This pilot project aims to promote the profound cultural exchanges and fusions of ethnic minority areas, and strive to explore suitable ways and means of cultural services to build a system of public cultural services in border ethnic minority areas, and further promote the development and prosperity of ethnic cultures of border areas.
It is known that Tibet and Xinjiang will be selected for this project. On the basis of the work of supporting border areas like Xinjiang and Tibet, a series of activities of “A Travel to Border Areas” will build a new mechanism of cultural exchange between interior areas and border areas and finds new ways and means of cultural exchanges. Tibet and Xinjiang will recruit cultural volunteers in interior areas, who will be sent to these two places, groups by groups by stages, to organize “Big Stages—performances by cultural volunteers traveling to border areas”, “Great Lectures—lectures by cultural volunteers traveling to border areas” and “Grand Exhibitions—exhibitions by cultural volunteers traveling to border areas”. With the theme of "All ethnic groups unite and strive for common prosperity and development", theses activities will meet the spiritual and cultural needs of the people in border areas and enliven their cultural life with vivid artistic forms.
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Among them, the “Big Stages” will mainly be artistic performances, integrating vary artistic forms, such as singing and dancing, theatre play, witty skits, poem recitation, chorus, acrobatics and magic, and folk arts. Well-known performing artists and persons in mass culture will be invited as cultural volunteers to perform in cities and counties in border areas; “Great Lectures” focus on lectures and art instruction and teaching. Experts and scholars in circles of literary and arts, social science and idea promotion will be invited to do lectures on socialist core values and theories of cultures and arts to cadres, the mass and culture-promoting workers in border areas; “Grand Exhibitions” pay more attention to exhibitions of cultures and arts, which include exhibitions of cultural and art achievements, non-material cultural heritage, ethnic folk arts, cultural exposition, calligraphy and painting and photography, and animation works and playing of cultural promotion short films. On the Matchmaking Symposium, the Department of Social and Cultural Affairs requires that relevant provincial cultural sectors should study the need of the ethnic minority areas so as to make proper arrangements. They also need to build long-term mechanism of volunteer cultural services, delivering interior cultural resources to border areas, and border areas cultures to interior areas, so as to enhance the cultural and artistic level of ethnic minorities and border areas, the quality of the writers and artists and cultural activities and the capacity of public cultural services. Three major activities—“Big Stage ”, “Great Lecture ”, and “Big Exhibition”, must take into account local realities and respect local manners and customs.
From June 22 to 23, Ministry of Culture and State Administration of Cultural Heritage held a conference in Urumqi Municipality, Xinjiang. Immediately, the Ministry of Culture sent the first team of artists to perform in Kashi and Kezilesu Kirgiz Autonomous Prefecture, formally started the work of supporting Xinjiang culturally.
It is an important part of the work of supporting Xinjiang culturally to have famous artists forming teams to carry out performances in Xinjiang since it reflects the dear concern of the Party Central Committee, State Council and the whole nation for Xinjiang people, and the extreme kindness of writers and artists across the country to Xinjiang people.
Zhang Kaihua, deputy director of Department of Arts, said that apart from the performances by a team of artists in Kashi and Artux, the Ministry of Culture will organize another team of artists to perform in Xinjiang. Zhang also said that organizing artists to perform in Xinjiang will become a regular activity, and the purpose is only one, that is to send the care of the Party and government to Xinjiang people.
Photo Source: Baidu.com
Translated by: Zhu Hui
Editor: Tang Zhi
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