Festival fun in Hongqiao
A foreign band performs at a public garden in the Hongqiao area over the weekend for the annual art festival.
Over 150 art performances from home and abroad are being presented in Changning District through the end of the year for the Hongqiao tourism, shopping and art festivals.
Over 800,000 residents and tourists are expected at the annual carnival, part of Changning’s efforts to become an “international quality district,” the local government announced on Saturday.
Professional arts groups from 15 nations and regions, including Sweden, France, South Korea, Macedonia, Italy and Finland, will perform at communities in Changning as part of the art festival, said Fang Lei, director with the Changning culture bureau.
For the shopping festival, Takashimaya Shanghai Store will launch a series of exhibitions and cultural events on Japanese culture during the National Day holiday. Ikebana, the Japanese art of decorative flower arrangement, will be showcased, along with dyeing and weaving artworks from Kyoto.
A musical performance at a public garden in the Hongqiao area over the weekend.
A shopping mall in Changning District is brightly lit for the annual Hongqiao shopping festival.
Students from local international schools will perform for the public at the shopping festival's “Shanghai Family 2018 International School Exhibition.”
Three sites join this year's shopping and art festivals for the first time with fashion shows and art exhibitions. They are the Yuyuan Road historic conservation area, which is under a major revamp, the Columbia Circle on Yan’an Road W., a renovated hub for fashion and leisure arts formerly owned by the Shanghai Institute of Biological Products, and Xing Fu Li, or Happiness Lane, a creative park developed from a former rubber factory.
Several micro tourism routes will be released with maps in English and Chinese for residents and tourists showing 102 historic buildings in Changning, many of which are related to the history of the Communist Party of China, said Fang.
Hundreds of residents' old photographs and stories are also featured in an exhibition for the art festival, the district government said.
