Very recently, Mro Colin Attard, artistic director of Gaulitana: A Festival of Music and Gaulitanus Choir founder-director, was in China as a guest of the China Cultural Centre in Malta, with which the festival and the choir have a very healthy artistic rapport.
Indeed, the festival was one of the four partners in this summer’s Partnership Programme Trip to China – the others being the Ministry of Culture, represented by director Mario Azzopardi, Heritage Malta, represented by chairman Dr Anton Refalo, and The Times of Malta, represented by outgoing editor Ray Bugeja. The group was complemented by a number of artists and TVM personalities led by ACM chairman Albert Marshall. The CCC’s director Yang Xiaolong joined the group for the first days of the visit.
The cultural tour was based in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in southwest China, which the Maltese delegation toured extensively visiting the major cities as well as remote and small villages. The Maltese group also had the possibility to explore several museums and innumerable sightseeing sights – often breathtaking and natural phenomenons -, as well as to attend a few grand top-notch shows. The Maltese contingent also had the opportunity to meet some representatives of the local administration during specifically organised dinners. Of course, through all this, the group could witness the various contrasting socio-cultural realities of the region and its various minority groups, and the gorgeous heritage sites which abound throughout.
En route to Malta, the partners also visited Guangzhou City, witnessing, amongst others, its avant-garde architectural structures.
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