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Wawa (Doll), oil painting by Shen Dapeng, to feature at the art festival. |
The 2007 Beijing 798 Art Festival will be held from April 28 to May 12 at the internationally renowned art zone in northern Beijing.
The art gathering will present a great variety of programs including the Affordable Art exhibition for young and emerging artists, exhibitions for new media artists from China, the United Kingdom, Germany and other parts of the world, according to Zhu Qi, the curator-in-chief of the event.
Converted from a huge Bauhaus-style arms plant designed in the 1950s by East Germany architects, the 798 Art Zone in northeast Beijing is a haven to at least 300 art studios, art galleries, theatres, cafes, and shops with investment from all over the world. In 2006, the 798 Art Zone has been designated as one of the 10 clusters for creative industries by the Beijing Municipal government.
Why journalists must rise to the ethics challenge
Serge Dumont, senior vice-president of Omnicom Group and UNAIDS special representative, said "journalists and communications professionals must be among the most honest and most ethical people in society." Dumont was speaking at the School of Journalism and Communications of Tsinghua University last week.
He believed that "corruption of these people was truly the worst possible outcome", and hoped today's students would rise to the challenge.
His speech at the award ceremony of the Fourth Serge Dumont-Tsinghua Communications Scholarship was particularly encouraging for six students, who won honors for their essays on "How to enhance ethics among journalists and communications professional."
Two of the students were awarded three-month internship with the United States AIDS Program in Geneva and Bangkok, learning from global health professionals to tackle one of the world's most serious health threats.
The scholarship program is supported by the Serge Dumont Fund and jointly administered with the China Youth Development Foundation. It was launched in 2004 to encourage students to enter the strategic communications field. So far, 34 students have benefited from the program through an annual essay competition.
Call for experts to protect cultural treasures
There is an urgent need for professional talent in the field of intangible cultural heritage protection, said Zhou Xiaopu, an official from the Ministry of Culture, on March 22 at the start of a new semester for post-graduate students majoring in this field from the China Art Academy.
To meet the demand, the academy has been organizing training courses in folk culture, music, arts, handicrafts and anthropology since last October. This year, more than 50 officials from different provinces all over China will take up studies in culture protection for the second semester.
Wu Bin'an, a folklore expert said increasing tourism is inflicting extensive damage on resources of intangible cultural heritage. Even the protection work in some areas has become commercialized, he added.
China Daily
(China Daily 03/30/2007 page18)
