Name: Project New Earth: Work-in-progress Show
Start: 2016-09-08T19:30:00+01:00
End: 2016-09-08T21:00:00+01:00
Location: China Exchange

Project New Earth: Work-in-progress Show

China Exchange, a registered charity in the UK, is an exceptional new venue in the heart of London’s West End designed to provide a forum for the ideas and events which touch the lives of people in Britain and China today. Companies and philanthropists from both nations have come together to support the renovation of this stunning space in the restored premises of London’s former central Telephone Exchange and it has been turned into a centre for exhibitions, performances, lectures and events of all kinds.

China Exchange

100 years ago, the British and French armies recruited 140,000 Chinese men to work behind the Western Front during the First World War. They were the Chinese Labour Corps (CLC) who made a vital contribution to help the Allies win, but have since become "the forgotten of the forgotten" in WW1 history.
Chinese Arts Space (CAS) presents Project New Earth as part of the commemorations for WW1, celebrating the CLC’s memory within the context of British Chinese communities in the UK today.
Commissioned artists create four short works: two evocative music-dance films, an exciting live contemporary dance and a moving music drama.
Schedule: 7:30pm-8:30pm Performance 8:30pm-9:00pm Artist Q&A and Drinks Reception (pay bar)
 Programme: 1. Heroes Within (Creative team: Julia Cheng, Andy Leung, Lavin Lee, Ricky Payne, Lula Mebrahtu) A young Chinese woman discovers her ancestral contribution to Allied success in this music-dance-spoken word film. Animation peels back the layers of the painting, Panthéon de la Guerre, when the CLC were ‘painted out’ of history to make room for American soldiers.
2. Missing Parts (Creative team: Lucia Tong, Cheng Yu, Angelus Squid Marr) Contemporary dancers explore humanity and machinery in homage to the hard-working CLC, who became essential cogs in the war effort. Economic migration a century ago is still reflected in our global economy.
3. Lunar Corps (Creative team: Ruth Chan, Quang Kien Van, Suki Mok) From labyrinthine warrens of lost memory, the stories and bodies of the CLC are excavated and brought into blazing light. This vivid music-dance film resurrects the forgotten through fragmented historical text.
4. Song Unsung (Creative team: David K.S. Tse, Chris Chan, Beibei Wang, Kumiko Mendl) Singer-actors weave together Chinese and English songs sung or inspired by the CLC, with a moving drama focused on two men separated from family, lovers and friends by the war. 
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 CAS' Project New Earth is part of the <A HREF="http://chinaexchange.uk/exchanges/cultivate/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Cultivate Programme</A> at China Exchange. For other recent projects or to apply to become part of Cultivate, <A HREF="http://chinaexchange.uk/exchanges/cultivate/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">click here</A>.
<A HREF="http://www.casuk.org/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">CAS</A> is a creative development agency supporting British Chinese/East Asian artists and Youth Arts development. Project New Earth is part of a trilogy of commissioned new work that started with <A HREF="http://casuk.org/projects/past.html" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Project New Moon</A>.
Like CAS on <A HREF="https://www.facebook.com/chineseartsspace/?fref=ts" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Facebook</A> Follow CAS on Twitter @casukorg 
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