This week’s Wednesday Freebies section consists of topics on- a) A bigger Chinese New Year event coming to Aberdeen university; b) Free tickets to outdoor cinema screenings at pop-up event in Whitby; c) Get free sample of London Tea Bags. Also, check out for more freebies in our blog section everyday.
A bigger Chinese New Year event this year coming to Aberdeen university
Chinese New Year will be celebrated at the University of Aberdeen, starting with a fun-packed show for children by its Confucius Institute, at the university, marking the Year of the Dog, on 17 February (Saturday) with more events than ever before. A free Chinese New Year Festival will be held on 18 February (Sunday) with games, arts and crafts and also dumpling making. The Sunday event will feature the traditional dragon and lion dances, music and dance by Harmony Chinese Music Ensemble and the dance group Redphoenix, plus a demonstration by Yee’s Hung-Ga Scotland Kung-Fu. It will be followed by comedy show and performance of students.
By courtesy of the Royal Zoological Society, there will be Yang Guang and Tian Tian, the giant pandas, for Scotland’s ‘Beyond the Panda’ education, to learn more about pandas. The following weekend, the celebrations will move on elsewhere. On 24 February (Saturday,) the university will bring the Chinese New Year to Inverurie Town Ghall, which will feature again Kung-Fu demonstration, fun chopstick skills, music and dance, plus a Chinese shuttlecock game- Jianzi.
The Director of the Confucius Institute, Dr Michelle Macleod, said the festival is shaping to be bigger and better than ever, at the university, with more events. The event last year at Kings College campus had over 800 people attending and this year over 1,000 are expected, across the 4 events planned, she added. For more information on the free event and to register your interest to attend, please go the university website (www.abdn.ac.uk/confucius/events/archive/february/2018/).
Free tickets to outdoor cinema screenings at pop-up event in Whitby
Free tickets will be given away during a pop-up event in Whitby to an enjoyable outdoor-cinema. Moonlight Cinema will be screening films between 25th and 28th May, on Abbey Farm, in the North Yorkshire seaside town, situated atop the cliff, next to Whitby Abbey.
Founder of Moonlight Cinema, Benjamin Stonehouse, said they are really excited to return, as the company began in Scarborough originally and especially to offer a free event. He remarked that this is something new and fun for the community and hopes to offer similar events, after this one, in surrounding areas. Response is great on social media so far, with over 3,000 tickets booked, he added.
Films to be screened include – Dirty Dancing on 25 May (Friday); Beauty and the Beast on 26 May (Saturday); The Greatest Showman on 27 May (Sunday); Bram Stoker’s Dracula on 28 May (Friday). All screenings are at 9.40 PM, in the outdoors and seated, with customers having to bring their own chairs and are allowed to bring their own picnic. Nevertheless food and drink can be bought on site. Get the free tickets online, on a first come, first served basis from the website – moonlightcinema.com/events.
Get free sample of London Tea Bags
Here is your chance to get free samples of London Tea in their tea-bags. To claim your free sample, just fill in their short form online. Click on ‘Get Freebie’, then scroll below to the ‘Get in Touch’ form. Enter here the required details to contact you. Use the drop-down menu for ‘enquiry type’, then select ‘sample request’. Submit it, when completed. London Tea will send you a free sample of their tea-bags soon from their tasty range of teas.
