CDR is delighted to invite you to the Chinese Visual Festival 2011 (30th June-15th July) organised by China Cultural Connect.

Chinese Visual Festival 2011 from Jingjing Xie on Vimeo.

The Chinese Visual Festival (www.chinesevisualfestival.org) is a twin art festival dedicated to promoting Chinese independent documentary making partnering 10 short documentaries shown at Birkbeck and South Bank Universities with a video art and photographic exhibition entitled Lost in Transformation at 17 Dorset Square, Marylebone.

Both exhibition and film tell untold stories with unknown faces looking at the life of children, economic recession, industrial work (Mask Changing- A letter to Antonioni, director Pan Jun, show on 7th July at London South Bank University) and the Chinese love of Shakespeare (For the Love of Shakespeare, director Zhu Chunguang, shown on 2nd Jul at Birkbeck Cinema). The exhibition Lost in Transformation (1st – 15th Jul Dorset Square) joins the documentary films in presenting unique perspective and the images and videos talk back to the documentaries in agreeing or disagreeing voices.

Tickets for events can be booked online from
http://chinesevisualfestival.org/purchase-tickets/

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CDR is delighted to invite you to the private view of Barely Notice exhibition created by one of our members (Andrew) Chong Boon Pok, in collaboration with Korean Artist Bommsoon Lee at the CDR’s venue in Baker Street. Please R.S.V.P. to cdrsubscription@googlemail.com with the number of people and names so we can add you into guest list.

Barely Notice
by Bommsoon Lee & ChongBoon Pok

Barely Notice embarked on the mutual interest of two emerging contemporary artists – Bommsoon Lee (South Korean) and Chong Boon Pok (Malaysian). The exhibition examines the commonplace: objects, spaces and situations that most people take no notice or show their lack of interest. The artists respond to both positive and negative spaces of RSP Planet Design studios. The work operates within the concepts of time and space, and recalls a sense of ‘Nothingness’.

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Private view: 14th October 2010, 6pm-9pm
Exhibition open to public: 15th-30th October, 12pm-6pm
Venue: RSP Planet Design Studios
Address: 17 Dorset Square, London NW1 6QB, UK
Short walk from Marylebone and Baker Street tube station

More info @ www.barelynotice.blogspot.com
For any queries about the project, please contact Chong Boon on  +44(0)7979 558818
Or email barelynotice@gmail.com

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Please R.S.V.P. to cdrsubscription@googlemail.com with the number of people and names so we can prepare the foods and drinks in advance.

If you want to present and share your projects/images to CDR community, please bring your works with a CD or memory stick and we will give you 10-15mins. The purpose for the gathering is for CDR members to know each others. It is an informal meeting/party and all presentations will be in English.

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It has been a while to wait for CDR’s gathering this year. Many people have contacted us about the coming event. Finally the refurbishment of the venue CDR which used last year has finished. It will be a great place for talks/exhibitions/screening to serve CDR’s community in the future.

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Trailer-New Generation contemporary Chinese independent film from Kiki Yu on Vimeo.

Cube Magic and Cinéphilia West are delighted to host an event spread across four evenings, New Generation: Contemporary Independent Chinese Film. It is a showcase of some of the latest and most innovative and exciting films made by young generation Chinese filmmakers. In a series of four screenings: documentaries, animations, fictions and experimental videos, this event presents a new vision of contemporary China, under the themes of ‘Absurdity and Reality’, ‘Lost in ‘Now? – dream, memory and fantasy’, ‘Merging Fiction and Documentary?’, and ‘Searching for Identity ‘.

Most of the young film talents were born and grew up in post-socialist China, and they take a more personal and even first-person approach representing Chinese social reality. Among the showcased films, many are highlights from the Chongqing Independent Film and Video Festival, China (CIFVF). 


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广州创意夜之Pecha Kucha Night：展现自我、分享创意

创意与演讲，激情与分享，尽在广州创意夜！

2009年12月31号晚，广州扉艺廊内热闹非凡，一场由广州绿色之春文化传播有限公司、扉艺廊、《VISION青年视觉》和《城市画报》共同主办，驻英中国设计师联盟CDR协办的创意聚会——广州创意夜，在这里揭开了她的神秘面纱。

广州创意夜的核心环节是“Pecha Kucha Night”，这是在广州举办的获得了日本东京Pecha Kucha Night组委会官方认可并支持的活动。Pecha Kucha是全球性的非盈利论坛组织，自2003年创办以来，已在全世界256个城市为观众带来无数个炫彩缤纷的夜晚。主办方大力把这场活动带到广州，旨在发掘珠三角地区的年度创意新人，为他们搭建一个跨界交流的平台，推动本地区文化创意产业的发展。

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The Chinese Designers’ Region (CDR) is delighted to invite you to join our special event – CDR Shanghai Salon 2009. Since CDR was set up in 2006, many members have been back to China either started their own business or joined local creative industries. The salon is aiming to provide a platform for members to update each other what they have been up to and exchange their thoughts on how they adapted the context of local working condition. Members will also be informed what CDR has been doing during this year in London. Speakers range from architecture, product design, graphic design to fashion design. Guests are also welcome to briefly present your works and share what you have been through: excitement, frustration and happiness. This salon will be annually run by our Shanghai correspondence who will be elected during the salon. Special thanks to ACO Studio for venue support.
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CDR Shanghai Salon 2009

Date: Sunday, 20th December, 2009
Time: 2:30 pm to 7 pm
Venue: ACO Studio, 31 South Kaixuan Road, Xuhui District (Near Tube: Long Cao Road Station, Line 3)徐汇区凯旋南路31号(地铁3号线龙漕路站) 
Organized by: Chinese Designers’ Region (CDR)
Admission: Free (Drinks and snacks will be provided.)

Please RSVP to cdrsubscription@googlemail.com. For other inquiries and information about joining CDR, please email info@cdregion.com .

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CDR Animation Showreel 2009
- After the Effects: the complex relationship between talents and London animation industry

Curated and produced by the Chinese Designers’ Region (CDR), “CDR Animation Showreel 2009” is a collection of 13 animated short films and promos, which were early animation works created by CDR animation directors. Showcased at the Asian Youth Animation & Comic Competition in China this summer, the showreel is being shown for the first time to audiences in London.  Led by Ann Xiao and EB Hu, CDR has always been dedicated to the field of animation. We are delighted to invite you to the special screening and talks “After the Effects”.

5 CDR animation directors will discuss their experiences and thoughts: “What does the animation industry currently look for in its creative workforce?”; “What must a student do to become a director?”. Our special critic is Christian Hogue, founder and producer of Lost in Space and mentor to two CDR animation directors Ann and Oway. Well-known as having a special eye for spotting raw talents and supporting them to success in the industry, Christian is invited to a roundtable discussion with the directors about the complex relationships between the emerging talents and the existing industry. The event will be held in the studio of HuntHaggarty, which is a branding strategy company whose clients include Harrods, Dell and Motorola. Recently HuntHaggarty just opened its Hongkong studio and published an outstanding book of ‘China’s Creative Voice’ about Chinese youth culture.

Date: Wednesday, 25th November, 2009
Time: 6:45 pm to 9 pm
Venue: HuntHaggarty Studio, 7 Plough Yard, London EC2A 3LP (Near Tube: Liverpool Street, Old Street)
Hosted by: HuntHaggarty
Organized by: Chinese Designers’ Region (CDR) and Lost in Space
Admission: Free (Drinks and snacks will be provided.)

Special thanks to Steve and Moa from HuntHaggarty Studio. The studio has a limited space  therefore it will be restricted to registered guests. Advance booking is required. Please RSVP to cdrsubscription@googlemail.com . For other inquiries and information about joining CDR, please email info@cdregion.com .

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In Search of Identity: Chinese Design

The Chinese Designers’ Region (CDR) is delighted to invite you to a roundtable discussion hosted by CDR and associate professor Dr. Wendy Siuyi Wong. Dr. Wong will give a lecture on her current research into contemporary Chinese design. To promote the discussion on the topic, CDR also invites Moa Correia who is the author of China’s Creative Voice to talk about what she has discovered about the trends of Chinese youth culture. Selected CDR members will also present their recent works. Dr. Wong who is from York University, Toronto, is currently a research fellow at Royal College of Art (RCA). The event is sponsored by Asian Design History, MA History of Design Programme at RCA.

Date: Wednesday, 11th November, 2009
Time: 6:45 pm to 9 pm
Venue: Humanities Seminar Room, Royal College of Art, Jay Mews Building
Organized by Asian Design History, MA History of Design (Royal College of Art) and Chinese Designers’ Region (CDR)
Admission: Free

Advance booking is required. Please R.S.V.P to cdrsubscription@googlemail.com. For other inquiries and information about joining CDR, please email info@cdregion.com.

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Founder and creative director of CDR, Ann Xiao was invited to represent CDR to participate in the Asian Youth Animation & Comic Contest 2009 (AYACC www.ayacc.org ) in Guiyang, China. She presented the CDR Animation Showreel 2009 and gave a presentation about her work as well as a screening entitled “Scientific Practice in Animation”.

It is the 3rd year since AYACC was first launched in China in 2006. The event was hosted by The People’s Government of Guiyang and Guizhou Committee of Economy & Information Technology, with participants from 26 countries and regions.

The theme of AYACC 2009 is “joyful animation and comics in creative Guiyang”. Invited by the General Secretary of Jury of AYACC, Mr. Liuyi Wang, there were hundreds of animation professionals from all over the world who attended the 3 day program of exhibitions, presentations, screenings and forums.

The special events included:
International Scientific Animation Festival,
AYACC 2009 Forum,
Award Ceremony and Concert,

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CDR – Rapid Urbanism in China: Shenzhen
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Chinese Designers’ Region (CDR) is delighted to invite you for talk/lecture by photographer Yu Haibo and CDR member Dr. Hua Li who both are coming to London from Shenzhen.

Time: 19:00 – 21:00pm, Wednesday 15th July 2009
Location: Baker Street, London

All welcome, advance booking is required. For more details and join us, please R.S.V.P to cdrsubscription@googlemail.com with your name and contact number.
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The remains of urban expansion
城市扩张中遗存的图像考察
— a photographic observation by Haibo YU, 45mins

The remains of urban expansion is a photographic observation by a Chinese well-known documentary photographer Haibo YU on China’s current urban development.

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