Performance
SOAS Film Screening and Panel Discussion: L’Odysée – CHU Teh-Chun
Panelists:Yvon CHU, Vice-president of the Foundation CHU Teh-Chun and the artist’s son Anne-Valérie Sceau, Director of the Foundation CHU Teh-Chun and the artist’s daughter in lawDr Malcolm McNeill, Director SOAS-Alphawood Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art (chair)Dr Panpan Yang, Lecturer in the Arts and Visual Cultures of Modern ChinaCo-hosted by SOAS School of Arts and the SOAS-Alphawood Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art in collaboration […]
V&A: First Encounters: Musical Journeys from the Dawn of the Global Age
What does a concert at the court of the Kangxi Emperor (reigned 1662–1722) sound like? Find out from this live performance presented by Divertissements Chinois, here at the V&A.In 1601 the Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci (1552–1610) was invited to visit the court of the Wanli Emperor (reigned 1572–1620). One of the gifts Ricci brought was […]
Central Asian Woodcarving
Join talented master woodcarver, Naseer Yasna Mansouri, as he discusses his journey of inspiration from apprentice as an Afghan refugee in Iran, to working on the restoration of historic buildings in the Old City of Kabul, to reinventing his craft at his London-based workshop, Lazo Studios. Based on examples in the V&A’s collection of carved […]