YoKu Health Food with Adswood Community Centre

YoKu Health Food in Christmas Market

Health living information and Free sushi demonstration / sample taste. 

Time and location: 11am – 3pm, 08/12/2012, Adswood Community Centre

Christmas Fan Dance

Embrace the spirit of the season by joining in some festive family fun.

Christmas Fan Dance with YoKu, Free for all. Suitable for all ages, 

11am – 4pm at Hat Work, Stockport

Free health eating session in Stockport Market Place.

Come and join us for free health eating session with sushi demonstration and sample taste. Grab free health living information too. 

Time and location: 11am – 3pm, 08/12/2012, Produce Hall, Stockport Market Place

Halloween Special - Cultural Craft Activity

Spooky Halloween Bat Wind-bell with families in Hat Work

Eat Healthy This Winter

A healthy eating session - Sushi Kitchen is held in St Thomas CE Primary 

Demonstration and Healthy Meal Ideas

Art of Dishes Made from Local Ingredients

Everyone made their own sushi to take home

YoKu with Elaine and Brian

Elaine and Brian - the mayors of Wakefield are very interested in YoKu as introduced by its founders, which might initialise a fantastic extension to east of England. 

We Enjoy YoKu

YoKu in Paralympics

"I had a great time working in the Sailing Games. I enjoyed the beautiful scenery of the Weymouth beach, the spectacular view of the racing from the Portland Castle, as well as the new working/learning experience on sailing race management..."

 

 

"It was really the once in a life time experience. For sure it will be one of the most memorable events that I will remember in the years to come..."

 
- Raymond Hon

 

YoKu Torch Relay - Let the Memory Stays

YoKu Celebrating Torch Relays - Let Our Memory... by Xiao_Fu

What did children say - Woodley Primay

Joe – “I have really enjoyed Xiao Fu’s singing lessons because she is creative, gentle and kind. I also liked her sharing Chinese life with us like masks and people singing”

Ethan – “I think Xiao Fu’s lessons were great and I liked the quiz we did as well. Also, I learnt some Chinese”.

Francesca – “The sessions with Xiao Fu have given me confidence in my singing and I have had fun plus Xiao Fu makes things clear”.

" The weekly lessons have been led by Xiao Fu of the Yoku Choir who has enthused, entertained and educated the children during the hour long sessions. Right from the start, the children were encouraged to sing, either as a group or individually, and to perform in front of their peers – quite daunting for many of them.

In addition, they have learnt about the Chinese flag, music, masks, dances, traditional gifts and about the origins of Chinese characters (language). Each week, the children have eagerly anticipated the lessons which give an insight into some aspects of the culture of China.

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YoKu Olympic Torch Relay

yoku_olympic_torch_relay by Xiao_Fu

Wave Your Flag with Olympic Flame and IEEE WIE

As part of London 2012 Inspire Program,YoKu has been invited to perform during the celebration event of London 2012 Olympic Torch relays. With support from IEEE WIE, YoKu will organize an open seminar that demonstrate advance technologies and engineering intelligence to school girls and awake their awareness on science at an early stage.

It is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to

• Showcase your product and technology, 
• Wave your flag of with Olympic Flame and IEEE WIE and,
• Demonstrate your supports of community.

There will be thousands of people and the event will broadcast on air. We look forward to partnering with you to inspire our local students & families and share the gloriousness of science and technology.


Time and Location:
Date: Sunday 24th June 2012
Time: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. (BST)
Location: Mersey Square, Stockport, Greater Manchester

Contact Us:
Email:yokuchoir@hotmail.co.uk
Tel:+44 787 259 3321
Website: http://yoku.orgfree.com

YoKu Introduction Video - Cultural Arts

Yoku Introduction by Xiao_Fu

YoKu with Stockport Council

Find more inforation about YoKu on

London 2012 Inspire Programe Stockport

 

or search "YoKu" on www.stockport.gov.uk/2012 Inspire Mark projects 

 

 

 

 

Find us on London 2012 Inspire Programe in Northwest

Find more inforation about YoKu on

London 2012 Inspire Programe in Northwest

YoKu Activities

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BBC Interview - YoKu

YoKu on UK National Inspire Day (From left: Andy Worthington – Chairman of the North West 2012 Steering Group;
Xiao Fu - Director of YoKu; Sarah Case-Upton – North West Inspire Programmer)

What can you tell us about this project?

Yoku is a charitable project based in South Manchester, specialising in heritage arts and culture excellence. Our aims to provide equal opportunity for children to learn and shine, improving their art potential and cross culture skills in fun. As part of London 2012 Inspire programme, we distribute Olympic spirits and cultural excellence through a series of activities for everyone to get involved in this memorable event.

What did you set out to accomplish with this project?

We have organised a series of activities open freely to children, which include children’s choirs performing bilingual Olympic songs, Tai Chi tutorial, Olympic Quiz’s and Calligraphy

What have you learned from running this project?

There is urgent requirement and demand to build cultural excellence in local community, by educate teenagers with peaceful world art, which would cancel negative impact of sex, violence, and profanity from unauthorized sources.

Will this project continue beyond 2012? 

It will continue as cultural, aerobic and science activities for everyone, e.g. we are negotiating with IEEE Woman Engineer society to run “science day” project in 2013, aiming to give school girls with opportunity learn the “Science Behind Health” to awake their awareness on health.

Tell us in your own words how you’ve been inspired by London 2012?

It is not only a great event but also an opportunity to build 'health' community with cultural excellence

Can you describe how your project was inspired by the Games?

Yoku Youth Club in Walthew House

The Game acknowledges the whole UK welcoming the world with sharing and understanding of different cultures. The project is initialised as a children choir and we articulated any external change and align my strategic plan to maximise the inspirit influence. For example, there have been calligraphy / Taichi session run in Stockport for children with sense loss, which is aimed to give equal opportunities with everyone to get involved. Also, aware of the regional discrepancies within Greater Manchester, We are currently negotiating with local MP to organise a few free activities for children in Brinnington region. Please find the details on our website <http://www.yoku.orgfree.com/.

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YoKu Shares in London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay

YoKu is invited to welcome the Olympic Flame to Stockport borough, to celebrate the achievements of the inspirational Torchbearers and to share in the excitement of the Olympic Torch Relay on the day at one of the main hubs along the route.

As part of London 2012 Inspire programme, YoKu will celebrate this once-in-a-lifetime event with choir singing and dancing in Stockport Mercy Square on Sunday 24 June 2012.

To find out more about YoKu and its contribution to Inspire Programme please visit http://yoku.orgfree.com.  If you would like to share your Olympic prospects and support us please email yokuchoir@hotmail.co.uk or telephone call 07872593321. 

YoKu Celebrating UK National Inspire Day

On 16th May YoKu celebrated UK Inspire Day along with thousands of other projects across the Country.

UK Inspire Day is a celebration of the London 2012 Inspire programme – a family of over 2700 projects across the UK that have been inspired by the Games to do something special in their local communities.

YoKu choir has been officially authorised as part of London 2012 Inspire programme as it aims to distribute Olympic spirits and cultural excellence through a series of activities for everyone to get involved in this memorable event. In this Day Event, YoKu is designed to introduce bilingual Olympic song with more than a hundred year's history, and an understanding of east and west cultures with a live solo for the memorable Game. 

To find out more about YoKu and its contribution to Inspire Programme please visit http://yoku.orgfree.com.  If you would like to share your Olympic prospects and support us please email yokuchoir@hotmail.co.uk or telephone call 07872593321. 

YoKu as London 2012 Inspire Program - National Inspire Day Manchester City Centre

YoKu show on National Inspire Day

YoKu with Walthrew House Youth Club

YoKu with sense loss children

Our calligraphy work

Performance in Woodley Primary

On 27th Apr. 2012 Year 5 has demonstrated their understanding of Olympic spirits, acknowledge the sharing of cultures by staging fan dance and bilingual Olympic songs in front of the whole school and parents..

YoKu website: yoku.orgfree.com

YoKu Children Choir Introduction Video

YoKu Introduction_YoKu Choir by Xiao_Fu

YoKu Quiz Season I 2012

Instruction

1. Thie quiz is open to all children under the age of 19 that resident in Great Manchester and Cheshire area.

2. Entries must include the following information:
-Answers to all three questions
-Your full name, school and age
-Your valid contact method, e.g. email, telephone number, or address

3. Submission can be simply made by replying this post or emailing yokuchoir@hotmail.co.uk.

4. Deadline of submission is October 20, 2011.

5. Entries with incomplete information will be automatically disqualified.

6. Answers will be published on Mar 31, 2012. Winners will be randomly drawn from the list of correct answers who will be contacted shortly for prize & certificate award.

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We are part of the London2012 Inspire Programme!
Further information and events to be updated.

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