What kind of sparks will be created when youth art meets ancient water towns? This "May Day" holiday, we invite you to meet and enjoy a cultural event created in the name of youth and with the power of art!
From April 30th to May 4th, the first Youth Art Festival of Foshan City and the 8th Rural Tourism Cultural Festival of Lecong Town will be staged in Dadun Village, Lecong Town, Shunde District, which has the reputation of "Chengyang Water Town". Five theme days, a "1+9+N" art matrix, and nearly 20 cultural activities jointly activate the new charm of the ancient village.
In order to show the spiritual outlook of Foshan youth in the new era, promote young people to return to the countryside and rejuvenate their hometowns, help the construction of the "Millions and Thousands of Projects", lead young people to make contributions in social practice, cultivate the soil of artistic creation, shape a new paradigm, new scene and new format of water town life, and promote the integrated development of culture and art and water town culture and tourism, the Foshan Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League, the Propaganda Department of the Shunde District Committee of the Shunde District Committee (Shunde District Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports Bureau), the Shunde District Committee of the Communist Youth League of Foshan City and the People's Government of Lecong Town jointly organized the Youth Art Festival.
The Youth Art Festival will start from the perspective of "art x life", with the "1+9+N" art matrix as the main line, and through the integration of "art scene + art thinking and enjoyment + cultural meeting", create an immersive art event, gather artistic practices in the fields of calligraphy and painting, sculpture, lacquer art, music, photography, flash mob, etc., and bring together cultural resources such as food, dragon boats, and intangible cultural heritage, to create an art-based water town life field, realize the ideological empathy, life resonance, and value resonance between youth and society, and promote youth and the city. The two-way rush between youth and water towns.
The event will reproduce the advanced history of artists, and create five theme days: Yuepin Water Town (April 30), Art Charm Dadun (May 1), Chongwen Shangxue (May 2), Youth Art (May 3) and Art Time (May 4). Among them, the "Art Gathering Dadun" MIX Art Exhibition, which is a blockbuster event, will invite young artists to create a "1+9+N" art matrix, including a youth art exhibition that gathers excellent works of young artists, open 9 studios such as Zen Lacquer Studio, Ah Zhi's Tea Space, and Nanfeng Art Tribe, as well as N special exhibitions covering wall painting, photography, audio-visual, painting, calligraphy and other art categories, presenting a youth art show.
At the same time, for five consecutive days, a variety of cultural and artistic activities such as the Chengyang Water Township COUNTRYWALK, the "Nostalgia and Ancient Art" Intangible Cultural Heritage Aesthetics Exhibition, the "Wonderful Water Town" Water Market Collection, the "Music for Youth" Waterwheel Concert, the "Enjoy Creativity" Xiaogong Magic Gathering, the "Food Shang Dadun" Tea and Coffee Art Food Market, the "Art +" Dream Factory, and the Unbounded Thinking Art Tea Party will take turns to appear, and there will be cultural experience activities with water town characteristics such as high-pile lion dance performances, dragon lice performance competitions, and paddle board experiences, waiting for you to check in.
It is worth noting that this Youth Art Festival can be described as a gathering of big names. The event will unite the artists in Dadun Village to hold an open day to promote the exchange between young people and artists. The event will also invite young photography artists to walk into Dadun to carry out photographic sketches and discover the beauty of the water town from a professional perspective. Guo Qipeng, Shi Yueren, Fang Zhenpeng, Wang Jian, Li Jianming and other masters will also enter Dadun to carry out a series of cultural and art salons to promote the exchange of youth art concepts, further stimulate youth creativity, help cultural and artistic innovation and development, and gather young people's wisdom to empower the development of Dadun.
Dadun Village is located in the east of Lecong Town, adjacent to Foshan New Town. As one of the first batch of typical villages in Guangdong Province's "Millions of Projects", in recent years, Dadun Village has vigorously improved its living environment and achieved remarkable results. Here, the quaint buildings and the modern new city complement each other, forming a new rural picture with the characteristics of Lingnan water towns. Due to the beautiful ecological environment and profound cultural heritage, Dadun Village has attracted more than 20 artists to settle in. Today's Dadun Village is full of blooming flowers of art workshops: through the renovation of more than 20 old buildings, the creation of a series of leisure consumption projects such as art spaces, special restaurants, cafes, etc., Dadun Village has gathered to create an "art island", forming a new type of rural cultural tourism format, attracting many tourists to check in.
Youth creativity and the tranquility of the water town are linked to each other, and the artistic feelings and the charm of the water town are deeply intertwined, bursting out the creative passion of Foshan youth and the unique style of "Chengyang Water Town". This May Day holiday, let's walk into Dadun together, taste the Lingnan water town, and start an artistic journey!
The first youth art festival of Foshan City and the eighth rural tourism and cultural festival of Lecong Town
Text/Shunde financial media reporter He Yunyao
Photo/Propaganda Department of Shunde District Party Committee, Dadun Village, Lecong Town