Young people love to hang out in cultural museums
2024-08-22
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Learning fingering, distinguishing pitch ranges, and practicing music recognition, from a guzheng beginner with no basics to a beginner with a basic understanding of music theory, 27-year-old Liu Xue is very happy with her progress. "Thanks to the cultural center for opening the guzheng class, I can come here every Saturday afternoon for three consecutive months to learn knowledge."
This was Liu Xue's first contact with the guzheng, and also her first time at the cultural center. Earlier, when she was browsing social media, she saw a blogger sharing the public welfare training courses of the cultural center, and she had the idea of learning an art here. Liu Xue noticed that the Dongcheng District Cultural Center in Beijing launched the 2024 "Art + 1" public welfare art training, and she was lucky enough to grab a place in the guzheng training class.
The reporter saw that there were many young students like Liu Xue in the cultural center.
Sketching and painting, image aesthetics, improvisation and singing, basic Chinese dance skills... In order to allow more people to enjoy public cultural services, the Dongcheng District Cultural Center in Beijing has opened a rich variety of courses. At the same time, on the basis of weekday training, it has set up special extended opening hours services, including daytime classes, evening classes, and weekend classes, to fully meet the needs of art lovers at different time periods.
"New Chinese tea is an innovative drink that combines traditional Chinese tea culture with modern beverage trends. Strong-flavored tea can be paired with sweet and rich fruits, and common combinations include peach oolong and passion fruit black tea..." On Sunday night, at the Shijingshan District Cultural Center in Beijing, a course titled "Tea Ceremony and Tea Culture - New Chinese Tea Extraction and Brewing Methods" was held. The instructor, Li Jiayin, was explaining the principles of new Chinese tea blending to the students. After the explanation, the students selected the raw materials and mixed their favorite teas.
"I've always seen professionals mix good-looking and delicious drinks. This time I finally got the chance to try it, and it feels no worse than what's sold in stores." 27-year-old student Tang Tang told reporters with a sense of accomplishment, holding the new Chinese tea drink he mixed himself.
Tangtang started attending classes at the Shijingshan District Cultural Center in April this year. "Here I not only developed my interests and hobbies, but also made good friends. We chatted and drank tea together, and it was fun and comfortable."
Song Fan, 35 years old, who takes the tea art class with Tang Tang, is even more keen on "hanging out" in the cultural center. "I basically come here every month and every week. It should be dozens of times now," Song Fan told reporters.
From a student at the cultural center's night school and an audience member of the cultural center's performances to a member of the cultural center's choir and a volunteer at the venue, Song Fan has now been deeply involved in various activities held by the Shijingshan District Cultural Center.
"Here, I have gained a skill, a friendship, a way to relax my body and mind after busy work, and a positive and optimistic attitude." Song Fan told reporters about his deep feelings for the cultural center.
The rave reviews from young people are inseparable from the cultural center's careful and meticulous arrangements and continuous improvement of service efficiency.
"In the past, people's impression of cultural centers was that they mainly served certain groups such as the elderly and young people, and the activities they organized were mostly traditional activities such as singing and dancing. This is still a considerable gap from the 'popularization of art for all people'. In recent years, the Shijingshan District Cultural Center has made every effort to create a 'national art life circle' and expand cultural services to people of all ages." Yue Xin, deputy director of the Shijingshan District Cultural Center, told reporters.
"I want to learn Latin dance recently. Can you offer a class to teach Latin dance?" A citizen left a message on the "Shijingshan Literature and Art" App for consultation.
"If the public has needs, we will provide services." Yue Xin introduced that the cultural center's website and app both have a message function. If there is a strong demand for a certain course, the cultural center will open it specifically to meet everyone's needs. "At the same time, we will also conduct surveys at any time and distribute satisfaction surveys and other questionnaires to the citizens covered by the cultural center, so as to accurately match the services with the expectations of people of all ages and continuously enrich the service content."
"The cultural center usually releases tickets on the App at 8 p.m. on Fridays. By about 8:02 p.m., all the places for the weekly activities we released were snapped up." Yue Xin told reporters that this is enough to reflect the popularity of the cultural center today. Since 2023, Shijingshan Cultural Center has launched 140 online activities, benefiting 920,000 students, and 1,043 offline activities, benefiting more than 28,000 students.
The popularity of cultural centers is not limited to Beijing.
The reporter learned that since 2023, the Zhuzhou Cultural Center in Hunan Province has actively created new public cultural service scenes and micro-stage "street art stations" in the streets and alleys, so that trainees can not only learn skills in training, but also have the opportunity to perform on stage; the Chengdu Cultural Center in Sichuan Province has launched more than 50 immersive cultural activities such as immersive art exhibitions and immersive drama garden parties. The participants include children, the elderly, college students, and urban white-collar workers, covering more than 2 million online and offline person-times...
Nowadays, more and more cultural centers are accelerating their transformation and upgrading in the popularization of art among the whole people, from mainly serving the elderly and children to providing aesthetic education services to the whole people, constantly meeting the diverse cultural needs of the people.
