7th September 2015
The center was built to foster an exchange of creative ideas between China and Singapore, and was designed by a celebrated architect from Singapore.
The first program on the docket for the brand new center will be a talk hosted by five popular Chinese writers, including one whose book was recently made into a movie.
The center will be one of the best places to see and experience the artistic offerings of China in Singapore, boasting a library open to the public with tens of thousands of texts on arts movements, history, culture, and current issues in China. China looks to boost its artistic presence throughout the world, looking to more than double its presence in such centers globally within the next five years.
The China Cultural Center of Singapore looks to bring in artists and performers in a wide range of genres to help showcase all the different types of art the country has to offer. This is in an effort to encourage other cultures around the world to learn about China’s artistic offerings.
An official at the cultural center, Ma Hongying, says that the first exhibit will feature costumes from a Chinese province. Plans are in the works to showcase dozens of paintings by artists from both China and Singapore in a future showing that will highlight both the center’s grand opening and Singapore’s 50th birthday. There will be many future cultural talks, theater performances, exhibitions, and much more in this new space.
The center itself is a vivid and raucous testament to its rich and vibrant cultural offerings within. Strikingly modern, the center boasts multiple floors and a modern, multilayered façade. A portion of the building is bright red, dotted with windows that bulge outward in the middle of a sunburst mural and decorative antennae feature. The inside has a 240-seat theater for performances, exhibit space, the library, and space for classes, gatherings, and other events.
Xiao Jianghua, the Chinese cultural counselor, says that the center will focus on drawing top performers of Chinese culture and art, adding that experts will be on hand to teach history, culture, and art classes to all interested students in Singapore.
Another cultural center for Chinese arts will be opening at the end of 2016. However, its chief executive, Choo Thiam Siew, assures the public that its offerings won’t be the same as the Chinese Cultural Center. The Chinese Cultural Center will focus mainly on art from China, while the other facility will highlight Singapore’s own Chinese heritage.
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To learn more about the arts and culture center, go to http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/completed-china-cultural-centre-to-boost-arts-exchange.