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[Performance Venue] Asia Culture Center Like 151 [Performance Venue] Asia Culture Center Since its opening in 2015, the Asia Culture Center has served as a world-class cultural complex and ... Since its opening in 2015, the Asia Culture Center has served as a world-class cultural complex and organization dedicated to cultural exchange, collection, research of cultural resources, and creation and production of content. It also functions as a one-stop venue of exhibition, performance, archives, and distribution in Asia. The scale of this cultural complex is second to none. The center has various cultural facilities, including the ACC Culture Exchange, ACC Archive & Research, ACC Creation, ACC Children, ACC Theater, Asia Plaza, Yeolin Madang, Hanul Madang, and Rooftop Garden. Designed to maintain Asian values, the center creates cultural content through cultural exchanges between Asian countries, and organizes performances and exhibitions. Furthermore, it offers distribution systems through which creative works can be exported to Asia and the rest of the world. The center is a playground where visitors can experience and enjoy culture through its vast facilities, library, and programs, like exhibitions and performances. At the same time, the ACC is a place of learning for all to search and research an infinite amount of material on Asia and become professional experts in culture. Like 151
[Performance Venue] Bitgoeul Citizen Culture Hall Like 3 [Performance Venue] Bitgoeul Citizen Culture Hall Bitgoeul Citizen Culture Hall is a new multi-culture facility of Gwangju, a hub city of Asian cultur... Bitgoeul Citizen Culture Hall is a new multi-culture facility of Gwangju, a hub city of Asian culture, and orients performance and exhibition focused on citizens and provides pleasant, familiar culture and art space for the edification of citizens’ emotion and the development of local culture and art. Bitgoeul Citizen Culture Hall as a cultural garden in downtown fresh and colorful performance service, and also promotes familiar cultural space where all citizens visit pleasantly and provides all kinds of cultural information. We will make all efforts to do our duty as a cradle of local culture and art where the fragrance of art is full. We will realize a hub city of Asian culture, Gwangju, where the index of happiness through culture is full, by complementing the function of National Asian Culture Complex currently under construction, scheduled to be constructed completely in 2014 and meeting a variety of cultural needs of citizens. Like 3
[Performance Venue] Bitgoeul Korea Traditional Classical Music Instruction Hall Like 2 [Performance Venue] Bitgoeul Korea Traditional Classical Music Instruction Hall This is located in the Punggeum crossroad which is central residence area of Seo-gu with Seo-gu Cult... This is located in the Punggeum crossroad which is central residence area of Seo-gu with Seo-gu Culture Center. It has a performance hall and an exhibition hall of 156 seats with 2 underground and 3 ground floor. It is used as a living education center which can succeed to and develop the Korean traditional music and collect, display and transmit the materials related with the Korean traditional music with the orthodoxy of Namdo culture, and historical and cultural value. Like 2
[Performance Venue] Gungdong Art Theatre Like 7 [Performance Venue] Gungdong Art Theatre Gungdong Art Theatre is a small theatre only for performing the play opened by a local autonomous go... Gungdong Art Theatre is a small theatre only for performing the play opened by a local autonomous government entity in the first place in the nation. It has the purpose to make a culture and art space in a living in the Street of Art where the love of art of simple Gwangju citizens is shown. Here we can feel the value of our life and appreciate its beauty. Sometimes we can enjoy evermore joy while watching a good play performance. We can also communicate with our society through the understanding of micro and macro living and its depth. Like 7
[Performance Venue] Gwangju City Hall Outdoor Music Hall Like 5 [Performance Venue] Gwangju City Hall Outdoor Music Hall The Outdoor Music Hall, situated in the Culture Square next to Gwangju City Hall, is an outdoor perf... The Outdoor Music Hall, situated in the Culture Square next to Gwangju City Hall, is an outdoor performance stage with 2,000 movable seats built in May 2006. It is equipped with the latest sound equipment, stage, and lighting facilities, and it hosts a wide variety of shows, exhibitions, events including classical music concerts and gugak (traditional Korean music) concerts. Like 5
[Performance Venue] Gwangju Culture & Art Center Like 30 [Performance Venue] Gwangju Culture & Art Center Gwangju Culture and Art Center, the mecca of Honam (Jeolla provinces, southwestern part of Korea) ar... Gwangju Culture and Art Center, the mecca of Honam (Jeolla provinces, southwestern part of Korea) art, is the center of a cultural belt. Its surrounding is arranged with Gwangju National Museum, Jungoe Park, Gwangju Municipal Folk Museum, and Gwangju Museum of Art where people can look around the ancient and modern times' cultural heritages. If you go to Gwangju Culture and Art Center, you can see the yellow golden-bell trees, cherry blossoms and royal azaleas on both sides of stairs. At the top of Mt. Unam the center is located, snowy herons make their nests and the ever green pine trees throughout four seasons and the sculpture park are loved by people as a park in the city. Gwangju Culture & Art Center consists of a big theater and a small theater, a classical Korean music studio, an arena and a sculpture park. It also has six municipal art organizations: Gwangju Symphony Orchestra, Gwangju City Ballet, National Traditional Music Orchestra, National Classical Music Orchestra, City Chorus, and Boys and Girls Chorus. The big theater was designed to perform the various genres such as opera, ballet, musical and the like. This big theater is the center of performance culture, performing throughout the year. This theater has 1,732 seats with revolving stage, movable stage, and rising and falling stage. The small theater is a multipurpose art space that can do music, national classical music and concert. At this theater equipped with 509 movable seats of a single story formed as a semi-open stage indented at 90 degrees, the audience can feel the actors and actresses' facial expression and their sound of breathing. National Traditional Music Hall was completed in December 1992 to preserve the tradition of Namdo's sound and has a practice room of Gwangju Municipal Traditional Opera Troupe and Gwangju Traditional Music Orchestra, and a site for the experience of Namdo's sound. At the gate of national classical music building, there is a statue to pay tribute to the art spirit of Master singer Im Bangul. Gwangju City Ballet is a unique ballet troupe among the national municipal dance troupes. Acknowledged the excellent ability as three big ballet troupes in our country, together with Universal Ballet Troupe as a national ballet troupe, Gwangju City Ballet has various kinds of repertoires from classical ballet to creative ballet. Since it was founded in 1989 to shine Gwangju, The home of art and the sacred place of pansori, Gwangju Municipal Traditional Opera Troupe has had regular performances of A Korean traditional opera (changgeuk) such as Story of Nolbu, Story of Simcheong, Story of Chunhyang, Gangreung maehwajeon (a type of pansori popular in Gangreung), Story of Officer Baebijang, and others. Besides it has enhanced the national glory through the invitation performance of the Japanese foreign minister, the performance at APEC Summit Talk with President Kim Daejung, the celebrating performance of New Zealand national guest visit and the like. Gwangju Symphony Orchestra assessed as one of the Korean top five symphony orchestras, Gwangju Municipal Chorus, Boys’ & Girls' Choir troupe to elevate the emotion of the citizens, and Gwangju Traditional Music Orchestra founded in 1994 to develop harmonious national classical music and so on are all loved by the citizens. Gwangju Culture and Art Center arranges the special planned programs such as Tuesday Art Stage and All around performance of Namdo sound every month. Tuesday Art Stage initiated since 1993, the year of the Korean classical music, has shown the high level of performance on every first Thursday and all around performance of Namdo sound has been held since 1999 every month. A place which is loved the most by the citizens at Gwangju Culture and Art Center is the very square. This square is a free and comfortable space offering the rest to the citizens. If we go to this square, we can meet all walks of life such as inhabitants wearing slippers, students wearing the school uniform and running children. In the wide open square we can enjoy the gorgeous and cozy night view. To promote effectiveness this square, an arena is built. At the arena, outdoor performance is held on Saturdays. Right beside the arena, there are a monument inscribed with a poem of a poet Go Jeonghee who was dead by accident for hiking Mt. Jiri in 1991 and a monument inscribed with a poem of a senior Sijo (Korean verse) poet Jeong Sopa who had secured the spirit of the Sijo literature at this region for his lifetime. Another pride of Gwangju Culture and Art Center is the very Sculpture Park. Beautiful landscape trees and a narrow path which gets joined together with a variety of 27 sculptures are the resting places for the art experience which offers the different mood of peace according to each season. Like 30

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