Culture City of East Asia 2023 with Sori Festival

“Culture City of East Asia” is an annually-held musical exchange project for the practice of “recognizing East Asia, cultural exchange and harmony, and understanding cultures of each other” under the flag of respect toward the cultural diversity among Korea, Japan, and China. Jeonju (Korea), Chengdu and Meizhou (China), and Shizuoka Prefecture (Japan) are chosen as this year’s project-participants. Until the end of the year, these participants will offer each other various opportunities of experiencing different cultures and thereby widening mutual understandings.

This year’s project, in collaboration with Jeonju International Sori Festival, shows the results of cultural and musical exchange among the three countries. New opportunities for understandings of respective cultures through traditional art performances, collaborative concerts, and world music workshops with commentaries will be offered.

CMK Arts Company, China

Sept.15 (Fri) | Norimadang | For all ages | Free

“CMK Arts Company (华夏之音)” is a chamber music ensemble of young, talented artists from China. The ensemble of various instruments including erhu, pipa, and guzheng will show their synthetic performance of instrument-playing, singing, and dancing. Huaxia (華夏) indicates the ancient Xia (夏) Dynasty that is originated from Huà Shān (華山) Mountain, which later became a representative concept of China in terms of nation and state.