Joining Clubs in China

[bluetortilla]

I've attended a free Chinese character class for foreigners for a while now and while it's fun i realize I could far better spend my time joining a calligraphy club with ordinary Chinese people and be forced to speak Chinese or nothing at all. My Chinese knowledge is limited to the point that I'm not sure how to go about finding such clubs. Any advice? What Chinese terms do I use to search with?

I live in Guangzhou by the way.

Thanks.

[roddy]

Stick the name of your chosen subject, your city and something like 'class', 'lesson', 'school' into Google and see what comes out. This, for example, comes up for 书法 学习 广州.

[gougou]

http://xfart.blog.sohu.com/

Clever choice of a name there - really conveys the classiness of calligraphy.

[guomubai]

Check out the douban.com page for your city. Just register and then click on the 同城 link at the top of the page.