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Head to the beach for all that jazz

The First Jazz Festival on Yalong Bay Beach, South China's Hainan Province, will run from April 27 to 28. Six international and local Jazz bands, including Jungle Cats, Liu Yuan Jazz Band, Rhythm Dogs, JR Jazz Band, Koh Mr. Saxman and Latin Project will perform for the gala.

Hilton Sanya Resort & Spa, Sanya Marriott Resort & Spa and Sheraton Sanya Resort, the three hotels who initiate the festival, are offering a special package from April 26 to 29 for the guests, who also get free entry to the festival.

The festival is meant to give tourists a unique and elegant holiday experience, organizers said. Proceeds from the festival will be donated to a charity fund.

It's a showbiz show and tell

The first session of the China Performance and Entertainment Expo will be held from April 20 to 23 in Changsha, capital of Central China's Hunan Province.

Jointly organized by the Ministry of Culture and the provincial government of Hunan, the event aims to build an authoritative platform for the exchange of performing and entertaining products. The expo has attracted art troupes and workshops, institutions, show business agencies and manufacturers from home and abroad. Various singing clubs will also be performing.

Organizers say the expo will contribute to the development of China's performing and entertaining industries.

Eye surgeon needed to restore Munch works

The theft-damaged Edvard Munch masterpieces The Scream and Madonna may require treatment by an eye surgeon to remove tiny splinters of glass during their restoration, the Munch Museum director said last week.

Lise Mjoes said an eye surgeon has skills and equipment for the removal of glass fragments without damaging the surrounding area.

The paintings were recovered by police last August, about two years after they were stolen by masked gunmen in a brazen daylight heist at Oslo's Munch Museum.

The Scream and Madonna were part of Munch's Frieze of Life series, in which sickness, death, anxiety and love are central themes. He died in 1944 at the age of 80.

China Daily-Agencies

(China Daily 04/18/2007 page18)