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Fall 2008 Chinese Paper Cut Class (Information Collecting Only)

Saturday, September 27, 2008 at 2:00 PM - Saturday, December 13, 2008 at 3:30 PM (PT)

San Francisco, United States

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This summer, CCC is happy to present a new weekend class on Traditional Chinese Paper Cutting! CCC will offer four sessions per year of Traditional Chinese Paper Cutting Class. For the fall session, there will be 8 weeks of classes..

The 2008 Fall Session will be held on September 27, 2008 - Noverber 22, 2008 (break on Columbus Day weekend, October 11), every Saturday 2:00pm to 3:30pm. Dates are subjected to changes without notice.

What is Traditional Chinese Paper Cutting?

Paper Cutting is one of the most popular folk arts in China. The Chinese make paper cuts for celebrations, festivals and home decoration, with the extensive use of red, which is the lucky color in China. It usually has a heavy emphasis on single or a few Chinese characters often symbolizing with the Chinese Zodiac animals.

Classes start on Saturday, September 27, from 2:00pm to 3:30pm. There will be classes until November 22, with a break on the weekend of Labor Day (August 30). You can sign up for the entire session, or come on a class-by-class basis.

Schedule: Saturday 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Cost: $250 CCC Members; $300 Non-members. All sales are final, no refunds, no exceptions.

 

 

Curriculum:

Lesson 1: single color and single image

Learn the basic skills of freehand paper cutting and design.

Lesson 2: single color and single image

Learn how to cut a “butterfly”, and design the outline.

Lesson 3: single color and single image

Learn how to cut a “butterfly”, and design the inner decorative pattern.

Lesson 4: single color and single image

Learn how to cut “Plum Blossom”.

Lesson 5: single color and image

Learn how to cut “chrysanthemum”.

Lesson 6: single color and image

Learn how to cut “the stalk and leaves of chrysanthemum”

Lesson 7: single color and image

Learn how to cut the stalk and leaves of chrysanthemum, and flowerpot.

Lesson 8: single color and image

Learn how to cut “boy” and/or “girl” figure.

When & Where



Chinese Culture Center
750 Kearny Street
3rd Floor
San Francisco, 94108

Saturday, September 27, 2008 at 2:00 PM - Saturday, December 13, 2008 at 3:30 PM (PT)


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Location: 750 Kearny Street, 3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108

The Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco is a major community-based, non-profit organization established in 1965 to foster the understanding and appreciation of Chinese and Chinese American art, history, and culture in the United States.

In its 45 years of work, CCC has played a pioneering role in introducing Chinese culture to the American public through exhibitions and public programming of a broad spectrum of Chinese traditional and contemporary artistic works in multiple disciplines: Visual Arts, Literature, Music and Theater.