Chinese New Year - Year of the Rat
Type:Special Events
Tel: +441772905427
Tel: +441772905427
Come and celebrate the year of the Rat with the Confucius Institute at the Harris Museum, Art Gallery and Library.
Running from 11am to 3:30pm, this is a fun-packed, family-friendly day with plenty of things to see and do.
From 1:30pm, you can have a go at Tai Chi. This a sequence of dynamic movements that combine soft and hard, with fast and slow actions, in a balanced and natural way that adheres to the philosophical Taoist principles of yin and yang from the "yijing" (Book of Changes). Contained within its framework are spiralling, twisting, and unique silk reeling energy movements, jumps, leaps and explosive energy releases.
From 2:45pm you can even try something new with an introduction to Shaolin Fist workshop from the Confucius Institute. Developed over 1500 years ago, Shaolin Kung Fu is a style of martial art which uses a broad range of self-defence techniques that rely on technique rather than physical strength.
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