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Holiday events list released by city tourism authority

By Hu Min | September 29, 2016, Thursday | Online Edition

SCENIC spots and parks across the city will host 59 events, from fireworks display, flower exhibition to music and food festival during the upcoming seven-day National Day holiday, the Shanghai Tourism Administration announced today.

Jazz, rock and symphonic music will be sounded at the Chenshan Botanical Garden with the staging of an international music carnival through the holiday. Musicians from the United States, Mauritius and Italy are ready to amaze visitors with their voices and talents.

More than 30,000 square meters of sunflower and coreopsis with orange, purple and pink colors will turn the garden in Songjiang District into a sea of flower.

Garden villa runs will be held at the Fuxing Road W. area and invite visitors to run along some historical buildings like the Normandie Apartments (Wukang Building) designed by renowned Hungarian architect Laszlo Hudec and the former residence of Soong Ching Ling, wife of Dr Sun Yat-sen. There will also be street flash-mob shows, creative markets and jazz concerts in the area during the festival.

The Shanghai Happy Valley will present a magic world with the opening of an international magic festival. Magicians from 10 countries will perform escape magic, illusion and close-up magic shows.

They will teach visitors how to perform magic.

The Binjiang Forest Park autumn outing season features an autumn flower exhibition, with more than 20,000 square meters of various flowers including calliopsis, sunflower and sulphur cosmos adding a splash of color to the river-side park.

The Jinshan City Beach will host a music fireworks festival with displays presented by teams from China, Canada, Greece and Mexico on October 2 and 6.

Visitors to the Gongqing Forest Park will be able to sip authentic Munich beer and enjoy jazz and rock music performed by international bands as a forest carnival and a forest beer festival have kicked off at the park, while about 300 sculpture works by 24 outstanding artists from seven countries and regions are exhibited at the Jing’an Sculpture Park.

At the Zhujiajiao Water Town, 47 bands from seven countries and regions and Rickie Lee Jones, a two-time Grammy Award winner from the United States, are gathered to dazzle music lovers with their performances.

The Zhujiajiao Water Town Music Festival features folk music, rock and electronic music. The festival also includes a creative market and a food culture exhibition.

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