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Efforts to cultivate culture through films, music and art
By Wang Lihui and Zhao Wen |
July 25, 2011, Monday
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IN recent years, Jiading has spared no efforts to promote cultural feasts and arts in order to attract more people to learn and get involved in such activities.
This year was the first time that the films for the Shanghai International Film Festival had been shown in Jiading.
"Although the movies are from different countries, many of them reflect the inner state of people in the consumption era. All the movies were fantastic, especially a Hungarian movie called 'Kontroll'," said Guan Yusheng, a Jiading resident who used to go to downtown cinemas to watch movies. Last month, Guan bought 14 tickets from Jiading Cinema during the film festival and took his wife to see different films everyday.
Guan said the film festival was regarded as the fastest and most cost-effective way for Jiading people to learn more about the world.
According to Jiading Cinema, the 18 movies shown were from 12 countries and regions, with an average attendance rate of over 80 percent, among which Japanese film "Love Letter," German film "Unter Nachbarn" and Polish film "Wenecja" were all packed when screened.
"I wish I could see movies from the film festival every year in Jiading," said Guan. A great many people in Jiading have the same expectation as Guan.
On July 9, Xiao Chen won thunderous applause at the guqin (plucked seven-stringed instrument) training class at Xincheng Road Neighborhood when she played the instrument.
Chen, a freshman at Tongji University, fell in love with guqin, after she read the Chinese novel "The Smiling Proud Wanderer."
However, she found it was too expensive to learn from a professional teacher at Shanghai Conservatory of Music. The tuition fee ranges from 300 yuan (US$46) to 400 yuan per class.
Last August, the first guqin training class in Jiading District opened at the cultural center in Xincheng Road Neighborhood.
The class was taught by Dai Xiaolian and Gao Shan, who are professors of folk music from Shanghai Conservatory of Music. The tuition fee is much lower.
Guan Wei, vice director of the cultural center at Xincheng Road Neighborhood, said currently the guqin class has a total of 16 students with an average age of 35 years old.
From July, the neighborhood plans to open a pilot guqin class at Xincheng Road Primary School to expand the training group.
This year was the first time that the films for the Shanghai International Film Festival had been shown in Jiading.
"Although the movies are from different countries, many of them reflect the inner state of people in the consumption era. All the movies were fantastic, especially a Hungarian movie called 'Kontroll'," said Guan Yusheng, a Jiading resident who used to go to downtown cinemas to watch movies. Last month, Guan bought 14 tickets from Jiading Cinema during the film festival and took his wife to see different films everyday.
Guan said the film festival was regarded as the fastest and most cost-effective way for Jiading people to learn more about the world.
According to Jiading Cinema, the 18 movies shown were from 12 countries and regions, with an average attendance rate of over 80 percent, among which Japanese film "Love Letter," German film "Unter Nachbarn" and Polish film "Wenecja" were all packed when screened.
"I wish I could see movies from the film festival every year in Jiading," said Guan. A great many people in Jiading have the same expectation as Guan.
On July 9, Xiao Chen won thunderous applause at the guqin (plucked seven-stringed instrument) training class at Xincheng Road Neighborhood when she played the instrument.
Chen, a freshman at Tongji University, fell in love with guqin, after she read the Chinese novel "The Smiling Proud Wanderer."
However, she found it was too expensive to learn from a professional teacher at Shanghai Conservatory of Music. The tuition fee ranges from 300 yuan (US$46) to 400 yuan per class.
Last August, the first guqin training class in Jiading District opened at the cultural center in Xincheng Road Neighborhood.
The class was taught by Dai Xiaolian and Gao Shan, who are professors of folk music from Shanghai Conservatory of Music. The tuition fee is much lower.
Guan Wei, vice director of the cultural center at Xincheng Road Neighborhood, said currently the guqin class has a total of 16 students with an average age of 35 years old.
From July, the neighborhood plans to open a pilot guqin class at Xincheng Road Primary School to expand the training group.
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