China News Service, Beijing, September 25 (Reporter Xu Jing) The 4th Beijing International Canal Art Week opened on the 24th. The event carries out theatrical performances, theme markets, flash mobs in multiple places, etc., and links with 13 canals around the world, including the Dortmund-Ems Canal in Germany and the Danube-Black Sea Canal in Romania, giving the ancient canals a new look with the times.
This art week is hosted by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism and the People's Government of Tongzhou District, Beijing, and is hosted by the Beijing Overseas Cultural Exchange Center, the Propaganda Department of the Beijing Tongzhou District Committee of the Communist Party of China, and the Beijing Tongzhou District Culture and Tourism Bureau. As a living room event of the Beijing Cultural Forum, Art Week is based on the protection and inheritance of the Grand Canal World Cultural Heritage. During the period, 22 Chinese and foreign theatrical performances will be staged, and more than 60 food and cultural creative brands will appear. The event is open to the public from 11:00 to 20:00 every day and will last until September 27.
The 4th Beijing International Canal Art Week event scene. Photo provided by the organizer
At the opening ceremony, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism released the promotional video "The Canal in Beijing" and also launched 10 "Walking in Beijing - Grand Canal Cultural Theme Tour" tourist routes. These lines connect more than 40 important landmarks in the Beijing section of the Grand Canal, including Baifu Spring, Shichahai, Beijing Grand Canal Museum, and Beijing Art Center, covering scenes such as cultural heritage exploration, waterfront ecological leisure, and urban public art.
The "Canal × Mid-Autumn Festival" theme market of this year's Art Week has three major sections: "Looking for Taste", "Good Things" and "Playing", creating a multi-dimensional consumption scene of "eating, shopping, traveling and enjoying", inviting tourists to enjoy the new Canal cultural tourism experience in one stop. Wanli International Commercial and Entertainment Complex, the West Bank of the Canal and other surrounding business districts, and Beijing transportation hubs such as high-speed rail stations and airports are linked at the same time to integrate the Grand Canal culture into the daily life of the city through innovative forms such as canal-themed exhibitions and multilingual intelligent guides.
The 4th Beijing International Canal Art Week event scene. Photo provided by the organizer
The 14 performing arts teams participating in the art week cover folk song and dance, pop rock, traditional folk music, electronic music and other art categories, and will present 15 wonderful performances during the three-day holiday. In addition, the event innovatively creates a canal water stage, and the "Beijing International Canal Art Week" is equipped with a full moon device; the east and west banks of the Tongzhou Canal, the Temple of Heaven, the Mutianyu Great Wall and other places will also welcome pop-up activities by groups of overseas artists.
Beijing International Canal Art Week was founded in 2018. It uses the canal, a global cultural symbol, as a link to build a platform for transnational art dialogue and deepen cultural exchanges and mutual learning between China and foreign countries. (over)
