Starting from May 10, a series of exhibitions, concerts, film screenings and lectures featuring Sino-French cultural exchanges will be staged in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Jiangmen and Zhuhai successively. These activities form part of the 16th Festival Croisements.

Since its establishment 17 years ago, the Festival Croisements has been promoting cultural dialogues between China and France and dedicating high-quality artistic events.

This year the organizer specially invites two French musicians living in China, saxophonist Clermont Ember and violinist Guillaume Mocklai as well as one Chinese pianist Xie Yashuangzi to perform an original trio, presenting a music feast for residents. "We have always wished to create French music and bring it to Chinese audiences, and now we are honored to have this opportunity," Clermont said at the press conference of the festival.

As 2022 marks the 400th anniversary of the birth of the great French playwright Molière, his three representative works, Le Tartuffe, L'avare, and Le Malade Imaginaire will be staged at the Guangzhou Opera House in June and July.

A Summer Music Festival performed jointly by Chinese and French bands is another highlight of this year's events. This music festival will be held in front of the world cultural heritage Kaiping Diaolou, and bring electronic, hip-hop, pop, jazz, and new rock created by fusion with traditional Chinese folk music.

Here is the schedule of some activities in Guangdong:

Guangzhou

Film screening | Molière's fims

Guangzhou Opera House (廣州大劇院)

No.1, Zhujiang West Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou(廣州市天河區(qū)珠江西路1號(hào))

Film: Le Tartuffe

Showing time: June 12, 2022

Film: L'avare

Showing time: July 10, 2022

Film: Le Malade Imaginaire

Showing time: July 29, 2022

Concerts | Tohu-Bohu, a trios for saxophone, violin and piano

Guangzhou Opera House (廣州大劇院)

July 8, 2022

No.1, Zhujiang West Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou (廣州市天河區(qū)珠江西路1號(hào))

The performance will also be staged at the Zhuhai Huafa & CAPA Grand Theatre on July 9.

Lectures | The night of thoughts

Guangdong Times Museum (廣東時(shí)代美術(shù)館)

Date undetermined

No.151, Huangbian North Road, Baiyun District, Guangzhou (廣州市白云區(qū)黃邊北路151號(hào))

Shenzhen

Visual arts | L' invisible - Exposition de Xavier Luccehsi

May 28 - July 28, 2022

Jupiter Museum of Art (木星美術(shù)館)

No. 6, Lanhua Avenue, Futian District, Shenzhen (深圳市福田區(qū)藍(lán)花道6號(hào))

Jiangmen's Kaiping

Concerts | Summer Music Festival

June 25- 26, 2022

Kaiping Diaolou (開平碉樓)

Zili Village, Kaiping, Jiangmen (江門市開平市自力村)