A scene from a press conference last week at the Ministry of Culture and Tourism announcing the start of China’s Xinjiang Folk Art Season. (Photo provided by chinadaily.com.cn)
The first season of Chinese Xinjiang folk art is scheduled to begin on August 20 in Urumqi, capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism said at a press conference on Friday.
The event aims to promote the integration of culture and tourism by inviting folk art groups from different parts of the country to perform in Xinjiang.
The event will include exhibitions of peasant paintings, intangible cultural heritage projects and other cultural and creative products, while promoting travel routes in Xinjiang and setting up gourmet food markets.
Offline activities will be held in several stages from August 2024 to 2025 in markets, squares, shopping areas and tourist attractions across the region to allow participation from people of different ethnic groups. New media platforms will be used to promote the folk art season online.
A series of folk performances will be organized. More than 50 groups with about 1,700 performers will take part in the event and perform at the Urumqi Cultural Center.
According to Yu Jie, deputy director of the Xinjiang Regional Bureau of Culture and Tourism, stage productions will be held in some prefectures in Xinjiang from August 20 to the end of October.
