeem and Chinese lutenist Cheng-Ying Chuang Duo Talk & Demonstration Concert

Acclaimed sitarist/vocalist Mehboob Nadeem and award-winning Chinese lutenist/countertenor Cheng-Ying Chuang will lead audience through a musical journey through the time and space between South Asia to Far East.

Derived from Mesopotamia, instruments of lute family evolved into diverse physical structures and musical expressions under the nourishment of different cultures. Following the legendary pilgrimage of Monk Xuanzang, the Chinese monk who brought authentic Buddhist scriptures into China in 7 A.D., this unique collaboration of duo lutenists/vocalists will showcase their ancient music traditions as soloists, as well as explore each other’s traditions as a duet.

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Audition

Cody’s Moving Group

is looking for dancers to participate in the R&D sessions for upcoming creative work.

Qualities we are looking for:
- Strong contemporary dance technique
- Creative, imaginative
Keen to explore & develop narrative personalities through movements

Availability:
Between May & July (We are flexible to work around selected dancers’ schedule) in London

Fee:
To be paid by hour

Selection process:
Via video submission only- pls see below brief

Brief:
Please study the below characters, select 1 of them, interpret/develop/express with your body movements in a no-less-than 30 seconds video. Please upload the video to youtube and send us the link for review.



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Bon Dance is a very popular community dance for everyone. It originated in Japan and has more than 400 years of history. As part of Big Dance 2012 , London Bon Dancers, a London-based Bon Dance group will offer workshops for older people in the Borough of Islington, London.

Dates: Fridays 1, 8, 15, 22 & 28 June
Place: Peel Centre, Peel Circus, London WC1X 9EY
event details here

This project is generously supported by Big Dance Micro Grant and Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation.

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Bu U [bu yu:] 舞遊 on Big Dance Bus Sunday 27 May, White Lion Street, Islington

BuU is a new dance group formed with London based young talented Japanese dancers including Ayaka Furukawa, Yasuna Higuma, Ryota Kodera, Hiromi Satoh and others.
They will present an exciting new choreography inspired by Hanagasa Ondo, a popular folk dance from Tohoku, Japan, spiced with contemporary dance twist.
Meet BuU on Big Dance Bus and enjoy the unmissable experience!

Date: Sunday 27th May 2012, 13:20
Place: White Lion Street, London N1 9PW. See google map.
Open to public


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DIM SUM NIGHTS – new writing in a restaurant brought to you by Yellow Earth is coming to BOLTON, MANCHESTER, LIVERPOOL, NEWCASTLE, BIRMINGHAM and OXFORD this autumn.
We are looking for a local British East Asian writer in each city who would like to create a ten minute theatre piece that we will include in our Dim Sum Nights public performances.

For further information and how to apply go to http://www.yellowearth.org/site/news-item/dim_sum_nights_local_writers_needed/