Children’s Exhibition Ended, Science Popularization Day Started

       
In the afternoon of 17th, September, 2017, the Award Ceremony of the 2nd International Children’s Creative Art Exhibition and the Launching Ceremony of 2017 Science Popularization Day, which is hosted by Shanghai Children’s Foundation and Shanghai Education Development Foundation, organized by Shanghai Art Collection Museum, Shanghai Changning District Education Foundation, Science and Technology Committee of Changning District, Shanghai and Shanghai Changning Science and Technology Association, has been held successfully in Shanghai Changning Experimental School. This event is not only the end of the International Children’s Creative Art Exhibition, which lasted for one and a half months, but also the beginning of Changning District Science Popularization Day.
Including Mr. Ronghua Wang, Vice Chairman of 10th CPPCC Shanghai Committee and President of Shanghai Education Development Foundation, Ms. Yankun Meng, Former Chairman of Shanghai Women’ s Federation, Ms. Yaqin Liu, Former Director of the Standing Committee of Changning District, Mr. Lin Lu, Party Member and Vice Chairman of Shanghai Association for Science and Technology, Ms. Qianwei Zhu, Vice Director of Shanghai Municipal Women and Children Committee Office, Mr. Guoqiang Zhao, Party Member of the Shanghai Communist Youth League, Vice Inspector, Counsellor General of Shanghai Young Pioneers Working Committee, Mr. Qi Wang, Vice President of Shanghai Education Development Foundation, Mr. Ping Liu, Member of the Standing Committee of Changning District, Vice Director of Shanghai Changning District, Ms. Brigitte Robinson - Seyrlehner, Consul General of the Republic of Austria in Shanghai, and her husband, Mr. Philip Robinson, Ms. Oksana Ponomarenko, wife of the Consul General of Ukraine in Shanghai, Mr. Tan Kee Chor, Consul of the Republic of Singapore in Shanghai, Ms. Anna Romsicka, Vice Consul of the Republic of Poland in Shanghai and other leaders, Chinese and foreign guests as well as representatives of award winners and so on, more than 300 people have attended this event.
All seats were occupied.
Host: Mr. Joshua Bobley, Exchange Scholar of Chinese and American cultures, Visiting Scholar of Oxford University 
Speech by Mr. Ronghua Wang, Vice Chairman of 10th CPPCC Shanghai Committee and President of Shanghai Education Development Foundation
Speech by Mr. Ping Liu, Member of the Standing Committee of Changning District, Vice Director of Shanghai Changning District
 

Well-deserved Prizes

Art and Technology are indivisible for innovation and the 2nd International Children’s Art Exhibition is a perfect combination of them. More than 500 art works from around 20 countries, such as China, Britain, the USA, Germany, Austria, Ukraine, Belgium, Australia, Singapore, New Zealand, Indonesia, etc. have attended the exhibition and they are all full of creative ideas.

Among them, more than 200 pieces are selected, which brought the visitors a colorful visual feast. Lots of media have widely reported this creative art communication event.

Scored by expert judges, 10 Gold Awards, 10 Silver Awards, 12 Bronze Awards, 12 Excellence Awards and 8 Outstanding Organization Awards have been selected from participating art works and institutions. Besides, three Best Popularity Awards have been selected from different age groups by the online vote of more than 20,000 people.

Leaders and guests present the certificates to winners of Excellence Award, Silver Award, Gold Award, Outstanding Organization Award and Best Popularity Award.

It is known that all the winners have received not only the authority certificates presented by Shanghai Children’s Foundation, Shanghai Education Development Foundation and the Organizing Committee of the 2nd International Children’s Creative Art Exhibition, but also the bilingual collection book of the exhibition with the name “Under the Starry Sky”.

The beautiful collection book, whose name is inscribed by Ms. Dinghua Yang, President of Shanghai Children’s Foundation and Deputy Director of 13th Shanghai Municipal People’s Congress of China


Colorful Art and Science Popularization Activities

The Organizing Committee has specially invited Prof. Qingqing Yang from Shanghai Theatre Academy to give a keynote lecture with the topic “Artistic Technology: TransMedia - Contemporary Interpretation of Traditional Art of Peking Opera Facial Mask as Example” to discuss the perfect combination of traditional art and modern technology.

Lecture by Prof. Qingqing Yang from Shanghai Theatre Academy 

Leaders and student representatives participated in the Launching Ceremony of 2017 Science Popularization Day together.


Themed by “Technology and Art: Source of Innovation”, 2017 Science Popularization Day connects Art and Technology through experience activities like 3D Printing, Tie-Dye, Micro-Landscape Design and Movable-Type Printing. Chinese and foreign children took part in these interesting activities together.

Colorful Outside Experience Activities


Mr. Chunping Li, Director of European and African Department of Foreign Affairs Office of Shanghai Municipal People’s Government, Mr. Jian Liu, Director of Science Popularization Department of Shanghai Association for Science and Technology, Ms. Zhiqiao Zhang, Director of the Education and Training Department of Shanghai Tourism Bureau, Mr. Mingfu Wang, Assistant of the President of Shanghai Education Development Foundation, Ms. Honglian Zhang, Secretary General of Shanghai Education Development Foundation, Mr. Jian Gu, Party Member of Science and Technology Committee of Changning District, Shanghai, the Standing Vice Chairman of Shanghai Changning Science and Technology Association, Ms. Jiarong Li, Director of Changning District Civilization Office, Ms. Xiuhong Wang, Chairman of Shanghai Chaning District Women’ s Federation, Ms. Wei Zhang, Director of Shanghai Changning District Civil Affairs Bureau, Mr. Gang Zhu, Director of Liu Haisu Art Museum, Mr. Muqing Hu, President of Shanghai Art Collection Museum and Shanghai Changning Art Museum Association, Ms. Qian Zhong, Vice Director of Science Popularization Department of Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality, Mr. Yongming Ge, Vice Director of Intangible Cultural Heritage Division, Shanghai Municipal Administration for Culture, Radio, Film & TV, Ms. Xiaolan Song, Vice Director of Changning District Educational Bureau, Ms. Weiqin Wang, Vice President of Changning District Women’ s Federation, Mr. Youqin Zhang, Party Member of Changning District Science and Technology Committee, Vice Chairman of Changning District Science and Technology Association, Ms. Fei Xue, Deputy Secretary General of Shanghai Education Development Foundation, Ms. Qin Ding, Assistant of the Secretary General of Shanghai Children’s Foundation and other representatives have also attended this event.