China West Midlands Blog Roll
Belgrade Theatre Coventry To Stream Amy Ng’s Under The Umbrella
Set in Coventry and Guangzhou, Amy Ng’s compelling play tells the story of Wei, a young Chinese woman living and studying in the UK. As the single Wei approaches her 27th birthday, her grandmother begins to worry that she will be labelled a “shengnu” or “leftover...
Chinese Classics Opening Launch at The Library of Birmingham
Speaking Classically Last Thursday at the Library of Birmingham saw the launch of a new exhibition about Chinese classical literature, arts practice and community engagement. It could be any community; such was the fundamental nature of the themes that came together...
Chinese Classics: Arts Practice & the Community
Chinese Classics: Arts Practice & the Community is a visual arts project exploring the relevance of Chinese classical literature today, through dialogue and discovery between artists and the Chinese community in Birmingham. The project uses three pieces of Chinese...
East Meets West Photo Exhibition At Birmingham Museum Of The Jewellery Quarter
Photographs which bring to life how East Meets West in Birmingham and the West Midlands have been revealed at a new exhibition at the Birmingham’s Museum of the Jewellery Quarter, which is on display until 27th June. The exhibition...
Midlands Ladies Business Networking lunch with guest speaker Di Xiao
Di Xiao hailed as 'a pianist of awesome gifts' and once named among the ten most outstanding young Chinese pianists by the Pianist Magazine, Di has performed in over twenty countries and in many of the World's most prestigious venues. The piano has taken her from the...
Yellow Earth Summer Academy in Birmingham
Blog posted by Vy-Lim These acting exercises have an intentional design. Of course, they are designed to equip you with practical acting skills, but the result of learning these skills is to invigorate an inherent sense of agency and drive people to find comfort...
Jianzi at Sutton Games
As part of CWM 2020, CCC-B introduced Jianzi to the Sutton Community Games on the weekend of the 13th and 14th July. It was a roaring success with over 400 children taking part along with their parents. Teachers at the event have asked us to do workshops at their...
Roads to China – Strategies for Building Effective relationships Between the West Midlands and China
Aston Business School, Aston University, Birmingham, June 2019 Andy Street, West Midlands Mayor, Liam Byrne MP and Beverley Nielsen (Director of Institute for Design and Economic Acceleration, Birmingham City University) were keynote speakers at an event on 25 June...
Why do we take the apple to our hearts?
In proverbs, in fairy tales, in art, the apple seems to touch the heart of people in all countries where it's grown. It’s presented as a Christmas Eve gift in China as a symbol of peace and love and is apparently thrown by Montenegrin brides onto the roof of their new...
Yellow Earth Academy Birmingham
An acting summer school for British East Asians We believe the academy plays an active role in addressing the under representation of British East Asian (BEA) actors on UK stages and screens. It is the only one of its kind in the country actively seeking and giving...