Christmas-Fair

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
Friday, December 4th, 5-9 pm Saturday December 5th, 10 am-6 pm
Come and celebrate this festive season with fun for the whole family at TCG Nordica
Christmas Shopping Stalls
This lively festive market fills Nordica with the sights, scents and sounds of Christmas. Exhibitors display original items, from foodstuff to furniture and from jewelry to handicrafts. Festive Activities for Kids Craft-making tables, games and movies Live performances Friday at 7:00 Saturday at 11:00, 2:00 and 4:00
Food and Refreshments
Appearances by Santa!
Friday from 6-7, Saturday 10-11 and 3-4
Sponsored by Nordica and Interested Individuals in the Expat Community
Tables provided by Danyun Business Affairs Co, Ltd.

Advent Christmas Benefit Concerts

Saturday, November 21st, 2009
November 27 (Friday) at 7pm at the Kunming International Academy Auditorium
November 28 (Sat) at 8pm TCG Nordica
Tickets: 30RMB. 100% of the proceeds and donations will go towards Food Aid.
Advent Concert
The Music Road Chamber Ensemble, dir. Hu Xingyu
Young Musicians of Kunming International Academy and Home-School Co-ops
Tehillim Trio
(Hu Pan Zhi Meng Xiaoqu, Guang Fu Lu
Ticket Sales: Presale for KIA concert please contact Mrs. Jessie Ma 0871-4126887 or
Jessie.ma@kia-china.org
For TCG Nordica concert please contact TCG at 0871-4114692, 4114691
Tickets for sale at the door one hour before the concert.

AIR: Barbro Raen Thomassen

Barbro Raen Thomassen, Photo by Zhu Xiaolin

Norwegian sculptor Barbro Raen Thomassen stayed at TCG Nordica during Oct,29,2009–Nov,19,2009.

Sculptor Barbro Raen Thomassen, Norway, is a well-established artist who has exhibited her works in a number of countries during the years. Her main purpose with her stay in TCG Nordica was to gain new impressions and ideas.

When coming back to Norway her book ”AV ASKE. To installasjoner av Barbro Raen Thomassen”, with texts of among others poet Paal-Helge Haugen, was launched in Norway.

Sponsor: Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

artist site: www.raenthomassen.no

installation by Barbro Raen Thomassen

AIR: Sara-Vide Ericson

Sara-Vide Ericson worked as Artist in Residence in TCG Nordica’s guest studio, August – November 2009.

Artist Sara-Vide Ericson graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm, Sweden last summer (2009), and then came straight to Kunming to work as an TCG Nordica Artist in Residence.

During her four months stay she worked with oil paintings for an exhibition in Stockholm in 2010, as well as visited Chinese artists and got familiar with the Chinese surroundings.

Photo: Sara-Vide visits Zhang Yongsheng’s studio. By Anders Gustafsson

Talk To Her–Movie night

November, Friday 13, 6.30. Pm
Free Admission!
The movie of this month is a warm, vivid Spanish drama, directed by the famous Pedro Almodovar. His movies are renowned for their colorfulness, irony and the strong characters. These characters are far from the ordinary, a few traits exaggerated into the absurd, but still, despite the ridicule, wonderfully, painfully alive. It is impossible not to feel with these people, as they unfold themselves on the screen.
Talk to her places us in a hospital between four persons; two women deep in coma and the men, who loves them.
Nordica’s movie night is a great opportunity for you to watch and discuss high quality movies in an international environment. It is free of charge, so please bring friends to join us!
*The subtitles and discussion will be in English

Murmur jazz concert

A Video clip from Murmur Jazz Quartet.(@Youku Video by Sky
Video Edited by: Luo Fei
Date Sat, 21st and 22nd of November
Address: TCG Nordica in Kunming LOFT
Price: 30RMB/Person
Tickets Presell only 25RMB Reserve in two hours advance
Presell Address: TCG Nordica in Kunming LOFT
MaiTian bookstore Next to the Pauls store in the foreigner street
Isaac bookstore Chun Yuan Xiao Qu
1895 Movie Bar(In the Night Market of KunDu)
Tel: 0871-4114692 4114691

Murmur consists of four of the most active improvising musicians from Norway. The quartet moves quickly between textural and percussive material, an agility that creates unpredictable and often entertaining improvised music. The energy can maybe be traced back to free jazz, but the music of Murmur is definitely one of today. The rich sound-palette gives them many possibilities, which they can navigate through with an effortless flow. Murmur plays either minimalism or maximalist, but moves organically and playfully between the opposites.
Klaus Ellerhusen Holm (saxophone & clarinet) Holm is from Oslo. He has released several cd’s in Norway. All of them well received among journalists and audience. His most recent project is the duo Ballrogg with bass player Roger Arntzen (In the Country).
Kim Myhr (guitar and devices) Kim Myhr studied at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Kim Myhr collaborates regularly with such artists as Jim Denley, Ingar Zach, Benoit Delbecq and Martin Tetrault. In January 2009 he released his duo cd with Jim Denley on the Seattle-based label either/OAR.
Martin Taxt (tuba) Studied at the Academy of Music in Oslo, and CNSMDP in Paris. Taxt has been focusing on modern improvised music for the last couple of years. His release with Tetuzi Akiyama on the Norwegian impro label SOFA, received very good critics in magazines like The Wire and Signal to Noise. He has also collaborated with Dave Douglas, Toshimaru Nakamura and Nils Wogram.
Tor Haugerud (percussion) Lives in Trondheim. Studied at the acknowledged conservatory there, where he now works as a teacher. Haugerud’s participation in ensembles like Transjoik, Trondheim Jazzorkester and BOL, has made him one of the most sought after percussionists in Norway.

Individual Choice –Contemporary Art Exhibition From Yunnan Artists

Individual Choice
–Contemporary Art Exhibition From Yunnan Artists

Opening: 20:00, Friday, Nov 6, 2009
Exhibition Duration: 2009/11/6-11/30
Artists: Lan Qingxing, Zhao Leiming, Zhang Jinxi, Yin Yanhua, Duan Min, Gong Honglin and Tao Jin.
Artistic Consultant: Mao Xuhui
Documentary Records: Xue Tao
Art Criticism: Luo Fei
Photographer: Lu Liqiang
Host by: TCG Nordica Gallery
Address:TCG Nordica,Loft(Chuangku),xibalu 101,Kunming
Tel:0871-4114692

This exhibition is by seven Kunming artists who are primarily born in the 1970s. Working together in their studios at an old automobile factory in the West side of the city, their mainly work with painting and sculpturing. They take inspiration from local landscapes, urban, childhood memories and likewise.

The artworks of this exhibition are based on the artists own presentation of a natural way and appearance, and a way that also represents the Yunnan artist’s way of life as well as their attitude towards the arts.

If you would like the exhibition catalogue in digital form (Chinese Only), please feel free to send an e-mail to: luofei@tcgnordica.com.