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, The Netherlands, September 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 www.amsterdamchinafestival.nl.

Source: Het Concertgebouw

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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