Culture

In order to promote cultural exchange between Macau and the mainland, the Shanghai Ballet, invited by the Cultural Bureau of the Macau Special Administrative Region Government, will bring a ballet version of "Camellia Woman" to the Macau Cultural Center's Comprehensive Theatre on June 9th and 10th. This will be the first overseas performance of the Shanghai Ballet since its US tour in January 2020. The elegant and exquisite Shanghai style of the Shanghai Ballet has attracted many Macau audiences. Shortly after the opening of tickets, more than 2000 tickets for the two performances were sold out. In 2019, Derek Dean, the invited artistic director of the Shanghai Ballet and the British ballet master, tailored the ballet "The Camellia Woman" for the Shanghai Ballet based on the novel "The Camellia Woman" written by French author Alexandre Dumas Minor. The drama uses a reverse narrative technique to dance around the moment when the female protagonist Margaret's life is dying

"'it is our new cultural mission in the new era to continue to promote cultural prosperity, build a cultural power, and build the modern civilization of the Chinese nation at a new starting point.' General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech at the forum on cultural inheritance and development aroused a warm response from the cultural circles all over the country. " In an interview with reporters yesterday, Gu Hao, vice chairman of the Shanghai Federation of Literature and Art, chairman of the Shanghai dramatists Association, and party committee secretary of the Shanghai Opera Art Center, said: "as inheritors and practitioners of excellent Chinese traditional culture, we have strengthened the mission of opera workers in the new era, and only by constantly deepening the regular understanding of cultural construction can we better shoulder the new cultural mission." Guard the root and protect the pulse: to find the source of Chinese civilization and better shoulder the new cultural mission is the work of literary, artistic and cultural workers in Shanghai.

On June 3rd, the Shanghai International Youth Scholars Forum was held at the Shanghai Academy of Drama, with the theme of "International Development and Nationalization Exploration of Director Art" by top domestic and foreign theater directors and scholars, exploring the intrinsic vitality of inspiring contemporary Chinese theater director art. "When I talk about the risks and dangers of internationalization, I am talking about a person who is losing their cultural roots, not feeling confident or even proud of their own cultural roots, but getting lost in a chaotic foreign culture. Sometimes I find it easier to follow trends, and sometimes I am attracted to Western ideas, forgetting who he is and where he comes from." Tobias Bianconi, Director General of the International Theatre Association, said frankly, "There is both opportunity and potential for Chinese theatrical art to adhere to tradition and innovation. Learning from Western educators, playwrights, and producers is not wrong, but a person can..."

Most of the waterfront in the world was originally shared. With the development of commerce, shipping, and industry, waterfront has become an important asset of cities, evolving from shared to exclusive, becoming a driving force for industrial and commercial development and a mark of urban civilization. Afterwards, with the development and changes of the city, the closed coastline that was once monopolized by factories, docks, warehouses, units, and communities has shifted back to an open coastline shared by the whole population. The Suzhou River in Shanghai has gone through a development process of over a hundred years. At present, there is a consensus on the protection of Suzhou River industrial heritage. Looking towards the future, how can we organically combine the protection of architectural heritage with urban development? On June 3rd, the new book sharing event titled "Suzhou River Industrial Heritage: As a Shared Urban Landscape -" Shared Waterfront: A Chronicle of Industrial Heritage on Both Sides of Suzhou River "was held at the Tianshan Hall of Changning District Library

On the evening of June 3rd, with the opening of the 2023 Shanghai Nightlife Festival, the "Power of Reading · Late Night Bookstore Festival" was held in 36 branded physical bookstores in Shanghai. From June 3rd to 4th, 36 bookstores will concentrate and delay their operations until 22:00. In order to promote the construction of Shanghai as an international consumer center city, accelerate confidence building, stable growth, and promote consumption, the Shanghai Book and Magazine Distribution Industry Association, under the guidance of the Municipal Press and Publication Bureau, actively responded to the overall plan of the "2023 Shanghai Nightlife Festival" benchmark activity of the 4th "May 5th Shopping Festival", and organized 36 brand physical bookstores in the city to hold the "Power of Reading · Late Night Bookstore Festival" simultaneously during the "2023 Shanghai Nightlife Festival". 36 brand physical bookstores, including Shanghai Xinhua Media Chain Co., Ltd., Shanghai Book Co., Ltd., Shanghai Foreign Language Bookstore, and Shanghai Xiang

"I was very surprised, people were very enthusiastic, and many people understood the music we were playing. I was also very excited to have many young people come to the concert." On the afternoon of June 3rd, after a round of rehearsals, Hungarian national treasure conductor Adam Fischer was interviewed by Shanghai media under the huge palm tree at the Tropical Flower and Fruit Museum of Chenshan Botanical Garden. At this moment, the large lawn was already filled with white seats, and the audience who arrived one after another waited for the arrival of this outdoor classical concert. That evening, the 11th Chenshan Grassland Radio Music Festival made its debut on time, with Adam Fischer coaching the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and partnering with violinist Julian Rachlin to bring the authentic "Voice of Vienna" and light up the "Waltz Night". The concert set a record for the fastest ticket sales in the history of a music festival. After two years, this year's Chenshan Grassland Radio Music Festival will be self ticketed

On June 4th, the 40th Chinese version of the musical "The Phantom of the Theater" will conclude at the Shanghai Grand Theatre. Early on June 5th, the behind the scenes production team flew to Shenzhen to start the first stop of 200 national tours. On June 13th, "Phantom of the Theater" will be released at the Shenzhen Binhai Art Center, and the audience is eager to discuss the cast and additional performances. On May 2nd, the Chinese version of "Phantom of the Theater" premiered globally in Shanghai. The total box office of 40 performances in 34 days was 48.5 million yuan, with an average single performance box office exceeding 1.2 million yuan. The sales revenue of cultural and creative products was 2.5 million yuan. Out of nearly 65000 viewers, more than 25% come from other places, and over 20% have had second or third impressions of the drama# The Chinese version of Phantom of the Theater # Weibo has seen over 330 million views, and the related tags on Xiaohongshu have seen nearly 13 million views. Shanghai Wenguang Performing Arts Group

On the evening of June 2nd, the night curtain seemed like a curtain in a theater, slowly falling on the 60 hectare surface of Yuanxiang Lake, ending the summer heat of the day and also opening up the colorful night light of Yuanxiang Lake. The first performance of the Shanghai Poly Grand Theatre Water Feature Light and Shadow Show "Elegant City, My Heart Longs for" has been successfully completed after the official announcement of ticket sales, announcing the official opening of the largest outdoor water feature performance in Shanghai. The whole performance was divided into four acts: "One City Elegant, My Heart Yearning", Chinese ancient poetry animation "Acacia", "Light and shadow lingering, gluttonous" and "China-Chic New Fashion, Dynamic Audio". Nearly 60 minutes of multimedia light, shadow, and real-life performance, with the scenes of Yuanxiang Lake water scenery and skylight as the backdrop, actors perform on the water surface stage of the water feature theater, combined with modern high-tech large-scale fountain arrays, aerial beam arrays, laser special effects, and variable water curtain systems, showcasing

On June 3rd, the 2023 autumn enrollment exam for Xiaoyingxing was held, and thousands of cute children gathered at Dongfang TV station with love and longing. Before 8 o'clock in the morning, there were already many parents queuing at the entrance, and the children were all excited with star class monitor balloons. The lively atmosphere at the scene was like a carnival. This autumn recruitment has attracted a large number of children aged 2 to 12 in the city to sign up. With the extension of after-school time after the "double reduction", more and more parents attach importance to their children's aesthetic education, hoping to give them a colorful and energetic childhood. A parent of a 2-year-old child said, "Children's nature is to play, and we hope to guide them well, so that they can discover their interests and learn while playing." During the interview, more than 30 examiners conducted on-site evaluations, covering more than 200 sub majors in singing, dancing, and performing arts. surface