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Anna’s Birthday Dinner

Samstag, Mai 30th, 2009

Our local theater director and producer as well as actress Anna had invited for her birthday to a vegetarian, or actually vegan restaurant. We had vegan fish, vegan sausages, vegan sweet and sour pork, vegan Beijing Duck amongst other dishes.

Some Dinner Guests

Pretty Samantha

If you have a gathering of actors there is always some spontaneous acting. This night is was Anna and Kris performing some funny slow motion fight scenes. This one was Anna smacking a bottle on Kris’s head. But as our experiences Becs commented: „If you ever saw or had been in a London bar fight you would know that you first need to smack the beer bottle on the table so that the glass breaks. It has much more effect smacking the broken bottle then on somebody’s head“.

Bar Fight Scene Performance

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Ines Brunn Performance for Greener China 德国女“车神”伊泉表演

Dienstag, Mai 5th, 2009

I found a post on this forum. The person talks about the Beijing Radio and other companies events to promote a more sustainable lifestyle and cycling. It talks about an event on April 26th where I did a trick bike performance for a greener China. Here is the comment:

4月26号上午，由我台携手中国自行车协会、北京统一饮品有限公司联合发起主办的“统一绿茶梦想骑手穿越塔克拉玛干”2009北京人民广播电台献礼国庆60周年大型自行车主题活动在德胜门箭楼广场启动。这是我台继举办07年世界无车日环城骑行、08年六大奥运城市“奔向北京”联动骑行后连续第三年举办大型自行车主题活动，同时也为共和国六十周年华诞献上的一份厚礼。

上午10点，启动仪式在德胜门箭楼前广场隆重举行。中国自行车协会理事长马中超、我台副总编辑亢亚志等领导出席活动。亢总编在启动仪式致辞中说：“今年是新中国成立60周年，是奥运成功举办之后首都发展步入新阶段的第一年，是深入贯彻落实党的十七大精神、推进“十一五”环境保护和生态建设规划顺利实施的关键一年。基于此，北京电台在中国自行车协会等多家单位的大力支持下策划了本次活动。北京电台希望发挥主流媒体的责任感和舆论导向功能，通过这样的活动，敲响土地沙漠化的警钟，在市民中间发起动员和号召，真正地投身到绿色环保事业中，为新中国60华诞献礼！” 随后，德国女“车神”伊泉表演了精彩的自行车杂技，我台主持人周准一首雄浑大气的《超越梦想》唱出了在场所有人心中“挑战极限、超越自我”的激情。最后，各主办方领导鸣枪发令，在昂扬的鼓乐声中，350多名热心市民骑手开始环城大骑行。

与我台前两年的自行车主题活动相比，本次“ 梦想骑手穿越塔克拉玛干”活动将自行车车轮的足迹带的更远。今年国庆前后，我台将组织一支选拔出来的市民“梦想骑手团”奔赴新疆自治区轮台县，穿越全长522公里的塔克拉玛干大沙漠公路，最后到达民丰县。据悉，这次行动也将成为迄今为止第一次大规模的、完全依靠人力而非机动车力量完成的塔克拉玛干穿越活动。到底是什么样的勇士有机会奔赴新彊完成这一次世界级的壮举？他们的旅程能否顺利完成？启动仪式后，梦想骑手的报名、选拔工作全面展开，这些问题都将随着活动进程的一步步推进而解开神秘面纱！
我国是世界上荒漠化和沙化面积大、分布广、危害重的国家之一，严重的土地荒漠化、沙化威胁着生态安全和经济社会的可持续发展，威胁中华民族的生存和发展。其中，中国第一大沙漠——塔克拉玛干面积的扩大尤其引人注目。塔克拉玛干沙漠距北京5700余公里，位于南新疆塔里木盆地。在维吾尔语里，它是“进去出不来的地方”的意思，当地人通常称它为“死亡之海”。它盛夏最高温度可达67.2℃，昼夜温差最大可达40℃以上，自然条件非常恶劣。在许多探险家的心目中，塔克拉玛干沙漠是一个最神秘、最具有诱惑力的挑战胜地。近年来，随着沙漠中间植被遭到破坏，以及气候的变迁，塔克拉玛干沙漠面积有不断扩大的趋势。在它与库木塔格沙漠边缘近2000公里的风沙线上，流动沙丘每年以5至10米的速度向前推进，受风沙危害最重的且末县和若羌县如今已是沙临城下，一部分农牧民的生存环境受到威胁。

我台此次组织“梦想骑手穿越塔克拉玛干”大型自行车主题活动不仅仅是一次群众性自行车志愿骑行活动，更将立意落在引导社会大众关注日益严峻的土地荒漠化问题上。穿越途中，骑手们不但要挑战恶劣的自然环境，更要把自己亲眼见到、亲身经历的土地荒漠化情况记录下来，汇集成一部考察报告，提交给有关部门作为防沙治沙的参考。

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Orphans Theater Play

Sonntag, April 19th, 2009

Today was the last day of the theater play „Orphans“ presented by the Beijing Actors Workshop (BAW) & Beijing International Theater Experience (BITE) produced by Anna Grace, directed by Peter Walters and staring Kris Chung, Ian Reed and Nick Ma. WOW. That was great acting! It was amazing. A very entertaining play that was professionally presented. I really enjoyed it. Looking forward to their next performances like the Spring Workshop Finale Festival May 14th to 17th (7:30 in Penghao Theater) and Shakespeare’s famous comedy „A Midsummer Night’s Dream“ held June 11-14 and 18-21

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Toastmasters Public Speaking

Donnerstag, April 16th, 2009

I have been going to Beijing CCTMC Toastmasters meetings for a while now. They are so much fun! Toastmasters is a non-profit organization to help individuals build up their public speaking and communication skills as well as their leadership skills. I just finished the first levels and received the Competent Communicator award as well as the Competent Leader award. Now I am up for reaching the next level.

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Trick Bike Performance

Samstag, April 4th, 2009

I held three performances on my trick bike today in Palo Alto for the NBG.

There was a great article in the Palo Alto Weekly yesterday by Rebecca Wallace that Faye scanned:

Palo Alto Weekly 1 Palo Alto Weekly 2

Palo Alto Weekly 3

Palo Alto Weekly 4

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Beijing Fixed Gear and Beijing Jugglers at Club Fair

Samstag, März 28th, 2009

This weekend is the CityWeekend Club Fair. All different non profit groups of Beijing were participating in this event and so were we as the Beijing Jugglers Group as well as the Beijing Fixed Gear Bike Group. It was great to see so many friends from the other community clubs. It was great to have Jancy and Peter and Joe and Oli and other friends help at our club table.

Beijing Club Fair

Today was also Oli’s birthday. So we bought him a cake:

Oliver’s Birthday

I had my pink track bike and did some tricks on that fixed gear bike (thanks very much to Jancy for taking these pictures of me):

Ines Brunn Fixed Gear Tricks 1

Ines Brunn Fixed Gear Tricks 2

And then Oli performed for the crowds with his contact juggling:

Oliver Pinchbeck Contact Juggling 1

Oli Pinchbeck Contact Juggling

And also he juggled a few (up to 9) balls. All of the pictures are to be found here

Oliver Pinchbeck Juggling 9 Balls

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Dirty Dancing Rehearsal

Dienstag, Februar 3rd, 2009

Anna Grace Carter and Kris Chung are putting on another show gathering the International performing arts community of Beijing. This interactive theater event is based on the 1987 movie „Dirty Dancing“ and has other performers integrated in the show. In the auditions in December I got chosen to play the role of the dance instructor Penny. So the past 10 days I have been rehearing the dancing parts with Johnny and Baby almost every day. Today was the first rehearsal of the whole cast together.

Here is a picture of the rehearsal of the fight scene between the dance instructor Johnny and the resort manager Martin.

Fight Scene Rehearsal

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Performing Arts

Sonntag, Januar 18th, 2009

My last day in Germany I went to meet two friends from the times we used to get together (artists from the Nuernberg-Erlangen region) every month and put on a variety show called „Vorsicht Variete“. I stopped performing in that group in 1999 or 2000, so I must have not seen them for such a long time. Fritz Mack used to work as an engineer in a big company. He chose to quit his job and become a full time professional artist about 2 years ago. He changed his appearance and enjoys his work as a performing artist. he is multi talented with juggling, unicycling, acrobatics, fire show and clown. It was very nice to see him and talk to him after such a long time. Tatjana Bilenko still is as fit as always and she still is devoted to circus sport doing a lot of trapeze and vertical trapeze. They run the open „Zirkus Labor“ with regular juggling get togethers (Sunday afternoons) and acro balance get togethers (Friday mornings) as well as workshops. On this picture we all look a bit wierd, especially me with my tanned face (but white neck) from the 15 days skiing.

Meeting Old Friends

My mother loves art and design. She holds a lot of painting workshops and also attends many art workshops herself. She is a very creative person. I have some of her work in my apartment. I think a lot of her pictures are really beautiful.

Pink and Red Paintings

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Fixed Gear and Chinese Improv Show

Sonntag, November 2nd, 2008

As the weather was so nice today I spent the afternoon in the park rock climbing. After that I met with 2 friends for bike riding. Unfortunately other fixed gear riders had no time or were injured.We cycled to the Olympic forest hoping that we can ride inside. But it seems to be fenced off really well, the gate closes at 5pm every day and no bikes are allowed inside. We cycled a loop around it on a freshly paved cycling path which suddenly turned dark (it felt like we were outside of Beijing) and then turned onto the 5th ring road (highway). The random bricks or line of bricks with some missing on the side lane of the highway was quite surreal. Then that lane just disappeared and after cycling on a highway kind of street for a bit then suddenly we saw again a beautifully paved bike lane again on the other side of some bushes. We cycled over huge empty Olympic parking lots with great surface for skidding and random small ditches and also some deep and quite wide sudden ditches. I was positively surprised to find out that we could cycle on the Olympic Green and play around on our bikes between the Birds Nest and the Water Cube Olmypic stadiums. That was awesome!

Tonight was the first show of the Chinese Improv Group. They did a great job. Especially the Olympic Ear Wax Pulling Event (last picture) was very funny.

Olympic Ear Wax Pulling

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Death Prom Interactive Theater Event

Freitag, Oktober 31st, 2008

Finally it is Halloween! We are hosting the Glendale High School Prom of 1958. The doors open and the big band starts to play some swing music. [All pictures are courtesy of other participants, none of these pictures are mine. A lot of pictures are on facebook]

Big Band

The principal of the high school is all excited about the prom:

High School Principal

The president of the chess club and the maths club and the science club (probably a geek) is leading through the prom program:

The Main Geek

Another geek and an Italian artist

Geek and Italian Artist

Ups, how did I get up there…

The Lift

The prom is going on with the teachers getting wild

Ms Pinkerton

Coach Riggens and a Geek

Drama Teacher and the Prom King and Queen

Then I did a special trick cycling performance. I tried to do something in the lines of the deadly topic of this „Death Prom“ using dark music. All these pictures are from fellow actors or audience members. Thanks to all of you. I made a webalbum with those pictures.

Trick Bike Show

Ines Trick Cycling

Then zombies started showing up.

Zombie with Arm

But after a big battle scene all the zombies were defeated – at least that is what it seemed like at first…

Defeated Zombies

…but they then all got up again and it turned out we were all dead!

Final Thriller Pose

Then it was just party and pictures 🙂

Zombie and Caesar

The Prom Queen

The Jugglers and the Queen

The Beauty and the Devil

After this very successful interactive theater event our producer Anna seemed to be very re-leaved and danced like crazy.

Anna Grace

Unfortunately I had fallen off my bike during the warm up before the show and then the printing company guy came 2 hours too late to bring me my flyers. Other than that I enjoyed the show!

Chris made this great short clip of our show: DEATH PROM TRAILER

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