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 Festival Director, SON Baung-tae. |
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Busan International Performing Arts Festival announces a new start. Greetings, this is the Festival Director, SON Baung-tae. |
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Greetings to all citizens who love the BIPAF. Festival Director SON Baung-tae at your service. BIPAF, which celebrated its coming of age last year, celebrates its 21st anniversary thanks to your support. For the past 20 years, BIPAF has grown into a representative performing arts festival in Busan, featuring a wide range of performances from classical to street plays. Despite the prolonged impact of COVID-19 pandemic, we have continued to provide a festival that is safe ofr everyone while upholding the identity of BIPAF. BIPAF, which celebrated its 20th anniversary last year, successfully held the festival by transforming all the programs of the festival into face-to-face meetings with citizens, sharing the hot breath of the work together, communicating with them at various venues. 21st BIPAF aims to build a platform for artists and audiences to communicate with each other through BIPAF as well as high-quality performances at domestic and oversea under the concept of "Global Link from BIPAF.“ In addition, this year's BIPAF has established an invitation program to celebrate the 140th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Korea and Italy, and the 'BIPAF Global Program', which seeks overseas exchanges and advancements through continuous search for ways without losing excellent performances. In addition, we would like to provide the atmosphere of a festival enjoyed with all generations through various festival programs such as citizen participation programs and additional programs. BIPAF's efforts for a 'beyond coming-of-age to the future and beyond Busan to the world' will continue. We hope the BIPAF, which marks its 21st anniversary this year, will add vitality to your daily life and contribute to your steps toward a new era. We wish you a bountiful May with Busan’s leading performing arts festival, BIPAF. Thank you. |
| Festival Director, SON Baung-tae. |
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