Original title: Lasting for four months, the art event continues to be exciting
2023 Zijin Culture and Art Festival opens
Beautiful golden autumn, sharing art event. On the evening of September 11, the opening ceremony of the 2023 Zijin Culture and Art Festival was held at the Grand Theater of Yancheng Culture and Art Center. Zhang Aijun, member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee and Minister of the Propaganda Department of the Provincial Party Committee, and Xu Ying, Vice Governor, attended and opened the art festival.
The Zijin Culture and Art Festival has gone through 6 years so far. With its distinctive contemporary nature, exquisite artistry and broad mass appeal, it has become a platform for displaying the strength and quality of Jiangsu’s literature and art, a platform for exchange of literary and artistic achievements and literary talents, and a platform for the people’s spirit. A sharing platform for cultural life.
This Zijin Culture and Art Festival is hosted by the Propaganda Department of the Provincial Party Committee, the Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, and the Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles. It continues to adhere to the purpose of “an art event and a people’s festival”. The event will last until December, with opening and closing performances, stage art performances, Art works exhibition, “Art Moves Youth” exhibition of outstanding young artistic talents in Jiangsu, college student drama performances, Zijin Theater repertoire performances, art film screenings, mass cultural activities and other sections, covering drama, music, art, calligraphy, folk crafts and other categories Nearly a hundred events. The arts festival covers the entire province, with a main venue in Nanjing and branch venues in Yancheng, Huai’an, Suqian and Yangzhou. 30 new stage performances will be presented to more than 20 theaters across the province. During the Art Festival, mass cultural performances and exhibitions were also carried out across the province to meet the people’s cultural needs with high-quality cultural supply and enhance the people’s spiritual strength. In order to further promote the construction of a culturally strong province and write a new chapter in Jiangsu’s modernization construction of “Strong, Rich, Beautiful and High” The chapter brings together powerful spiritual power.
The opening performance that night was the large-scale new Yangzhou opera “Zheng Banqiao” created and arranged by the Yangzhou Yangzhou Opera Research Institute. The play interprets the artistic life of Zheng Banqiao, a representative figure of the “Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou”, in an upright and innovative way. While showing his noble character and people-oriented thoughts, it also arouses the audience’s deep insights and thinking. (Gu Xingxin and Zhou Xian)
