Celebrate the Winter Solstice with poetry, music and dumplings
Join us for an evening of intercultural poetry and performance celebrating the Chinese Winter Solstice Festival (Dongzhi, ??). Our event will bring together Chinese poetic heritage, celestial imagery, creative performances and students’ experiences of living in Manchester shared over a buffet of Chinese dumplings. Open to all students, regardless of background or knowledge of Mandarin Chinese.
Location: The Atrium, Ellen Wilkinson Building
Performers
You'll find a selection of Chinese poetry (in the original Chinese and in English translation) in this document (https://documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx?DocID=81213). We invite you to respond creatively to one of the poems in this selection, or choose your own poem based on the suggested themes, and share your performance with your peers. Responses can range from recitation, singing, dance and short plays to storytelling, comedy and everything in-between. Each performer will get up to 8 minutes.
If you like the poems and want to get involved, but not sure how, we are hosting a facilitation session to help you figure out how you could express yourself. At the session, we will provide instruments and costumes which you’ll be able to borrow for the performance. The facilitation session will take place between 3-5PM on Wednesday, 18 November at The Confucius Institute (180 Waterloo Place, Oxford Road).
If you would like to perform, please register by 5PM on 16 November by selecting the 'Performer' ticket. Once you register, we will contact you to ask you for a short description of your performance and to find out what equipment/set-up you need. By signing up to this event as a performer, you consent to being contacted by us. We will only contact you about issues relating to performing at this event.
Audience
We also welcome students who would like to come along and watch and support your friends who are performing. Please register by selecting the 'General Admission' ticket before the event takes place so we know how many people to expect for the dumpling buffet.
Contact us via email if you have any questions (confucius@manchester.ac.uk).
