Merseyside Police in Wirral are celebrating the Chinese New Year by arranging a series of cultural awareness events for local young people.
The Neighbourhood Policing Team for the Upton and Woodchurch area along with Sainsbury's and Amoy have joined forces to bring in the Chinese New Year and give young people in the area the chance to experience this fascinating culture by food tasting, watching traditional Chinese dancing and making traditional Chinese lanterns.
The events will take place over three days and are educational and fun.
On Sunday, 25 January Officers will be taking 12 young people to Liverpool for the official Chinese New Year celebrations. As well as being able to watch the official celebration, they will be tasting traditional Chinese food and each young person will be presented with a paper Chinese dragon and traditional red humbow.
On Tuesday 27, January at Sainsbury's in Upton between 1.30pm and 4pm there will be traditional Chinese dragon dancers and Chinese fan dancers, which will be performing in store for the customers. Pupils from Upton Hall School will preform the dancing. They will then go to the staff canteen where they will be food tasting. The young people will be taught how to eat using traditional chopsticks and shown how to write their names in Chinese calligraphy writing.
On Wednesday, 28 January the group will be attending Upton Hall School, design and technology department where they will make a traditional wooden Chinese lanterns, which they will be able to keep as a souvenir.
Constable Mandy Hamilton from the Woodchurch Neighbourhood Policing Team said:"Celebrating Chinese New Year offers us the chance to get local young people involved in different activities which offer a really interesting insight into another culture. Activities such as food tasting and making traditional Chinese lanterns are both fun but educational. Events like this should be celebrated and we are very excited at being able to work with young people and raise awareness of Chinese culture."
Students from Upton Hall School will be filming the events on 27th and 28th and producing a DVD for each young person and agency involved.
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