CRI听力:Artists Promote Chinese Culture at Henley Festival in the UK

Artworks by Chinese artists have made a buzz at this year's Henley Festival in the UK.

The festival has teamed up with Ever Culture to introduce Chinese art and design in both a traditional and contemporary way.

Henry Zhang, operations director of Ever Culture, says the festival provides a platform to promote Chinese art and culture. "This is a wonderful opportunity in this international environment to promote Chinese art and Chinese culture. So, for this year, we have lots of artists coming over and also we have ceramics painting and also we have a jewelry designer as well as a paper cutting - traditional way and the modern way, contemporary way. Also have furniture from the designer from China, and also have the traditional costume."

The five-day music and art festival is a black-tie event which has been running for over 30 years in the river town of Henley.

Stewart Collins is the festival's artistic director. "So it started as just a very nice classical festival mainly with orchestras and opera singers, and the classical soloists. But now it becomes a much bigger event which has all sorts of major rock and roll stars from around the world, but also performers, artists of all disciplines. So also we have jazz, comedy, we have music from around the world."

This year's festival has seen British pop singer Jessie J and US legend Lionel Richie perform on stage.

This year's Henley Festival wraps up tonight.