Event calendar of the coming weeks:

Exhibition of traditional Chinese paintings

Date:        All year long
Time:       Visit upon request
Content:   To exhibit the new pieces of traditional Chinese paintings from painter Duan Mei 段美,                   painter Yin Canfei 殷灿飞 and Zhang Xianming 张先铭
Venue:      Xiao Yao Guan, Dali Own Town
Contact:  Reservation per email (smartfishdali@gmail.com) or mobile: 15900905830

Exhibition of traditional Chinese Paintings

Date:        6th Dec 2009 ~ 5th Jan 2010
Time:       Visit upon request
Content:   To exhibit the Traditional Chinese paintings from painter Duan Mei 段美 and Yin Canfei 殷灿飞
Venue:      Xiao Yao Guan, Dali Own Town
Contact:  Reservation per email or mobile

Chinese Language Class about Door God

Date:        20th Oct 2009, Tuesday
Time:       10:00am ~ 12:00am
Content:   To learn Chinese by telling story of Door God
Venue:      Xiao Yao Guan, Dali Own Town
Contact:  Reservation per email

Chinese tea tasting workshop

Date:        15th Aug 2009, Saturday
Time:       10:00am ~ 12:00am
Content:   - To taste teas from different categories
                 - To make the tea by yourself
Venue:      Saint-Mondrier, Toulon, France
Contact:  Reservation per email

Costumes and Fabric of Yunnan Ethnic Groups

Date:        29 July 2009, Wednesday
Time:       10:00am ~ 11:30am
Content:   - To learn the traditional motifs of selective ethnic groups
                 - To illustrate some techniques to make the costumes / fabric
                 - To demonstrate with samples
Venue:      Sky & Sea Lodge, Shuanglang, Dali
Contact:  Reservation per email

Traditional painting interactive workshop

Date:        25th June 2009, Thursday
Time:       2:00pm ~ 4:00pm
Content:   - To learn the background and philosophy of traditional painting
                 - To illustrate how to appreciate as well as demonstrate some painting techniques
                 - To practice with our guidance
Venue:      Xiao Yao Guan, Dali Old Town
Contact:  Reservation per email

Calligraphy interactive workshop

Date:        4th May 2009, Monday
Time:       2:00pm ~ 4:00pm
Content:   - To learn the script evolution along the history
                 - To learn the basic writing techniques of certain scripts
                 - To practice with our guidance
Venue:      Xiao Yao Guan, Dali Old Town
Contact:  Reservation per email

Pu’er Tea Tour

Date:        1st Apr to 3rd Apr 2009
Time:       all day long
Content:  Tea & Horse Caravan Route Exploration
                 - To visit the starting point of the tea and horse caravan route
                 - To go to the tea plantation and collect tea leaves with tea farmers
                 - To visit the tea factory to observe different steps of making Pu’er tea
                 - Tea tasting session
Venue:     Xi Shuang Ban Na, Yunnan
Contact:  Reservation per email
Theme:    Get to know the Pu’er tea from its origin.

Kunqu Opera Workshop

Date:        28th Mar. 2009, Saturday
Time:       1:00pm – 9:30pm
Content:  Kunqu Opera Appreciation
                 - To introduce the history, body language, painted faces, musical instruments of Kunqu
                 - To illustrate the different roles in Kunqu Opera
                - To translate and explain selective stories of the performance that night
                - To watch the live performance together
Venue:     Shanghai
Contact:  Reservation per email
Theme:   Get to know the different young scholar roles in Kunqu Opera through classes and watching live performance.

Early Spring Tea Tasting

Date:        5th Mar. 2009, Thursday, Jing Zhe in the solar term
Time:       1:30pm – 3:30pm
Content:  Tea tasting session of six famous Chinese green teas
                Introduction of the solar term – Jing Zhe
Venue:     XiaoYao Guan
Contact:  Reservation per email
Theme:   To welcome and feel the coming spring by knowing more about this solar term and green tea.


You will get more information very soon: welcome back!