NEWS
Welcome to the 2021 Festival!
CAN Festival 2021 is Chinese Arts Now’s annual festival of work by British East and South East Asian artists, running from 15 February to 30 April. Ten weeks of exhibitions, music, screenings, performance, art, dance, comedy , talks and workshops will be presented...
The extraordinary lives of Chang and Eng Bunker by Tobi Poster-Su
The Original Siamese Twins by Tobi Poster-Su Chang and Eng (曾 and 因) were born in 1811 in Siam (now Thailand) to a Ti-eye, a Chinese fisherman, and Nok, a Siamese-Chinese duck farmer. They were conjoined at the sternum by a band of flesh and cartilage; their livers...
Dates announced for CAN Festival 2021
We are delighted to announce the CAN Festival 2021 will take place from Monday 15 February to Friday 30 April in London and online.
Artist and Filmmaker Eelyn Lee talks to Theatre Full Stop about her film ‘Casting Fu Manchu’ commissioned by Chinese Arts Now
A racialised term coined over a century ago, the impact of the term ‘Yellow Peril’ has been a damaging one; English novelist Sax Rohmer’s creation of villain Dr Fu Manchu in the 20th century further playing into the fear of the supposed existential threat imposed by...
November CAN Bulletin – Jasmin Kent Rodgman talks about her Instagram Opera to Theatre Full Stop
Composer and producer Jasmin Kent Rodgman talks about ‘nineteen ways of looking’ commissioned by Chinese Arts Now and CFCCA As part of our continuing commitment to support artists during the pandemic, Chinese Arts Now have commissioned a series of new works as part...
CAN and Yellow Earth Theatre Artistic Directors discuss co-commissioning current work Duck Rabbit, by Pamela Carter
An-Ting Chang, CEO and Artistic Director of CAN and Kumiko Mendl, Artistic Director, Yellow Earth Theatre on working together for the first time and the process of commissioning and realising two digital commissions.
CAN Collaborators – introducing Christine 挺欢 Urquhart
Although they have never met, through working together on this project, Pamela and Cristine have created an incredibly strong, creative partnership between writer and designer.
Meet The Artist: Pamela Carter
Read the fascinating interview with Pamela Carter about her new work, Duck Rabbit. Questions by Jordan Blake-Klein, Yellow Earth Theatre.
October CAN Bulletin
What’s happening this month at CAN? New digital commission launched and more…
Augmented Chinatown 2.0 launched today!
After furious coding and many, many updates, the Augmented Chinatown 2.0 APP has been relaunched with a shiny new interface by developer Donald Shek. Take an hour long tour through Chinatown, guided by playwright Joel Tan and and see it in a brand new light - with...
