{"id":1907,"date":"2019-03-01T10:23:45","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T10:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhscumbernauld\/?p=1907"},"modified":"2019-03-01T10:23:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T10:23:45","slug":"chinese-gala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhscumbernauld\/2019\/03\/01\/chinese-gala\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Gala"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"govd_header\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Chinese Gala<\/span><\/h4>\n<p align=\"left\">On the 15 February, Miss Sharkey, Miss Song and Mrs Campbell took a group of pupils (S2 to S4) to the 2019 Spring Festival Performance in Edinburgh.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">There were many dances such as;\u00a0<em>Girls &amp; the Rain of Dai Ethnic<\/em>\u00a0\u2013this was a performance with girls dancing with umbrellas. There were also performances from the Beijing Opera such as;\u00a0<em>&#8220;The Water Sleeve Dance&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0which enables actors to amplify the characters\u2019 emotions while performing one of the special skills in Chinese Opera.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">There was a puppet show called &#8220;<em>Fighting the Tiger&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>which was taken from the famous novel &#8220;<em>Water Margin&#8221;,\u00a0<\/em>which tells the story of Liangshan hero Wu Song returning home to visit his older brother.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Overall, this was a great experience for the pupils who went. We would like to thank the teachers who were involved for this opportunity.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Article written by: Laura Ann Dolan, Niamh O\u2019Rourke, Karina Lisik (2S4)<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/content.govdelivery.com\/attachments\/fancy_images\/UKNLC\/2019\/02\/2409815\/2531810\/chinese-gala_crop.jpg\" alt=\"Chinese Gala\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese Gala On the 15 February, Miss Sharkey, Miss Song and Mrs Campbell took a group of pupils (S2 to S4) to the 2019 Spring Festival Performance in Edinburgh. There were many dances such as;\u00a0Girls &amp; the Rain of Dai Ethnic\u00a0\u2013this was a performance with girls dancing with umbrellas. There were also performances from the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhscumbernauld\/2019\/03\/01\/chinese-gala\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chinese Gala<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1583,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhscumbernauld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhscumbernauld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhscumbernauld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhscumbernauld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1583"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhscumbernauld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhscumbernauld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1908,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhscumbernauld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions\/1908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhscumbernauld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhscumbernauld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhscumbernauld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}