On April 8th, the theme symposium of "Cheering for the Olympic Games and Joining Hands for the Future" was held in Beijing. Wu Aihua, head of the organizing committee of "Cheering for the Olympics", said that in the next three years of the Paris Olympic cycle, the organizing committee will launch the "Embrace Paris" cultural activities. The participants summarized the achievements of the "Cheer for the Olympics" project over the years and discussed the planning of the "Embrace Paris" cultural event.
The scene of the symposium
Wu Aihua introduced: "The IOC takes the concept of 'embracing young people' as the concept, and includes break dancing and other sports into the official competition items of the Paris Olympic Games. The organizing committee hopes to use its own resource advantages and cross-border promotion experience to work with the China Dance Sport Federation to open a cultural project with the theme of 'Embracing Paris', the promotion of street dance culture as the core, and the Sino-French exchange as the extension. Through sports competitions, art exhibitions, cultural education and other aspects to further deepen international cultural exchanges, so that Chinese culture to the world, let the world culture into China, and in this process to drive more urban forces to participate in it, coordinated development and win-win results. ”
Fan Yang, General Artistic Advisor of "Cheers for the Olympics"
Fan Yang, general adviser of the art of "Cheering for the Olympic Games" and postdoctoral tutor of the National Academy of Painting of China, said that the connotation of the contemporary Olympic movement has far exceeded the scope of sports competition, and it has become the largest stage and cultural event for exchanges and mutual learning among world civilizations, and its rich connotation and the importance of practical rules for human lifestyles are increasing day by day. As an important international exchange platform, "Cheers for the Olympic Games" showcases Chinese culture through artistic creation at the grand node of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, providing an important boost to the diversified supplement of olympic cultural heritage and providing display content for human civilization with a hundred flowers.
He Jialin, head of the "Cheers for the Olympics" Art Sketching Troupe (right)
Under the leadership of He Jialin, the leader of the group, the "Cheers for the Olympics" art sketching troupe has worked tirelessly since the launch of the project, and has continuously recorded many wonderful moments inside and outside the Olympic Arena through traditional Chinese calligraphy and painting art and presented them to the public through exhibitions. He Jialin said that in the past few years, "Cheers for the Olympics" has successfully held nearly 100 series of activities with diversified content and rich forms in dozens of cities at home and abroad, linking the China Artists Association and the artists and calligraphers associations of various provinces and cities to show the unique and colorful Chinese culture and fashion charm to the world through the Olympic platform.
"Cheers for the Olympics" Artistic Director Choi Kyung-cheol
Talking about the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, Cui Jingzhe, artistic director of "Cheers for the Olympics", said that Paris is a young and classical art city, which has a certain attraction for young people in the world, and the "Embrace Paris" project is an important platform for Chinese culture to go to the world, and we young artists will strive to participate in it, spread the Olympic spirit and Chinese excellent culture through Chinese art, and paint a more colorful humanistic world through paintbrushes to call on and guide young people.
At the symposium, Wu Aihua displayed a letter sent by IOC President Bach on the occasion of the conclusion of the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games, thanking the organizing committee and artists such as Fan Yang, He Jialin, Cui Jingzhe and Lu Junjie for their contributions to the integration of the Olympic Games and culture, and hoping to applaud the Olympic Organizing Committee and the artists' cultural activities with the theme of "Embracing Paris" to help the integration of diverse civilizations and learn together.
Cheers for the Olympics is a cultural and sports program authorized and hosted by the International Olympic Committee that aims to combine Chinese culture with Olympic culture. For several years from 2018 to 2022, the project has been promoting the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. Wu Aihua said that in the Paris Olympic cycle, the "Cheer for the Olympics" organizing committee will continue to hold a series of sports and cultural activities, through the Olympic stage, the use of sports culture, the pluralistic expression of the international element of sports culture, to show The world Chinese culture and art, for outstanding Chinese artists to build a platform to the world.