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Festival celebrates Chinese culture
DEPOK: A three-day festival to celebrate Chinese culture kicked off Thursday at the University of Indonesia campus in Depok
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DEPOK: A three-day festival to celebrate Chinese culture kicked off Thursday at the University of Indonesia campus in Depok.
A Chinese traditional dance, the dragon dance, marked the opening of the 2008 Sinology Festival (Sinofest), organized by the School of Cultural Science' Chinese and Japanese study program.
The theme for the annual festival this year is "The Journey Continues". It symbolizes the continuous journey of the students to promote Chinese culture.
The first event took place in 2001, when it was called the Chinatown Festival.
On the first day of the festival, visitors enjoyed a public Chinese calligraphy workshop, a wushu (Chinese martial arts dance) exhibition, a Chinese language seminar, a film discussion, and another workshop on zhongguo jie, the art of Chinese knots.
The festival will hold a variety of events Friday such as a potehi (traditional Chinese puppet) presentation, a Chinese poetry reading, an opera and a Chinese lantern painting workshop.
The final day of the festival will take place at Bank Mandiri Museum in Kota, West Jakarta. It will feature a seminar on the environment and a music concert.
The 2008 Sinofest committee head, Siti Atikah Immadudin, said the goal of the annual festival was to show the general public how rich and diverse Chinese culture is.-JP
