a journey to an eternal wellbeing
Dao Lu students celebrated World Tai Chi & Qi Gong Day 2017 on Sunday 30 April.
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Dao Lu’s outreach work to girls and women and other wider community groups has been recognised at an International Women’s Day 2017 event hosted by Cllr Yemi Osho. Aileen has been awarded Outstanding Contribution to Health and Wellbeing in Our Community!
Many thanks to the girl/woman students who helped deliver a mini Tai Chi performance, as we did every year! Without so many people’s support and work in many different ways, we cannot reach so many community groups in the past years.
We’d also like to congratulate Cllr Clare Coghill who has become the first female council leader of Waltham Forest in over 50 years!
The event took place in Waltham Forest Council Chamber, Forest Road, Walthamstow, London E17 4JF. The Worshipful the Mayor of Waltham Forest, Cllr Peter Herrington, and Mayoress Susan Herrington were present as well.
Directed by Alison Jones, Artistic Director at Shapeshifter Productions Ltd www.shapeshifter-productions.com
The Land of Shadows, from WILDFIRE! performed by Walthamstow Acoustic Massive www.wildfiretheshow.com
Choreography by Cecily Fay and Sam Francis
Cecily Fay as Warrior Queen www.silatschool.com
Tai Chi students, led by Aileen Hamdan, from Dao Lu C.I.C., as Warrior Girls and Women www.daolu.co.uk
Dance students from X7eaven as Travellers on quest www.x7dance.com
Dao Lu is launching two exciting projects in local parks. Here is an article in the Waltham Forest News issue 135 published on Monday 30th March 2015 (page 6, Park funding and activities announced) about these two Dao Lu projects funded by an award from the Big Lottery
Fund. One project is for families in Ridgeway Park Chingford E4 and the other is for women experiencing abuse, in Lloyd Park E17.
Dao Lu attended the Labour of Love celebration event this afternoon in London Legacy Development Corporation, Stratford Westfield. 8 girls and women from the Tai Chi Breeze Tuesday class took part in this art project at incredibly short notice with artist Caroline Jupp, the then artist-in-residency in Queen Elizabeth Olympics Park. We talked about our work experiences and what the impact of Tai Chi or Kung Fu had on us…
Here is an example of a story told by a very young person (the last and 170th person)… Caroline did an incredible job of capturing 170 people’s stories and published an limited edition (300 print copies only) of Labour of Love! We are proud of being part of this beautiful and powerful art project!
