Made in Chinatown pop up shop to open in Soho this Christmas
Made in Chinatown pop up shop to open in Soho this Christmas China Exchange’s Made in Chinatown range will take a step into Soho this festive period with a 12-day pop-up shop at 98 Berwick Street. Made in Chinatown brings together artists, community members and volunteers to create unique and beautiful products that share the […]
Wrapping up Chinese Write Now 2022
Wrapping up Chinese Write Now 2022 From May through to July, we welcomed nearly 600 people to our Chinese Write Now festival celebrating writers and writing from and about Chinese culture.This year’s festival saw the China Exchange team bring contemporary Chinese culture and writing to London, Nottingham, and Manchester and welcome people to talks, workshops […]
China Exchange Appoints New Trustees
China Exchange Appoints New Trustees China Exchange has appointed two new volunteer trustees to the charity’s board. Geyang Huang and Eric Yu join Mei Shui, Sir Tom Shebbeare and James Furse in governing China Exchange in the next exciting phase of the organisation’s development. Geyang Huang brings experience of partnerships, cross cultural marketing and business […]
New Artist In Residence for Made in Chinatown
New Artist In Residence for Made in Chinatown Made in Chinatown returns this year with Cherie Kwok as our new artist in residence. Cherie Kwok will work with China Exchange volunteers and Chinatown community members for the next phase of Made in Chinatown, a project to bring together artists, community members and volunteers to create […]
Introducing Festival Writer-in-Residence, Will Harris
Introducing Festival Writer-in-Residence, Will Harris Award winning writer Will Harris is joining us as the first Writer in Residence for our Chinese Write Now Festival 2022. His debut poetry book is RENDANG (Granta, UK; Wesleyan, US: 2020). It was a Poetry Book Society Choice and won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. He co-edited […]
Announcing Chinese Write Now 2022
Announcing Chinese Write Now 2022 We are delighted to share news of our Chinese Write Now Festival 2022. It is the third edition of the successful China in Context programme. The new name reflects the expanding scope of our programme, which celebrates writers and contemporary Chinese culture through writing. This year’s festival will highlight both […]
London Chinatown Food Heritage Trail Map Launches To Mark the Year of the Tiger
Visitors to London’s Chinatown can enjoy a new trail that explores the area’s food heritage highlighting parts of the neighbourhood that show traditional techniques, contemporary tastes, and ways of expressing ourselves through food and flavours. The free map is available in Chinatown from 1 February. The self-guided trail gives more detail about long-standing […]
China Exchange to receive support in second round of Government’s Culture Recovery Fund
China Exchange has received a grant of £81,271 from the Government’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund to help the organisation recover and reopen.
Launching the Champion London Chinatown’s Heritage Campaign
China Exchange has launched a new crowdfunding campaign – the Chinatown-based charity’s most ambitious effort yet to create lasting and positive change in London’s Chinatown. The campaign needs to secure £21,320 in pledges by 11 May to deliver projects that protect and celebrate unrecorded East and South East Asian heritage in Chinatown. The funds raised […]
WCMT funds new work at China Exchange on COVID-19 racism
China Exchange has been awarded a COVID-19 action grant from the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust (WCMT). The project will facilitate discussion about the impact of pandemic-linked racism on Chinatown, and provide a counter-narrative to racist sentiment and prejudice that is harming the communities that use this area. Throughout 2020, anti-Chinese sentiment has grown in the […]