{"id":4583,"date":"2012-05-10T18:50:22","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T18:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/long-beach-post-to-stream-oppressed-chinese-artist-s-u-s-premiere\/"},"modified":"2012-05-10T18:50:22","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T18:50:22","slug":"long-beach-post-to-stream-oppressed-chinese-artist-s-u-s-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/long-beach-post-to-stream-oppressed-chinese-artist-s-u-s-premiere","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Oppressed Chinese Artist&#8217;s U.S. Premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ustream.tv\/embed\/recorded\/22498503\" width=\"620\" height=\"375\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: 0px none transparent;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The <em>Long Beach Post<\/em>, in partnership with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centerlb.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Center Long Beach<\/a>, alternative fine art gallery <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flazhalleystudio.com\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Flazh!Alley Art Studio<\/a> in San Pedro, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bjlgbtcenter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Beijing LGBT Center<\/a>, will be streaming live the the U.S. premiere of the paper cutting masterpieces of Beijing artist Xiyadie (pronounced Zhee-y\u00e1-dee) tonight at 7:00pm.&nbsp;The artist\u2019s work &#8212; what&nbsp;<em>The Advocate<\/em>&nbsp;appropriately called &#8220;Lighthearted and joyous, yet intense and revolutionary&#8221; &#8212; has been publicly prohibited in China due to its same-sex themed content.<\/p>\n<p>The framed masterpieces will be available for purchase with proceeds benefitting The Center\u2019s numerous programs and services. The exhibition tonight includes an artist meet-and-greet and discussion forum as well as a live paper-cutting performance that is part of The Center\u2019s QSpeak lecture and performance series.<\/p>\n<p>Titled <a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/lgbtq\/gay-beijing-artist-defies-social-stigma-brings-art-to-long-beach-for-u-s-premiere\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cMetamorphosis of a Butterfly: A Kaleidoscopic Vision of Life by a Gay Chinese Artist,\u201d<\/a> the exhibit will include more than 50 works celebrating same-sex love and life struggle transcending the harsh discrimination and social stigma experienced by the LGBTQ community in China. Also included in the exhibit will be works showing the artist\u2019s struggle as a gay, married father of a daughter and son, the latter severely disabled by cerebral palsy. The exhibit will run through July 14.<\/p>\n<p>For those wishing to attend tonight&#8217;s special event or to see the exhibit, Flazh!Alley Art Studio is located at 1113 S. Pacific Ave., Suite B in San Pedro. Parking is available in the large city parking lot behind Ramona Bakery at Pacific &amp; 11th Street. Enter from the alley. Adults 18 and older. For more information, call 310-833-3633 or visit www.flazhalleystudio.com or www.facebook.com\/QSpeak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-17251\" src=\"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/metamorph2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"286\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <em>Long Beach Post<\/em>, in partnership with The Center Long Beach, alternative fine art gallery Flazh!Alley Art Studio in San Pedro, and the Beijing LGBT Center, will be streaming live the the U.S. premiere of the paper cutting masterpieces of Beijing artist Xiyadie (pronounced Zhee-y\u00e1-dee) tonight at 7:00pm.&nbsp;The artist\u2019s work &#8212; what <em>The Advocate<\/em> appropriately called &#8220;Lighthearted and joyous, yet intense and revolutionary&#8221; &#8212; has been publicly prohibited in China due to its same-sex themed content.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"featured_media":69688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hi-lo","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4583"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=4583"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}