This is us – welcome party for Scandinavian students

Date: 4th of September Saturday 20:00 (Free Entrance)
This is us!
We are the new Scandinavian group and we want to welcome you to our very first concert at TCG Nordica. We are eight girls from different parts of Sweden with great interest in all kind of art forms. This concert is about combining them in one performance and in that way show you who we are. We are looking forward to meet you!

Photos by Luo Fei

Monthly Program 2010 September

Sep 3, Fri, Dance Club
Sep 4,Sat, welcome party for Scandinavian students (20:00 free entrance )

Sep 6,Mon, English Corner All about those practial little things living in Kunming
Sep 10,Fri, Dance Club
Sep 11-12, Sat-Sun, The 5th Kunming Loft Creative Market

Sep 13, Mon, English Corner How many people still using pen to write?
Sep 17,Fri, “Delight and Reality” Art Exhibition Opening
Sep 18,Sat, Movie Night

Sep 20, Mo, English Corner Autumn festival-Talk about China and Sweden Festival
Sep 24,Fri, Dance Club
Sep 25, Sat, Concert

Sep 27,Mon, English Corner Talk about your idol

The Promise Lyrical Concert

Date: 28th of August Saturday 8pm
Add：XiBa Road No.101 Loft TCG Nordica
Admission：30RMB(Adults) Children Price:10RMB
Tel：0871-4114691；0871-4114692.
Come and enjoy a night of Lyrical music.Together with Huang Shan (Er Hu), Jin Xiaoyun(Piano), Zhang Zhengfei(guitar), Zhou Zhou (Cell) will perform a number of beautiful songs, Let’s enjoy the music night at TCG Nordica.

Michaela Peterson: “THE UNINTENTIONAL”

THE UNINTENTIONAL
Works in progress by Michaela Peterson(Swedish Artist)

Opening Time: 2010/Aug/21, 15：00
Exhibition Duration: 2010/Aug/21–Aug/28
Gallery Opening time: 11:00–22:00, Closed on Sunday
Tel: 0871-4114692
Website: www.tcgnordica.com

Texts from the artist:

Most of my works has its origin in the idea of “the unintentional”.
Things, that are meant to be something else, spaces left over , words, meant in one way, but saying something else as well, and so on.
Things that nobody pays attention to, fascinates me, and I like to use it in my works.

My material is often things in our surroundings used every day.
During my stay in China I have looked for material I normally don’t use in Sweden. So for example ricepaper, Chinese ink and everyday things.
The beauty in every day life. A tribute to weekday things.

One part of the exhibition is titled ”Phrasebook”
It contents six works made by waterprint on paper.
The texts comes from a phrasebook. the kind of dictionary with short phrases you need as a help on a journey in a foreign country.
I find the texts beautiful in a common and poetic way
The texts are in English and Chinese as I would need them here in China.

Thanks to the staff of Nordica for all your help and kind patience when answering my many questions

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Artist Michaela Peterson is the Swedish Västra Götaland scholarhip holder of 2010, and is already in Kunming, working in the TCG Nordica guest studio…
In collaboration with Västra Götaland (VG), ArtsNordica has been running an Artist in Residence program since 2002. The 2010 VG scholarship holder, artist Michaela Peterson, stays in Kunming from June 2 to August 31, and works in the guest studio. Read more…

The Throbbing Nylon–Zhao Haibiao Classical Guitar Concert

Date: 20th of August Friday 20:00
Price:20RMB(Adult) 10RMB(Child)

Nostalgic guitar opusculums as breeze after drizzle, masterpieces from guitar master Francisco Tarrega…. This midsummer at TCG Nordica, Zhao Haibiao will perform the classical guitar music for you. Zhao is always being able to impress the audiences by the deepest but simple touching, his elegant style deduces a kind of brightness, the flowing melody from his guitar keeps singing beside your ears clearly. Demonstrate the legend of Roland Dyens through an introspective way, telling the story to you with sound that is pure and almost from sub-consciousness. Other pieces such as episodes from classical Japanese animation ‘Laputa: Castle in the Sky’ will presented by Zhao and his students in the concert. Let’s forget the vexation, just listen to the sound of the dancing strings.

My Beautiful Fire–Andreas Larsson’s concert

Welcome to TCG Nordica to join the concert -IL MIO BEL FOCO – MY BEAUTIFUL FIRE on 21st of August Saturday 20:00. It is a concert with songs from different operas composed by Händel, Gluck, Parisotti and Bellini. Mostly the songs are sang in italien and they are about love and the beautiful nature.
If you dont understand italien it doesent matter, just listen to the music and the singing. Feel the moment. Feel the music.
Andreas Larsson are from Sweden and have been studying singing both in China and Sweden and performed in different occassions and concerts.

Price: 20RMB/Person (Adult) 10RMB/Person (Child)

Tel: 4114692 4114691

Movie Night- Before the Rain

Date: 14th of August, Saturday 19:30 (free)
This month’s movie will be “Before the Rain”, It is a 1994 Macedonian film starring Katrin Cartlidge, Rade Šerbedžija, Grégoire Colin, and Labina Mitevska. It was directed and written by Milčo Mančevski. The music was created by the band Anastasia.

The film is divided into three stories, all of which focus on tragic and ill-fated love affairs. In the first episode, Words, we meet Kiril, a young monk who has taken a vow of silence, who stands up for Zamira, a young Albanian girl who stands accused of murder and is on the run from a mob. For her sake, Kiril leaves the monastery and the two of them make their way through the beautiful Macedonian landscape. Unfortunately their romance is heading towards a sudden and brutal end.
Faces is set in bustling and trendy London. Anne, a beautiful picture editor, is torn between the love of her husband Nick and the attraction she feels for Aleksandar, a disillusioned war photographer. She is pulled into a series of tragic events by a shoot-out at a nearby restaurant.
The third and final story, Pictures, brings the two previous stories together. It focuses on Aleksandar’s return to Macedonia to settle. He learns that the war has divided his home village and that his Albanian neighbours are now seen as enemies. Hana, an Albanian woman he was, and apparently still is, in love with, asks him to take care of her daughter Zamira. While Aleksandar sets out to find the girl, a storm is building on the horizon, and the film returns us to its beginning.

The movie will be free to watch.

AiR: Lina Baeckström in Kunming

Swedish artist Lina Baeckström was invited to live and work in Kunming for one month, here is the introduction from the artist:

I was TCG Nordica’s Artist in Residence during the month of April this year, but my journey began back in 2007. For one year the city of Kunming in southwest China was the place I called home. I was one of the culture course students and also a volunteer in Nordica’s Art Gallery. Through my work in the gallery I had the opportunity to meet many great artists and see a lot of art, both local and foreign.

Two years later I returned to China to start working as an artist myself. In March 2010 I arrived in Beijing and during two weeks I explored the famous 798 art district which gave me a fantastic insight into contemporary Chinese art. Some of the photos I took near the art district are currently showing on the island of Gotland in Sweden where I have my very first photo exhibition called “751”.

As an artist in residence in Kunming I worked mainly with photography. My idea was to materialize my impressions of the Chinese society, with focus on allocation of power and Chinese history. I built different settings out of red and yellow LEGO that were photographed towards a blue background. Some settings were built with a specific place in mind like the Forbidden City; others were models after my perception of circumstances in the country in general. During my AIR month I gave a talk at English Corner in Nordica on the subject: “my 798 experience” and showed all my photos from Beijing and artefacts I bought in 798. While in Kunming I also had the opportunity to go to an art community in western Kunming to visit some artist studios and see their art. Having lived in USA, Sweden, UK and China I’ve come to realise how different our perspectives of the world can be depending on where we grow up. To incorporate this idea into the project I bought big round lanterns that symbolize different worlds once painted on. Working as an artist in residence I learned a lot about the various aspects of the life of an artist. The journey from idea to finished art work can truly be a magnificent roller coaster.

Lina Baeckström

Musical Palace Opera with Yunnan Modern Folk Music

Soprano: Ni Shi, Piano: Belle James , Violin : Li Chaoqun , Cello: Li Yilan
All of the proceeds and donations will go to disaster area
Date: 7th of August Saturday 20:00 ADD：Xi Ba Road No.101 Loft TCG Nordica
Price: 20RMB/Person(Adult) 10RMB/Person (Child)

In many international performances, she would sing Chinese songs while wearing Qi Pao. China’s splendid culture deeply infatuated her. In many concerts and parties, she would sing Yunnan folk music to release her homesickness. She rolls from Teng Chong, He Shun township established family, the rich culture and national character cannot restrain her passion. Recently, Yunnan’s nature disaster deeply troubled her. She hopes by having this interesting concert – a joint of western opera and eastern Yunnan folk modern music, to rais some funds to help the troubled area. She, is Ni Shi.
Ni Shi, coloratura soprano, went to London England for Junior high and high school at the age of 14. After graduated from University of British Columbia opera performance degree in Canada 2008, she’s been studying with famous opera star Luciano Pavarotti’s pianist Rolando Nicolosi in Roma Italy until now. She has performed as lead in many international opera productions, concerts and performances. In August 2009, she’s won the first price of “Vincenzo Bellini” International voice competition China selection in Hong Kong.