At The Natural History Museum
February, 2006 The Chinese has a long tradition of using nature to interpret their world. From February to March, the Museum is going to have various public events to celebrate Chinese arts and tradition influenced by the natural world in a 'China in London 2006' project.The workshops and events are free of charge, ideal for a variety of ages. They include drama, martial arts, story telling with puppets, lion dancing workshops. There will also be a series of Darwin Centre Live programmes and exhibition in the library's rear books room and at the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum in Tring.
For the festive season of the Chinese New Year of Dog, on Saturday 11 February, we have organised special sessions of a children drama workshop called the Emperor and the Nightingale and an exhibition of rare Chinese paintings of wild life of China for adults.
The Emperor and the Nightingale is an exciting interactive workshop led by Yellow Earth Theatre where children (ages 7-12) where participants get to enter the world of The Emperor and the Nightingale, as written by famous children's author Hans Christian Andersen. They will create a forest, transform into the nightingale and get to meet the formidable Chinese emperor at the Imperial Palace.
The exhibition of rare books room will allow visitors to go behind the scenes of the Museum Library, which holds one of the world's most precious natural history collections of books and paintings. You will meet our librarians who will guide you through an exhibition of some rarely seen watercolours, drawings and prints of Chinese natural history by 18th century Chinese artists trained in western art.
Both events last for 45 minutes each.
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