Celebrating Mid-Autumn Festival at China Exchange
In China, Mid-Autumn Festival is the second most important holiday after Chinese New Year. Traditionally, this festival marks the harvest and celebrates the harvest moon – seen to be the brightest and fullest moon of the year. For many Chinese, the moon symbolises prosperity, peace and reunion. Join us to celebrate this traditional Chinese festival with a variety of fun-packed, family-friendly events at China Exchange!
Tea Time at China Exchange
Tea, whether it’s in Chinese or British culture, plays a crucial role throughout the history. To celebrate all things tea, a free tea market was hosted at China Exchange from Friday 23 to Sunday 25 February. From teapots to tealeaves, from talks to performances, we welcomed over 1000 visitors over the weekend. The main market […]
Postcard making workshop: For Chinese New Year
To coincide with the annual Chinese New Year Parade in Chinatown and Trafalgar Square, China Exchange held a workshop where people of different ages made their own Chinese New Year postcards. With over 250 visitors, the ground floor was a buzz of creativity. Some decorated their postcards with red-paper cut-outs of dogs and others with […]
Doc in a Day: Chinese New Year
We welcomed in the Year of the Rooster on Saturday 28 January with Doc in a Day: Chinese New Year – our collaborative event with London Documentary Network. 6 teams came together to create a short documentary about Chinese New Year (CNY), based on the theme ‘Ritual’. To start the day, the China Exchange team […]
Happy Chinese New Year! 新年快乐！
We wish all our visitors, subscribers and curious passersby a very happy Chinese New Year. We’re welcoming the rooster with events throughout the Spring Festival detailed below and will be open on Sunday 29 January from noon-4pm to welcome visitors. #snapCNY17 Instagram Competition Saturday 28 – Monday 30 January Free Our […]
Masters of The Lunar Verse – Moon Poetry Reading with Two Poets
“A Tranquil Night” Abed, I see a silver light, I wonder if it’s frost aground. Looking up, I find the moon bright; Bowing, in homesickness I’m drowned. This is one of the Chinese moon poems we celebrated at China Exchange as part of the Mid-Autumn Festival on 17 September 2016. Poets Jennifer Wong and […]
The Rabbit in the Moon: Wire Rabbit Workshop
Illustrator and sculptor, Zack McLaughlin, led a wire rabbit workshop as part of our Mid-Autumn Festival celebrations.
Mid-Autumn Festival 2016
Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! 中秋节快乐！中秋節快樂! The Mid-Autumn Festival is held every year on the 15th day of the 8th month in the lunar calendar and is celebrated with a three day holiday in China. The second most important holiday after Chinese New Year, traditionally this festival marks harvest and celebrates the harvest moon – seen to be […]
Sir David Green
Around the world with the VSO and the British Council President of the Prince’s School of Traditional Arts, Sir David Green shared experiences from his long career in building cultural capital and applying soft power around the world. Combined with this, Sir David shared the contents of sketchbook and his own artwork, which had also […]