Shanghai Citizen's Cultural Festival is unfolding this winter, and the 2018 edition of the festival boasts numerous activities. The whole of Shanghai is linked up, each area of Shanghai has arranged different activities, the activities are more grounded into the local community, in the subsequent activities, there are large group dance performances, photography exhibition and other activities, let's take a look together.
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Shanghai Citizen's Cultural Festival series of activities is currently unfolding
1. "Tribute to 40 Years of Reform and Opening Up - Culture Makes Life Better" 2018 Shanghai Citizen's Cultural Festival celebrates the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up with themed display activities,
2. "40 Years of Shanghai Memory" Shanghai Citizen's Writing Competition and New Poetry Composition Competition Award Presentation and Exhibition in Commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of Reform and Opening Up
3. "Riding the Waves and Converging Dreams" Shanghai Citizen's 40th Anniversary of Reform and Opening Up Knowledge Competition Top 100 Award Presentation cum A Cappella Theme Concert Successfully Held Successively
Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Reform and Opening Up will always be the main theme of the 2018 Shanghai Citizens' Cultural Festival.
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There are also colorful programs such as the 40th Anniversary of Reform and Opening Up Knowledge Competition, Citizen Writing Competition, Citizen Art Exhibition, New Poetry Composition Competition, Square Dance Exhibition and so on.
Organizers of the event used a rich variety of forms and carriers to guide citizens to look back to tell the story of the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up.
Reform and Opening Up Knowledge Contest
Through the three thematic sections of "Our Five Years," "Looking Back at the Forty Years," and "The Tide of the Shanghai Bund," the organizers of the event will be able to tell the story of the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up.
Various types of lectures have come into the community
The series of lectures, such as "Forty Years: Shanghai in the Cultural Mirror", "Fortieth Anniversary of Reform and Opening Up: Changes in Electricity Meters", and "Talking about Life in the Old Shanghai Lane in the Seventies", have come into a number of communities;
The offline quiz and interactive activities have come to modernization of the working and living areas of the foreign builders' parks;
The 72-hour special event was rolled out across the city, reaping 4.12 million views, 700,000 participants, and a citywide atmosphere with 157 communities breaking through the 100-people-answer mark.
Shanghai City Memory 40 Years Writing Competition
Liu Shijie's "Walking Boxes" connects the destiny of an individual's family in the tides of the times with three housewarmings;
The Three Old Ladies Speak of Eating and Wearing, a local rhyming whiteboard drama, speaks of townships through the old ladies' mouths of the most basic food, housing, and clothing for city dwellers in three ways.
Wang Yajun's "Time Makes Me Chase My Dreams" tells the story of the "old three", from being a literary youth in the "Great Northern Wilderness" to joining the Writers' Association before his retirement, and reaping the rewards of self-growth amidst the changes of the times.
All of the outstanding poems collected will be assembled into the "Wind from the Pu River" poetry collection. The 7th Shanghai Citizen's Art (Art, Calligraphy and Photography) Exhibition received 14,116 pieces of work, and 660 pieces of excellent art, calligraphy and photography were finally selected for display.
Square Dance Exhibition Activity
Lead the citizens in the city's districts to dress up and dance, to show the style of the times, and to build a dream of a happy China. more than 1,600 citizens' dance troupes participated in the event, and nearly 40,000 people demonstrated the colorful cultural characteristics of the districts and the achievements of the changes in the past 40 years. Excellent original programs have also become a good carrier to focus on the social reality of life and express people's voices.
Dance Showcase Section
Group dance "Red Rhythm", skit "Volunteer from the Army", Suzhou commentary "Defender" group dance "Rice and Oil Sticks and Bean Curd Paste", skit "Turning the Corner" group dance "White Magnolia on the Plateau", male duo "Seeds", and musical sketch "Faraway"
These are all the latest original creative works.
That night, eight a cappella vocal ensembles from Shanghai, Guangzhou and Taipei performed "Chinese Heart", "Wind of the Times", "Dream of the Future" and "Sense of Home and Country". The eight a cappella vocal ensembles from Shanghai, Guangzhou and Taipei used the four chapters of "Chinese Heart", "Style of the Times", "Future Dream" and "Family and Country" to bring back the memories of generations.