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Guangdong Provincial Department of Education released the winner list of the 4th Guangdong - Hong Kong - Macao Greater Bay Area College Student Arts Festival on February 24. Teachers and students from Guangzhou City University of Technology (GCUT) won 24 awards, including 4 artistic performance awards, 11 artistic work awards, 5 presentation awards and 4 outstanding instructor awards.

Winner lists of GCUT’s participants

A watercolor painting, entitled Beauty of an Ancient City

Works that won three awards (including artistic work award, presentation award and outstanding instructor award) at the same time include Beauty of An Ancient City, A Piece of Song Poetry, A Different Perspective, Waiting of A Left-Behind Old Man and Shining in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Beauty of An Ancient City focuses on Lingnan culture, which reveals traditional building style of Lingnan architecture through the fitness of brick tiles. It looks back to “non-renewable Chinese agricultural heritage” while carrying a contemporary interpretation of a nostalgia for country life, enabling the audience to consider the protection and flexible utilization of ancient villages.

A work of Chinese calligraphy, A Piece of Song Poetry

Drawing on a tune entitled Calming the Waves written by Su Shi(China’s famous poet and essayist), A Piece of Song Poetry wrote with vigorous strokes. The poem reflects Su Shi’s tenacity and broad-mindedness in adversity through traditional Chinese calligraphy, while it reveals his pursuit of otherworldly life and his philosophy, that is, endeavoring to relieve himself in difficult circumstances.

Photography entitled A Different Perspective

A Different Perspective introduces a different perspective of buildings with light as its brush, buildings with its drawing board and shadows as its palette, implying that human beings pay attention to details of every space.

Photography entitled Waiting of A Left-Behind Old Man

Waiting of A Left-Behind Old Man pictures a left-behind old man who sat inside the door alone with strong lens language. The metaphor of space inside and outside the door and the comparison between shadows that combine brightness and darkness, which indicate the missing of company in an aging society, hoping to reflect the problem of “left-behinds of the senior and returning to their roots of the young”.

A oil painting, Shining in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area

Chorus, China in the Lights

It is known that the arts festival was organized by Guangdong Provincial Department of Education and held by South China University of Technology, which was themed on “colorful Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, together for a shared future with arts”. It has attracted around 3,000 works since it started in November 2024, covering vocal music, instrumental music, dance, theatre (including Chinese opera), recitation, painting, calligraphy/Chinese seal carving, film and television works (including digital media art) and crafting.