The Amsterdam China Festival - the Most Versatile Chinese Art and Culture Festival Ever Presented

The Amsterdam China Festival - the Most Versatile Chinese Art and Culture Festival Ever Presented

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, Sept. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The Amsterdam China Festival, the most versatile Chinese art and culture festival ever presented, will take place in October 2005 in Amsterdam (the Netherlands). Over thirty Amsterdam art institutions will participate in the festival with activities such as music, opera, dance, film, photography, literature, architecture, visual arts, lectures and debates. The Amsterdam China Festival is an initiative of Het Concertgebouw.

Highlights

Highlights of the festival will be concerts given by the Beijing Opera Ensemble of Shanghai, Puppet Theater from Fujian, and concerts with the recently discovered 2,500-year old bronze bells of the Chinese Marquis Yi. Tan Dun, the successful Chinese composer, will be one of the festival's key figures who will give concerts of his own work, a large film program with his own music, and various lectures.

Old China and New China

The Amsterdam China Festival aims at showing a large public the most varied overview of China's offerings in the areas of art and culture. The festival will take its spectators on a journey of discovery into the old China and the new China, from today's pop bands to an overview of 100 years of Chinese film history, from traditional story singers to modern sculpture, from Chinese poetry to the most recent photography. The festival will open on Sunday, October 2 2005, with a spectacular open-air presentation in the heart of Amsterdam.

Media coverage

Volkskrant, the most widely recognized newspaper in the Netherlands, is the festival's media partner and will report extensively on the festival itself and background information. Also, the public broadcast network will be a media partner: in October of 2005, the festival will be extensively covered by radio and television, with news programs, documentaries, movies and concert registrations.

More than three million Euros

More than three million Euros have been budgeted for the festival, funded by corporations, the Dutch and Chinese authorities, and various private funding initiatives.

Current information and programs

For the most recent information and a complete program, please visit the festival's website at http://www.amsterdamchinafestival.nl/ .

Source: Het Concertgebouw

CONTACT: Camille Boyer of Het Concertgebouw, media coordinator, +31-20-5730586, c.boyer@concertgebouw.nl

Web Site: http://www.amsterdamchinafestival.nl/

NOTE TO EDITORS: For more information and/or photographs, please contact Het Concertgebouw's media coordinator, Camille Boyer, tel. +31-20-5730586, e-mail: c.boyer@concertgebouw.nl

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