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2nd Ningbo Citizen Culture & Art Festival to be held
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- Category: Ningbo News
- Published: Tuesday, 01 September 2015 08:28
The second Ningbo Citizen Culture & Art Festival will be held from September 1 to November 30, with the theme of "culture unites the city power, art lights people's dream", and over 190 cultural events will be staged one by one.
According to Zhang Aiqin, Deputy Director of the organizing committee of the festival, centered on the central urban area, this year's session will stage various activities at both the municipal and county (district) levels. The activities at the municipal level will include the opening ceremony of the festival as well as the "cultural evening fair", 70 activities (themed respectively singing and dancing, image of Ningbo, book reading and opera shows), and the closing ceremony. There will be 122 activities organized at the county or district level, covering various cultural and art competitions, writing, painting and photography exhibitions, folk cultural celebration and performance, grassroots cultural shows, and cultural and art training and lectures.
It is worth mentioning that the opening ceremony to be held at Ningbo Culture Square on the evening of September 1 will be a cultural and art carnival. Over 600 performers, both professional and amateur, will perform various shows to demonstrate such cultural characteristics of Ningbo as a historic cultural city, an international port city and a city full of love. During the six-day "cultural fair", the major events will include Ningbo cultural talent show, the elegant cheongsam show, the square dance competition, the children's talent show and the animation and game carnival.
In addition, the public service platform titled "Cultural Ningbo" will be officially open online since September 1, when the citizens can have access to the rich cultural information services by such five channels as the official website of "Cultural Ningbo", the Wechat number of "Cultural Ningbo", the "Cultural Ningbo" APP, the "Ningbo Culture and A
