2009 Beijing 798 Art Festival 2009.9.19 – 10.25
798 Art Zone, has another name of Dashanzi Art District, located inside alleys number 2 and 4 on Jiuxianqiao Road, south of the Dashanziqiao flyover, once to be an extension of the "Socialist Unification Plan" of military-industrial cooperation between the Soviet Union and the newly-formed People's Republic of China. It is a thriving artist community covers several buildings in different but fantastic style, some of them even maintains its 50-year old decommissioned military factory unique architectural style.
Xian International Calligraphy Annual Conference the last week of March
Calligraphy, as Chinese own art, can be dated back to Shang Dynasty and showed its special charm among people.
Since 1986, every year, calligrapher at home and abroad would gather in Xian, the so called ‘Home of Calligraphy’, to celebrate the big annual conference.
Shanghai Tourism Festival (September)
http://www.tourfest.org/
Positioned as the people’s festival, taking the “Entering the happiness and pleasure “as subject, Shanghai Tourism Festival has progressed for 16 years successfully since 1990 when it first held.
Incorporating tourism products including sightseeing, leisure, entertainment, culture, sports, exposition, and food and shopping, the festival also presents more than a hundred activities showcasing the metropolitan outlook, culture and commerce of Shanghai.
Some of highlights are float pageant, carnival, Shanghai International firework festival, Image Ambassador competition, rose wedding ceremony , to name but a few.