ANCIENT PATHS, MODERN VOICES

A FESTIVAL CELEBRATING CHINESE CULTURE

October 11 - November 24, 2009

Philharmonic Society of Orange County presents the West Coast edition of a bicoastal Carnegie Hall festival paying tribute to China's diverse and vibrant culture and its influence around the world. The first festival presented under the partnership between Carnegie Hall and the Philharmonic Society of Orange County marks the first time that Carnegie Hall's live festival programming will be offered to audiences outside New York City. Ancient Paths, Modern Voices: A Festival Celebrating Chinese Culture will take place at Orange County Performing Arts Center, a part of Segerstrom Center for the Arts, and Southern California partner institutions. "Already in our relatively young century, China has emerged as the country to watch in its exciting new period of growth as one of the earth's most ancient civilizations. It is this coupling of old and new that our China Festival celebrates. It will be informative and extremely entertaining—an event not to be missed," states Philharmonic Society president and artistic director, Dean Corey. It features leading Chinese musicians, including artists and ensembles traveling outside of China for the first time, performing myriad genres of music. This festival also includes traditional marionette theater, exhibitions, and much more—a true immersion into a world that mixes ancient and modern, familiar and new.

CHINA FESTIVAL PARTNER EVENT
PANEL DISCUSSION: "DESIGNING CHINA"
Orange County Museum of Art
Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 7 p.m.

The University of California Humanities Research Institute hosted a two-week Seminar in Experimental Critical Theory (SECT) in Shanghai this summer entitled Designing China. A debriefing seminar will take place as part of Ancient Paths, Modern Voices to reflect upon the outcome of the summer institute –focusing on China as a case study where design issues are raised in perhaps their most problematic and provocative form. The panel consists of two leading artists from Beijing in conversation with faculty from the University of California: musician, composer and novelist Liu Sola of the "Class of 1978," noted artist Liu Dan, together with Ackbar Abbas of the University of California, Irvine and Achille Mbembe of the University of California, Irvine/University of Witwatersrand. The panel will be moderated by David Theo Goldberg, Director of the University of Humanities Research Institute.

Presented by The University of California Humanities Research Institute. For more information, please visit the SECT website or www.ocma.net.