Yesterday, the award ceremony for the 2024 Shanghai Citizen Culture Festival and the Shanghai Jing'an Modern Drama Valley "Citizen Theater" Chinese and Foreign Family Drama Competition was held at the Jing'an District Cultural Center. This year's competition attracted 2,000 families to sign up, of which the number of families from campus exceeded 100, setting a new high in previous competitions.
This year is the fifth year of the Chinese and Foreign Family Drama Competition. Over the past five years, nearly 7,000 groups of families from the Yangtze River Delta region and various provinces and cities across the country have conveyed family affection, social development, and the spirit of the times through dramatic performances. This year’s competition launched the online registration channel on March 15, and nearly 2,000 families signed up. The 101 groups of "Beautiful Drama Houses" that were successfully shortlisted in the preliminary round were finally selected as the "Top Ten Popular Houses", "Top Ten Creative Houses", "Top Ten Tacit Houses" and "Top Ten Performances" after fierce competition and online praise in the semi-finals. House" and "Top Ten Beautiful Drama Houses" awards. Each award-winning family uses drama as a bond, lights up their lives with art, and delivers the positive energy of a harmonious society.
From the performances at the award ceremony, we can see that programs such as "Encountering Beijing Cai", "Yue Opera Chasing Fish", "Jiangnan Yaoyao" and "Hot Mom's Dream" brought to the audience scenes of warm scenes of family harmony. Father and daughter share the stage, mother and son perform. The warm family team cooperates tacitly on the stage, jointly interpreting the warm power of growth and companionship. Over the past five years, many families have become attached to this stage because of their love for drama, where they create and grow together. During the exhibition, outstanding works such as "A Nail", "Rubik's Cube and Instant Noodles", "Zootopia", "Little Assistant" and "National Treasure: The Legend of the Painted Wood Maid in the Past Life" were performed on the same stage. These families and the competition have been "old friends" for many years. Every year, they devote themselves wholeheartedly to this stage feast, and the competition has witnessed their transformation and blooming.
As the influence of the competition expands year by year, the drama art of children and adolescents promoted by family drama has sprouted. This year, organizers were delighted to see a record number of families come from campus. Through the deep cultivation of competitions, drama art is gradually being integrated into the after-school life of primary and secondary school students, becoming an indispensable part of their growth path. At the scene, the plays "Xie Xide Fragments" and "Ordinary and Great" performed by the Red Remembrance Chapter presented the deep patriotic feelings in the children's hearts with affectionate performances and touching stories. The China Welfare Association Children's Palace Little Partner Art Troupe brought The children's hip-hop dance "Dancing Boys" uses a vibrant performance to show the passionate spirit of young people. Children and teenagers are using their own way to show the style of young people in the new era, fulfilling their responsibilities for inheritance and contributing to development.
During the 2024 Shanghai Jing'an Modern Drama Valley, the Jing'an District Cultural Center, as the "Drama Valley Base Camp", simultaneously opened the "City-wide Theater" section - more than 30 regional characteristic cultural spaces, more than 80 outstanding mass theatrical performances, and "more than "In the Theater" series of activities and Chinese and foreign family drama competitions jointly provide literary and art lovers with a more diverse theatrical art experience. (Xinmin Evening News reporter Wu Xiang)
