Tag Archives: Chinese Community Centre

Enter the Dragon: Chinese New Year

Where: China Town When: Sunday 29 January 2012, from 12:30 to 17:30 The welcoming of the new Chinese year of the Dragon promises to be the biggest celebration China Town has ever seen! Expect dragon dances, acrobatics, Kung Fu, fire … Continue reading

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Play ping-pong at Birmingham Chinese Community Centre

If you like playing ping-pong head over to the Chinese Community Centre on Bradford Street this week: As part of the run-up to the 2012 Olympics, the English Table Tennis Association, funded by the National Lottery, is placing Ping Pong … Continue reading

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Carl Chinn’s Centre of Our World

Thanks to Christopher on About Brum for flagging this up. Professor Carl Chinn’s series about immigrant communities in Birmingham is being repeated on Radio 4 this week, with the option to listen through iPlayer available over the following few days. … Continue reading

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A Supersonic Week

What a lot of arty cultural stuff there is going on in Digbeth this week: The Ikon’s busy tomorrow on Wednesday At 11am-12pm artist He An talks in Mandarin Chinese about his current Ikon installation at Moat Lane Carpark in … Continue reading

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