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2020 World Ocean Week in Xiamen: Ocean Carnival Activities
1. "Love Warm Ocean" Marine Culture Carnival in Siming district
As the supporting activities of WOW, the marine culture carnival in Siming district set up two sub-venues, respectively, the outdoor venue at Guanyinshan Sand Sculpture Park and indoor venue at Yefengzhai Aquarium for Ocean Science. These two coordinated sub-venues attracted tens of thousands of people during WOW.
The carnival contains a variety of activities, not only covers the marine knowledge popularization activities, such as ocean science lecture, marine field trip and nautical field trip, but also contains the leisure activities, such as equestrian and war game on beach, navigation and beach games. It is a comprehensive marine event integrating marine science popularization, entertainment and public welfare.
2. "Protect Blue Shoreline, Improve Charm of Haicang" Marine Culture Carnival in Haicang district
"Protect Blue Shoreline, Improve Charm of Haicang" Marine Culture Carnival in Haicang District consists of an online marine carnival and a field trip. The spots of field trip includes the marine biological medicine enterprise in Haicang district (Xiamen Blue Bay Science and Technology Co., Ltd.), the Big Rabbit Island and Fire Island. The event raised the concern of citizens in marine ecological development and marine sustainable development, and transferred the positive energy of marine culture carnival in Haicang district.
3. "Protecting Mangroves to Build Ecological Beauty" Xiatanwei Marine Culture Carnival
Marine Culture Carnival in Xiamen Xiatanwei Mangrove Park was successfully held, which was hosted by Xiamen Municipal Bureau of Ocean Development, organized by Xiamen Marine and Fisheries Research Institute and implemented by the general office of Straits Herald Journal. The carnival was branded as a "Coast Guard" marine knowledge popularization activity by combining learning, innovation, growing, dance, film and painting. 4 pavilions were open to the public at the same time. Small robots made live commentary for guests for more than 100 times during the event.
A total of 11 interactive activities, including field trip of more than 100 citizens, "mangrove dance" flash mob, mangrove adoption program, "Charming Xiatanwei" drone photography, mangrove bird painting and "mangrove and marine protection" live salon, have been staged, in a variety of forms of video, photo and painting to comprehensively display the ecological beauty of the mangrove park and the fruitful results of the construction of "Sea Forest". The activities attracted 20,000 visitors and around 1.6 million citizens participating in the activities online.
4. The "Blue Dream" International Contemporary Art Exhibition
The "Blue Dream" International Contemporary Art Exhibition is held at the Nordic Contemporary Art Center in Aotou community, Xiamen. As one of the activities of the 2020 WOW Marine Culture Carnival, the exhibition invited 34 artists from Sweden, Denmark, Norway, the Philippines and China to show 66 works. These works were displayed through multimedia projection, artistic installation, performance art, free marine film playing hall, public art interactive space, comprehensive materials, painting, video and other forms.
The works exhibition of the 9th National Marine Cultural Design Competition for College and Secondary School Students hosted by Publicity and Education Center of the Ministry of Natural Resources is an important part of the contemporary art exhibition. Besides, a series of supporting activities, such as art practice projects, Nordic online art salon, art classroom for science popularization and art forum, were held to raise people's concern on marine culture and marine nature conservation in Xiamen, to call on the public to protect marine resources, while highlighting Xiamen's unique marine characteristic.
5. 2020 Xiamen International Kite Festival
As the branding activity of Siming district and even Xiamen city, Xiamen International Kite Festival has been held for 13 sessions since 2003, which has a great influence within the fan of stunt kite in domestic and even abroad.
The 2020 Xiamen Youth Beach Rugby Championship with the slogan of "Passion Beach Rugby, Brave Young Boy" is a supporting activity of the kite festival. More than 40 teams with over 400 rugby players gathered at Guanyinshan Beach and showed the spirit of rugby in team, fight, health and upward to the fullest.
6. Ocean Science Open Day
The 9th Online Ocean Science Open Day of Xiamen University took "Surf the sea" as its theme, providing the public with a multi-dimensional opportunity to understand the ocean through a live broadcasting tour to its laboratory.
The 70.8 Talk-Marine Science, Humanities and Art Talk, took sustainable oceans as the theme. Five researchers on marine culture introduced their research areas by giving lectures in an original way.
The Whale Museum of the Third Institute of Oceanography, MNR, is the first museum in China that focuses on gray whales. A large number of visitors were attracted during the open day. They got to know the original image of marine wildlife and felt the charm of marine life through the visit. At the same time, the museum staff also introduced the harm of marine debris to marine environment and creatures, and emphasize the importance of marine environmental protection, to further enhance people's awareness of the marine protection.
Jimei University opened its Museum of Natural History and Exhibition Hall of Boat Models in Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall and Ornamental Aquarium Engineering Research Centre in University of Fujian Province to the public. It also held the Marine Information Technology Forum. The open day of Jimei University attracted more than 500 people, effectively promoting the popularization of marine science and culture.
7. "Ocean Star" Youth Sailing Match
Some 62 players between 12 to 15-year-old, from Guangzhou, Fuzhou, Xiamen and other cities joint the competition. The theme of the competition is "love and protect the ocean". One of the highlights is that all the players read the small captain’s proposal for marine protection. The young players built a close connection with the ocean by sailing. They would like to express their needs and wills on protecting the ocean, and to encourage more students to protect the ocean from themselves in the small things they can.