Wu Fei, Sarah Yu & Geoffrey Burton (6+)

Ha' Concerts

Sunday 17 March 2024

Chinese children's songs, calligraphy and dumplings

Chinese children's songs, calligraphy and dumplings.

Made in China festival and Ha' invite Wu Fei, Sarah Yu Zeebroek and musician Geoffrey Burton to work on a short concert for children at the Ha Concerts for two days. They start from Chinese children's songs and popular Chinese pop songs and during their residency they will try to transform them into something new and sparkling for the youngest visitors of Made in China Festival.

After the concert, graphic artist Dong Yingda will lead the children into the magical world of calligraphy in a workshop. Afterwards, they can feast on delicious Chinese dumplings!

Memory & Remembrances

Wu Fei, Sarah Yu Zeebroek, Geoffrey Burton (music), Dong Yingda (visual artist - calligraphy)

Virtuoso Chinese guzheng player Wu Fei enjoyed a classical education, but chose a jagged path that includes improvisation and folk in addition to classical Chinese music. She released her solo album Yuan on Zorn's Tzadik label and collaborated with Fred Frith for Distant Youth. With American banjo player Abigail Washburn, she plays Kung Fu Appalachian folk.

That adventurous path aligns perfectly with that of her fellow players.

Sarah Yu Zeebroek is a visual artist, illustrator and musician. She is an illustrator by training and makes both free work and commissioned work for newspapers, magazines, theater companies, cultural centers, libraries, museums and music groups. Her work shows the rich imagination that takes place in her day and night dreams. This is often peppered with surreal scenes and has a humorous slant, but is never looking for the joke itself. Sarah lives and works in Ghent and in addition to being a visual artist, she is also active as a musician. She has her own band Hong Kong Dong (together with Boris Zeebroek and Geoffrey Burton) and also appears as a guest musician on other projects such as L Jacobs and Bolis Pupul.

Geoffrey Burton is a Belgian guitarist. He emerged on the local scene in the early nineties. Gradually making a name for himself he became internationally active as a musician, composer and producer when he started working with local hero Arno. A collaboration that would last for 15 years. While and after playing with Arno other artists would solicit his talents. Iggy Pop, Bashung, Botanica, Misia, Stephan Eicher, Toby Dammit, Daan, Triggerfinger, Sophie Hunger, Jacques Higelin and many others. Geoffrey Burton's style has always been about looking for the unexpected. What you see is not what you get.

Graphic artist Dong Yingda is an illustrator and researcher based in Ghent, he is currently pursuing his PhD at LUCA School of Arts and KU Leuven. His research focuses on how visual language can integrate interculturality through illustration. He throws diverse materials, techniques and traditions in the mix to record his own life experience. Yingda Dong recently published his new picture book Matisse’s Journey for the first solo exhibition of Henri Matisse in China.