Chinese New Year Celebration 2023
On Sunday 5th Feb, children from East Sheen’s Little Panda Mandarin Language and Drama club celebrated the Chinese New year of the Rabbit live on stage, after three years of on line celebrations, with a charming gala performance at their new venue Tower House school. Around a hundred parents and local people attended this colorful occasion. The event started with the young people performing Dragon and Lion dances followed by singing and speaking in impressive mandarin language.
Brightly coloured silk costumes added spectacle to the proceedings and were complemented by the performers joyful enthusiasm.
A group of older, Little Panda students, some of whom had been with the Sunday club for eight years, performed a short play. Their acting was extremely impressive. Little Panda club hope to create a new drama class for younger children from the local community soon.
Children from the Little Panda Mandarin after school club at Sheen mount school joined the occasion, which was hosted by principle of Little Panda Xiaoyu Shi and local actor and the head of drama Max Gold.
Thanks the support from China UK Minorities Culture Exchange &International Woman Association ,Brixton Youth theatre 🎭, DVLA ，Orchid Blossom Arts etc. .
Chinese New Year Celebration 2021
East Sheen ,Richmond,London U.K. welcomes The Year of the Ox on 13th February 2021
The Chinese New Year was celebrated in style by UK Little Panda Mandarin and Drama school. In this joyful online community event,hosted by Little Panda's head of Drama, local actor Max Gold, children from the club performed poems, took part in a quiz and presented their pets to each other.They shared video performances including highlights of their previous New Year celebrations. This event is an annual fixture and although the young people were not able to rehearse an episode of the Chinese classic 'Journey to the West,' as in previous years, or prepare group dance routines,nothing could crush the wonderful spirit with which they joined in the year of the Ox celebrations.The event was attended by Minister Lu from the Chinese Embassy in the UK who made a warm and inspiring speech, with a back drop of a Christmas tree topped by a Chinese Lantern, a fitting image for this fun event which brought together the two 'great cultures' of China and the UK. Little Panda look forward to returning to a live new year gala next year but were thrilled that, even with the current challenges, the year of the Ox celebrations took place with such good spirit. Thank you!
For further details of the Little Panda Mandarin and Drama school please email
http://www.littlepandamandarin.co.uk
Photos by Irena Pechon
2019 CNY Celebration and Panda Charity Fundraising Event
On Sunday, February 10th, 2019, the UK Little Panda Mandarin School held a Chinese New Year celebration and brings a satisfactory successful completion of the event.
The theme of the event was to raise funds for the Panda Charity Fundraising Event. All the funds raised will be donated to WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature), the “Exploring the Hometown of Pandas in China” project, the wonderful performance at the celebration was watched by around 200 Anglo-Chinese overseas and Chinese. The event was endorsed by the Deputy Mayor of Richmond- Mona Adams and promoted the exchange of the Chinese and English contributions.
“Gongs and drums sounded, dragon raised, and lion leapt”, the Chinese New Year Celebration kicked off with this dragon and lion dance, led by the children that were born at the Year of Pig. Before the lion and dragon dance, the Mayor of Richmond- Mona Adams dotted the eye of the lion and dragon in order to awaken them.
Minister of Education Section of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Wang Yongli, Minister Counsellor, delivered a congratulatory message:
“Thank you for the efforts and contributions made by the UK Little Panda Mandarin, it enhances the understanding of China by our foreign friends! Mutual understanding is the establishment of mutual initiation and mutual trust is the foundation for building a community of human destiny. I sincerely hope that the UK Little Panda Mandarin School will be better and better and make greater contributions to the Chinese and foreign cultural exchanges! I wish everyone in the Year of Golden Pig to have good health and the whole family is happy and safe. Wish everyone all wishes come true!”
The performances at the celebration included Chinese dance, Tea ceremony, Drama and the Chinese instrument and folk-dance performances. The second part of the drama- "Journey to the West" was performed by the UK Little Panda Mandarin School children which culminated in the evening. Chinese-born Operatic Soprano Beibei Wang and the UK Chinese choir sang "I Love You China" and "Chinese Dream".
During the event, there were also exquisite awards and interactive sessions. Finally, the guests presented the children with a red envelope representing the wishes of the New Year and wished the children healthy growth.
The event was hosted by the UK Little Panda Mandarin School, the China UK Minorities Cultural Exchange Association, UK Research and Development Centre for Chinese Traditional Culture（UKCTC）and the Shanghai Society UK（SSUK）. The event was supported by the Education Section of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
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