分类： Ontario

People’s Park: Chinese Collective Arts Association

People’s Park brings parklife, Chinese style, to the heart of Toronto’s waterfront. Parks play an important role in the life of every Chinese city, town and village, which is why just about every populated area across the country is home to a People’s Park. Every day, all nooks and crannies of these parks are dotted with citizens engaged in a wide range of activities.

Join the Chinese Collective Arts Association for a dance performance/workshop in our very own People’s Park at China Now.

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Artist Talk: Paper Cutting

Join us for an exploration of each artist’s craft, trajectory and connection to legacy throughout the weekend in this interactive artist talk.

Paper cutting has historically been a part of communities throughout China. The art of paper cutting, or jianzhi, is done simply with a piece of paper and a knife or scissors. The patterns created may symbolize the ideas of blessedness, luck and fortune or be representative the artists’ regional cultures.
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Artist Talk: Hua’er Folk Song

Join us for an exploration of each artist’s craft, trajectory and connection to legacy throughout the weekend in this interactive artist talk.

Hua’er is a kind of folk song sung in local Chinese dialects and is a form popular in the northwestern China provinces such as Gansu, Ningxia and Qinghai. Hua’er is usually sung on two major occasions – “hua’er gatherings” and daily life and production. A “hua’er gathering” is a large-scale folk song gathering, otherwise known as “changshan” (singing mountain songs). The tune of hua’er is called “ling” (a pattern to which the tune is set), which varies according to the inserted words for balance or euphony in the course of singing.

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Chinese Zodiac Paper Cuttings

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Jianzhi is a traditional style of papercutting in China that has been practiced since the 6th century and is carried on at the China Now festival by several artisans across at least three generations. Traditionally, Jianzhi papercutting emphasize the Chinese zodiac animals and are often red, but can take on a variety of colours and styles with varying degrees of intricacy. Come and create your own cuttings using a template or try your scissor skills at free-handed design.
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