Jing'an carries out art education popularization activities, art appreciation together, "Architecture can be read"
On the afternoon of September 21st, at the multifunctional hall of the main building of Shanghai Opera House at No. 10, Lane 100, Changshu Road, the Jing'an District Cultural and Tourism Bureau joined hands with Shanghai Opera House to invite artists to present a unique "social aesthetic education" cultural and artistic popularization class on "reading architecture and appreciating art" for the citizens of Jing'an.
The Shanghai Opera House is located in the former Central Reserve Bank, with the main building built in 1936. In 2005, the building was listed as one of the fourth batch of excellent historical buildings under protection in Shanghai. The Shanghai Opera House was established in 1956, with its predecessor being the Xin'an Travel Group established in 1935. Many citizens walked into the main building of Shanghai Opera House for the first time, and the precious photos on the historical wall awakened beautiful memories in everyone's hearts.
The "Riding on the Wings of Song" opera art appreciation event, hosted by young singer He Chao from Shanghai Opera House, allowed citizens and friends to experience the charm of world classic operas up close. He Chaochao passionately explained the background, plot, colorful paragraphs, and classic segments of the birth of classical opera. Excellent young singers from Shanghai Opera House, such as Wang Bailing, performed opera excerpts on site.
Architecture can be read, art can be appreciated together. Interpreting the story of old buildings from an artistic perspective and bringing top-notch artists closer to the backbone of grassroots literary and artistic masses is an important measure for the Jing'an District's innovative cultural welfare project, fully leveraging the social aesthetic education function of professional academies. Tailored diverse cultural and artistic activities for citizens, with a down-to-earth popularization approach, allowing citizens to appreciate art, understand artistic knowledge, use various arts as media, enrich the spiritual world, improve artistic aesthetics, and inject vitality and vitality into the high-quality development of urban civilization.
As a practical project for the people in Shanghai in 2023, Jing'an District currently has 9 "Social Art Education Classrooms" included in the municipal directory, such as the Shanghai Opera House and the Shanghai Sihang Warehouse Anti Japanese War Memorial Hall. It also actively cultivates and creates 6 units, including the Encounter Museum and Shanghai Jing'an Hall, as the district level "Social Art Education Classrooms", with plans to reach 20 by 2025. As of September 2023, the district's "Social Art Education Classroom" has carried out 201 public welfare art education and public education activities, serving more than 860000 people.
Next, Jing'an District will combine brand activities such as Shanghai Jing'an Modern Drama Valley and "Art Su River" to further cultivate excellent aesthetic education projects and create a "Beauty in Jing'an" Jing'an aesthetic education characteristic classroom, allowing citizens to feel the warmth, comfort, and poetry of Shanghai at all times.