To mark the 70th anniversary of the Beijing Dance Academy, a series of online classes have been opened up to the public.
For the first time since its launch in October last year, Italian Screens — New Italian Cinema Goes Abroad, a project to boost international exchange, arrived in Beijing, where it held two events last Thursday and Friday.
The National Art Museum of China recently received a donation from the family of Li Jianchen (1900-2002) which comprised his 73 watercolors, oil paintings and Chinese ink works. They were on show as part of an exhibition to commemorate Li, hailed as "father of Chinese watercolor", held at the NAMOC from Nov 11 to 21.
Students from Beijing Film Academy staged an original Chinese play, titled Xiangyangli Building No 8, in Beijing on Nov 11 and 12.
The Jingju Theater Company of Beijing announced its latest contemporary Peking Opera production, Qi Baishi, which will be staged in Beijing on Dec 16 and 17.
Chinese play, Rickshaw Boy, based on Lao She's novel of the same title, will make its debut onstage at Tianqiao Performing Arts Center in Beijing on Dec 30, with shows running until Jan 1.
Basking in warm sunshine, the newly restored Jingfu Ge (Hall of Utmost Blessing), which is part of the Summer Palace in Beijing, is like an elderly person with a youthful face.
Bringing to an end the monthlong 10·15 Art Festival, some 100 guzheng (a plucked-string musical instrument) players performed at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing on Nov 15.
More than 30 works of art to include Chinese painting, oil, print, installation and video are on show at Art and Peace, a modern Chinese art exhibition opened on Nov 16 in Daejeon, South Korea, in a manner to intensify cultural exchanges between the two countries.
Director Zhang Lu slowly recalls how he took a mere 14 days to write the script of The Shadowless Tower — the biggest winner at the 13th Beijing International Film Festival earlier this year.
The city of Qionglai, located in Sichuan province in Southwest China, launched a mini-lecture program at the local Shifang Academy on Nov 16, inviting local cultural and historical experts to share stories about the history and culture of the city.