Chinese New Year celebrations january/february 2009
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VENUE INFORMATION Lakeside Arts Centre University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD 0115 846 7777 www.lakesidearts.org.uk Beeston Town Square Foster Avenue, Beeston NG9 1AB 0115 917 3695 arts@broxtowe.gov.uk The Buttercross, Bingham Market Place Bingham, Nottingham 0115 9148517 www.rushcliffe.gov.uk/chinesenewyear BUSES - for information on travelling by bus, contact Nottingham City Transport on 0115 950 6070, www.nctx.co.uk or Barton and Trent buses on 01773 712265 www.trentbuses.co.uk
Broxtowe Borough Council, Nottingham City Council, Lakeside Arts Centre and the University of Nottingham are delighted to be working together for the fifth year to celebrate the Chinese New Year and Spring Festival. Join us to welcome the Year of the Ox with a series of performances, workshops, film screenings and residencies.
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Welcome
Special thanks to all our partners and participants whose involvement and enthusiasm makes this celebration a highlight of the winter calendar. We look forward to welcoming you to an event soon. All information correct at the time of going to print. We reserve the right to make alterations to the programme as necessary.
Grateful thanks to Pyramid Press for their support.
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CHINESE NEW YEAR CELEBRATION Beeston Square, Saturday 31 January, 1pm - 4pm
The sixth Chinese and Lunar New Year Celebrations in Beeston will feature a range of professional and community performances and demonstrations inspired by the traditions of the Lunar New Year across South East Asia including: • Lion Dance • Welcome Speech - Mayor of Broxtowe Councillor Sue Wildey and students from Castle College • Monkey Stories - Puppetry and music by Alderman White School and Language College together with musician Ling Peng and Puppeteer Melvyn Rawlinson • Tai Chi Fan Dance and Singing - Nottinghamshire Chinese Community Association • Kung Fu demonstration - Notts and Derby 7 Star Praying Mantis Kung Fu School • Performances - Castle College students • Dragon Dance - Chinese Students and Scholars Association • Nottingham Chinese School Choir • Traditional Mongolian and Tibetan Dance - Du Dan • Martial Arts and Erhu performance - Master Ma Yue and Ling Peng Also in the square will be: • Make and take activities • Chinese food stall • Chinese Trinket stalls
Broxtowe Schools Residency Project with Alderman White School and Language College
LING PENG AND MELVYN RAWLINSON
Broxtowe Borough Council’s Schools project has used the ancient Chinese Monkey stories to inspire a unique performance. Musician Ling Peng and Puppeteer Melvyn Rawlinson have worked with pupils to create large scale puppets and an original sound-scape using traditional Chinese instruments and percussion. See the results at both the Beeston Chinese New Year celebration on Saturday 31 January and at the Lakeside event on Sunday 1 February. For more information contact: The Arts and Events Team on 0115 917 3695 arts@broxtowe.gov.uk www.broxtowe.gov.uk
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Lakeside Arts Centre University of Nottingham Broxtowe Borough Council Nottingham City Council present
CHINESE NEW YEAR SPECTACULAR AND FIREWORKS FINALE Sunday 1 February, 4.30pm - 6.30pm Lakeside Arts Centre/Highfields Park Admission Free Wrap up warmly, and bring the entire family to enjoy our outdoor stage and large screen showcase celebrating the arrival of The Year of the Ox, and the most significant festival in the Chinese and South Asian calendar. Our event features: • Lion Dance - Notts and Derby 7 Star Praying Mantis Kung Fu School • Chinese Folk Songs - Julia Zhou • Dragon Dance - Chinese Students and Scholars Association • Nusantara - South East Asian Community Dance Group • Monkey Stories - Puppetry and music by Broxtowe Schools together with musician Ling Peng and Puppeteer Melvyn Rawlinson • Nottingham Chinese School Choir • Martial Arts and Erhu performance -Master Ma Yue and Ling Peng • Nottingham Rhythm Orchestra • Rong Tao premieres • And featuring DULSORI - Korean Drumming Band DULS ORI • Ending with a stunning Firework display created especially for Chinese New Year by Mick Bowen of Crescendo Fireworks
Contact 0115 8467777 www.lakesidearts.org.uk
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Thursday 15 January, 10am - 2pm The Buttercross, Bingham Market Place
RONG TAO Photo: Alan Fletcher
RONG TAO
LAKESIDE CHOREOGRAPHER IN RESIDENCE Lakeside welcomes the return of Choreographer and Dancer Rong Tao. Professor in Modern Dance Choreography at the Chongqing Meishi Film Academy and Artistic Director of the Yuwu Dance Project, this year he will work with visual artist Hetain Patel to explore ideas about language and rhythm. He will also be creating a new performance piece with professional dancers to be premiered at our outdoor celebrations on 1 February, and choreographing a short piece with some of Déda’s (Derby Dance’s) youth dancers. DANCERS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY WITH RONG TAO Nottinghamshire County Council are supporting the opportunity for two trained dancers living/working in Nottinghamshire to gain professional development experience working alongside Rong Tao between 19 and 31 January, making a new piece of dance which will be premiered at the 1 February event. Auditions will take place during the week of 15 December; interested dancers should email for details: brzdhlp6@exmail.nottingham.ac.uk
HUI-CHEN LIN
LAKESIDE VISUAL ARTIST IN RESIDENCE Hui-Chen Lin (Annie) took up her new post as Visual Artist-in Residence at Lakeside in November 2008 for 12 months. Annie initially trained in Taiwan where she learned traditional forms of eastern painting which she has subsequently translated into a contemporary form. Hui-Chen Lin will be running some workshops using origami and calligraphy on 3 and 18 January. See Workshops page for details and booking information.
BINGHAM CHINESE CULTURAL DAY
Rushcliffe Borough Council and Rushcliffe Race Awareness Forum will be celebrating the Chinese New Year with a free family Cultural Day in Bingham’s Market Place. The event will include demonstrations of traditional Chinese crafts and music as well as free food tasters and displays. The event will be followed by an exhibition on the history of Chinese New Year at Bingham Library from 19th January - 2nd February. For more information visit www.rushcliffe.gov.uk/chinesenewyear
Sunday 8 February, 7.30pm Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham £15 (£6 Students) Chinese Students and Scholars Association present
CHINESE NEW YEAR GALA 2009
Chinese Acrobatics, Dragon Dance, Tai Chi, Martial Arts, and traditional music are just some of the elements in this year’s spectacular performance organised by the CSSA Nottingham to celebrate the Chinese New Year or Spring Festival which is the most important festival in the calendar for the Chinese and many other South Asian countries. Box Office: 0115 9895555 For further information contact: www.cssa-nott.org.uk Chinese New Year celebrations 05
The University of Nottingham Confucius Institute Presents
2009 CHINESE DIGITAL FILM FESTIVAL
Performing Arts Workshop, Lakeside Arts Centre Screenings are FREE, but booking is recommended All films have English subtitles China produces many of the world’s most important and innovative films. This festival celebrates the creative use of digital technologies that helps ensure China’s position at the forefront of developments in contemporary cinema. The Festival marks the occasion of the establishment at the University of Nottingham in Ningbo in March 2009 of Digital China, Digital Hollywood, an inter-campus collaboration between the Institute of Film and Television Studies and the Division of International Communications.
Monday 2 February, 10.30am FUJIAN BLUE (Jin Bi Hui Huang) Dir. Robin Weng 2007 91 mins
The Neon Knights use digital cameras to film wealthy ‘remittance widows’ in trysts with their lovers. But when Amerika decides to blackmail his own mother, the gang is forced to take a stand... Monday 2 February, 2pm CHINESE OPERA ANIMATION (Xiqu Donghua Jicui) Dir. Faculty members, Chinese Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou 2007 50 mins
A collection of nine short animated films that bring to life stories from Chinese Opera, traditional and modern, using contemporary animation techniques. Wednesday 4 February, 10.30am USELESS (Wuyong)
Wednesday 4 February, 2pm CRAZY STONE (Fengkuang de Shitou) Dir. Ning Hao 2006 106 mins.
Co-produced by Hong Kong star Andy Lau’s Focus Films, this domestic hit is a classic heist comedy and China’s answer to Ocean’s Eleven. Friday 6 February, 1pm STORM UNDER THE SUN (Hong Ri Fengbao) Dir. Xiaolian Peng and S. Louisa Wei 2008. 140 mins.
An epic new documentary about Mao’s 1955 national campaign against leading literary critic Hu Feng, using interviews and newsreel footage to argue that this historical incident can be understood as a prelude to the Cultural Revolution.
Dir. Jia Zhangke 2007 81 mins.
Jia’s celebrated study of the social life of clothing uses the launch of fashion designer Ma Ke’s Wuyong label to explore issues of history, memory, and consumerism.
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The festival is organised by the Confucius Institute, the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, the Institute of Film and Television Studies, and the School of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham. Festival Programmers: Luke Robinson and Julian Stringer.
Children and Families Workshop Programme at Lakeside
All tickets £5 Box Office: 0115 8467777 Booking is essential NB Children aged 7 and under must be accompanied by an adult Monday, Tuesday 22 and 23 December, 10am - 12pm and 1 - 3pm KOREAN-STYLE SILK FLAG MAKING WITH JESSICA KEMP Suitable for children aged 5+ Venue: Angear Visitor Centre, next to Djanogly Art Gallery Create fantastic flags for this year’s Celebrations and make another to take home. Sunday 28 December, 12 - 1.30pm and 2.30 - 4pm CHINESE DRAGON PUPPETS WITH SARAH PALMER Suitable for children aged 5+ Venue: Angear Visitor Centre, next to Djanogly Art Gallery Make miniature dragons to take home, and contribute to a largescale one too. Saturday 3 January, 1 - 3pm MOBILE COLOUR WITH HUI-CHEN LIN Suitable for children aged 5+ Venue: Angear Visitor Centre, next to Djanogly Art Gallery Make colourful origami zodiac animals to hang as mobiles or window decorations.
Sunday 4 January, 12 - 1.30pm and 2.30 - 4pm SOUTH EAST ASIAN SHADOW PUPPETRY & STORYTELLING Suitable for children aged 5+ Venue: Performing Arts Workshop Space, D H Lawrence Pavilion Debbie Guneratne tells stories drawn from ancient Asian legends, illustrated with traditional shadow puppets by Maziah Omar, before you create shadow puppets to take home and devise your own stories. Sunday 11 January, 12 - 1.30pm and 2.30 - 4pm EASTERN STYLE RHYTHMS WITH MARK EVANS AND MIKE DAVIS Suitable for children aged 7+ Venue: Performing Arts Workshop Space, D H Lawrence Pavilion Explore different types of eastern rhythms using percussion instruments including drums and sound pipes.
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Sunday 18 January, 12 - 1.30pm and 2.30 - 4pm CHINESE GLASS ARTWORK WITH HUI-CHEN LIN Suitable for children aged 8+ Venue: Visual Arts Workshop Space, D H Lawrence Pavilion Use Chinese calligraphy to create your own glass plate artwork.
Nottingham - Ningbo, Sister City Link THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM AND NINGBO Last summer the first cohort of Chinese students who began their studies in 2005 received their degrees in a historic graduation ceremony at the Ningbo campus. Student numbers have grown to 3,700 from more than 50 nations. September 2008 saw the opening of CSET - the Centre for Sustainable Energy Technologies, where cutting-edge research will be carried out into sustainable construction and energy technology to help China and the rest of the world to meet the challenges of climate change. October saw the announcement of a new collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Ningbo government to establish the Research Centre in International Finance. The Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy was launched in November, and in March 2009 an inter-campus collaboration between the Institute of Film and Television Studies and the Division of International Communications will result in Digital China, Digital Hollywood (see page 6).
NOTTINGHAM BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT LTD Commercial links between Nottingham and Ningbo have already taken root. The launch of the Nottingham Business Development Ltd office - a private company owned by Nottingham City Council and based at the University’s Ningbo campus - is strengthening economic ties between the two cities and helping to develop trade links beneficial to both nations. www.nottinghambdl.com
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NOTTINGHAM/ EAST MIDLANDS BUSINESS EVENT IN CHINA In 2008 Nottingham City Council and East Midlands China Business Bureau led a delegation of 20 companies in the fields of IT, textiles, education, agriculture, healthcare and cultural exchange to visit Shanghai and Ningbo for one week. An investment seminar was held in Ningbo involving over 50 Ningbo enterprises; and UK companies visited Ningbo companies to discover potential opportunities. www.eastmidschina.co.uk
NINGBO WEEK IN NOTTINGHAM Nottingham’s partnership with the city of Ningbo was celebrated in a week long visit in May when Chinese performers came to sing, dance and practice martial arts on the Market Square and visit schools, colleges and the University. The City Council also signed an agreement with Ningbo Government officials to support the Chinese tackling the causes and impacts of climate change. www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/ international