Frequently Asked Questions - Education
FAQ about our educational programme
To reflect the changing world, and the need to understnad China for the near future. Our educational programmes are in the continuing development. New topics are adding to our programmes all the time.
Contact us with your requirements and we will do our best to help you.
Yes!
Our work covers the whole of the UK, including North Wales, Devon, Lincolnshire, Northern Ireland. We will use our nationwide network artists to find an artist closet to you first. If there is on-one, then we will allocate artists from other areas throughout the country. Please note, accommodation and travel expenses are not included in our quotes. Please ask for details.
We can provide topics such as Traditional music, dance, calligraphy, operatic face painting, story telling, Chinese crafts, taichi , Chinese cooking workshops to your schools.
All workshops are ran by experianced workshop leaders. We also have different formats for different year groups. For example, the music workshop for younger children will have more focus on hands-on experience and allowing the children to play on the instruments and have fun. For more capable pupils, music workshops can be developed to a piece of Chinese music written or arranged especially for the school's orchestra.
We provide Chinese cultural workshop programmes for schools across the country. The majority of these workshop programmes are tailor made to meet your needs, from one artist one off workshop, to a group of artists covering a range of topics, or programmes that last for a week or even a residential project lasting for a longer period.
Topics including Chinese music - a hands-on-experience, traditional dance, story-telling, calligraphy, taichi etc. More information please visit our workshop example section.
Depend on age group. For younger children, we will focus on "hand-on-experience" and let children have a go on the selection of traditional instruments. We will normally bring over 20 traditional Chinese instruments to the classroom, such as Erhu (Chinese violin), Pipa (Chinese guitar), Guzheng (Chinese Harp), Yangqin (Chinese Piano), Dizi (Chinese bamboo flute), Sheng (Chinese mouth organ) and percussion etc. For more capable students, we can offer a programme of working together with the school orchestra and develop a piece of Chinese music just for the orchestra.
We also provide performance based music workshop and music composition, music technology workshops.
We will try.
There are many ways to get financial support. For example, a joint application to the LEA or local goverment for funding to support your educational projects. In fact many of our projects are founded by arts council of England, Local goverment, and other bodies. We also have different discount schemes, please ask.
Learn a Chinese dance.
Particpants will follow our dancer artist to learn a basic traditional Chinese dance including different hand and feet techniques. Popular dances are fan dance, ribbon dance, or other styles of Chinese minority dances. Please let us know if you have a particular style in mind.
We can tailor make programmes to fit your school's need. For one-off performances or 1 topic workshops, to a full programme of whole week's workshops for the whole school of different topics such as Traditional Music, Dance, Calligraphy, Story telling, Paper cutting, Lantern making etc.
Please contact us for details.. (01933 311080)