The Cambodian traditional dances, the Singaporean modern dances, the Philippine fashionable ballet and the Indonesian popular songs… will staged on the 8th Asia Arts Festival (AAF) on 31st August in Beijing . The AAF will hold four main activities, namely, the grand performance of "Bravo! ASEAN" jointly staged by ASEAN and Chinese artists, the "Theme Conference of Asian (10＋3) Art Museum Directors Forum", "Asian Wonders - Art Exhibition of ASEAN", and "The 2nd NEACH & (10＋3) Cultural Personnel Resource Development and Cooperation Training Class". The highlight of this year's AAF is the ASEAN Culture Week.

The Asia Arts Festival showing the whole Asian image. As the first regional international art festival held by China, the AAF get its birth in 1998. The Asian traditional arts are recollected, displayed, researched and enjoyed in here, which gradually becoming a cultural card arose the countries' recognition. The 8th AAF, compared with the previous seven AAF, the Festival this year reaches a new height, in terms of scale and contents.

Culture is our heritage, and culture is our future.