{"id":40904,"date":"2016-09-12T08:38:29","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T12:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=40904"},"modified":"2018-05-24T16:19:53","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T20:19:53","slug":"chinese-paper-cutting-exhibit-and-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2016\/09\/chinese-paper-cutting-exhibit-and-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese paper cutting exhibit and workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The James A. Gibson Library is\u00a0holding an\u00a0exhibition of the works of master Chinese paper cutter, Zhu Musheng. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This art form has been practiced for centuries with motifs and themes bearing strong cultural significance in China. One example, Double Happiness, pictured &#8211; is a decoration for wedding ceremonies which dates from the Tang Dynasty. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The exhibit will run Sept. 12 to Sept.\u00a016 in ST 211.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In conjunction, Zhu will visit the Library to teach participants the basic techniques of this folk-art. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">This free workshop will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 14 from noon\u00a0to 2 p.m. in ST 211. Space is limited. P<\/span><span class=\"s1\">articipants are asked to register in advance by emailing <a href=\"mailto:esmith@brocku.ca\"><span class=\"s2\">esmith@brocku.ca<\/span><\/a>. Zhu&#8217;s visit, the workshop and lunch for workshop attendees is\u00a0sponsored by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/confucius-institute\"><span class=\"s2\">Confucius Institute<\/span><\/a>\u00a0at Brock University.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The James A. Gibson Library is holding an exhibition of the works of master Chinese paper cutter, Zhu Musheng.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[2701,165,25,4456],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40906,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40904\/revisions\/40906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}