Cultural partnerships

Film

The Confucius Institute is a founding member of China Film Forum UK (CFFUK) and has supported the screening of Chinese films at HOME for the past ten years.

Apart from one-off screening of mainstream and art films like If you are the one (非诚勿扰) The Golden Era (黄金时代), I am not Madam Bovary (我不是潘金莲), and Crime: Hong Kong Style, CFFUK has showcased a series of HK crime thrillers in 2016 and Creative Vision: Hong Kong Cinema 2007-2017 in 2017.

Literature

The Institute has worked closely with Manchester Literature Festival, Comma Press and the University's Translation department in introducing Chinese literature and writers to the north-west.

Since 2008, we have invited over ten authors from China and UK to share their works and stories with readers, including Xinran (薛欣然), Guo Xiaolu (郭小橹), Hong Ying (虹影), Diao Dou (刁斗), Zhu Wen (朱文), Han Dong (韩东) and Wang Anyi (王安忆).

We supported the publication of Shi Cheng (十城) by Comma Press. We are in discussion with Comma Press to bring more collections of short stories about Chinese cities to UK readers.

We also support the UK China Writers' Network and encourage young and emerging Chinese writers living in the UK to tell their stories on the page, stage and the internet.

Museums

We have strong links with the Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) and have participated in the Manchester Science Festival organised by MOSI.

In 2010, the CI brought the China Space Programme: from Gun Powders to Space Rockets exhibition to Manchester and attracted thousands of visitors. We supported MOSI's links with China and invited and collaborated with Zhejiang Association of Sciences and Technology on science education.

The Institute started to survey China-related collections in the region including those at Manchester Museum, Manchester Art Gallery, Macclesfield Silk Museum in 2016, with the aim of supporting these institutions in uncovering their rich collections and making them more accessible to the general public and researchers.

The Institute will also play an active role in the exciting Lee Kai Hung Chinese Cultural Gallery project at Manchester Museum.

Local communities

We also work with local communities like Hulme Community Garden Centre, where we have created a Confucius garden and deliver gardening workshops for students and the public.