Chinese New Year in Cardiff
Posted on August 12, 2009 - Filed Under Arts & Culture, Travel
Participating in my first Chinese New Year celebration was actually really enlightening. The Chinese celebrate the New Year later than the rest of the world. I was staying a week in a Cardiff Hotel where I accidental came across one of the largest Chinese celebrations of its kind in Wales. I was stunned really. Wales puts on one hell of a celebration.
There was a colorful showcase of calligraphy from China, dance, fashion and music. It happens at the Cardiff University and at Amgueddfa Cymru, the national museum of Wales. Through out the three days of celebrating, I attended an exhibition of Chinese art and got to participate in a number of workshops. One workshop, I got to learn Chinese Calligraphy, well kind of learn, I know if I don’t practice what I learned, I’ll lose what I learned. Some other people who attended the Calligraphy workshop told me they just finished a workshop where they got to play a Chinese instrument called the guzheng, a traditional string instrument resembling a zither and the erhu, a two-stringed instrument played with a bow. Dang! I missed that one.
The Highlight of the Festival was a Gala which took place at 8pm in the Museum’s Reardon Smith Lecture Theater. Where we were treated to various acts of different aspects of contemporary and traditional China. Then a Chinese Fashion show and then music. I never had so much fun at any of my own New Years Celebrations. But, then here in England, there aren’t any three day special workshops, fashion shows or Galas. I thing the Chinese know how to celebrate. I wonder, when I head back to London, if maybe there are workshops or lessons going on during our New Years celebration, you know, something more than getting tossed New Years Eve and not remembering a thing?
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