7th Annual Community Christmas Fair

Kick off the holiday season with Christmas fun for the whole family!
The Fair will be held Friday, December 3rd, 5-9 pm and Saturday, December 4th , 10 am to 6 pm

This year there will be 2 kuai entrance fee per person with 10 kuai maximum per family, which will be donated to a local charity.

Christmas Shopping Stalls
This lively festive market fills TCG Nordica with the sights, scents and sounds of Christmas.Exhibitions 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 7pm
Saturday at 11:am, 2-4pm
New This Year
A special tree lighting ceremony featuring our new 4 meter Christmas tree and the KIA High School Choir
Friday at 5:30pm and Saturday at 10:30am
Food and Refreshments
Special Menu by TCG Nordica
Also featuring food by Samoana Café
Coffee by Chicago Coffee

Sponsored by TCG Nordica and Interested Individuals in the Expat Commmunity
Table provided by Danyun Business Affairs Co, Ltd.

photos from the Christmas Fair:

Monthly Program 2010 December

Dec 3, Fri – 4, Sat, Christmas Fair(Fri 17:00-21:00, Sat 10:00-18:00)

Dec 6, Mon, English Corner – how do you celebrate Christmas?
Dec 7, Tue, Dance Club
Dec 11, Sat, Lucia Concert

Dec 13, Mon, English Corner – Who was she “Lucia”
Dec 14, Tue, Dance Club
Dec 17, Fri, Håvard Stubø Trio Groovy acoustic jazz with a Nordic sensibility
Dec 18, Sat, Singapore Band- Labeled Free

Dec 20, Mon, English Corner – Christmas handcraft evening
Dec 21, Tue, Dance Club
Dec 24, Fri – 25, Sat, Christmas Concert (Christmas buffet 18:30, Party will last to midnight, Need booking)

Dec 27, Mon, English Corner – New Year Resolution
Dec 28, Tue, Dance Club
Dec 31, Fri, New Year Concert (Banquet: 17:00pm, Concert: 20:00, Need booking)

All the activities start from 20:00pm

Eero Suominen visited TCG Nordica

Mr Eero Suominen, the consul general of Consulate general of Finland Guangzhou visited TCG Nordica in the afternoon on 23rd of November.

Cultural Course Coordinator Helena Berggren is talking with Eero Suominen

Eero Suominen meets TCG Nordica staffs.

Eero Suominen is listening Swedish students’ songs and Jazz pianist Martin Berggren’s music.

Jazz Piano Master Classes in TCG Nordica

The master classes (workshops) including:
Jazz music theory: chords, Jazz scales
basic elements of the improvisations
Jazz piano skills

About Jazz
The jazz is the most significant form of musical expression in American culture and outstanding contribution to the art of music.
The reach harmony(chords) using, the unique exciting rhythm and especially the improvising is increasingly fascinating many many musicians from other music styles. Improvisation means real time composing, and it is the most natural way to play music.
Composers including Bach, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven and Liszt have all been celebrated for their ability to improvise. The special way to harmonise (use chords), the freedom and creativity in the language of jazz is unique, and it makes the jazz one of the most important and remarkable contemporary music style of the 20th century.

Zoltan Sigeti
Pianist, composer, college music teacher.
Graduated at the Bartok Conservatory of Music, western classical piano music, later Afro-American /jazz/ music, improvisation and jazz piano in Sweden. Master class with prof. Phil Markowitz /Manhattan School of Music NY/ and prof. Joe Miller /Toronto CA/, Loic Dequidt /France/. Has performed in the different countries in Europe including the Netherlands, France and Germany and in China.

Nowadays working as educator at different institutions of music education and also as an active concert and studio musician, band-leader. Playing often in various TV and Radio music programs, solo performances, international jazz music festivals. Working also as music composer in the TV-, film, music productions.

Short Semester Master Class with Zoltan Sigeti
Lesson Plan：
Price: 500RMB/ Semester (10 classes for each semester, 1 hour per class)
From 22nd of November 2010 to 3rd of January 2010
Every Monday
10-11am, 11:20-12:20
2-3pm, 3:30-4:30pm
7:30-8：30pm

Every Wednesday
7-8pm

Every Thursday
7-8pm

Every Sunday
10-11am, 11:20-12:20
2-3pm, 3:30-4:30pm

After Zoltan Sigeti’s Master class, if you still interested about Jazz Piano, you will learn from Martin Berggren, he is a young jazz pianist who has a great passion for teaching. He studied Jazz piano and Ensamble at The Malmö Academy of Music in Sweden and has also conducted several orchestras, especially for theatres and other shows. He is a composer and arranger and is the leader of his own Big band. Martin is a pianist who plays all kinds of music; classic, pop, jazz, though his heart probably lies with jazz and improvisation.”

Contact Nina Cheng:152-8840-5910
Tel: 0871-4114691, 0871-4114692
Add: TCG Nordica in Kunming LOFT

Jazz Piano Evening

Date: 26th of November Friday 8pm
Ticket in Advance: 25RMB
Ticket in Door: 30RMB
Address: Xi Ba Road No.101 Loft TCG Nordica

Ticket Sales Location:
TCG Nordica, tel: 4114691,4114692
Mai Tian Bookstore (Wen Lin Street)
1895 Movie Bar (Kun Du)
Yi Sa Bookstore (Chun Yuan Xiao Qu )

Come and enjoy a night of Jazz together with Swedlish Jazz pianist Zoltan Szigeti on 26th of November Friday 8pm , he will play together with his friends – Martin(Piano), Huang Shan (Er Hu), Doggy (Piano), Gong Zheng (Fltue) , they will perform a number of Jazzstandards.

About Zoltan Szigeti
Pianist, composer, college music teacher.
Graduated at the Bartok Conservatory of Music, western classical piano music, later Afro-American /jazz/ music, improvisation and jazz piano in Sweden. Master class with prof. Phil Markowitz /Manhattan School of Music NY/ and prof. Joe Miller /Toronto CA/, Loic Dequidt /France/. Has performed in the different countries in Europe including the Netherlands, France and Germany and in China.

Nowadays working as educator at different institutions of music education and also as an active concert and studio musician, band-leader. Playing often in various TV and Radio music programs, solo performances, international jazz music festivals. Working also as music composer in the TV-, film, music productions.

Bout Jazz
The jazz is the most significant form of musical expression in American culture and outstanding contribution to the art of music.
The reach harmony(chords) using, the unique exciting rhythm and especially the improvising is increasingly fascinating many many musicians from other music styles. Improvisation means real time composing, and it is the most natural way to play music.
Composers including Bach, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven and Liszt have all been celebrated for their ability to improvise. The special way to harmonise (use chords), the freedom and creativity in the language of jazz is unique, and it makes the jazz one of the most important and remarkable contemporary music style of the 20th century.

Advent Concert

Date: 30th of November Tuesday 8pm
Free entrance
Add:Xi Ba Road Loft No.101 TCG Nordica
Tel: 4114691 4114692

Advent is anticipation, expectation and hope. In the stillness of preparation for Christmas we shed candle light upon life stories that might as well have been our own. Advent is thoughtfulness and a new beginning. We look into the eyes of others and promise not just to pass them by. We hold each other’s hearts and we keep breathing. Advent is aspiration and longing for incarnation. To dare to continue traveling on a lonely road.
Music, dance, movement and lyrics will provide challenges about what Advent is all about. We light one candle a week four weeks before Christmas. Join us as we light the first one.

Zhang Yongzheng: the Big Bang of Mysterious rythm

Zhang Yongzheng(张永正) — the Big Bang of Mysterious rythm

Sometimes Zhang Yongzheng’s art reminds me of the concept of “thin places”, an old Celtic-christian thinking that there are places where the veil between this world and the spiritual world is thin.

This is of course a misinterpretation; his art is thoroughly rooted in Chinese traditon and thought patterns, shaped by his native Gansu province. Zhang Yongsheng’s art contains a whole universe – both the outer and the inner. Notice the way he uses colors. Red, black, green, white and yellow is corresponding respectively to south, north, east, west and center. Accordning to Chinese philosophy, as found in the Book of Changes, they are in turn corresponding to the five basic elements: fire, water, wood, metal and earth.

Someone pointed out that the greatest invention by Greek philosophers was to single out “nature” as being universe without man. The Chinese, though, saw man as inseparable from nature, as part of a whole. Much of Chinese philosophy is an inquiry into man’s struggle to find and maintain balance. So with Zhang Yongzheng’s art.

I often hear contemporary Chinese artists scorn their colleagues for caving in to Commercialism, imitating those in the coastal region who managed to attract investors. Think Maocraze. When I’ve pondered on the question of which art could be seen as representing a different China on the multifaceted scene of Chinese contemporary art, one of the names that keep popping up in my head is Zhang Yongzheng.

Yes, a lot of the references goes back to ancient philosophy, like the Book of Changes, with the Mysterious rythm that has been part of his work Process since 2005. At the same time his art is distinctively contemporary, mostly abstract, elaborating.

In his latest works, the flow of lines seen in most of his works – the mysterious rythm – is abruptly interrupted by a Big Bang. Maybe a comment on the booming changes in Chinese society and its influences on the relation to Chinese cosmology. Maybe a revelation straight into his own aesthetic universe, heralding a new form of expressional language.

I also found that Zhang Yongzheng’s art literally moves me. The horizontalpatterns in “Process” immediately drew me closer when I entered the gallery of TCG Nordica in October 2005. I had to read or interpret this pattern that from a distance looked like a text. As I came closer, it resembled barbed-wire. Repelling, pressuring me back a few steps again.

I think this is the best way of approaching the aesthetical universe of Zhang Yongzheng. Give it some distance, then try at close range. Give it time, but don’t be discouraged from letting your instant imagination lead you in new directions, straight into what we together with him might call a Mysterious rythm.

Anders Gustafsson
former Programs Director at TCG Nordica, journalist

The donation activity and charity sale of 100 artists’ works for helping artist Mao Yiyun

To artists and society people:

The female artist Mao Yiyun(茅以芸) is a young artist who works hard and just gets into her art career’s peakedness, she gets sudden brain tumor. She’s been send into Beijin Temple of Heaven hospital at 28th of October, 2010, but urgently need a huge sum of money for the craniotomy.

For helping this young artist, art circles is calling for all compassion public figure’s help through donation activity and charity sale which has been collected more than 100 Yunnan artists’ works.
Sincerely wish Mao Yiyun going to be fine.

Sincerely wish the flower will blow again
The donation activity and charity sale of 100 artists’ works for helping artist Mao Yiyun

Donation time: 2010.Nov.14–21
Donation place: Yuan Sheng Gallery（源生画廊）
Opening: 2010.Nov.14, 14:00
Sponsor Organization: Yuan Dao Art Studio, Yuan Sheng Gallery, Duffy Gallery
Co-Sponsor: TCG Nordica, 99 Qiyi Gallery, Kunmin Wenda Gallery, Kunming Film Artist Association, Kunming Hongyang Art

14th of Nov, 2010 a donation and charity sale activity for Yunnan young artist Mao Yiyun will be hold at Yuan Sheng Gallery(创库 LOFT Xi Ba Road NO.101 Kunming).

More than 100 artists and Organizations such as Yuan Dao Art Studio, Yuan Sheng Gallery, Duffy Gallery, 99 Qiyi Gallery, Kunmin Wenda Gallery, TCG Nordica, Kunming Film Artist Association, Kunming Hongyang Art, and also art collecters will join this activity.More than 120 high quality art works will be saled lower than their market price, welcome all compassion public figure’s help.

For more information, please read our Chinese site: http://www.tcgnordica.com/2010/succour-mao-yiyun/