The News Review:
- Bali festival as big as Booker win
- Festival touches upon football
- 7th China Int’l Folk Arts Festival opens in Suzhou
- CCTV celebrates Moon Festival with gala
Bali festival as big as Booker win
Jakarta Post – Sep 26, 2007
php”);}); Be a member & get the benefits! Register or login. “”Bali feels more like a wonderful thing than the Booker win. It is such a privilege to be here and I don’t know what I did to deserve being here”" said Desai during the press conference Tuesday ahead of the festival’s opening Wednesday evening at Ubud Palace. Desai added that the current geographic shift in literary festivals away from the Western hegemony was reclaiming the center for culture across the world and Bali’s festival was playing a role in that shift. “”Always publishers are telling us that no one (outside the West) is reading; is interested in literature but I have been traveling to festivals in Sri Lanka India China Brazil and there are thousands of people waiting to listen to writers.
Festival touches upon football
Fifa.com – Sep 26, 2007
For those have travelled from far and wide to be involved atthis year’s FIFA Women’s World Cup the Mid-Autumn Festivalhas also been a time for celebration. To mark this year’sfestivities which fell on Tuesday the tournament hosts did theirbit to enhance the family atmosphere laying on traditional Chinesemooncakes at FIFA’s headquarters in Shanghai and creating awelcoming ambience for players and officials alike. In the case of the Germany team local reporters could even beheard explaining the traditions of the festival during a pressconference ahead of their semi-final against Norway. So Silvia Neidand her players had no excuse for not knowing that on 25 Septemberthe moon is closest to the earth and therefore at its fullest andbrightest.
7th China Int’l Folk Arts Festival opens in Suzhou
æ°åç’ – Sep 26, 2007
As a grand art carnival initiated by China’s Federation of Literary and Art Circles in 1990 the triennial festival featuring international national and grass-root flavor is aimed to develop and promote exchange of folk arts across the world. Starting on Tuesday this year’s CIFAF is acclaimed as the largest ever in the country with nearly 460 artists from 22 countries and regions staging indoor and outdoor performances. (Xinhua Photo).
CCTV celebrates Moon Festival with gala
央è§åé – Sep 26, 2007
This year’s gala was held in poetic surroundings at the Summer Resort in Chengde Hebei province which is also listed as a world heritage site. The stage in the shape of four lotus leaves was built in the middle of a lake.