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People's Daily 2013-10-29 Reporter: Cao Lingjuan
On Oct. 26th, the 15th Shanghai International Art Festival "Young Artists Support Plan & Young Art Creation Week" came to an end in Shanghai Theatre Academy after its 8 days’ session. More than 200 performances, 31 workshops and lectures, 30 visual art exhibition, 64 micro-film.....The statistics shows that nearly 30,000 persons visited this festival. Shanghai International Art Festival and Shanghai Theatre Academy made this attempt to be the very successful debut.
It is our responsibility to find new talent.
Wu Chenghao, the 18 years old boy, is the freshman from Harford University. With the help of "Help the Young Plan", he created chamber music Ode to Baiji(Yangtze River Dolphin). 6 groups of the young, including Wu Chenghao, finished their original work about 20-40 minutes long separately under the direction from the committee of the art festival and with the festival as their sponsor. And the Festival will invite many people to watch, all from the international famous art festivals, the performance fair, the agencies or the theatre groups.
“The Festival didn’t belong to the famous artists and groups only.” Those words are from Wang Juan, the Director of China Shanghai International Art Festival Centre
Art is everywhere on campus, which is enlightening.
Young Artists Support Plan & Young Art Creation Week is a brand-new and long-term Serial Program co-started by STA and China Shanghai International Art Festival in its 15th anniversary. Jonathan Mills, the Director of the Edinburgh International Art Festival, admired the activity greatly, and he said, "It was excellent. So creative! "
Music, dances, operas, and plays have been on in STA Theatre, Duanjun Theater, New Space Theatre, etc. Outside the theatre, all kinds of arts, such as multi-media shows, live shows, micro films, etc, are presented in the classrooms, in the rehearsal hall, in the figure house, in the library, on the lawn, on the balcony…
“This is the best way to interpret the concept of ‘open school’”, said Guo Yu, the Vice President of Shanghai Theatre Academy.
Tan Dun, the Chairman of the committee of Young Artists Support Plan, said, “It is those young persons who will change our cultural history. Yet we, the society, did not give the young enough encouragement, or the proper stage especially set for them.” However, China Shanghai International Art Festival “managed to do that bravely".
According to David Farrell, the Director of the American Mid-Western College Art Association, “It is the very first time I saw people giving investment to the young artists and helping them to create works. I believe this is significant to the development of the artists and the communication between the artists in China.”
(Editor: Rongshu)
