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Dimsum’s simple guide to Chinese New Year – a 15-day celebration:
Thursday, 25 February 2010

To some it may come as a surprise that Chinese New Year is actually a 15-day celebration with different festivities going on each day.

 
In the mood for festivity
Friday, 19 February 2010

As the Year of the Tiger festivities continue, a variety of wonderful Asian films are showing in cinemas across London. Dimsum looks at “what’s on” and urges you to catch one in between your family visits and lai-see hunting.

 

 
China Birth and Belonging: A two-day event of performance and talks
Thursday, 11 February 2010

Wellcome Trust Symposium Feb 26-27

Wellcome Collection joins forces with Chinese Arts Centre to put on a two day programme 26-27 Februaryof exciting live performance and invigorating talk. Experts join forces to explore hot topics including the effects of the one-child policy; stem cell research and conflict in 20th century China; and more

 
Chinese New Year Concerts February 2010
Wednesday, 10 February 2010
A group of Chinese virtuosos will be touring the UK from 13th to 19th February 2010 with a Chinese New Year Concert, performing a selection of Chinese masterpieces that have endured for centuries.
 
Zhang Enli Exhibition in London
Thursday, 14 January 2010

 Zhang Enli's first solo exhibition in London 15 Jan - 27 Feb. Enli invests life into the most common of signifiers from details of trees to bare mattresses

 
Chinese Folk Evolution at the Roundhouse
Monday, 11 January 2010
 

Chinese traditional folk evolves into a modern multimedia performance in 'Towards the Border' at the Roundhouse on 19 and 20 January

 
Chinese Classical Dance Fusion
Friday, 08 January 2010
Yuyu Rau and Beauty Unveiled

Chinese Classical and Western dance fusion on 12 Jan choreographed by Yuyu Rau

 
Capturing the ghosts of my ancestors
Sunday, 13 December 2009
Clem So and 'Frank' from 'Portraits of the Afterlife'

Artist Clem So reaches out to his lost heritage in his latest work
‘Portraits of the Afterlife: Tracing the Intangible.' He talks to Suzie Wong about connecting with his Chinese past, and coming to terms with the anger and alienation of growing up in a 1970s England.

 
TAKING STOCK - Has Ang Lee Lost the Plot?
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Taking Woodstock by Ang Lee

Elizabeth Quinn considers the cultural relevance of Ang Lee's latest film - Taking Woodstock,  and wonders - Has Ang Lee lost the plot?

 
Turandot - a Chinese serial killer tamed
Monday, 02 November 2009
Turandot

Anna Chen dissects the English National Opera's latest bloody offering of Turandot as it revives old colonialist fantasies of the Chinese.

 
The Power of Dogu: Ceramic figures from ancient Japan
Wednesday, 14 October 2009
Dogu

The British Museum is currently displaying an exhibition of dogu figurines from all over Japan. It is the first time in over 40 years that such an exhibition has drawn the most important dogū together.

From 10 September – 22 November 2009, Room 91, free admission

 
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