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Fiona Falcone 梁藝莎
Co-Founder, PlayCantonese
Charities. Community. Culture. Education. Social Enterprise.
Fiona Falcone is included here as the co-founder of PlayCantonese, currently the UK's only Cantonese playgroup. PlayCantonese, run entirely by volunteers as a non-profit organisation, seeks to provide a Cantonese speaking environment for babies and toddlers who can learn Cantonese through song, stories and play.
After marrying an Italian and giving birth to their first child Fiona looked around for Cantonese language support for babies. She was surprised to find no meetups, playgroups, sensory classes or music lessons in any Chinese dialect. After foreign language studies in Italian and Mandarin, she was focused on not wasting the precious time from birth to school when children soak up languages. Fortunately, her search did find the talented and highly organised Helen Lee who offered her artistic eye to work together in creating a Cantonese playgroup.
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Jennifer Lim
Actor and FilmmakerArts. Culture. Entertainment. Film, TV & Radio. Theatre.
Jennifer Lim is an actress and filmmaker. Her acting work encompasses film, TV, theatre and radio in the UK and abroad.
Hailing originally from Singapore where her television appearances include the Mandarin series, Waves Of Courage and The Broadcaster, Jennifer is probably best known for her role as Kana in the smash hit horror film, Hostel. Written and directed by Eli Roth of Cabin Fever fame (himself the star of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds) and exec produced by Tarantino, Hostel went on to gross more than $45 million at the U.S. box office.
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Daniel York
Actor, writer, director, film maker, musician, composer, polemicistArts. Culture. Entertainment. Film, TV & Radio. Music. Theatre.
Born of mixed Singapore Chinese/British parentage, as an actor has appeared at the Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal Court, Royal National Theatre, Edinburgh Traverse, Hampstead, The Gate, Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Manchester Library, Leicester Haymarket and was Fortinbras opposite Alan Rickman’s Hamlet at Riverside Studios. For Mu-lan Theatre Company played leading roles in their award winning productions of Porcelain and The Magic Fundoshi as well in Sun Is Shining which played to sold out audiences at the King’s Head and Battersea Arts Centre in London as well as off Broadway New York. Has also worked extensively in Singapore for Singapore Repertory Theatre, tHEATREwORKs, Wild Rice and Pangdemonium as well as appearing at the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre in Yellow Earth’s English & Mandarin production of King Lear and touring the US in the acclaimed Aquila Theatre Company’s tour of Aristophanes’ The Birds.
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Zoë Baxter
DJ/Radio presenterArts. Culture. Film, TV & Radio. Music.
Zoë Baxter started DJing at parties in 2000 and progressed to Internet radio and then community radio. She has always had a keen interest in East Asian cinema and cuisine and this lead her to investigate East Asian music. Zoë collects vinyl with a specialist interest in 1960’s ‘Asia Beat’, Reggae and Rhythm & Blues.
In 2005 she presented and produced Ni Hao Chinatown parts 1 & 2 for the London community arts radio station Resonance FM focusing on the Save Chinatown Campaign and the history of Chinese immigration in London.
Following on from this Zoë has presented and produced 5 series of Lucky Cat for Resonance FM as well as documentary features on Chinagrass (folk music from the grasslands of China) and Heroines of Hong Kong and Chinese Cinema.
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Mike Tsang
PhotographerArts. Charities. Culture. Fashion. Photography.
Mike Tsang was born and raised in London to Chinese-Mauritian parents. Being a second-generation Mauritian and third-generation Chinese, the mix of Asian-African-European cultures in his heritage and upbringing has strongly influenced his photographic work.
Mike grew up in the Harrow suburb of London and went on to study Mathematics at University before being drawn towards photography. Having always been fascinated by the range of different cultures and people that London holds, and having a strong visual aesthetic that made him pore over films and comics throughout his childhood, photography became the perfect medium through which to explore the subjects of his curiosity.
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Fan Mang Mang
Dancer, Choreographer, TeacherCulture. Dance. Education.
Fan Mang Mang is a professional dancer, teacher and choreographer. Fan Mang Mang began her career at an early age studying acrobatics and Chinese dance. Having toured Europe and the far east she has gained valuable experience as a performer.
Her training continued at the famous Beijing Dance Academy where she studied Traditional Chinese dance, Chinese Folk dance and choreography. With many theatre and television credits in China under her belt, Fan Mang Mang now has the chance to share her skills with the people of the UK.
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Sin-Man Yue
Choreographer and performerArts. Culture. Dance. Education.
Sin-Man Yue trained in contemporary, ballet and Chinese folk dance in her native Hong Kong and London Contemporary Dance School. Since graduating, she has worked with Bi Ma Dance Co., Janet Smith and Dancers, Claire Russ Ensemble and Victoria Marks etc… and performed nationally and internationally.
Sin Man also works intensively in cultural performances and workshops throughout the UK and collaborates regularly with different arts organisations on their education programmes, e.g. Pan Centre for Multicultural Arts, Museums, Cultural Co-operation and Chinese Cultural Centre.
Sinman Dance Company was formed in 2002. The aim of the company is to continually promote and develop Chinese dance in UK through public performances and activity workshops. They also attempt to meet the new creative challenges of the East and West cultures. The company funders include Arts Council and Awards For All.
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Lili Zhao
Managing Editor of China EthosBusiness. Community. Culture. Media.
Lili Zhao graduated with first class honours in Financial & Business Economics from Royal Holloway, University of London following her Media Studies from Hammersmith and West London college. Upon graduating, she first worked in the financial sector before joining Shanghai media Ltd for its China Ethos magazine.
Lili is high on life. She is full of curiosity and contradictions, and perpetually searching for the meaning of life – as well as for more beautiful dresses.
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Daniel Jacoel
UK Chairman of the 48 Group Club Young IcebreakersBusiness. Culture.
Daniel Jacoel is a prominent figure in the development of Sino-British relations. Having achieved so much, it is hard to believe that this charismatic young man who received Premier Wen Jiabao in London, January 2009, is still a young leader.
Daniel’s interest in his Chinese heritage inspired him to study Modern and Classical Chinese at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Since graduating, he has worked in Beijing and gone on to become the UK Chairman of the 48 Group Club Young Icebreakers.
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Fuchsia Dunlop 扶霞 (Fu Xia)
Food-writer and cook specialising in Chinese cuisineArts. Culture. Cuisine. Education. Film, TV & Radio. Literature. Media.
Fuchsia Dunlop is an internationally renowned cook and food-writer specialising in Chinese cuisine. She was the first Westerner to train as a chef at the Sichuan Institute of Higher Cuisine, and has been researching Chinese food and culinary culture since 1994.
She writes about Chinese food and cookery for publications including the Financial Times, The New Yorker, The Observer, the New York Times, Gourmet, Saveur and Time Out, and has been featured as an expert commentator on radio and TV stations all over the world.
She also appears on television as a Chinese cook and food expert. She speaks, reads and writes Chinese.
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