Silk Screens is a multi-city celebration of Chinese culture and heritage in Britain. Taking place in Birmingham, Glasgow, London and Manchester each location had big screen video displays of events from the other cities as well as their own performances. Glasgow’s Silk Screens events took place outside BBC Scotland’s new headquarters at Pacific Quay on the River Clyde and, being part of the River Festival, the theme was ‘water’. This meant a giant turtle leading the live spectacle performance based on Chinese myth “The Eight Immortals Crosing The Seas”. The clothes as always from Glasgow’s Chinese community were incredibly beautiful and full of dazzling colours, especially favoured were the Cantonese Opera outfits with beautiful make-up and stunning headresses and acres of flowing, dazzling silk!

Silk Screens in Glasgow involved performances from Fong Lui, the Mauchline & District Caledonia Pipe Band and featured the Yuet Ming Cantonese Opera Harmony Music Ensemble and Glasgow Chinese Opera.

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