Cultural salon featuring Chinese tea attracts Australians

STORY: Cultural salon featuring Chinese tea attracts Australians DATELINE: June 16, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:07 LOCATION: SYDNEY, Australia CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the event 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): DAVID VAN NUNEN, President of the Australian Watercolour Institute 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): TRACY SAUNDERS, Sydneysider STORYLINE: With light tea aroma, wonderful intangible cultural heritage performances and an elegant tea art show, a tea-themed cultural salon staged in downtown Sydney provided a fresh and immersive experience for Australians. The event, entitled "Tea for Harmony: Yaji Cultural Salon," was held at the China Cultural Center in Sydney on Thursday evening, which is also part of a global event to promote China's tea culture. Visitors had the chance to watch tea-themed traditional Chinese folk dance and tea ceremony performances, taste different kinds of Chinese tea, try paper cutting, and learn more about the history and cultural backgrounds of tea. SOUNDBITE 1 (English):

Australia's oldest library starts daily opening of Shakespeare Room for 1st time in history

STORY: Australia's oldest library starts daily opening of Shakespeare Room for 1st time in history DATELINE: April 24, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:13 LOCATION: SYDNEY, Australia CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the State Library of New South Wales 2. various of the Shakespeare Room STORYLINE: As the oldest library in Australia, the State Library of New South Wales (NSW) on Monday started opening Shakespeare Room seven days a week to the public for the first time in its history. Welcoming visitors in a social media post, the NSW State Library said that the Tudor-style room, opened in the early 1940s, was built to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Shakespeare's death. "Inside you'll find thousands of books by and about Shakespeare, as well as stained-glass windows that depict the seven ages of man from his play 'As You Like It'," the state library noted. On Monday midday, Sydneysider Andrea made her first-ever visit to the Shakespeare Room, after looking at the state library website and knowing that t