Name: Melanie Kang: Lions, Lanterns, and Ribbons
Start: 2024-09-14T09:00:00-07:00
End: 2024-09-14T13:00:00-07:00
Location: California State University, East Bay

Melanie Kang: Lions, Lanterns, and Ribbons

Location: Cal State East Bay Music Building, E Loop Road, Hayward (https://maps.app.goo.gl/d5tLr52ZERMtQPmi6)
Website link: https://ncaosa.org/events/
Plan ahead for Lunar New Year Celebrations in Your Community!
From movement to clapping games, from singing to Orff arrangement, Melanie Kang seeks to make Chinese music, dances, and activities accessible to American teachers and students while simultaneously preserving the authenticity of the culture. In this workshop, Melanie will not only share Chinese New Year Celebration related songs and dances, such as dragon dance, lion dance, and ribbon dance, she has collected in her recently published book Lion, Lanterns, and Ribbons, she will also bring other Chinese traditional stories, children’s games, art-music integration activities that she has explored and tested with her students over the span of a decade. After this workshop in Chinese music, you will be able to throw a Lunar New Year celebration while enhancing your students’ creativity and musical capabilities.
About Melanie:
Melanie Kang is a published author and a national presenter. Raised and educated in the rich tradition of music and art in Xi’an, China, Melanie has collected her childhood songs, games, and folk dances to share in her Orff classroom. In her years of teaching, she has made Chinese music and dances accessible for American teachers by bringing authentic elements of traditional Chinese music to a modern, creative Orff approach.