by Sam Mcauley | Feb 18, 2021 | Blogs
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...
by Sam Mcauley | Feb 1, 2021 | Blogs
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...
by Sam Mcauley | Dec 10, 2020 | Blogs
We have some great news to share with you! We are delighted to announce the CAN Festival 2021 will take place from Monday 15 February to Friday 30 April. CAN will host ten weeks of eclectic and surprising new exhibitions, performances, screenings, comedy and scratch...
by Sam Mcauley | Nov 23, 2020 | Blogs
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...
by Sam Mcauley | Nov 2, 2020 | Blogs
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...
by Sam Mcauley | Oct 19, 2020 | Blogs
An-Ting Chang, CEO and Artistic Director of CAN and Kumiko Mendl, Artistic Director of Yellow Earth Theatre talk about working together for the first time and the process of commissioning and realising two digital commissions. The current co-commission Duck Rabbit is...
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