the biggest feature of qingdao liyuan comedy festival: "friendly and immersive", the audience can experience the comedy carnival up close
2024-10-01
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on september 29, the ten-day 2024 first "qingdao liyuan comedy festival" ended with laughter.
33 plays and 64 comedy performances gave the art of comedy a new lease of life in the century-old theater. qingdao’s innate comedy gene and qingdao’s unique traditional ancient residential courtyards with profound historical heritage join hands affectionately, demonstrating qingdao’s efforts in the protection and renewal of historical urban areas, the living inheritance of urban civilization, the iterative upgrading of urban character, and cultural soft power. continuous efforts for continuous improvement.
"as the origin of the city (qingdao), shinan district should actually be at the forefront of its cultural attributes. in addition to the buildings with good environment and good environment left to us by history, contemporary drama, aesthetics, and culture should be we have our own contribution." co-founder huang bo said bluntly at the "liyuan laughter forum" of this year's comedy festival.
what are the cultural attributes of shinan district?
walking through the old city, among the criss-crossing streets, the century-old red tiles of the courtyard are even more eye-catching in the high autumn clouds. the mottled retro walls and fresh and smart decorations are like a dialogue between the past and the present, carrying the memory and changes of qingdao, a young city.
as the architectural dialect of qingdao, the courtyard integrates the wonderful urban context and precise traces of the times. like the courtyard courtyard in beijing and the shikumen in shanghai, it is a charming expression of chinese architecture, shining with the power of urban cultural inheritance.
how should our contribution be made?
focusing on youthfulness, vitality and fashion sense, the team of huang bo and huang xiaoming attracted current new comedy types and new brands to the courtyard, breaking through traditional art forms and making the previously solid stage "alive".
"people-friendly and immersive" is the biggest highlight of this comedy festival, and the dotted qingdao courtyards give this new type of cultural communication the most dynamic display and the most direct access to the audience.
from the music talk show in shuilongchizi to the allegro cross talk at pichaiyuan jiangning hall; from theme parades to movie screenings; from the "sword discussion" in the laughter forum to comedy flash mobs... within ten days, the carnival was interactive on the streets, with five modules and three major modules. the gameplay allows citizens and tourists to experience the charm of comedy up close.
"what really touches us in comedy works is not just the funny baggage, nor even the exquisite design or superb performances, but the way they touch people's inner thoughts in the laughter and make people think." ms. gong, a comedy lover, made a special trip came from weifang to qingdao to experience a different art baptism.
comedy gives people hope and strength. behind the lively and hilarious story is a deconstruction of current social phenomena and context, especially the lives of young people, which is both humorous and profound. how to make comedy works soaked with human warmth, carry humanistic care, express thinking about reality in laughter, and complete the enlightenment of the mind? this is a contemporary issue faced by many chinese comedians such as huang bo. "doing a comedy festival is like having a bowl to eat. this is the value that carries our entire culture. recently, many art exhibitions have begun to be held in the inner courtyard. the transformation of the old city can really make the historical buildings rejuvenate. with brilliance, there are more artistic possibilities.”
in recent years, the construction of historical urban areas has been in full swing. new types of comedy and new brands have been attracted to the inner courtyard, and the expanded huang doujun international art season, art fairs and other activities have come one after another, which has found a new "starting point" for the revitalization of the old city and further stimulated the imagination of the industry. create a new path of mutual learning among civilizations in urban renewal.
setting the stage for festivals and passing on cultural heritage. from shangjieli spring festival, to shangjieli beer festival, to the courtyard art season and the courtyard comedy festival... shinan district continues to explore the excellent local traditional culture and vigorously develop cultural undertakings and cultural industries to accompany it. what is remarkable is that the layout of the region's cultural business formats is accelerating in reshaping, the city's cultural landscape is gradually updated, and literary and artistic masterpieces continue to make breakthroughs. the brand "old qingdao·shangjieli" continues to be launched, and the cultural soft power of "near and far away" has become a booster. hard support for quality development.
the song ends and the people are still there. in terms of promoting innovation and development of qingdao's urban culture, the liyuan comedy festival has made a good start, but it is far from the end. the city's "roots" continue to sprout and grow. in keeping integrity and innovation, they not only consolidate the roots and cultivate the roots, but also lively and vividly.
(popular news and dazhong daily reporter bo keguo and correspondent yun mei)
