When: 19 September 2010
Where: Peabody Essex Museum
Details:
This program is FREE.
Explore an emperor’s private paradise and experience the art of poetry writing in 18th-century China. Nancy Berliner, Curator of Chinese Art, will read poetry written by the Qianlong Emperor (1736-1796) in the original Chinese and then she will translate into English (this emperor wrote 40,000 poems and, no, we didn’t accidentally add a couple of 0′s!) Participants will then be invited to compose their own short poems in the same format as those of the time, and a calligraphy expert will be on-hand to teach participants how to write their poems in calligraphy.
Reservations for this workshop are required: please call978-745-9500, ext. 3011 by September 17th. This workshop is free with the purchase of museum admission, and is made possible by the Lowell Institute. Art materials will be provided. This workshop will be led by Nancy Berliner, curator of The Emperor’s Private Paradise: Treasures from the Forbidden City, and Qianshen Bai, a master of Chinese calligraphy and assistant professor of Asian art history at BostonUniversity.
More information here.
Where: Peabody Essex Museum
Details:
This program is FREE.
Explore an emperor’s private paradise and experience the art of poetry writing in 18th-century China. Nancy Berliner, Curator of Chinese Art, will read poetry written by the Qianlong Emperor (1736-1796) in the original Chinese and then she will translate into English (this emperor wrote 40,000 poems and, no, we didn’t accidentally add a couple of 0′s!) Participants will then be invited to compose their own short poems in the same format as those of the time, and a calligraphy expert will be on-hand to teach participants how to write their poems in calligraphy.
Reservations for this workshop are required: please call978-745-9500, ext. 3011 by September 17th. This workshop is free with the purchase of museum admission, and is made possible by the Lowell Institute. Art materials will be provided. This workshop will be led by Nancy Berliner, curator of The Emperor’s Private Paradise: Treasures from the Forbidden City, and Qianshen Bai, a master of Chinese calligraphy and assistant professor of Asian art history at BostonUniversity.
More information here.
