Movie star 'paints a smile'
Taiwan movie star Shu Qi, spokesperson for Swiss watchmaker Frederique Constant, attended its charity event "Paint a Smile" in Beijing recently. Shu visited the Beijing Children's Hospital where the little patients and staff of the Paint A Smile Foundation spent two months decorating the wards of the cardiology department with their own paintings.
Founded by Laura Cotton, Paint a Smile aims to reduce patient anxiety and make a hospital stay more cheerful and friendly. It trains and sends professional teams of "Smile Painters" around the world to decorate and transform bare white walls into landscapes of dreams and fantasy.
English course a big hit
Since it was launched last October, the exclusive online program Harvard ManageMentor has attracted nearly 10,000 Chinese office workers learning English.
The course has been created by world-class business experts and presented by Harvard Business School Publishing and Wall Street English. Its 42 units are aimed not only at helping improve English levels, but also developing social skills, negotiation strategies and creativity in leadership and management.
Concerts galore at piano festival
Themed "Romantic Europe - From Chopin to Rachmaninoff", the First Beijing Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli International Piano Festival will be held at the National Grand Theater for the Performing Arts from Nov 19 to 29. It will bring together nine international piano maestros, such as Olga Kern, Aldo Ciccolini and Boris Berezovsky.
They will present five solo concerts in cooperation with the China Film Symphony Orchestra and the China Broadcasting Orchestra. Italian pianist Enrica Ciccarelli will perform the famous Chinese piano concerto Yellow River and also hold a six-day master class.
The festival is a response to the annual Benedetti Michelangeli International Piano Festival, the theme of which was "Oriental Charms: From Bach To China" this year. Chinese composer Tan Dun and pianist Lang Lang will perform at the opening concert.
Editor: Feng Hui
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