On May 4, the award ceremony of the 2024 Shanghai Citizen Cultural Festival and the "Citizen Theater" Chinese and Foreign Family Drama Competition of Shanghai Jing'an Modern Drama Valley was held in the Jing Theater of Jing'an District Cultural Center.
As an important part of the Shanghai Citizen Cultural Festival and the "Citizen Theater" of Shanghai Jing'an Modern Drama Valley, the Chinese and Foreign Family Drama Competition aims to use the power of dramatic art to create a dramatic art atmosphere of "the city is the stage, and all the people are the protagonists". This is not only a feast of dramatic art, but also a stage for the practice of "social aesthetic education".
The online registration channel was launched on March 15, and nearly 2,000 groups of families signed up to participate. After fierce competition and online praise in the semi-finals, the 101 groups of "Beautiful Drama Homes" who successfully entered the preliminary round finally produced the "Top Ten Popular Homes", "Top Ten Creative Homes", "Top Ten Tacit Homes", "Top Ten Performance Homes" and "Top Ten Beautiful Drama Homes" awards.
Small Family, Big Energy, Drama Lights Up Life
The annual awards ceremony kicked off with the glamorous music of "Tough Love", and the five young actors of the Little Yingxing Art Troupe Musical Theatre Troupe showed their cute and charming voices and lively acting skills, instantly leading the audience to immerse themselves in the wonderful world of drama. The well-choreographed masterpieces and exciting award ceremonies used drama as a medium to connect every ordinary and moving beautiful life, and the true, kind and beautiful "family show" interpreted the urban spirit of Shanghai's "inclusiveness".
"One Family, One Play", in the growth show, "Encounter with Jingcai", "Yue Opera Chasing Fish", "Jiangnan Yao", "When I Get My Name in Lights" and "Hot Mom Dreaming" and other programs are jointly presented, bringing the audience a warm picture of family harmony. Father and daughter on the same stage, mother and son performed, and the warm family combination cooperated tacitly on the stage, jointly interpreting the warm power of growth and companionship, and conveying the important value of common growth with wonderful drama performances.
Now in its fifth year, the annual Chinese and Foreign Family Drama Competition has been held. Many families have been drawn to this stage by their love of theatre, where they have created and grown together. In the family exhibition, "A Nail", "Rubik's Cube and Instant Noodles", "Zootopia", "Little Coordinator", "National Treasure: The Legend of the Past Life of the Painted Wooden Maid" and other excellent works competed on the same stage.
With the expansion of the influence of the competition year by year, the theater art of children and adolescents promoted by family drama has sprouted. This year, the organizers were pleased to find that the number of "campus families" spontaneously formed by primary and secondary school students has exceeded 100 groups, setting a new high in previous competitions. Through the intensive cultivation of the competition, drama art is gradually integrated into the extracurricular life of primary and secondary school students, and has become an indispensable part of their growth.
At the ceremony, the repertoire "Xie Xide Fragment" and "Ordinary and Great" performed by the Red Remembrance Chapter presented the patriotic feelings hidden in the hearts of the children with affectionate interpretation and touching stories. The children's street dance "Hot Dance Boy" brought by the Children's Palace Friends Art Troupe of the China Welfare Association is a dynamic performance that shows the passionate and high-spirited spirit of the teenagers, and the children and teenagers are using their own ways to show the demeanor of the teenagers in the new era.
The illumination of the light of drama not only warms the hearts of the children, but also lights up the drama honor of the exclusive "family", which has become a warm memory of family happiness and a better life. At the award ceremony, many honorary awards such as "Top Ten Beautiful Drama Homes", "Top Ten Popular Drama Homes", "Top Ten Performance Drama Homes", "Top Ten Tacit Drama Homes", "Top Ten Creative Drama Homes" and Excellent Organization Awards were finally announced.
These honors are not only an affirmation of the outstanding performance of each family, but also an important inspiration for a happy and beautiful life for the family. Each award-winning family uses drama as a link to light up their lives with art and convey the positive energy of a harmonious society.
It's not just in the theater, it's all over the city
This year marks the fifth year of the Chinese and Foreign Family Drama Competition. Over the past five years, nearly 7,000 families from the Yangtze River Delta region and other provinces and cities across the country have demonstrated their deep emotional ties and diverse cultural heritage through theatrical performances. Through the art of theater, these families convey family affection, social development, and the spirit of the times. In order to record these touching behind-the-scenes stories and preserve these meaningful stage moments forever, the organizers of the competition compiled these stories into a book named "Drama Lights Up Life".
The launch of the new book represents the wide dissemination of these heart-warming drama stories, inspiring people's hearts, and making people feel the power and beauty of drama in ordinary life. At the award ceremony, the organizer presented this special gift of companionship and encouragement to the representatives of the participating families, hoping to inspire more families to go to the drama stage and jointly write a beautiful chapter of family drama and happy life.
During the 2024 Shanghai Jing'an Modern Drama Valley, the Jing'an District Cultural Center, as the "Drama Valley Base Camp", will simultaneously open the "Drama in the City" section. For the first time, this year's "Opera in the City" has achieved full coverage of performance sites, with the Jing'an District Cultural Center as the main venue, and branch venues will be set up in various streets and towns in Jing'an District from south to north.
More than 30 regional characteristic cultural spaces, more than 80 outstanding mass theatrical performances, together with the "More than in the Theater" series of activities and Chinese and foreign family drama competitions, provide more diversified theatrical art experiences for art lovers, highlighting the unique charm of Jing'an's theatrical landscape.
A series of drama-themed activities, such as drama performances, drama workshops, experience camps, and performance competitions, bring together professional theatre talents, theatre lovers, and theatre families, build a platform for the exchange of theatre art and a leisure space for the theatre community, and promote the integrated development of theatre culture and mass literature and art, so that the public can feel the charm and power of culture while appreciating theatre.