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

Free Urban Youth Junk Drumming Workshop
Sunday 19th February 2012 - 2:00pm - 4:00pm


Chinatown Arts Space (CAS) presents, in partnership with London Chinese Community Centre, an Urban Junk Drumming Workshop for young people of 11- 21 years old!


This workshop is part of CAS New Music 20x12: XX/XY project, a commission for the Cultural Olympiad composed by Liz Liew and Andy Leung.

Drumming Director Bernie Gardner will show you a new way of drumming - creative, spontaneous and fun - using urban junk such as pots, pan, and bins, plastic buckets, anything that can be hit to create a rhythm!

Participants will have the opportunity of being selected to perform, together with young composers and musicians, in the New Music 20x12: XX/XY public performances in summer 2012!

Anyone from 11-21 years old with East Asian and non East Asian backgrounds are welcome. No experience required.

For more details on registration, download the pdf flyer on the link below…



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Starting 31st October, 2011, a 10 week 'China Cuisine' programme in our purpose built Oriental kitchen facility. £405 inclusive of registration and materials.

For further information on how you can develop your Chinese culinary skills, call Emily Evans 0207 802 8816, emily.evans@westking.ac.uk.

Funded by BBC Performing Arts Fund, this project is designed for young people aged 6-25 of the Chinese Diaspora in the UK. The workshop will cover acting, singing and dancing. The participants will have the chance to sing their own musical number in front of their invited audiences at the New Diorama Theatre.

Cost: £80

Places are limited, please email to musical@trueheart.org.uk to request for an application form. Deadline for application: 19.8.2011
For any questions, please feel free to contact us on the above email or call Wing-Hong at 07798623526


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Free Urban Junk Drumming Workshops
Friday 19th and Sunday 21st August 1.30-3.30pm

Chinatown Arts Space presents, in partnership with London Chinese Community Centre, the Urban Junk Drumming Workshops for East Asian young people of 11-18 years old. No experience required!

Junk Drumming Master Bernie Gardner will show you a new way of drumming - creative, spontaneous and fun - using urban junk such as water bottles, pots and bins, plastic buckets, and even stuff found in London Chinatown, e.g. oil tins, chopsticks, frying woks and pans…anything that can be hit to create a rhyme!

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With Children For Children : Family Activity Fundraising Day for Japan Earthquake Appeal.


Come and join in the fun! Spend a day watching performances, take part in workshops and learn all things Japanese to raise money for those affected by the earthquake and tsunami in Japan.


Sunday 19th June 2011

11.00-16.00

@The Unicorn Theatre,
147 Tooley Street,
London SE1 2HZ


To book tickets call Unicorn Box office on 020 7645 0560.

To see full programme please visit www.withchildrenforchildren.org.uk

(please note you need the latest flashplayer to view this site)

EVERYTHING MUST GO
Foreign Investment
5 August – 17 September 2011

Artist demonstration - Gold-gilding
Workshop – 20 August 2011
Art Sale – 16 September 2011
Exchange – 17 September 2011


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1) 22/6 to 31/7 Enter Stage Right: Costumes from the Beijing Opera – Admission Free to this exhibition

http://www.amc.org.uk/enter-stage-right

2) 25/6 – 26/6 Kunqu Opera Dan Voice and Movements Course

http://www.amc.org.uk/asian-music-education/kunqu-opera-dan-voice-and-movements-course

3) 29/6 Calligraphy with Ruijun Hu

http://www.amc.org.uk/asian-music-education/chinese-calligraphy-workshop-ruijun-hu

4) Thurs 21/7 – An Evening of Beijing and Kunqu Opera: ‘The 4 Faces of the Dan in Beijing and Kunqu Opera’ – Show start time: 7.45 pm

This is an entirely different programme to what we have presented at SOAS on 7/4 2011. There will be English and Chinese surtitles as usual with our performances. The link to online booking is shown on both websites below.

http://www.amc.org.uk/asian-music-concerts/evening-beijing-and-kunqu-opera

http://ticketing.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/music/gigs-contemporary/tickets/an-evening-of-beijing-and-kunq-59162

Kunqu Opera is the most refined of all the operatic forms in China. The Asian Music Circuit and LJKOA will be offering an intensive weekend course on 25 and 26 June 2011. You will be taught the rudiments of Kunqu, fan and watersleeves movements, singing, reading music and lyrics, with a general overview of its history. At the end there will be a three-minute piece of solo acting and singing that you will be proud of.
Kathy Hall, an experienced practitioner and teacher of Kunqu, will teach basic voice use and movements of the lady’s role. She will make this unique art accessible to beginners with clear, step-by-step guidance to help you enjoy your learning experience.

Both male and female participants above 14 years of age are welcome. No experience necessary. Course participants will be entitled to a £5 ticket for An Evening of Beijing and Kunqu Opera on Thursday 21 July at the Purcell Room. Enquiries: Asian Music Circuit: www.info@amc.org.uk

A 5 day series of workshops and lectures on the quintessential Chinese arts of the qin zither, weiqi (the game of Go), calligraphy and painting.

A concert featuring qin masterpieces, improvisation with live painting, the première of “Jieshi” for qin and string quartet by award winning composer Raymond Yiu; performed by Li Xiangting, Cheng Yu (President of the London Youlan Qin Society) and the English Chamber Orchestra.

Taught by: Li Xiangting, China’s greatest qin master.
Go expert Tony Atkins of the British Go Association,
and Chinese calligrapher and painter Guo Le.

Participants will receive a special booklet on the
Chinese Four Arts, to complement the classes.

COSTS
British Museum:
All events over the 3 days: £80/£65
Lecture: £5/£3
Concert: £5/£3

SOAS:
All events over the 2 days: £55/45 (SOAS students/staff £35)



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