Club Radio Luxembourg will become a meeting place for the two culutres of reach tradition and symbols - Chinese and Indian, on Friday, 8th February. It will be a place where can be met both the cultures together and at the same time – each of them separetely.
Beacuse it is the time of celebrations, fun, carnival - an event is a New Year's dress party which may be insired by Indian and Chinese traditions. According to Chinese lunar calendar – with the day 7th February 2008 the New Year, The Year of the Rat, begins. It is celebrated for 15 another days. The element for The Year is Earth so the year 2008 is also called The Year of the Brown Rat.
In similiar time another great festival, which is called Saraswati Puja, is celebrated in India. It is the fastival dedicated to Saraswati - goddess of knowledge and art (especially of music).
Programme:
- Chinese and Indian music video show
- documentaries from the village of the Chen family where tai chi was born
- tai chi presentation
- presentation of evolution and history of Chinese alphabet - prepared by Chinese language school NANJING EDUCATION
- workshops of Chinese calligraphy - NANJING EDUCATION
- presentation of Bengalese laguage and workshops of writing in Bengalese
- Indian dance show by Alapadma group
- a performance by a Chinese singer - Mo
- cuisine: Indian (Namaste India) and Chinese
- henna as well as face painting - with colorful dyes according to Indian traditions
- 'Państwo Środka' photo exhibition by Andrzej Kotnowski
- stalls with crafts, books, music, films - Chinese and Indian
- New Year's cakes with presages
- DJ party with best Asian music sets - DJ DON
Admission: 5 pln
Organized by:
- Kontynent Warszawa - Warszawa Wielu Kultur
- Basu Group
- World Chen Taijiquan Association
- Namaste India
- Radio Luxembourg
- Muzeum Azji i Pacyfiku
- Alapadma
- Desi Shop
- NANJING EDUCATION
- Tui Na
Media patrons:
RADIO LUXEMBOURG
67 Górczewska St
www.radioluxembourg.pl
