Cultural Exchanges in April

1、The 2007 Sino-French Communication Festival

The 2007 Sino-French Communication Festival began on April 12 and will last till mid June.

The China-France Culture Communication Festival is a culture exchange activity supported by the Chinese and French governments after the success of Sino-French Year. Compared with last year's event, this year's festival features a larger scale, richer content and more categories of art with visual arts and stage arts included. More than 100 cultural performances ranging from operas, concerts, movies, dances and plays, to literature activities, architecture, photograph exhibitions and fashion shows will be held in 14 cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Dalian, Guangzhou, Chengdu, and Wuhan, with about 100 French and Chinese artists involved.

Among the various programs, two literary activities stand out: the recitation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's "The Little Prince" in French and Chinese and the poetry recitation activity "The Spring of Poets."

The popular activities which feature French culture, such as fashion shows, architecture and photograph exhibitions will be held next. A great many new French movies will be shown in Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Wuhan during the French Movie Festival.