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New Year’s Buddhist blessing
Welcome the New Year with a Buddhist blessing and drum performance
Image: Venerables from Nan Tien Temple
Saturday 28 January 2012, 10.00am
Duration 30 minutes
Location: Entrance court
Free
VisAsia Hingyiu Mok Mandarin language lecture 2012
Christian art on the Silk Road
Saturday 28 January 2012, 1.00pm
Duration 1 hour, 30 minutes
Location: Centenary Auditorium
Free
Lion dance and god of fortune
Watch lions perform and meet the lucky god of fortune
Image: Joe June as the God of Fortune
Sunday 29 January 2012, 10–10.30am
Duration 30 minutes
Location: Front of the Gallery
Free
Auspicious symbols tour
In Cantonese, Mandarin and English 《吉祥如意》免費粵語、普通話或英語導覧
Saturday 28 & Sunday 29 January 2012, 11am
Duration 1 hour
Location: Information desk
Free
Book launch: Humour in Chinese Life and Letters
Lecture by Jocelyn Chey and launch by China expert Stephen Fitzgerald
Book cover image from Vibeke Børdahl and Jette Ross, Chinese Storytellers (2002), courtesy of the authors
Sunday 29 January 2012, 1.00pm
Duration 1 hour
Location: Centenary Auditorium
Free
Chinese zodiac stories
Meet the dragon and other animals of the Chinese zodiac with storyteller Kiran Shah
Image: Kiran Shah
Saturday 28 & Sunday 29 January 2012,
12.30pm & 2.30pm
Duration 30 minutes
Location: Lower Asian gallery
Free
Rainbow dragon workshop
A drop-in colouring activity for children aged 3 and over
Sunday 29 January 2012, 11am–3pm
Duration 4 hours
Location: Cafe foyer
Free
Dragon curator’s talk
Yin Cao, curator of Chinese art
Image: Jingdezhen ware (China: Qing dynasty) Dish with single dragon, early 19th c. Gift of Mr JH Myrtle 1983
Wednesday 7 March 2012, 5.30pm
Duration 30 minutes
Location: Upper Asian gallery
Free
Dragon exhibition talk
The dragon in Chinese civilisation
Image: Unknown artist, China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911) Detail of porcelain dish decorated in overglaze red enamel, gift of Mr JH Myrtle 1983
Wednesday 14 March 2012, 5.30pm
Duration 45 minutes
Location: Upper Asian gallery
Free