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| One of the nice things about arriving in China is meeting old friends at the Airport. Here Art Director of the International Accordion Art Week Prof. Wang Hongyu and tranlsator Tatsiana Kamarova greets me at the airport. |
Wang Hongyu and Harley Jones. |
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| Tatsiana Kamarova is from Belarus and studying media at Harbin University and Harley Jones. |
Viatcheslav Semenenko and Alexander Kapitan from Vladivostok area, who are jury in 2012. Kapitan was also a guest artist at the 2010 Harbin Art Week Festival. |
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| Wang Hongyu beside his new BMW which was delivered only 2 months ago. The weather was very warm so the air conditioning luxury was appreciated for the journey to the Mengxi Hotel, part of the Harbin Normal University Jiangnan campus. |
Harbin City has enormous amounts of new building going on. |
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| Another picture showing the enormous number of new buildings under construction in Harbin City. |
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After check-in at the very nice Mengxi Hotel, those that had arrived, joined Wang Hongyu for a Chinese lunch of many courses. The food was excellent and it was a great opportunity to see if I had forgotten how to use the chop sticks!!!
Left to right: Tatsiana Kamarova, Olga and Andrey Chugunov, Alexander and Mrs Kapitan, Wang Hongyu and Viatcheslav Semenenko. |
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| A visit to the office to obtain information and graphics for this report, saw lots of young volunteers working, folding programs, information leaflets, stacking in bags, for the competitors, teachers and festival visitors. |
The festival information including the nice glossy program (printed program) and all the festival information was put into a nice printed bag for each contestant, and festival participant. |
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| The registration desk in the hotel lobby was busy for a lot of the day. Left to right: Zhang Xinyuan, the son of Wang Hongyu, Wang Yue, Li Hongguang |
Wang Hongyu greets Music College of Shanghai Normal University tutor Crystal Wang. |
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| Some translation needed for the website. Tatsiana Kamarova and Li Hongguang |
A Welcome Banquet for all the guests and jury was held. Prof. Wang Hongyu welcomes everyone to the 2012 Harbin International Accordion Art Week. |
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| The Rector of Harbin University, Xu Xiaofeng, made a welcome speech and underlined the committment of Harbin University to the accordion program. |
Jury members, Viatcheslav Semenenko and Sun Delun. |
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| Andrey Chugonov (right) made a speech of thanks and proposed a toast to the Rector Xu Xiaofeng and Wang Hongyu. |
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| Wang Yuping and Wang Shusheng |
Alexander Kapitan and Vladimir Zubitsky |
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| Wang Hongyu, Ren Li Hong (Bugari Accordions), Emilia and Marco Pasculli |
Frederic Deschamps and Crystal Wang |
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| Table of Chinese jury members. |
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| Zhang Liqin, Xu Dawei, Cao Ye, ??, Frederic Deschamps and Crystal Wang. |
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| Viatcheslav Semenenko and Wang Don Yang |
Yang Fan and Grayson Masefield |
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| and Fu Yang |
Wang Hongyu making a toast of welcome to each table before the end of the evening.. |
