A colorful cultural feast to appreciate the new charm of the ancient capital. During the "May Day" period, Dongcheng District created a series of colorful cultural activities to promote Chinese culture, show the charm of the ancient capital, promote cultural consumption, and attract tourists and citizens to share wonderful holiday moments. From the national style market to the second-hand book exhibition, from art performances to trendy experiences, each event is an affectionate tribute to Chinese culture and a perfect display of the charm of the ancient capital of Beijing, which will show tourists and citizens from all over the world the profound cultural heritage and modern urban charm of Dongcheng District.
More than 140 cultural activities and more than 600 performances will be held in the district. The rich and colorful activities dressed up the "Beijing" colorful moment in Dongcheng, and further highlighted the development concept of "Chongwen Striving for the First", so that more citizens can fully enjoy the fruitful results of the construction of "Cultural Dongcheng".
This "May Day" to Dongcheng, let us go to the Dongcheng appointment of "Trace", "Drama", "Fun" and "Dream", and harvest a holiday joy -
Tracing the East City
"Old Books, New Knowledge, Bells and Drums, Book Rhymes" Cultural Market
From May 1st to May 5th, the Dongcheng District "Old Books, New Knowledge, Bell and Drum Book Rhyme" cultural market was held in the Bell and Drum Tower Square. The theme of this cultural market is "Reading and Enjoying Youth" special exhibition of celebrity books and biographies. The event gathers the Qianmen store, Dengshikou store, Yanyinglou store, Xinjiekou store, foreign bookstore and Xinhua bookstore for the high-quality book collection of Bao Bookstore and other units, and vigorously promotes the brand of "old books and new knowledge" through exhibitions, experiences, acquisition and exchange of old books, implements the cultural concept of "let old books find new confidants and gain new knowledge from old books", and prospers the Beijing used book market.
"I'm in the Drum Tower" life festival
From May 1st to May 5th, the Beijing Bell and Drum Tower Cultural Protection Institute, Nanjing Gulou District Culture and Tourism Bureau, and Nanjing Drum Tower Cultural Tourism Group carried out the "I am in the Drum Tower" life festival linkage activity, which was staged in Beijing Bell and Drum Tower. The event will last for 5 days, including 6 sections, including national style market, intangible cultural heritage crossover, music and dance, art exhibition, Hanfu parade and interactive amusement, covering nearly 90 market stalls, 1 open-air movie, 2 traditional folk music performances, 5 outdoor concerts, 3 Hanfu parades, 3 intangible cultural heritage cross-border performances, and nearly 10 interactive amusement experiences.
"2024 Qianmen National Wind Festival" event
From April 28th to June 30th, the "2024 Qianmen National Wind Festival" will run through the Qianmen Commercial District and Qianmen East District. With the theme of "National Style Beijing Rhyme, Tide XING Qianmen" and the theme of "Blooming, Leisurely, and Cruising", the event will further create a unique new landmark of national tide cultural consumption in Qianmen area, become a place where national style and trend meet, jointly explore the integration of Chinese traditional culture and fashion trends, and inject new vitality and impetus into the cultural development of the city.
Longtan Zhonghu Park • 2024 Capital Citizen Garden Festival
Longtan Zhonghu "Energy Awakening Season" activity
From April 30th to May 5th, it will be held in the area of the park's lake island. With the theme of "Hello, Garden City", the Capital Citizen Garden Festival is composed of eight sections, including the Citizen Garden Exhibition Competition, the Beijing Garden City International Summit Forum, the Capital Greening and Beautification and Garden City Construction Achievement Exhibition, the Publicity and Implementation of the Ecological Guide Route of the Nature Notes and Ecological Civilization Publicity and Education Base, the Citizen Gardening Style Competition, the Garden City Publicity Poster Design Competition, the Ecological Cultural Activities of the Gardening Station, the Beijing Ecological Gift Cultural Market, and the "Community Neighborhood Festival" Linkage Warm-up Activities. The concept of sharing opens up the last mile of ecology and people's lives. The "Energy Awakening Season" of Longtan Zhonghu is composed of six sections: super hot sweat, super fun, super hot, super exchange, super happiness and super screening. A number of fitness clubs will be invited to participate in the event, bringing wonderful fitness and fat burning performances and on-site interactive experiences such as combat exercises, zumba, and salsa dance to the public, and the activities will continue until June 30, and more exciting activities will be presented to the public every weekend.
Red Bridge Cultural Tour
From May 1st to May 5th, Hongqiao Market organized nearly 200 volunteers to explore the historical charm of Hongqiao and witness the new look of the times. Stroll along the Jewelry Design Avenue, feel the design inspiration and exquisite craftsmanship behind each piece of jewelry up close, open the mussel shell with your own hands, discover the pearls hidden inside, and reveal the brilliant charm of pearl culture behind the "first pearl in Beijing" in Hongqiao Market. In the intangible cultural heritage dissemination incubation park, volunteers participated in the intangible cultural heritage handicraft experience, touched the skills passed down from generation to generation, and felt the vitality and immortal value of intangible cultural heritage. Experience the boom of live streaming at the Hongqiao e-commerce live broadcast base, and see how the old state-owned enterprises can take advantage of technological transformation to rejuvenate themselves.
Seeking Drama East City
Original Drama "Gui Street"
From May 3rd to 5th, it officially premiered at the Nanluo Theater. This play is jointly planned by the Propaganda Department of the Dongcheng District Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Dongcheng District Culture and Tourism Bureau and the Beijing Children's Art Theater, and is jointly planned by the well-known domestic drama director Wang Ze and screenwriter Wang Su, together with the excellent performing arts team, to bring Beijing food to the stage, with four stories of Guijie to restore the traditional Beijing cultural characteristics and life atmosphere, showing the changes and development of Guijie for decades and the rise and fall of the fate of several generations, so that the audience can enjoy the plot at the same time, but also be able to have an in-depth understanding of history and culture, appreciate the historical changes of Guijie, and tell the "story of Dongcheng".
"There is a play in the hall" series of performances
During the "May Day" holiday, the immersive opera "Nancheng Memory - "Old Gate God" will reproduce the legend of Jinghua, incorporating a variety of music forms such as ox bone counting treasures, pulling foreign films, as well as single strings, drums, cross talk, allegro, etc., cleverly reflecting the changes of the times. The special session of the Big Comedy Crosstalk Paint Hall will continue to be held, presenting the most authentic Beijing jokes to the audience. The special performances will continue until after the festival, and performances such as Peking Opera excerpts "Heavenly Maiden Scattered Flowers", "Small Banquet", "Shilang Visits Mother", and traditional Yue Opera "Wang Laohu Robbing Relatives" will be held in mid-to-late May.
Immersive drama "The Great True Detective Zhao Catches the Goose 2"
From May 1st to 31st, in the 77 Cultural and Creative Park, the immersive interactive drama "The Great True Detective Zhao Catches the Goose" produced by Beijing Catch Ma Aix Culture Media Co., Ltd. will be staged, this play is adapted from the true story of the genius catcher murder series "The Great True Detective Zhao Catches the Goose", the first part of which will be successfully staged in the 77 Theater in 2023, and has received a huge response from the market, and the second part will be launched this year, which has been officially staged on April 3, and it is planned to be performed until the end of July.
Comedy show "Stay Up All Night and Reunion"
On May 4th, the "Late Stay Up Team" of Beijing Improvised Culture Media Co., Ltd. brought the comedy show "Staying Up All Night Reunion" at Nanyang Sharing. For five consecutive years, the Farce Theatre has been deeply engaged in the fields of "improvisational comedy performance" and "sketch comedy creation", aiming to cultivate outstanding talents and deliver high-quality content for the Chinese comedy industry, provide students with a more professional learning experience, and provide the audience with happier performance content.
Improvisational Drama Intensive School
From May 1st to May 3rd, in Jinyu Jintai Sharing, Companion (Beijing) Cultural Development Co., Ltd. set up an improvisational drama training class, using three full days of high-intensity training courses to explain the basic theory of improvisational comedy, and combining professional performance skills with improvisation theory full experiential teaching, which has both a solid theoretical foundation and an enjoyable immersive practice, ensuring that students gain a lot and learn "brain hypoxia"!
Fun East City
"East of the Forbidden City" is a special special event limited to Beijing city
From April 26th to June 9th, the Beijing city-limited special project launched by "East of the Forbidden City" and content co-creation partner Bubble Mart landed in the theme space of the Bell and Drum Tower Cultural Square. During the event, Bubble Mart launched a new series of Beijing-limited cultural and creative products full of Beijing flavors, and simultaneously launched the first city-limited CITYWALK route - an in-depth visit to the "east of the Forbidden City" with LABUBU, selected more than 20 characteristic cultural consumption scenes around the Bell and Drum Tower and the "Cultural Golden Triangle" area, made a city check-in map, online and offline linkage publicity, and merchants jointly bundled marketing, driving the overall popularity of cultural and tourism consumption in the whole region.
NEED! FLEA市集
From April 30th to May 5th, it was held in Longfu Temple Cultural and Creative Park, and after seven months, the original youth market label returned again. NEED! The first stop of FLEA 2024 Beijing Longfu Temple gathered 177 popular stall owners from 32 cities across the country to present a diverse and interesting Gen Z cultural scene. In addition to the market, there will be independent musicians, artists, and DJs from different cities such as Beijing and Shanghai. Different from the regular market stalls, the newly upgraded and exclusive workshop area debuts in Longfu, inviting you to unlock more interesting experiences.
Longfu Temple "100 Youth Art Season" curatorial unit
From April 20th to May 19th, the curatorial unit of "100 Youth Art Season" of Longfu Temple was held in Longfu Temple Cultural and Creative Park, and Longfu Temple joined hands with youth culture and art IP "Youth Art 100" to create the most eye-catching art scene of the year. Interpreting youth art in a youthful way.
"Hello! Fantastic Beasts" Rare Animal Ecological Exhibition
From May 1st to August 31st, the "Hello! Fantastic Beasts" rare animal ecological exhibition will be held in Longfu Temple Cultural and Creative Park, which will gather rare animal specimens from nature in Longfu Temple, and present an interesting and colorful animal specimen theme tour exhibition for the capital, build a bridge connecting the city and nature, and interpret the life story of nature with immersive, exploratory and scene-based triple experience, so that the audience can be in the city and have their hearts towards nature.
Dream Hunting East City
Dongcheng District Library Series Theme Exhibition
The online exhibition of "Casting Brilliance with Ordinary - Excellent Deeds of National May Day Labor Medal Winners" aims to pay tribute to every struggling worker by introducing the outstanding deeds of the National May Day Labor Medal winners in recent years, further promote the spirit of model workers, and gather the strength to forge ahead. Online exhibitions such as "Young Heroes in the Centennial Journey" will be held to show that generation after generation of Chinese young people have closely linked their personal ideals with the destiny of the motherland and the people, and have actively devoted themselves to the great cause of revolution, construction and reform led by the Party. The "Praise of Laborers" photo contest was held, relying on the "Scholarly Dongcheng National Reading Platform" to show the diligence and tenacity of workers in their respective positions.
Longtan Street "Dream Longtan Cross Talk Show" special performance
On May 1, Longtan Street held a special performance of "Building Dreams Longtan Crosstalk Show" to pay tribute to workers in the Workers' Cultural Palace of Dongcheng District. Jiang Kun, a famous cross talk artist and former chairman of the China Quyi Artists Association, Li Jindou, a famous cross talk artist and national first-class actor, and Dai Zhicheng, Wang Wenlin, Li Zengrui, Zhen Qi and many other cross talk masters performed on stage, bringing an audio-visual feast to the audience.
Jianguomen Street Youth Festival theme poetry recital
With the theme of "Enjoy the Charm of Reading and Feel the Beauty of Multi-ethnic Harmony", it will be held on May 6. Through the recitation of classic chapters such as "Long Live Youth", "Beautiful China", "Blooming Flowers of National Unity" and "Youth China", the young generation's remembrance of the revolutionary martyrs, the praise of the Communists' eternal original mission, the expectation of the young people and the infinite love for the great motherland are interpreted.
Text: Propaganda Department of the District Party Committee
Picture: Farce Theater Zhang Zhigang Zhao Chengshun Nanluo Theater Hongqiao Market Subscription Account Jintai Sharing International China Art Newspaper Fun Exhibition Dongcheng District Library
Some of the images are from previous issues