NEWS
Half
Price Preview - Midsummer Night`s
Dream 14 Aug
For your chance to be among the first
to see this spectacular show, brought
to the Edinburgh Fringe by the Confucius
Institute for Scotland, book online
now for the half-price preview evening
on Friday 14 August when all tickets
are offered at £6.00
Already selected by Mark Fisher of
the Guardian as a First Fringe Pick,
this will be one of the most talked
about shows in Fringe 2009. For more
info please visit the website.
Midsummer
Night`s Dream - Chinese-Olympic style
14-23 Aug
In this site specific adaptation
the innovative technology deployed
- as used for elements of the Olympic
opening ceremony - will bring our
venue, the spectacular McEwan Hall
to life, in a way never seen before.
This stunning adaptation will see
a 44 strong troupe of cast and creatives
from Beijing Film Academy visit Edinburgh`s
Festival Fringe. Music, dancing and
martial-arts, fuse with computer gaming
and Olympic technology resulting in
a visually spectacular performance.
The tale of the four bewitched lovers,
the enchanted forest, mischievous
Puck and hapless Bottom is much loved
around the world.Our characters will
blend traditional Chinese dramatic
traditions with the world of digital
technology enabling a range of bizarre
and fantastic dream effects to be
realised.
While the words of Shakespeare will
be heard Mandarin, mime and music
will also be used to convey the emotions
and dramatic action of the play. The
addition of a digital dimension to
the play’s inherent contrasts between
illusion and reality, waking and dreaming
further highlights the question as
to who really controls our fate.
14-23 August 2009 at 7pm (8.20pm)
Tickets £12 (£10)
Preview Evening 14 August £6
Family tickets £35
Matinees on Aug 16, 22, 23 at 2.30pm
(3.50pm)
For more information on the production
including profiles of the technical
team which includes Yang Qingsheng,Visual
Image Creative Studio Director for
the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing
Olympics please see our website here
To book call
0131 651 1292
or click here
to book online
Centre for
HSK Exainations
UoE has recently been approved as
new centre for HSK examinations. First
round of exams will be held at 29th
of May, 2009. For more info and registration
details please click on the Confucius
Institute website.
EVENTS
The `Four Arts`
Workshops: Saturdays in July 09
Spend four summer Saturday afternoons
learning the traditional Chinese “Four
Arts” to experience oriental culture
and make you own artworks. The `four
arts`- painting, calligraphy, seal
carving and poetry, also known as
leisure time pleasures, were the mark
of a true scholar in old China and
to this day are still revered.
The workshops will run on Saturday
4th, 11th, 18th and 25th July from
1pm to 5pm in the beautiful setting
of Abden House. You can opt to enjoy
all four workshops or select which
you wish to attend.
For more details, please check the
Confucius
Institute website.
China Career
Networking Day 19 Nov 2009
Further details of this event will
be announced later.
The People`s
Republic of China at 60-Oct/Nov
Mark your diary now for a series
of six public evening lectures to
be held in October and November 2009.This
lecture series will examine China`s
history over the last 60 years. Lectures
will take place on the dates shown
below.
Wednesday 07 October
Wednesday 14 October
Wednesday 21 October
Thursday 29 October
Wednesday 04 November
Wednesday 11 November
Further details of this series will
be announced later.
CONGRATULATIONS
Our language teacher Bai
Didi received an award in International Chinese Language Teaching.
Her proposal was selected by Hanban
in Beijing as one among 1080 proposals
put forward.
The Confucius Institute for Scotland
received an award of excellence as
Institute of the Year 2008 from State
Councillor Mme Liu Yuandong for 2008
at the worldwide Confucius Conference
in the Great Hall of the People on
Dec 9th, for the second time.
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