China News Service, Hong Kong, 8 8 — Recently, the Asia-Pacific Cultural and Artistic Exchange Week officially kicked off at the UNESCO Global Geopark (Hong Kong). The event runs from 8 8 to 8 15, spanning one week. It brings together diverse cultural forces from across the Asia-Pacific region to create a platform for cross-regional human dialogue.
This week-long exchange brought together over 30 artists and cultural practitioners from across the Asia-Pacific region. The event featured a diverse array of activities, including calligraphy and painting exhibitions, live music performances, and intangible cultural heritage showcases. The art exhibition highlighted masterpieces from multiple Asian and Pacific countries, presenting unique regional aesthetics and creative styles side by side. Musical performances blended traditional folk music with contemporary artistic expression, featuring performers from various nations who built bridges of communication through melody. The intangible cultural heritage showcase displayed distinctive traditional crafts from different regions, with many masters demonstrating their skills on-site to offer audiences an immersive experience of living cultural traditions.
Leveraging the unique natural and cultural landscape of the Hong Kong UNESCO Global Geopark, where mountains meet the sea, this event seamlessly blends natural heritage with human creativity. It offers a dynamic platform for cultural professionals from around the world to exchange skills, learn from one another, and foster mutual understanding. At the event, cultural practitioners shared creative visions, exchanged experiences in preserving local traditions, and strengthened connections across diverse civilizations.
The organizing bodies, the UNESCO Association and the Asia-Pacific (International) Cultural Exchange and Cooperation Center, stated that this exchange week aims to deepen people-to-people ties in the Asia-Pacific region and promote mutual learning and shared growth of regional cultures through art. Open to the public, the event allows citizens and visitors to immerse themselves in diverse Asia-Pacific cultures, further strengthening grassroots friendship across the region and injecting cultural momentum into common development.