Pupils trailblazing a project to cross cultural barriers through art will be visited by a delegation from the Chinese embassy today.
The drop-in marks the culmination of a series of workshops by China Link Arts at five schools in the Derwentside district of County Durham.
The workshop was funded through Northern Arts as a pilot project for a bigger programme which will be rolled out throughout County Durham and eventually the rest of the region.
Chinese cultural and education officers will travel from London to give a talk to a group of pupils aged between 14 and 16 in Consett. They will look at work that has been done with artist Chun-Chao over a 15-day workshop with five schools in the area.
Consett Junior School head David Yates, was approached by the Chinese Association North East Region to co-ordinate the project after a chance meeting in a Chinese takeaway.
More than 1,000 children from nursery to GCSE students have been involved. The artist spent three days in each school introducing water colour paintings, opera mask painting and lantern making.
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