The programme of contemporary and traditonal Chinese work in 2011 included:
- Beijing Modern Dance Company (UK Premiere of Aware).
- Chinese shadow puppetry at dusk in the grounds of Edward Heath’s home, with the Wei Chao family from Hangzhou.
- Residency with Li Xu from the Weifang Kite Festival, with workshops in schools and communities leading to a family kite day at Danebury Hill Fort, above which an impressive dragon kite was flown alongside hundreds of Chinese kites that had been created.
- Writ Large Chinese calligrapher Jianzhou Xu and English calligrapher Mary Noble created an exhibition of Chinese and English proverbs of similar meanings alongside a new poem about Wiltshire’s White Horses by poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy, writ large at scale onto the gallery walls.
- Chinese poet Yang Lian in conversation with English artist Kate Daudy who works in accordance with an ancient tradition of inscribing objects with poems.
- Guo Yue Chinese flautist.
- Daily early morning drop in Tai Chi in Salisbury Cathedral Close.
- A programme of Chinese film curated by Patrick Bliss.
