Success @ PEARL AWARDS: Celebrating Chinese achievements in multi-cultural Britain. September 29, 2006Last nights award ceremony in London was a huge success for Chinese Arts Centre, Sarah Champion CEO picked up an award for China Live and gave the following speech:
“We are particularly proud to get the award for China Live. China Live was an ambitious tour of five Live Artists from Mainland China. We toured them to 13 UK venues including Baltic in Newcastle and the V & A in London. At each venue they received huge audiences and rave reviews. Live Art is the most contemporary of all art-forms and, for us, it goes the furthest to challenge the stereotypical image of Chinese arts being only brush-painting and calligraphy. Such was the success of China Live that we are now holding an international festival of Live Art from the 2nd – 5th November. Called Vital, it will showcase the best Chinese Live Artists in the world.”
Nominees for the pearl awards were asked to submit a single piece of work, or a number of items that have been published, presented or performed in the 12 months prior to July 31 2006. Chinese Arts Centre submitted China Live 2005, a major UK tour of performances and film screenings that offered audiences a rare opportunity to experience some of the visceral and challenging performance work created by the current generations of Chinese artists.The Creative Excellence Award recognises excellence and outstanding achievement in the visual, performing and literary arts. Chinese Arts Centre are particularly proud to win at the Pearl Awards because of our recent success in securing funding for VITAL International Chinese Live Art Festival 2006 which is a direct result of the success of China Live 2005.For further information and interviews contact Alyson Doocey on tel: 0161 8327271, e-mail: marketing@chinese-arts-centre.org
