{"id":1175,"date":"2011-10-12T11:31:49","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T11:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/?p=1175"},"modified":"2011-10-12T11:31:49","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T11:31:49","slug":"pupils-perform-chinese-umbrella-dance-for-first-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/2011\/10\/12\/pupils-perform-chinese-umbrella-dance-for-first-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Pupils perform Chinese Umbrella Dance for First Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><span style=\"color: #666666\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><strong>Glebe Primary School&#8217;s vibrant umbrella dance wows First Minister <\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.north-ayrshire.gov.uk\/NewsArticles\/UmbrellaDance.aspx\">http:\/\/www.north-ayrshire.gov.uk\/NewsArticles\/UmbrellaDance.aspx<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/strong>Pupils from a North Ayrshire primary school performed a colourful Chinese umbrella dance for First Minister, Alex Salmond at the launch of the Confucius Institute at the University of Glasgow.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Youngsters from Glebe Primary School in Irvine travelled to Glasgow to demonstrate their appreciation of Chinese culture with a performance of the vibrant and intricate dance.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">The event, celebrating the launch of the Confucius Institute for the West of Scotland, was attended by VIP, members of the academic community and public. First Minister Alex Salmond, Chinese Consul General of the People&#8217;s Republic of China in Scotland, Li Ruiyou, and Xiaogang Tian, Minister Counsellor for Education officially opened the Institute on Tuesday, 4 October. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glebe Primary School&#8217;s vibrant umbrella dance wows First Minister http:\/\/www.north-ayrshire.gov.uk\/NewsArticles\/UmbrellaDance.aspx Pupils from a North Ayrshire primary school performed a colourful Chinese umbrella dance for First Minister, Alex Salmond at the launch of the Confucius Institute at the University of Glasgow. Youngsters from Glebe Primary School in Irvine travelled to Glasgow to demonstrate their appreciation of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/2011\/10\/12\/pupils-perform-chinese-umbrella-dance-for-first-minister\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pupils perform Chinese Umbrella Dance for First Minister<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1272,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[766],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1272"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1177,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions\/1177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}