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...
Making it Big – Josh Hart talks ahead of Nick Ahad’s Glory at the Belgrade Theatre
Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre will see its B2 auditorium transformed into a wrestling ring this April, with the arrival of Nick Ahad’s sweaty, gutsy, painfully funny new play Glory. Showing in Coventry 10-13 April, the show centres on three young men – Dan, Ben and Sami...
Seeking Glory – Nick Ahad’s explosive new play at the Belgrade Theatre
The Theatre’s B2 Stage will be transformed into a wrestling ring for a gutsy new production Meet Dan, Ben and Sami – three young men compelled over the ropes and into the ring to wrestle with life, demons and each other. Coming to the Belgrade Theatre 10-13 April,...
Duality in Design – Moi Tran discusses her work on Under the Umbrella at the Belgrade Theatre
As rehearsals for the world premiere of Amy Ng’s new play Under the Umbrella get underway at the Belgrade Theatre, the construction team at Belgrade Production Services are hard at work creating the set for the show. Telling the story of a young Chinese woman studying...
Under the Umbrella shines a spotlight on Coventry’s Chinese community at the Belgrade Theatre
While the presence of Chinese people in Britain has been well-documented since at least the 17th century, in 2019, it’s still a relative rarity to see the stories of Chinese and British Chinese people play out on UK stages. Where East Asian characters do appear,...