Huayi – Chinese Festival of Arts 2011
Launched in 2003 during the Chinese New Year, Huayi was introduced as one of three cultural festivals at Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay that annually celebrates Singapore’s multi-cultural heritage. With Huayi, we aim to showcase the works of Chinese performing artists – whether traditional or contemporary, mainstream or cutting-edge – and provide them with a platform on which they could present their works to local audiences and the world. Thus, with this goal, we sow the seeds for what we hope will become an internationally-recognised arts festival of the Chinese diaspora.
Huayi gives audiences a taste of some of the most dynamic forms of Chinese artistic expression in this rapidly transforming world. These forms vary widely given the extent of the global Chinese diaspora, and are evolving in their local contexts as well as increasingly gaining recognition on the world stage.
Today, Huayi has grown into one of the most warmly-embraced arts festivals in Singapore, and valued as a significant part of the nation’s Chinese New Year festivities. With its ninth run from 4 to 13 Feb 2011, the 10-day festival is once again set to inspire and touch audiences with a wide range of ticketed and free programmes by outstanding Chinese artists.
Launched in 2003 during the Chinese New Year, Huayi was introduced as one of three cultural festivals at Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay that annually celebrates Singapore’s multi-cultural heritage. With Huayi, we aim to showcase the works of Chinese performing artists – whether traditional or contemporary, mainstream or cutting-edge – and provide them with a platform on which they could present their works to local audiences and the world. Thus, with this goal, we sow the seeds for what we hope will become an internationally-recognised arts festival of the Chinese diaspora.
Huayi gives audiences a taste of some of the most dynamic forms of Chinese artistic expression in this rapidly transforming world. These forms vary widely given the extent of the global Chinese diaspora, and are evolving in their local contexts as well as increasingly gaining recognition on the world stage.
Today, Huayi has grown into one of the most warmly-embraced arts festivals in Singapore, and valued as a significant part of the nation’s Chinese New Year festivities. With its ninth run from 4 to 13 Feb 2011, the 10-day festival is once again set to inspire and touch audiences with a wide range of ticketed and free programmes by outstanding Chinese artists.
