On March 30, the Shanghai Grand Theater launched its first themed art experience day in 2024, "Spring Day Drama", bringing a series of various art popularization activities.
This Art Experience Day combines World Theater Day and theater culture to carefully plan art popularization activities suitable for all ages, which are divided into five major sections: theater opening, art exhibition, space games, interactive workshops, and handicraft salons.
has three interactive workshops for audiences of different ages: "From Voice to Body" musical voice training, inviting friends who are interested in musicals to experience the daily training of musical actors. Professional musical actors use physical, performance and lyrics training to open up the body, build an inner sound map, and master the ability to sing happily.
On the eve of the second season of the "Flowers" stage play, the "Flowers" Shanghainese Drama Workshop combines Shanghainese dialect with literary and drama works, inviting audiences over 16 years old who are interested in Shanghai culture, drama or Shanghainese language to participate in the Shanghainese language class Experience authentic literary drama.
The children's creative drama experience of "Zhu Ma Loves Performance" is aimed at children aged 5-8. It is inspired by the Grand Theater cartoon character "Zhu Ma" and combined with Chinese opera to exercise children's control and expression in the form of "action flow" , creativity and teamwork.
As a popular part of the Art Experience Day, the "Art Monopoly" Shanghai Grand Theater Space Decoding Game returns again. Participants can transform into characters related to theater performances, travel through historical time and space, explore the secrets of the theater, and unlock the theater space password. Win the "Makes", open the prize carousel, and become an "art tycoon".
handmade diy workshop "Spring Theater Preserved Flowers" and "Cloison Enamel Magnolia Flowers" combine traditional intangible cultural heritage craftsmanship and modern aesthetics, taking the characteristics of theater architectural space, classic plays, and art collections, allowing handicraft enthusiasts to make unique of artwork.
The collection hall on the fifth floor of the Shanghai Grand Theater, which is not usually open to the public, has 300 places open for a limited time on the experience day. This art exhibition hall houses the "treasure of the museum" of the Shanghai Grand Theater, and every painting collection is of great value.
From the huge mural "The Goddess of Art" painted by Mr. Ding Shaoguang when the theater opened in 1998, to Mr. Chu Teh-Chun's largest-scale creation "The Charm of Renaissance" for the fifth anniversary of the theater in 2003, to "The Spring of Art" created by the American painter Gan Jinqi ", three works with completely different artistic styles, record every detail of the Grand Theater's history over the past 20 years, and also express the relationship between the artist and the Grand Theater.
text丨Reporter He Jing
picture丨provided by the organizer
