Event Archive

2019

July

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  Kite Festival

  20 July 2019, 13:00 - 16:00

  Join us at the Confucius Institute for a family-friendly open afternoon of kite making and flying, Chinese games, crafts, live music and more.

June

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  Calligraphy Workshop for Children

  30 June 2019, 10:30 - 12:00

  Learn the ancient Chinese art of calligraphy. All materials provided.

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  Chinese brush painting workshop

  29 June 2019, 13:00 - 15:00

  Chinese brush painting workshop Change to previously advertised time. This workshop will now take place at 1pm.

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  Chinese Film Club

  27 June - 25 July 2019

  Thursday, 7pm  27th June, 4th, 18th and 25th July  Join us for a series of Chinese films. Perfect to complement your Chinese studies or simply as an introduction to the language and culture. All films will be in Chinese with English subtitles. The first showing will be the martial arts film Crouching Tiger,...

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  Calligraphy Workshop for Adults

  27 June 2019, 19:00 - 21:00

  Learn the ancient art of Chinese calligraphy. All materials provided.

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  Introduction to Chinese Song

  26 June - 24 July 2019

  Introduction to Chinese Song (free, drop-in) Wednesday, 7pm 26th June, 3rd, 17th and 24th July Learn about Chinese song in our 4-week series of interactive sessions, each focusing on a different genre of song, from traditional to pop via Peking Opera. Come prepared to sing! Week 1: Celebration songs Week 2: Folk songs Week 3: Chinese...

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  Chinese Arts and Crafts

  24 June - 22 July 2019

  Free, drop-inMonday, 7pm24th June, 1st, 15th and 22nd July A 4-week series of sessions, each introducing a different traditional Chinese craft. Week 1: Papercraft Week 2: Chinese knots Week 3: Fan painting Week 4: Rubber stamp making

May

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  The Lives of Asian Things

  25 May 2019, 14:30 - 15:30

  With special speaker Prof. Craig Clunas, University of Oxford. A lecture investigating the University's collection of objects from China, Japan and Korea. What lives have these objects lived? What are their stories? What were they used for? Everyday life, connoisseurship and even tragedy - What do they reveal? Art historian Professor Craig Clunas takes us on a journey of discovery. Part of...

March

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  Transition to Secondary: Exploring musical composition through culture

  21 - 22 March 2019

  This exhibition is the final product of a Music Transition Project that involves P7 classes at Danestone, Forehill and Middleton Park primary schools. Since January 2019, the children have been learning about music and have composed their own music based on the Chinese folktale 'Fox and Tiger'. This project aims...

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  "Development is like a peacock: Reconfiguring rurality in contemporary China"

  19 March 2019, 17:15 - 18:45

  The next meeting of the Chinese Studies Group will be on Tuesday 19th March 2019, when Professor Anna Lora-Wainwright, Professor of the Human Geography of China at the School of Geography and School of Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Oxford, will speak on “Development is like a peacock: Reconfiguring rurality in contemporary...