Celebrate Chinese New Year of the Dragon and British East Asian heritage @ the National Maritime Museum with a day of music, workshops and performances. Contribute to a giant dragon installation, take part in a New Year parade and meet Chinese sailor James Robson, who worked on-board the Cutty Sark tea clipper (performance by Yellow Earth). Discover how the sea trade brought ideas, culture, language and people from Asia to Britain.

East Zest Productions will be filming (11.30-13.30 and 14.00-16.00) in the Trader Gallery upstairs (next to Paul's Cafe). The museum has hand-picked four very special objects - a cargo vessel, a royal flag, a teapot and an oil painting - that will fire your imaginations, connecting the past to the present. EZP would like to capture your responses to these objects by interviewing families, groups of friends and individuals. It's a great day out for everyone. Come and get your beautiful faces on camera!

http://www.rmg.co.uk/visit/events/chinese-new-year

Caldershaw Primary School take over Chinese Arts Centre to create their own Utopian vision in Manchester City Centre.

As part of an innovative new education project, Chinese Arts Centre is collaborating with a group of schools across the North West to create and exhibit their own work within the gallery.

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Atsuko Tanaka (1932-2005) is without doubt one of Japan’s most important avant-garde artists. As a former member of the Gutai artist group which was founded in 1954, Tanaka has challenged the conventional notions of art through her powerful works including the iconic “Electric Dress”. Whether it be in paintings, sculpture, electric sound and light installations, or performance pieces, a commonality to Tanaka’s work is a distinct realism closely corresponding to her choice of materials.


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Date: 20 June 2011, 6.30pm
Venue: The Japan Foundation, London
Russell Square House
10-12 Russell Square
WC1B 5EH

Japanese artist Tadasu Takamine, formerly a member of radical performance group Dumb Type, continues to take a similarly radical, and often confrontational, approach to his work. In installation and performance, as well as theatrical productions, Takamine uses a variety of approaches and range of media including images, sound, and 3D objects, placing him in a unique position as an artist who is impossible to classify or pigeonhole. One commonality which can often be seen in his work though is an awareness of the relation between the body and expression.

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Two exciting, totally immersive experiences within Chinese Arts Centre’s gallery space
Exhibition by Angie Atmadjaja

Intrinsic
Exhibition Dates: 13 May to 11 June 2011
Preview: 12 May 2011

Structure
Exhibition Dates: 2 July to 23 July 2011
Evening reception with the artist: 1 July 2011


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The I Value the Arts campaign aims to provide a voice for everyone who values the arts in their community and it has now received 16,430 pledges of support. This is great news, and a true reflection of how cultural services are an integral part of every community. However, in light of recent developments it is now more important than ever that everyone has the opportunity to sign up. I would like you to help raise the profile of the I Value the Arts campaign and get more people involved. It is vital that you get in touch with as many people as you can and ask them to pledge their support at www.ivaluethearts.org.uk

As you may know, the recent Comprehensive Spending Review left local councils facing an average cut of 28 per cent. The non-statutory status of local funding for cultural services has meant that the arts sector is left vulnerable to bear the brunt of these local authority cuts.

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Clem So has a Solo Show at Centrespace Gallery, 6 Leonard Lane, Bristol, BS1 1EA, Bristol on the 2nd – 9th February 2011, 11.00 am – 5.00 pm and the Private view will be on Thursday 3rd Feb (Chinese new Year) 6.00 pm – 9.00 pm.

So's work centers around his Identity as a British born man of Chinese descent and he takes a look at the duality of this diaspora and through his creativity, is trying to convey this as one cohesive whole using his Buddhist practice as the pivot. His work covers a broad spectrum of media from paintings, installation work (including sound) to moving image.

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THE OXFORD SAMUEL BECKETT THEATRE TRUST AWARD 2012 (United Kingdom)

The OSBTT Award was launched in 2003. It is an Award which is constantly evolving and constantly seeking to be more ambitious. However, its brief remains the same; to support emerging artists of exceptional talent. Recent winners include Slung Low with Helium, Levantes Dance Theatre with Room Temperature Romance and the theatrical sensation of Summer 2010, You Me Bum Bum Train.

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