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Recently, college students from Zhejiang Conservatory of Music play piano music for tourists on the Hubin Pedestrian Street in Hangzhou. Photo taken by reporter Dong Xuming
At 8 PM on the 20th, the melodious sounds of folk songs were played near the campsite of Qianjiang Century City Park in Hangzhou.
Among the singers who performed that night was Wang Tianhang, born in 1995 from Hunan, who has been working in Hangzhou for three years. When he first came here, he felt that the streets of Hangzhou were “a little stuffy” —— Even in the most lively lakeside streets, people are often in a hurry.
After a road show and training, he decided to set up the “Hangzhou Street Sound Group”. Today, the group’s love of street performance has gathered more than a dozen singers, nearly half of whom are professional performers.
They meet together to perform, and discuss the difficulties encountered —— venue approval, power supply logistics, the audience access to performance information… everyone have a common feeling: the lack of a set of incentives to take artists to the streets sustainably, into the community, and the lack of service system of performers, venues and audiences together.
Not long ago, many of their fears were answered. On September 30, Zhejiang Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism launched the project of “Literature and Art Spark and beauty”.
The project aims to supply side and demand side bridge, organization mobilize art colleges and universities, public cultural institutions and other volunteers from all walks of life, in the community streets, square park to develop normalized art performance and promotion activities, with more point, high frequency, flow stage building urban art landscape, power universal art popularization, improve the city cultural taste and artistic temperament, and let the people better share the spiritual and cultural life.
Literature and art are the carrier of beauty. As the name suggests, the “Literature and Art Spark Fu Beauty” project is to make literature and art spread throughout the cities, integrate into the countryside, and beautify the whole society. In the opinion of Chen Guangsheng, secretary of the Party Group of the Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, the project of “Spark of Literature and Art” is a concrete action to promote the cultural prosperity of the whole region and the spirit of the whole people. There should be a new mechanism, so that literature and art are not limited to theaters and not confined to walls.
In the Southern Song Dynasty study in Qinghefang Historical district, students from the Dance School of Zhejiang Conservatory of Music brought “Dream Back to the Southern Song Dynasty”, “Dawn” and the environmental impromptu dance “Song of Youth” to show the Chinese memory with artistic performance.”In the past, most of the performances were in concert halls or theaters. In the future, we will present various forms of performances such as dance, piano, folk music, pop songs and opera at eight landmark points in Hangzhou, so as to bring elegant art to the people.”Xu Xiaoyun, head of the Youth League Committee of Zhejiang Conservatory of Music, said that around the project of” the flourishing of literature and art “, the college has established a normal working mechanism to help the common prosperity with the power of music.
The corner meets the good. No matter in the streets, parks, or in the art venues, songs and instruments can be heard everywhere…, such fresh scenery is emerging in every corner of the city and countryside. Hangzhou is the first to launch 15 street venues and 5 provincial venues, thousands of monthly art volunteers and continuous interactive art display; Quzhou regularly launched the “Water Pavilion night” immersive performance, daily performances, folk music, Western music… to create a web celebrity block of art performance.
In the future, the project will promote the provincial and municipal literary and artistic resources to sink and activate the whole social resources through mechanism innovation and model innovation.”With the ‘spark of literature and art’ to accumulate the poetry of life, cultivate the temperature of the city, gather the strength of good, better beautify the temperament of the city, point the rural charm, and vividly show the infinite style of ‘poetry and painting south of the South of the Yangtze River and dynamic Zhejiang’.”Said Mr.Chen.
As the night deepened, a mobile phone, a double row, a guitar, Wang sang emotionally, the audience, the audience unconsciously approached, lighting the flash of the mobile phone, music, waving the stars in the night sky.