Vegan Cooking Class

Do You want to learn how to cook healthy and delicious green food?Join our cooking class with our invited professional vegan chef who will learn you how to cook vegan food with chinese style!

Date: 7pm 7th of May
Place: TCG Nordica
Xi Ba Road No. 101/Loft
Ticket Price: 55 RMB/ person(only 20 people participant,booking needed)
10RMB/ person(audience, booking not needed)

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Welcome to Inspiring Green People’s Website!

A Website about vegetarians and Vegan People
who are travelling, moving, living or born in Kunming, China.
Here to inspire you for your lifestyle!
This Site is always in update; and you can find
new people every week

http://inspiringgreenpeople.com/

Monthly Program Of 2011 May

Mon 2, English Corner ‘Eco thinking’—-consuming & recycling
Fri 6, Rethink-Art Exhibition Opening(up gallery)
–Artists: Viktoria , Frida
Sat 7, Vegan Cooking Lesson

Mon 9, English Corner ‘Talk about Japan’

Mon 16, English Corner ‘2012’
Fri 20, Scandinavia Students’ Farewell Concert
Sat 21, Night With the Stars: A Film and Broadway Music Extravaganza
-The Young Musicians Chamber Orchestra
-the Kunming International Academy Secondary Choirs

Mon 23, English Corner ‘Travel experience’
Sat 28, Spring Recital with Belle(Piano), LI Q(Violin) and Yang Li Xia(Soprano)

Mon 30, English Corner ‘Childhood memory’

More than a thousand lines

“More than a thousand lines” by Ying-sin Tsui

This is an art exhibition with drawings which I have made during my stay in Kunming since the end of August 2010.

A lot has happened during this time and I have experienced and come in touch with so many new things and been to many new places. What I have seen, heard, smelled, felt and tasted during these months in China have inspired my to many of my drawings.

So now I would like to share these drawings with others and let you see what I have created. They will be shown in a small but special exhibiton in Kunming’s culture center, TCG Nordica. So Welcome!

TCG Nordica
2011.04.28 Thursday, 20:00
Xi Ba Road NR.101 (Loft)

Sinne Eeg-Danish First Lady of Jazz

Date: 29th of April Friday 8pm
Ticket in Advence: 30RNB
Ticket in Door: 35RNB
Address: TCG Nordica, No.101, Loft, Xi Ba Road

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 )

Sinne Eeg is one of the trongest new female vocalists from the Scandinavian jazz scene. With 5 albums Sinne Eeg has established herself as a Danish jazz singer with international potential.

Sinne’s distinctive vocals have earned her a loyal and ever growing fan base around the world as well as in her native country. As a singer she is influenced by Nancy Wilson, Betty Carter and Sarah Vaughan, but with her personal touch of soft darkness, Sinne keeps the Scandinavian melancholy settled in her music.

Since the release of the album “Waiting For Dawn” (2007) Sinne has won several music awards in Denmark ,among them Danish Music Award (Best jazz vocal Album 2007, 2010) and the Danish Radio Jazz Award 2009.
Sinne Eeg has been performing in China since 2004, when she first brought her band to Shanghai to play at the House of Blues and Jazz. Since then, she has returned to Shanghai and other areas of the Mainland to tour and perform with a number of different groups, including multiple performances at the Shanghai Jazz Festival. This will be her first visit to Yunnan and she is excited to finally arrive in this place that she has heard so much about over the years.

”A voice that is warm and tremendously expressive – sometimes revealing a touch of fragility – and whose emotional register ranges from delicate modesty to explosiveness, without falling for the temptation of over dramatizing. Add to this a talent for phrasing and a rhythmic emancipation that makes the music come alive in a way I have not experienced in any other Danish singer. It is equally rare to encounter a CD release containing a series of newly-written songs that are such gems.” – Boris Rabinowitsch, Politiken (Danish national newspaper)

artist website: http://www.sinnemusic.com/

Live Recordings:

“What a Little Moon Like Can Do to You”

“Hold On to Him Tight”

Photos:

Fragments of Life

Swedish photographers Eleonor Broman and Sara Eriksson are come from Hyllie Park Folkhögskola, they came to TCG Nordica for studying Chinese culture as culture course students, and making friends with Chinese young people. They love photography, and they use their own camera to record their feeling and thoughts in China. They will go back to Sweden in May, before they leave, they would like to share their works with friends in Kunming.

In the coming weeks, TCG Nordica will also present some more exhibitions and events from Swedish culture course students. Welcome to join us!

Fragments of Life: TWO PROJECTS ONE EXHIBITION

A collaboration between two art projects displayed in photography
Exhibition opening 22nd of April 8:00pm, TCG Nordica

NOMAD by Eleonor Broman
We are vagabonds, but why do we travel and move?
Illustrations of a question from faraway land.

A Friend in Need is a Friend Indeed by Sara Eriksson
A comparison between Swedish and Chinese culture and daily life.

Easter Celebration

Scandinavian Artists’ Drama& Music Performance
Easter Feast
Egg Painting
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welcome to join us!!!!

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Date: 2011.4.23 Sat 6pm
Place:TCG Nordica Xi Ba Road NO.101/loft
No Ticket

Feast:6pm-9pm
Feast Fee: 50RMB(need booking)
Tel: 4114691

Photos:

Monthly Program Of 2011 April

Apr 1, Fri, Banyan Workshop(10am-5pm)
Banyan Social Art Symposium + Banyan Workshop Presentation(8pm)
Apr 2, Sat, Movie Night – God And Men

Apr 4, Mon, English Corner- What Do You Laugh About?

Apr 11, Mon, English Corner- Poetry night
Bring Your Favorite Poetry
Apr 16, Sat, Poetry Reading And Music Night – Celebration Of Swedish Poet Tomas Tranströmer’s 80’s Birthday

Apr 18, Mon, English Corner- Easter Night
Apr 22, Fri, Fragments Of Life- Art Exhibition Opening
a collaboration between two art projects displayed in photography
– Sara Eriksson
– Eleonor Broman
Apr 23, Sat, Easter Celebration

Apr 25, Mon, English Corner- Witches And Walpurgis Night
Apr 28, Thu,More Than A Thousand Lines- Ying Sin Tsui’s Art Exhibition Opening(UP Gallery)
Apr 29, Fri, Sinne Eeg – The First Lady Of Jazz
Apr 30, Sat, Welcome Spring – Music Café + BBQ

The 80th Birthday Celebration of the Renowned Swedish Poetry Master Tomas Tranströmer

Time: 7:30 PM, April 16, 2011, Saturday Free entrence
Tomas Tranströmer has been a master and leading the trend of poetry in recent history. Being a prolific poet, his works have been translated into over eighty languages, and been honored as the common treasure that shared by the world.
In 1999, when Anna, the founder of TCG Nordica as much as a poet herself, proposed to name after him a soon to be established cultural center located in Kunming the capital city in the China’s southwestern border, the poet happily approved. In the spring of 2001, he visited the T ’coffee, the predecessor of TCG Nordica.
We invite you to gather at TCG Nordica on April 16, and to celebrate the 80th birthday of Tomas Tranströmer, the renowned Swedish poetry master by sharing poetry.
The letters in TCG Nordica: T is the initial for the renowned Swedish poetry master Tomas Tranströmer, authorized to be used for special purpose by the poet in 1999; C is for the English word Culture; G is for the English word Galley; Nordica is the English word for the Nordic. With all of them combined, it means a cultural center bridging China and the Nordic for equal exchanges with cultures and arts being the focus points.
Just like what Li Li, a translator, said, “There are but few modern poets like the Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer who can pen the poetry in a fashion that is so succinct, accurate, exquisite and brilliant.”

“Poetry is something from the inside. He is the good buddy of the dream. It is difficult to set apart what is intellectual and what is not from that which can not be separated from the inside. That’s what the poetry intends to get. It’s not one or the other. Generally, my works refuse to follow normal rational analysis; I want to give the readers more liberty to enjoy themselves.” As he said, you can find in his poetry the very word that touches your heart, in a way that is subtle, unaffected, metaphorical as well as imagery. With peaceful words, the inner world and intense emotions are explicitly revealed.
Perhaps you have read his poetry, or you have not. No bother. Why not come and join us on this day to reread Tomas Tranströmer. It is enough as long as you have a heart that is open and free to wander into the realm of poetry, regardless of neither your nationalities nor the dialects for the recitation.

Highlights:
Poetry readings from different languages or dialects;
Impromptu poetry composition;
Presentation of jazz piano and singings from Nordic

About Tomas Tranströmer

Tomas Tranströmer (1931-?), a famous Swedish poet of the twentieth century. Tomas Tranströmer was born in 1931 in Stockholm. The publishing of his first collection of poems, 17 dikter (Seventeen Poems) in 1954 caused a sensation in Sweden poetry, was marked as a major event in Sweden in 1950s.
Published poetry collections, include: Secrets on the Way (1958), The Half-Finished Heaven (1962), Windows and Stones (1966), Night Vision (1970), Paths (1973), Sanningsbarriären (1978) Det vilda torget (1983), For the Living and the Dead (1989), Sorgegondolen (1996) and many other volumes have won him multiple literary awards home and abroad.
Recommendation: for Tomas Tranströmer and the introduction of his translated works in Chinese please visit http://t.cn/hbjGj5. It will be better that you have one your own. Read it carefully, you will definitely enjoy it!