Sometimes, one opportunity can change the direction of a life.

Alongside the hundreds of young people who take part in our Cultural Exchange, we want to make space for at least one story that might otherwise never reach the stage.

A story of courage, possibility, and someone determined to be seen for what they can do — not for what life has placed in their way.

Yang Bo is a young Chinese erhu musician — and a woman determined not to let disability define the boundaries of her life.

She performs from a wheelchair. But when she takes up the erhu, what comes first is not the wheelchair.

It is the musician.

In 2027, we are working to bring Yang Bo to the United Kingdom to join the China–UK Sister City Cultural Exchange — to perform on a British stage, meet fellow artists and young people, and share her music with a new international audience.