Recently, the opening ceremony of the "the Belt and Road" Art Mutual Learning Program Guangdong Work Camp was held in Wuyi University. 26 young college teachers and students from 8 countries and regions gathered in Jiangmen to jointly open a 7-day Jiangmen humanistic experience.
The "the Belt and Road" Art Mutual Learning Program is a large-scale public art practice and social aesthetic education action jointly launched by the School of Arts and Humanities of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, the Cultural Industry Research Institute of Peking University and other units in 2023. The plan selects the important node cities of the "the Belt and Road", and cooperates with local universities and art institutions to carry out cross school, cross discipline, cross region, and cross cultural art education reform experiments. Four work camps have been held in Kashgar, Xinjiang, Chongqing, Lhasa, Xizang, and Jianshui, Yunnan. 102 senior undergraduate students, master doctors, primary and secondary school teachers, and life experts from 39 universities at home and abroad have been recruited successively, and 25 experts and scholars at home and abroad have been invited as speakers and camp instructors, forming 27 groups of brilliant local achievements.
The "the Belt and Road" Art Mutual Learning Program Guangdong Camp is hosted by the School of Arts and Humanities of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, the Cultural Industry Research Institute of Peking University, Wuyi University and Jiangmen Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports Bureau. The campers are teachers and students from colleges and universities at home and abroad.
Chen Hang, Deputy Director of the South China Base of the National Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition and Research Center, was also invited to attend the opening ceremony. She has served as a leader of Jiangmen City and is very familiar with Jiangmen. "Do you have any fans of Andy Lau or Tony Leung here? Do you know where their ancestral roots are? They are in Jiangmen." Chen Hang mentioned several Jiangmen celebrities while interacting with the campers, bringing them closer to Jiangmen.
"The content carried by intangible cultural heritage varies in different regions. I am very concerned about the aesthetic education function and protection and development model of Jiangmen intangible cultural heritage." Zhao Keli, a second year graduate student at the School of Fine Arts of Southwest University, is full of expectations for this trip to Jiangmen. Through learning and experience, he hopes to find fresh cases that can be used for reference and apply them to his rural aesthetic education actions.