Seven artisans participated in the first exhibition with their works, and the four year planned artisan base opened in Hongqiao Town, Minhang City
On the afternoon of August 30th, the opening ceremony of Hongguan Hongqiao Handicraft Base and the launch ceremony of the first exhibition of "Happy Rainbow" were held at the Cultural Activity Center in Hongqiao Town, Minhang District. This base will provide a platform for showcasing, promoting, inheriting, and exchanging handicrafts within the jurisdiction, integrating resources such as Hongqiao Intangible Cultural Heritage Inheritance, Art Culture, and Handicraft Craftsmen, to create a showcase and gathering place for Hongqiao Culture, an inheritance place for Intangible Cultural Heritage Culture and Handicraft Skills, and an incubation place for the new generation of craftsmen. It is expected to influence more people to learn and inherit traditional Chinese culture and inherit and promote handicraft skills.
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The event opens with a unique hand disc performance. The first promotional video of Rainbow Pavilion, "Art Like a Rainbow", takes people to understand the past and present of Rainbow Pavilion. It is reported that in recent years, the Shanghai Citizen Culture Festival has flourished, as the saying goes, "People's City, everyone shines.". Therefore, Hongqiao Town takes social aesthetic education as the main line, transforming more regional cultural and artistic resources into social aesthetic education resources, and promoting the spiritual prosperity of citizens. The Hongguan Hongqiao Handicraft Base has emerged. The "Rainbow Pavilion" began preparations in 2019, entered the stage of construction in 2020, and was successfully accepted in 2021. The first exhibition preparation took six months, striving for excellence and full of dedication.
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"Hongguan" adopts the operation mode of "government setting up stage and people singing opera", and has established the "Hongguan" artisan autonomous association, making the people the true masters of this place. At the same time, the presidents of the six regional group alliances in Hongqiao Town will also be included in the autonomous association. The exhibition theme is decided by the craftsmen themselves through consultation, and works that match the exhibition theme are collected from various communities. After collecting the works, invite experts and scholars to guide the selection of works, and also invite professional curators to arrange the exhibition. To this end, "Hongguan" invited experts and artists from relevant fields to form a Hongguan academic consultant team, and issued consultant certificates on site.
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At the event, the People's Government of Hongqiao Town signed a cooperation agreement with Shanghai Duoyunxuan Group, jointly committed to inheriting and promoting handicraft skills and intangible cultural heritage. In addition to signing a contract for co construction on site, Mr. Liu Yiwen, a renowned calligrapher in Shanghai, expressed congratulations by donating calligraphy works to the Hongguan.
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Afterwards, Hongqiao Town, in collaboration with Minhang District Cultural and Tourism Bureau, District Education Bureau, and Shanghai Duoyunxuan Group, launched the Hongguan "Hand in Hand Series" social art education project. As a traditional cultural education base in Minhang District, Hongguan will cooperate with various primary and secondary schools in Minhang District to carry out the "Hand in Hand Youth" activity, carry out high-quality public art popularization education activities for young people, and continue to create social aesthetic education services for primary and secondary school students at all times, ages, and continuity.
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At the same time, the base will cooperate with Shanghai Duoyunxuan Group to carry out the "Hand in Hand Duoyun" activity, based on the academic and artistic resources advantages of Duoyunxuan, focusing on polishing intangible cultural heritage courses, approaching the traditional production techniques of the national intangible cultural heritage project "Duoyunxuan Woodblock Watermark", and forming a themed and series of public art popularization education courses for Duoyunxuan Woodblock Watermark.
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In addition, we will also collaborate with the Minhang District Museum in Shanghai to carry out the "Hand in Hand Minbo" activity, carry out popular exhibitions and expert tours, and focus on creating the "Rainbow Pavilion Youth Team" volunteer cultivation plan, injecting youthful energy into the high-quality development of the community.
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After the event, people visited the Hongguan Hongqiao Handicraft Base and the first exhibition. It is understood that the first exhibition of "Happy Rainbow" has 7 artists, the highest age is more than 91 years old, and the lowest age is more than 20 years old. Their works include nine art categories: calligraphy, seal cutting, Paper Cuttings, leaf vein painting, dough sculpture, sachet, knitting, etc. Many of their works have won national awards and honors. From the exhibition, we can see the passion and ingenuity of the artists for traditional culture. On the same day, the Rainbow Museum Children's Art Exhibition of "Encountering Yourself" was also displayed in the lobby on the first floor.
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