the 9th beijing october literature month will kick off with more than 60 online and offline events
2024-09-07
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our reporter lu yanxia reports that based in beijing, radiating across the country and influencing the world, the 9th beijing october literature month will kick off on september 7.
this year's literature month is themed "literature embraces the times, reading illuminates life", highlighting the "1+17+n" feature. "1" refers to beijing, the main venue for the event, "17" refers to beijing's 16 administrative districts + economic development zone, and "n" refers to n hot literary check-in spots, specialty bookstores, schools, cultural spaces, etc., covering beijing to the maximum extent, linking beijing, tianjin, and hebei, and setting up a branch venue in shanghai for the first time. more than 60 activities will cover all aspects of online and offline. with literature as a carrier, we will unite and gather writers, promote high-quality creation, promote international exchanges, and guide public participation.
at the opening ceremony of this literary month and beijing literature forum, the theme of "riding the wind northward - ten years of beijing-tianjin-hebei literature activities" will be launched. writers from beijing, tianjin and hebei will gather together to discuss the creative achievements of beijing-tianjin-hebei literature in the past ten years.
it is worth mentioning that the specially planned october literature night will select literary masterpieces from different periods in the beijing-tianjin-hebei region. popular works such as "teahouse", "thunderstorm", "lotus pond", "how far is forever", "the altar of earth and me", "strange people in the world", "the cat sanya goes up to the roof", "baoshui", and "northward" will be brought to the stage. through reading guidance, opera and drama performances, situational drama reproduction, theme song singing, original dance performances, writer story telling, and guest interviews, the audience will be led to feel the eternal artistic charm of classic masterpieces.
feeling the unique charm and far-reaching influence of beijing literature is the tradition of beijing october literature month. "the light of literature illuminates beijing - the launch of the book series 'beijing in a century of literature'", "xu zechen's 'walking the grand canal' theme live broadcast with 'going north'", "new book launch of 'stories of the central axis, the backbone of beijing city' and walking along the central axis", "new book launch of 'art and culture beijing series'", "xicheng poetry tour route collection and works recitation", "telling rural stories - tuao's 'jingxi story collection' sharing session", "literary masters and haidian theme exhibition", "red culture collection", "'xishan yongding river cultural belt' field investigation" and other unique beijing-flavored literature series activities will meet readers during the literature month.
at the opening ceremony of the 9th beijing october literature month, the inaugural issue of beijing literary review, which fills the gap in beijing’s literary review periodicals, will be released. the selected writers for the third “wang meng young writers support program·annual featured writers” will also be announced at the same time. beijing october literature month continues to contribute new strength to chinese literature.
writers, critics, and scholars such as wang meng, li jingze, wu yiqin, qiu huadong, shi zhanjun, shu ting, alai, liu qingbang, fan xiaoqing, wang song, guan renshan, yin xueyun, li er, luo weizhang, zhang li, li hao, qiao ye, yi zhou, liang hong, li xiuwen, xu zechen, and shi yifeng gathered together. a series of new book launches, work sharing sessions, work seminars, reader meetings, and parent-child reading clubs will be held through the "october" special event of xinhua reading·shanghai book city flash week, the "literature illuminates youth" themed open day, the "'beijing' colorful culture youth blooming" action plan, the "october reading" series of popular literature activities, etc., which will enter thousands of households in a combination of online and offline ways, demonstrating beijing's responsibility and commitment as the national cultural center.
the 9th october literature month is hosted by the publicity department of beijing municipal committee, the cyberspace administration of beijing municipal committee, the beijing federation of literary and art circles, and the beijing xicheng district committee and district government, supported by the china writers association and the chinese book review society, and mainly organized by beijing publishing group, undertaken by beijing daily news group, beijing radio and television, the beijing news, beijing distribution group, and the beijing writers association, and co-organized by beijing federation of returned overseas chinese and other units.
(source: beijing daily)
