1. Traditional Chinese Costumes Display and Photo Opportunity

There will be a display of traditional Chinese costumes and tools. We will have volunteers on site to answer any questions you may have. You are welcome to try these ancient costumes on and take photos.

2. Sugar Painting

Have you ever painted with sugar? Come and try it. Paint a picture with melted sugar.

3. Paper-cutting

You can create exceptional works using paper and a pair of scissors. The art of paper cutting started in China around the 4th century AD and has since spread to other places. It is called Kirigami in Japan, and Batik in Indonesia. There are also Indian, Jewish, Mexican, Swedish and Swiss versions of it.

4. The Art of Incense

The art of Incense is based upon incense-oriented games which used to be played by Heian court nobles in the 11th century. Kudos was just one of the three main classical arts that a woman of class was expected to learn. Today, people use it as a way of meditation or therapy.

5. The Ceremony of Tea

Tea ceremony is a way of making and tasting tea.

6. Chinese Calligraphy

Since the 3rd century, calligraphy has been an important part of the visual arts in China. It requires immense skill and fine judgment and is regarded as uniquely revealing of the character and breadth of cultivation of the writer. Calligraphy has also been associated with spiritual communication and has been viewed in terms of the writer’s own spiritual attunement. It is believed that the appreciation and production of calligraphy requires lofty personal qualities and unusual aesthetic sensitivity. The comprehension of its finer points is thought to require experience and sensibility of a high order.

We will have artists on site creating art pieces and interacting with the audience.

7. Traditional Chinese Painting

The Chinese painter uses essentially the same materials as the calligrapher—brush, ink, and silk or paper—and the Chinese judge his work by the same criteria they use for the calligrapher, basically the vitality and expressiveness of the brushstroke itself and the harmonious rhythm of the whole composition. Painting in China is essentially a linear art.

We will have artists on site creating art pieces and interacting with the audience.

8. Face Painting

Get your face painted by yourself or our artists.

9. Lantern Making

Make and paint your own lantern. We supply the parts and you show us your talents.

10. Lantern Show

Featuring the Qinhuai River style lanterns from Nanjing, China

11. Cultural Performances