{"id":2086,"date":"2016-12-13T01:44:16","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T01:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/?p=2086"},"modified":"2016-12-15T01:57:09","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T01:57:09","slug":"chinese-arts-space-presents-project-new-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/?p=2086","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Arts Space presents Project New Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Southbank Centre, London.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Saturday 16th Deember, 2016 at 7.45<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The Clore Ballroom, Level 2, Royal Festival Hall<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Free of charge.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"c-btn c-btn--secondary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.southbankcentre.co.uk\/whats-on\/festivals-series\/china-changing\">Part of China Changing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Celebrate the spirit and legacy of the Chinese Labour Corps (CLC) \u2013 the largest overseas labour force to help the Allies win World War I \u2013 in these films and live performances. 100 years ago, the British and French armies recruited 140,000 Chinese men to work behind the Western Front.<\/p>\n<div class=\"panel-pane pane-entity-field pane-node-field-api-event-description summary-more\">\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-api-event-description field--type-text-long field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<p><strong>Heroes Within<\/strong><br \/>\nby Julia Cheng, Lavin Lee, Andy Leung, Connor Wan, Ricky Payne, lula.xyz, Claire Nicholas, Dina Ahmed<\/p>\n<p>A young Chinese woman discovers her ancestral contribution to Allied success in this music, dance and spoken word film. Animation peels back the layers of the painting, Panth\u00e9on de la Guerre, when the CLC were \u2018painted out\u2019 of history to make room for American soldiers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Missing Parts<\/strong><br \/>\nBy Lucia Tong, Angelus Squid Marr, Cheng Yu, Sonja Perreten, King San Lo, Charlie Taillard, Robin Harvey<\/p>\n<p>Contemporary dancers supported by a community cast explore distant journeys, monotony and nostalgia, in homage to the CLC who became essential cogs in the war efforts. Specially composed music creates a soundscape via recording and live performance on piano and pipa.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lunar Corps<\/strong><br \/>\nby Quang Kien Van, Suki Mok, Ruth Chan, Ruta Irbite<\/p>\n<p>From labyrinthine warrens of lost memory, the stories and bodies of the CLC are excavated and brought into blazing light. This vivid dance-music film is a sensorial awakening to remember the forgotten.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Song Unsung<\/strong><br \/>\nby David KS Tse, Kumiko Mendl, Chris Chan, Beibei Wang, Matthew Leonhart, Windson Liong, Candy Ma, Cherrie Lau<\/p>\n<p>Singer-actors supported by local community choir members weave together Chinese folk and English World War I songs, with a moving drama focused on two men separated from family, lovers and friends due to the war.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southbank Centre, London. Saturday 16th Deember, 2016 at 7.45 The Clore Ballroom, Level 2, Royal Festival Hall Free of charge. Part of China Changing Celebrate the spirit and legacy of the Chinese Labour Corps (CLC) \u2013 the largest overseas labour force to help the Allies win World War I \u2013 in these films and live &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"moree\"><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/?p=2086\">Read more <i class=\"fa fa-arrow-circle-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clc-related-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2086"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2093,"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086\/revisions\/2093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}