Introduction of Global Happy Spring Festival Activities

As one of the activities to tell the story of China, the Spring Festival is also a good way to show China. Some time ago, the tourism department of China released the Happy Spring Festival global project. It is also extremely important to celebrate the Spring Festival in China, show the world the latest development of China and show the traditional Spring Festival culture of China.

Key Projects of the World Happy Spring Festival in 2008

1. Washington State Cultural Association DC China New Year Family Day Series.

Venue and platform: Washington/Smithsonian Fowler Cecile Museum, American Art Museum, Meridian International Center, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Project introduction: institutional project, held for many years; Guangdong Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism cooperates with many mainstream cultural and artistic institutions in Washington to organize cultural groups and intangible cultural heritage inheritors to hold cultural performances and intangible exhibitions; There are many participants and strong interaction.

2. Central Ballet Dance Drama "Red Lantern Hanging High"

Venue and Platform: Washington/Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Project introduction: CMB is invited to give five performances at the Opera House of Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and hold master classes for students of local ballet schools, which is both marketable and instructive.

3. A group of 37 people from the National Peking Opera Theatre and 43 people from the Hubei Performing Arts Group "Bell Chinese Music" went to the United States to hold a "Happy Spring Festival" concert.

Venue and Platform: Chicago, Detroit, Muscatine, San Diego and Orange County/Chicago Symphony Orchestra Concert Hall, Detroit Symphony Orchestra Concert Hall and other mainstream theaters.

Project description: The college project has been held for 4 consecutive years; At the invitation of Chicago Tourism Board, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Muscatine Municipal Government and Yantai Friendship Association of San Diego, the above two groups will attend the launching ceremony of China in Chicago and hold special concerts, master classes and music lectures in local mainstream cultural institutions in Chicago, Muscatine, San Diego and Orange County.

4. "Happy Spring Festival" entered the United Nations.

Venue and platform: lobby of United Nations Headquarters

Project Description: At the invitation of the Permanent Mission of China to the United Nations, caeg Company plans to send 82 members of Suzhou Symphony Orchestra to perform "Happy Spring Festival" at United Nations Headquarters during the Spring Festival of 20 10.

5. Henan Art Troupe performed in South America, America and the Caribbean.

Location and Platform: Cura? ao, Houston, Dallas, Atlanta and San Francisco.

Project introduction: At the invitation of Cura? ao Cultural Center, Tian Li Foundation and Chinese Chamber of Commerce in San Francisco. During the Spring Festival in 2008, the Henan Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism will send a delegation composed of 24 artists from Henan Province to perform in the south, west and Cura? ao of the United States.

6. Guizhou Art Troupe performed in Las Vegas and other places.

Location and Platform: Las Vegas, Portland, Seattle

Project introduction: annual project; According to the arrangement of the Consulate General in San Francisco, the Guizhou Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism plans to send a 15-member art troupe to Las Vegas to participate in the "Desert Spring Festival Evening" and visit Portland and Seattle.

7. The 3rd Ice Dragon Boat Festival in Ottawa, Canada

Venue and platform: Ottawa, Canada

Project Description: Ottawa Ice Dragon Boat Festival has become the world's largest frost dragon boating competition, and it is also a hot spot during the Spring Festival in Canada. The audience of the first two ice dragon boat festivals exceeded 65,438+10,000. The Ottawa Ice Dragon Boat Festival is a fusion of China Spring Festival culture, dragon boat culture and Canadian people's favorite ice and snow sports, which is deeply loved by local people.

8. Melbourne Symphony Orchestra China New Year Concert.

Location and Platform: Melbourne, Australia

Project Description: In China, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra will hold a New Year concert for six consecutive years, inviting artists from Tan Dun, Hanggai band and Australia to perform on the same stage to celebrate the Spring Festival in China.

9. Auckland and Christchurch Lantern Festival

Time: February 14- 17 (Auckland), February 23-24 (Christchurch).

Venue and Platform: Auckland, Christchurch, New Zealand

Project Description: Founded in 2000, Auckland Lantern Festival is the most distinctive China traditional culture festival in Auckland and even New Zealand. Over the years, it has attracted many New Zealand politicians to attend, with an annual attendance of.

10. Opening Ceremony of China-New Zealand Tourism Year

Location and Platform: Wellington, New Zealand

Project Overview: During Premier Li Keqiang's visit to New Zealand in March 2008, he and the Prime Minister of New Zealand jointly announced 2008 as "China-New Zealand Tourism Year". In order to implement the results of the leaders' visit, the relevant departments of China and New Zealand plan to hold the China-New Zealand Tourism Year in 2008. The opening ceremony will be held in Wellington, New Zealand in February 2008.

1 1. Chile's "Spring Festival Celebration" performance and "Santiago 1000" international art festival tour.

Location and platform: Santiago, ViniadelMar, Chile.

Project Description: The "Spring Festival Celebration" in the coastal city of Vi? a del Mar has been held for 8 years in a row, attracting more than 1000 tourists every year and becoming one of the important local summer cultural activities. Santiago 1000 International Art Festival is one of the most important art festivals in Chile and Latin America. Since 2007, more than ten outstanding art groups have participated in it. In 2008, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism will send Hangzhou Art Troupe to Chile to participate in the above activities.

12. "Happy Spring Festival" Temple Fair in Argentina

Venue and Platform: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Project introduction: Buenos Aires Spring Festival Temple Fair was founded by local overseas Chinese in 2005, and has been included in the global "Happy Spring Festival" series since 20 12. It has become one of the largest overseas Spring Festival celebrations, and has been listed in the "Buenos Aires Celebrations" series by the local government of Buenos Aires, becoming a well-known cultural festival brand in Argentina. The Embassy in Argentina will continue to hold this activity in 2006.

13. Happy Spring Festival in Lisbon, Portugal

Venue and Platform: Martin Monish Square, San Carlos National Theatre, Lago Oichi Allard Theatre, etc.

Project introduction: The "Happy Spring Festival" in Portugal consists of three parts: square parade, Spring Festival temple fair and special performance. It has been held for five times so far, and 2008 will be the sixth. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Portugal, the "China Cultural Festival" and "Happy Chinese New Year" were held in Portugal in 2006. The National Peking Opera Theatre was appointed by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism to visit Portugal from February 6th to 13. The main activities include: on the evening of February 8, a special performance was held at the National Theatre of San Carlos, Portugal, with the play "Young Woman"; On February 9, he participated in the "Happy Spring Festival" performance and parade held in Martin Monish Square in Lisbon, and performed a classic passbook drama; On February 1 1, he performed "The Woman of Yangmen" at the Allard Theatre in Lago Oichi, southern Portugal.

Happy Spring Festival in Madrid, Spain.

Venue and Platform: Spanish Plaza, Madrid National Concert Hall, Madrid China Cultural Center.

Project Description: Happy Spring Festival in Madrid consists of China Temple Fair, special concert and "Walking New Year's Eve". The China Temple Fair, co-sponsored by the Spanish Embassy, the Madrid Community and the Madrid Municipal Government, is expected to attract about 200,000 Spanish people, overseas Chinese living in Spain and tourists from all over the world. At the invitation of the China Cultural Center in Madrid, a group of 39 members of the Central Opera House Chorus will give a solo and chorus concert on "Happy Chinese New Year" in Madrid National Concert Hall from June 5438+1 October 3 1 February12008. As one of the brands of "Happy Spring Festival", "Walking New Year's Eve" was held in Madrid for the third year in a row, aiming to show the charm of Chinese cuisine in all directions.

15. Happy Spring Festival at China Cultural Center in Berlin.

Venue and Platform: Berlin China Cultural Center, Berlin Potsdam Square Shopping Center, Berlin Red Town Hall.

Project Description: The "Happy Spring Festival" activities of China Cultural Center in Berlin include the Spring Festival gala and reception, the exhibition of non-legacy handicrafts, the Spring Festival movie gala, the Chengdu Food Festival and the tourism promotion meeting. With the help of the Happy Spring Festival brand, German venues and publicity channels, it aims to organically combine culture and tourism through a variety of activities such as song and dance performances, exhibitions of non-legacy handicrafts, photo exhibitions of tourism scenery, tourism promotion conferences, food festivals and film screening weeks. At the same time, it provides a platform for local (Hubei, Shenzhen, Chengdu) to display and promote cultural tourism resources.

Project introduction: London Chinatown Chamber of Commerce has been held continuously for 19 years, with an estimated audience of 700,000. Activities include performances, parades and fairs. It is planned to hold "Beautiful China" tourism promotion activities on the spot, broadcast China tourism promotional videos on the big screen, and build a tourism promotion platform.

17. Happy Spring Festival Temple Fair in Helsinki.

Venue and Platform: Pedestrian Street, Helsinki Central Street

Project introduction: The Beijing Municipal People's Government and the Helsinki Municipal Government of Finland jointly selected the scheme and jointly organized and implemented it. The Beijing Municipal Government is responsible for planning the transportation expenses for visiting Finland and international travel, while the he cheng Municipal Government is responsible for the local reception, venue and advertising expenses. This activity has been successfully held for 12 times, and has become a large-scale traditional winter cultural activity in the local area. This activity has been completely localized and expanded into a platform to promote all-round exchanges and cooperation between Beijing and the sister city Heshi in many fields such as culture, tourism, economy and trade, science and technology, sports and so on.

8. Light up Copenhagen

Venue and platform: downtown Copenhagen

Project introduction: The activity includes four parts: First, during the Spring Festival in China, China lanterns were hung in the most important commercial street in Copenhagen to illuminate the whole street; Second, merchants along the commercial street also hold "Fu" shopping festival activities, hang Chinese decorations such as China lanterns and Chinese knots, and distribute discount coupons and red envelopes for shopping malls; Third, hold a China waist drum parade in the commercial street with China lanterns to create a happy atmosphere for the Spring Festival in China; Fourthly, the China Spring Festival Temple Fair will be held in the exhibition center near the commercial street to display traditional handicrafts made in China and sell China goods.

9. French "Happy Spring Festival" series activities

Venue and Platform: Pompidou Art Center in Paris, China Cultural Center in Paris and Celsulcher.

Project introduction: including Gayak light show, jazz concert, Guangdong cultural heritage photography exhibition and other projects, highlighting the integration of literature and tourism. Among them, the Ronin Jazz Trio will hold two jazz concerts for mainstream French people and media in Pompidou Art Center on October 22nd and 23rd, 2008/KLOC-0. Pangtu Art Center is a world-famous cultural and artistic hall, and has the reputation of "the weather vane of contemporary art".

20. Happy Spring Festival in Thailand.

Location and Platform: Thailand

Project Description: Thailand is one of the countries with the longest history, the largest scale, the highest standards and the most influential activities in the world. Since 2004, with the strong support of the Thai royal family and the Chinese and Thai governments, the Happy Spring Festival in Thailand, jointly sponsored by our Ministry and the Ministry of Tourism and Sports of Thailand, has been successfully held for 14. The leaders of our department participate in every session and have extensive influence in all walks of life.

2 1. Chinese folk music concert (special)

Venue and platform: Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall, Moscow Art Palace, St. Petersburg Mariinsky Theatre.

Project introduction: Suzhou National Orchestra toured the mainstream theaters in Europe and Asia.

22. The launching ceremony of the China version of the Egyptian "Pyramid of Giza"

Location and Platform: Cairo, Egypt

Project introduction: A Chinese dubbing and opening ceremony was held for the famous Egyptian tourism project-Pyramid Acousto-Optic Performance Radio Drama, in order to attract more Egyptian tourists to Egypt.

23. "Happy Spring Festival" Temple Fair in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt

Location and Platform: Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt

Project introduction: send a comprehensive performance team to Sharm el-Sheikh to hold exhibitions and auctions of intangible handicrafts, acrobatic performances of singing and dancing, Chinese food display and street patrol activities of seaside carnival; At the same time, the "China Tourism Publicity Day" was held in Sharm el-Sheikh for tourists from all over the world.

24. Shaanxi Art Troupe went to Mauritius to hold "Happy Spring Festival"

Venue and Platform: Venue: JJ Theatre, China City; Platform: China Spring Festival Celebration hosted by Mauritian Ministry of Arts and Culture.

Project Description: On the evening of February 3rd, a Spring Festival Temple Fair will be held in Chinatown. The main contents include tourism promotion, food tasting, non-legacy display, lantern parade and so on. February 5 th

Project Description: 2008 is the Year of the Pig in China. Denmark is a big pig-raising country with developed organic agriculture, shipping and tourism. Copenhagen center, together with Danish pig raising and food processing enterprises, cruise ship operators, etc. Jointly organize Spring Festival cultural promotion activities, including cultural performances, pig farm flash shows and food tasting activities.

"Happy New Year in China" ignited the China New Year celebrations in Wellington.

Venue and Platform: Organized in cooperation with Wellington Municipal Government and Asia Project Foundation.

Temple fairs and float parades.

27. Warm-up activities of "Happy Spring Festival" in China Pavilion of the 39th Spain International Tourism Exhibition.

Venue and platform: Madrid

Project introduction: Culture and tourism are integrated, tourism sets the stage, and culture sings operas.

28. "Happy Spring Festival" Year of the Pig Stamp

Issuing ceremony

Venue and platform: Suva, organized in cooperation with Fiji Post Limited.

29. Happy Spring Festival Cultural Temple Fair

Location and Platform: Hong Kong

Project introduction: Supported by the Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Office of our Ministry, LCSD of the Hong Kong SAR Government, sponsored by the Propaganda Department of Guizhou Provincial Party Committee, and undertaken by Hong Kong United Art College and Asian Tourism Exchange Center. Organize Guizhou art groups, handicrafts exhibitions and travel promotion to Hong Kong, and carry out cultural activities for Hong Kong citizens in the form of cultural temple fairs to create a festive atmosphere.

30. Festival traditional handicrafts exhibition

Location and platform: Macau

Project Description: Sponsored by the Cultural Bureau of the Macao SAR Government and the National Folk Literature and Art Development Center of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, supported by the Propaganda Department of the Liaison Office of Macao and the Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Offices of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. This activity has been held continuously for 13 years. The exhibitions of traditional New Year pictures in Hunan and Shanxi, as well as the exchanges between Hunan Song and Dance Art Troupe and Macao, will be included in the framework of cultural activities of the Macao SAR Government during the Spring Festival.

3 1. Happy Spring Festival-Hebei Culture Month

Venue and platform: Kaohsiung

Project introduction: Integrate the characteristic culture and tourism resources of Hebei Province, go to Foguang Mountain in Kaohsiung for cultural display, and publicize the tourism resources of Zhangjiakou and the Winter Olympics.

32. "Happy Spring Festival" Henan Culture Week

Venue and platform: Kaohsiung

Project Description: With intangible cultural heritage exhibition, food exhibition and song-and-dance performance as the main contents, skilled non-genetic inheritors, food producers and outstanding song-and-dance actors will be sent to Foguang Mountain in Taiwan Province Province to carry out cultural exchanges, aiming at expanding the popularity of Henan cultural tourism and promoting cultural exchanges between Henan and Taiwan by relying on the brand of Happy Spring Festival.

33. "Happy Lantern Festival Show in Taiwan Province Province"

Location and platform: Taipei and Kaohsiung

Project introduction: Select the classic Shanghai-style handicrafts, show the unique charm and historical details of Shanghai-style culture to the people of Taiwan Province Province, celebrate the Lantern Festival with the people of Taiwan Province Province with grounded handicrafts and delicacies, and promote cultural exchanges between Fujian and Taiwan.

34. "Pig-China Zodiac Cultural Creation Exhibition"

Venue and Platform: Madrid, Malta

Project Description: The theme of this exhibition revolves around the China Zodiac culture. Through graphic exhibition, installation art and hand-made experience, we will further integrate China's non-legacy skills such as calligraphy and paper-cutting, display the traditional cultural elements of the zodiac in an innovative way, and cooperate with artists from both sides of the strait to promote Chinese culture overseas.

35. The second "Colorful Yunnan Meet Taiwan Province Province" cultural exchange activities.

Location and platform: Taipei and Kaohsiung

Project introduction: A team of 100 people will be sent to Taiwan, including the Cultural Exchange Theme Day, Yunnan Ethnic Buddhist Culture and Art Festival, the Second Cross-Strait Chinese Tea Culture Forum and Yuntai Exchange Tea Party, and Yunnan Special Food Culture Festival. The main activities will be held from February 1 to March 10, 2008. Among them, "Miao Jing Yunnan Buddhist Art Exhibition" and "Yunnan Painting and Calligraphy Photography Art Exhibition" will be held in June 5438+February, 2008 and June 5438+ 10, 2008, respectively, to warm up the follow-up activities.

38. Light up the theme cultural publicity activities of the 2022 Winter Olympics.

Venue and Platform: Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland

Project introduction: With the theme of promoting Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics and sharing China Spring Festival culture, the main activities include lighting ceremony, small-scale cultural performances and interaction with jiaozi. The President of the International Olympic Committee will be invited to attend and deliver a speech.

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