Day out with Angelina
This is Angelina Gao, along with her friend Steve Jahng she leads the Summertime Theatre Group in Chongqing. Angelina’s journey in theatre has not been easy what with societal pressure […]
Author: Sid Peacock
Message from a master.
Today I had the most excellent time. Joanne from the British Council here in Chongqing had asked local residents to design a day out for me. The winner was Angelina […]
Jiali
There’s a lot of folks taking very good care of me here. The first on the scene was Jiali. Jiali met me off the airplane in Chengdu and escorted me […]
Downtown Sichuan Opera
On Saturday I headed downtown with Jiali and Peter (more on them soon). We went to see a performance of the Chongqing Opera Troupe in their old theatre. The audience […]
Chongqing Sichuan Opera Museum
Opera Troupe – Afternoon Rehearsal The Chongqing Sichuan Opera Museum is my base for these six weeks. My apartment is a short walk away. I am able to come and […]
First post from Chongqing
Greetings from Chongqing. Apologies for the delay in this first posting but I’ve just been getting settled and locating essential local service providers (see pic). Lots to report on Sichuan […]
CHONGQING
As from this Sunday 11th May I will be off to Chongqing China as British Council/PRSF musician in residence. I’ll be keeping you informed on what’s going down here on […]
Terry Riley’s In C
Very excited to be leading a performance of Terry Riley’s In C with members of Surge and students from Birmingham Conservatoire for Legend has it that composer Terry Riley was […]
2014 – Birmingham/China/Belfast
2014 is shaping up to be a very exciting year. I am very fortunate to have received support for three very exciting projects. mac birmingham – with support from Arts […]