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5 August – 17 September 2011

Artist demonstration - Gold-gilding
Workshop – 20 August 2011
Art Sale – 16 September 2011
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URGENT APPEAL FOR MORE SIGNATORIES - PETITION CLOSES FEBRUARY 10

FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE DEADLINE FEBRUARY 11

The reason for this urgency is the announcement of Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee Inquiry into the World Service Cuts. The deadline for submissions is February 11. This campaign intends to make a submission on February 11 which will include this petition.

The inquiry was precipitated by the announcement on January 26 that World Service will make16% budget cuts along with staff cuts of 25%, around 650 staff. Around 30m listeners worldwide will be lost.

This announcement received worldwide media coverage.

On January 27 we delivered to Peter Horrocks (Director of the World Service) an OPEN LETTER signed by top British celebrities, including Dame Judi Dench.

On January 30, The Sunday Times (UK) published a favourable opinion piece about our campaign.

We now appeal for your help as this is the last chance before the petition closes.

Thanks in anticipation.

Archie Graham
Petition Organiser
Save The BBC World Drama

The Chinese Community Centre in London Chinatown is looking for a full time Centre Manager. The role is to oversee the day to day operation of the Chinese Community Centre (Centre) and support the Executive Director (E.D.) in the implementation of the aims, objectives and goals of the Centre as well as services being provided. To support staff in the delivery of their projects and reports for the funding bodies as well as other tasks being assigned to them.

For more details, please download the Word doc job description below.

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Artist Suki Chan has work in a group show at Tintype Gallery in Shoreditch until 5 Feb. In response to the gallery's name, Suki Chan has made a modern tintype ­ a photographic image on metal. It is of Balfron Tower, the 60s tower block in Poplar designed by Erno Goldfinger and is presented in an embossed, hand-made box.


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David Tse Ka Shing, the creative director of Chinatown Arts Space and founder of Yellow Earth gave a lecture entitled Working with British East Asian Communities, part of the 4th Intercultural Practice Exchange: Interculturalism - Art and Policy, a collaboration between Border Crossings and the Platform for Intercultural Europe, held at Rose Bruford College.

Click here to listen

The Offies are the OffWestEnd.com Theatre Awards and currently, Benedict Wong and Lucy Sheen are nominated for their work in Hungry Ghosts at The Orange Tree. Please support these two in the popularity vote, by subscribing and voting for them on the OffWestEnd.com website. This will help raise the profile of East-Asian people in the UK, by being nominated in a mainstream theatre award.

Vote for Benedict Wong and Lucy Sheen in the Offies - The OffWestEnd.com Theatre Awards
Voting closes midnight 14th February 2011.

Creative Director of Chinatown Arts Space, David Tse is to give a talk at Rose Bruford College Wednesday, 15 Dec 11.15am, about Working with British East Asian communities as part of the Platform for Intercultural Europe. The programme is scheduled 15-16 December.

Britain is often viewed as being particularly progressive among European countries in terms of its policies and practice around ethnic and cultural diversity. But the current economic crisis has created a climate where anti-immigration attitudes affect the treatment of British citizens of foreign descent, and severe cuts in public spending are likely to hamper work for community cohesion and integration. The close of 2010 is therefore a particularly appropriate moment for the Platform for Intercultural Europe to mount the first of its Intercultural Practice Exchanges in the UK, building on previous work in Sweden, Austria and Italy.

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Do you have views on what the BBC should be doing about equality and diversity? We want to make the best programmes that offer something to everyone and that reflect the diversity and reality of different people's lives.

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The Japanese actor Eiji Kusuhara, who has died of cancer aged 63, played the sadistic Lieutenant Sato in the television series Tenko (1981-85), was one of the narrators on the cult show Banzai (2001) and appeared on stages across the UK and Europe in a variety of beguiling roles.

He was one of the first professional Japanese actors active in London in the 1970s and enjoyed something of a monopoly on roles until he starred alongside a fellow countryman, Togo Igawa, in The Man Who Shot Christmas (1984)

Read more on The Guardian website...