Join us virtually to celebrate Year of the Tiger with artists from Chinese Theater Works!
*Please note this event has been changed from in-person to virtual via zoom for COVID-safety reasons. *
Lunar New Year is celebrated by many different Asian communities, especially in the neighborhood of Flushing where the Lewis Latimer House Museum is located.
This year, we will be hosting our Lunar New Year Tinker Festival, in collaboration with the local artist group Chinese Theater Works, experts on the art of Chinese shadow puppetry and traditional Chinese opera. There will be shadow puppet workshops and brief introduction to Chinese opera! Participants can join in for a hands-on experience with making their own shadow puppets, while watching a performance by the artist group through Zoom!
Audience:
Families welcome
About Chinese Theater Works:
Chinese Theatre Works is a non-profit organization based in New York City. Our mission is to preserve and promote the traditional Chinese performing arts (including opera, shadow theatre, puppetry, dance and music); to create new works that bridge Eastern and Western aesthetics and forms; and to foster understanding and appreciation of Chinese culture in audiences, students, artists and educators around the globe.
It was founded in 2001 by Co-Artistic Directors Kuang-Yu Fong and Stephen Kaplin, out of the merger of two non-profit institutions with long histories of bringing traditional and contemporary innovative Chinese performing arts programming to New York City, national and international audiences-- The Gold Mountain Institute for Traditional Shadow Theatre (founded by Jo Humphrey in 1975) and Chinese Theatre Workshop (founded 1995). Chinese Theatre Works carries forth their mission by presenting programming drawn from their combined repertoire of traditional Chinese opera, music, dance and puppetry and by creating and touring new original productions as well. Our work cuts across ethnic and cultural boundaries, and our programs are aimed at sparking interest in Chinese cultural traditions among the wider public and building understanding among educators and artists across the globe.