The events to be organized by participants will include two types: national pavilion days and special days, and special weeks and daily events organized by Chinese provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities.
More specifically, they will include national pavilion days, special days of international organizations, special days of cities, special days of enterprises, and special weeks of Chinese provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities.
Daily events include the Expo Theme Month and other everyday events. In the former case, thematic events will be organized for each of the six months during the duration of the Expo according to the programs offered by the participants. Through careful arrangement of these programs, visitors will be helped to appreciate the diversified global culture in a better way. The following is a preliminary schedule the Organizer has worked out: May: the Europe Month; June, the Africa Month; July: the America Month; August: the Oceania Month; September: the Asia Month; and October: the China Month.
3/22/10
Thematic events
Thematic events are planned by the Organizer. Staged inside the Expo Site with enthusiastic participation by the participants, they are designed to develop the theme of Expo 2010. These events will be divided into four series, namely, the folkway series, the festive series, the Youthful Expo series and community series.
Folkway series
These are events designed to promote national culture, interpret folkways and customs as well as show folk arts. Stage shows, on-square events, tours, designing and other events will be organized to spotlight native culture including intangible cultural heritages, thus promoting the dialogue, communication and integration between different civilizations. The Organizer welcomes participants to stage mini shows with local features and of different styles on such sites as their own pavilions, thus helping develop the theme of the Expo.
◇ Festive series:
Well-established cultural and art festivals at home and abroad will be celebrated at different venues in the Expo Site, or parts of them will be demonstrated.
◇ The Youthful Expo series
Included in this series are events masterminded by the Organizer. Featuring the theme of Expo 2010, they are designed to guide global trends of fashion and bring young people around the world together to exchange and share ideas as well as express their future dreams via the platform of the Expo. They will include mainly exchanges and creations by young people and Expo dreams of juveniles.
◇ Community series
These events are designed to show Expo visitors the unique culture of Shanghai communities and the good manners of local residents, as well as display the harmonious interaction between the urban communities in Shanghai.
Folkway series
These are events designed to promote national culture, interpret folkways and customs as well as show folk arts. Stage shows, on-square events, tours, designing and other events will be organized to spotlight native culture including intangible cultural heritages, thus promoting the dialogue, communication and integration between different civilizations. The Organizer welcomes participants to stage mini shows with local features and of different styles on such sites as their own pavilions, thus helping develop the theme of the Expo.
◇ Festive series:
Well-established cultural and art festivals at home and abroad will be celebrated at different venues in the Expo Site, or parts of them will be demonstrated.
◇ The Youthful Expo series
Included in this series are events masterminded by the Organizer. Featuring the theme of Expo 2010, they are designed to guide global trends of fashion and bring young people around the world together to exchange and share ideas as well as express their future dreams via the platform of the Expo. They will include mainly exchanges and creations by young people and Expo dreams of juveniles.
◇ Community series
These events are designed to show Expo visitors the unique culture of Shanghai communities and the good manners of local residents, as well as display the harmonious interaction between the urban communities in Shanghai.
Four stars join Expo firmament
Four high-profile stars were appointed ambassadors to Shanghai World Expo today, on the 50-day countdown to the event’s opening in May.
They are Hong Kong pop and film star Andy Lau, Beijing talk show hostess and businesswoman Yang Lan, gymnast and entrepreneur Li Ning from Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and contemporary classical composer Tan Du.
Lau was appointed Goodwill Ambassador, and said he looked forward to encouraging all Chinese people to promote the Expo.
Yang, also co-owner with her husband Wu Zheng of Sun Television Cybernetworks in Shanghai, was appointed the Image Ambassador. She said she will use her media working experiences to promote the event.
Li, who won 106 gold medals in competitions in China and abroad, became the Expo Health Ambassador.
Li, also chairman and founder of the Li Ning Company which sells footwear and sporting apparel, said he will hold various activities to promote the Expo.
Tan is the Culture Ambassador, working with American composer Quincy Jones on songs for the Expo.
Other Expo ambassadors include Hong Kong movie star Jackie Chan, pianist Lang Lang from Liaoning Province and NBA star Yao Ming from Shanghai.
They are Hong Kong pop and film star Andy Lau, Beijing talk show hostess and businesswoman Yang Lan, gymnast and entrepreneur Li Ning from Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and contemporary classical composer Tan Du.
Lau was appointed Goodwill Ambassador, and said he looked forward to encouraging all Chinese people to promote the Expo.
Yang, also co-owner with her husband Wu Zheng of Sun Television Cybernetworks in Shanghai, was appointed the Image Ambassador. She said she will use her media working experiences to promote the event.
Li, who won 106 gold medals in competitions in China and abroad, became the Expo Health Ambassador.
Li, also chairman and founder of the Li Ning Company which sells footwear and sporting apparel, said he will hold various activities to promote the Expo.
Tan is the Culture Ambassador, working with American composer Quincy Jones on songs for the Expo.
Other Expo ambassadors include Hong Kong movie star Jackie Chan, pianist Lang Lang from Liaoning Province and NBA star Yao Ming from Shanghai.
Spain Pavilion prepares performance feast
The Spain Pavilion will be turned into a cabaret that offers a feast to visitors every night by serving authentic delicacies and sizzling shows.
More than 50 Spanish artists will perform live at Spain's Expo 2010 pavilion, presenting performances that range from avant-garde theatre to soap bubbles and flamenco dancing.
The daily show will be staged twice, at 6pm and 8pm, in the pavilion's amphitheatre, which has 100 seats. A "tapas" menu degustation will be served at the same time.
Confirmed artists include Yllana, with their gestural humor theatre; Pep Bou, famous for his soap bubbles; the contemporary dance company of Sol Picó, the magic of Jorge Blass and Sergi Buka, Jordi Beltráns's marionettes or the fusion between flamenco and music by Bach or Mozart created by Miriam Méndes, along with many others.
More than 50 Spanish artists will perform live at Spain's Expo 2010 pavilion, presenting performances that range from avant-garde theatre to soap bubbles and flamenco dancing.
The daily show will be staged twice, at 6pm and 8pm, in the pavilion's amphitheatre, which has 100 seats. A "tapas" menu degustation will be served at the same time.
Confirmed artists include Yllana, with their gestural humor theatre; Pep Bou, famous for his soap bubbles; the contemporary dance company of Sol Picó, the magic of Jorge Blass and Sergi Buka, Jordi Beltráns's marionettes or the fusion between flamenco and music by Bach or Mozart created by Miriam Méndes, along with many others.
Parades to create sea of joy
More than 900 parades involving 23 floats will be staged citywide through the 184-day Expo as Shanghai hopes to spread the celebrations around the city.
Three routes have been designed, covering 2.6 kilometers in total. Two will be in the Pudong New Area, the main venue of the Expo site, and one will be in Puxi.
The 920 parades, five daily on average, are expected to attract 30 million visitors.
A number of sponsors for the upcoming fair and neighboring cities of Shanghai such as Zhoushan and Changshu yesterday signed cooperation documents with the organizer. The sponsors will contribute "floating pavilions" at the parades.
Three routes have been designed, covering 2.6 kilometers in total. Two will be in the Pudong New Area, the main venue of the Expo site, and one will be in Puxi.
The 920 parades, five daily on average, are expected to attract 30 million visitors.
A number of sponsors for the upcoming fair and neighboring cities of Shanghai such as Zhoushan and Changshu yesterday signed cooperation documents with the organizer. The sponsors will contribute "floating pavilions" at the parades.
Xikou employs Expo expat promoters
Eight expat promoters pose for picture
Xikou, a Chinese national 4A tourist attraction, will stage its exhibition in Pavilion of Urban Future and the zone employed eight expat promoters yesterday.
The eight come from countries such as Norway, Germany, USA, Morocco and Singapore. They either study or work in Zhejiang's Ningbo City, which governs the tourist zone.
Xikou tourism authority will offer them free passes to the town and the ambassadors will use their cameras and texts to showcase the tourist resort.
"This place is really attractive," said Ove Nodland from Norway, one of the eight promoters.
Students celebrate Expo speech
More than 200 students from Xiwai International School attended a lecture on 2010 Expo Shanghai on Thursday.
This is the sixth leg of the lecture series in local schools, enabling students to ask questions and stage performances.
Representatives from the Bureau of Shanghai World Expo Coordination presented gifts to the school. Students also took pictures with their guests and Haibao mascots.
Vishakha N. Desai: Global village, shared future
Vishakha N. Desai
Vishakha N. Desai, is now the president and chief executive officer of the Asia Society. She is the first woman and the first Asian-American to lead the educational nonprofit institution, which was founded to foster understanding between Asia and America.
It is with great pleasure that I add my voice to the individuals and institutions who are coming together to celebrate and congratulate the organizers of The World Expo 2010 Shanghai. Exchanges of this sort are vital as we look ahead to a shared global future.
This unique event celebrating the outstanding achievements of the city of Shanghai under the theme "Better City, Better Life" calls attention to a vision that all cities of the world should strive to achieve. We commend you on your successes and look forward to working with our friends in China as we explore together the Asia Society's mission of "preparing for a shared future."
Asia Society is a leading global organization working to strengthen relationships and promote understanding among the people, leaders, and institutions of Asia and the United States. We seek to enhance dialogue, encourage creative expression, and generate new ideas across the fields of policy, business, education, arts, and culture.
Founded in 1956 by John D. Rockefeller the 3rd, the Asia Society is a nonpartisan, nonprofit educational institution with offices in Hong Kong, Houston, Los Angeles, Manila, Melbourne, Mumbai, New York, San Francisco, Seoul, Shanghai and Washington, DC.
Asia Society has had a long history of constructive engagement with China over several decades: through quality programs, including high-level business conferences, symposia, international study missions, education initiatives, publications, art exhibitions and performing arts productions. Since the early 1980s the Society has reached out to a broad range of professionals and citizens interested in foreign affairs and culture. We strive to showcase the millennia-old civilization's artistic achievements of China and its ongoing legacy, manifest today in China's exciting contemporary art scene, of which Shanghai is a critical center. The Society held its signature corporate event, our 11th Asian Corporate Conference, in Shanghai in May 2000. We were delighted to work closely with all levels of government and the private sector to make this international event the ground breaking success it was.
Shanghai was China's pre-eminent international city for more than two centuries. Today, with Expo 2010, Shanghai, once again, reaffirms its international legacy. So it is with great pleasure that I write to congratulate you and wish the organizers of Expo 2010 and the City of Shanghai every success in this cross-cultural demonstration of a global village in the very real sense of the word.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)