Fun with Chinese characters

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The annual Culture Days provides an opportunity for our community members to enrich their knowledge of different arts from different cultures.

We are going to explore one of six categories of Chinese characters - 'Pictograms' (xiangxingzi) 象形字. (Xiangxing) characters are pictograms and display the uniqueness of the Chinese writing system. This method of forming Chinese characters is the easiest and most comprehensible form for beginners to learn. The characters are descriptive in nature and look like the object or phenomenon they represent.

Remark: Please include the activity's title 'Fun with Chinese Characters' when you register for the event. Feel free to drop by at the front desk, City Centre Community Centre to collect the craft kit and bring home to complete your creation.

Links

• Art connected homeless and vulnerable persons medium.com
• The arts background of Ming Yeung medium.com

Organizer

Ming Yeung

Ming is an adventurous artist and is currently teaching teaching a variety of creative art classes at the local Community Centre. Her devotion to inspiring the public and future generations to come is showcased through her involvement in the arts community. She has a variety practices in her creative toolkit and has been bringing her passion for both visual art and creative arts and crafts to the local community centres and venues since 2002. Ming makes her best effort to share her best knowledge from her innovative field of art ideas with our community.

One of the impressive workshops was on February 12, 2018 BC Family Day. Ming further reached out to the Gathering Place Community Place to teach a Chinese characters workshop for the people who were homeless and seniors. The workshop provided them the opportunity to celebrate the Lunar New Year. Sharing her passions for the arts to help the people in need is the greatest value of her mission.

After achieving an 'Artistic Innovation' award in 2019, Ming has continued her ongoing art project 'Art for the World's Endangered Species' through exhibitions and teaching. She has been promoting her style of Chinese painting through exhibitions, teaching classes, artist demonstrations, and interviews in the Lower Mainland since 2002. She is an exceptional artistic person with a very deep commitment to her Chinese Free Style painting style and her unwavering commitment to the world's endangered wildlife species.