PROGRAMME SPRING 2006



Remember!

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Our venue is now the UNITED ARTS CLUB

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Our Programme is on FOURTH WEDNESDAYS

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Remember!

Evening events will start at 8 pm on the FOURTH WEDNESDAY of each month,
and will be held in the

UNITED ARTS CLUB
3 Upper FitzWilliam Street
Dublin 2.
(very near Baggot Street)

This venue is very convenient . It is right beside Baggot Street, and a five-minute walk from Leeson Street or Mount Street, so it is well served by buses. Parking is abundant and free (after 7.00 p.m., which is ideal for our meetings at 8.00 p.m.).


Wednesday January 25th


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The origin and customs of the Chinese New year

A talk by Yanyi Blake

Yanyi Blake a long time member of our society, a lecturer at DIT in Tallaght, and cofounder of the Association of Chinese Professionals in Ireland.

Yanyi will give us an insight into the way Chinese people celebrate the New Year and what activities take place during this period.



And talking of the Chinese New Year -





Monday 30th January


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Year of the Dog Stamps


Chinese New Year Dinner

This year, the Year of the Dog, the ICCS Dinner will be held in the

Wong's Restaurant,
7 Sandford Road,
Ranelagh,
Dublin 6
at 7.30 p.m.


Members will receive details by post.
Numbers are limited so early booking is advisable.




Wednesday February 22nd


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Aspects of the Chinese Collection in the National Museum of Ireland

A talk by Audrey Whitty

This talk will focus on the Chinese ceramics, glass, textiles, metalwork, furniture, statuary, etc. that form part of the National Museum's collection. Established as the Science & Art Museum, Dublin in 1877, the early days of the organisation experienced a strong collection's policy bias in acquiring not only objects of European applied art, but also significant amounts of Asian material.

Particular reference will be made to the Albert Maurice Bender Collection of Far Eastern Art that was accessioned during the 1930s.

Audrey Whitty M.A. is Curator of Ceramics, Glass & Asian collections in the Art & Industrial Division, National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks. She is currently undertaking a postgraduate research degree in the History of Art dept., Trinity College Dublin on 'the Acquisition History of Asian Applied Arts in the National Museum of Ireland, 1877-c. 1948.




Wednesday March 22nd


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Confucius and Einstein:
The Past and Future of Mankind

A talk by Prof. Tao Kiang.

Ancient wisdom is probably best summed up in the Confucian saying "What you don't like done to yourself, don't do to others". This saying is characterized 1) by its making no reference to any Higher Being and 2) by its negative form. The latter is a result of the society being one of limited resources. Now, when Einstein's formula "E equals m c squared" becomes fact, then the society will be one of UNLIMITED material resources. When that happens, we shall be free from all the evils that stem from conflicts originating in scrambling for energy resource. But we won't be, if we persist in thinking that resource is power and power is human nature. The task facing the thinking person at this historic moment is therefore to realize, and to shout out loud, that the whole way we think about society, economics, human nature, God, and so on, has always been conditioned by limited material resources.





Wednesday April 26th


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Ancient echoes in the modern world:
traditional music in modern China today

A talk by Dr. Hwee-San Tan

The Chinese civilization has a long history of over four millennia. Throughout the centuries, China had adopted foreign musical instruments, assimilated foreign musical influences and developed musical cultures that are now identified strongly as Chinese traditional music. However in China today, most “traditional” music is struggling to survive in the face of rapid modernisation, urbanisation and globalisation. This talk will be a musical journey through China to explore the state of traditional music and the challenges it faces in a modern world.

Dr Tan is a lecturer in the School of Music, UCD.