<h3>The Management and Service Center for Expats will cooperate with the Science Fiction Growth Fund and other organizations to bring Chinese visitors a special exhibition of the <b>Utopiales </b>science fiction festival in Nantes.</h3> <h3>This Exhibition in Shekou contains these imaginative and artistic Utopiales illustrations, and also there will be award-winning works and other works of instructors from the Morning Star Award in the exhibition.</h3><h3></h3><h3><br></h3><h3><b>Are you hooked? </b></h3><h3>This year, you don’t have to go to France to see the exhibits.</h3><h3></h3><h3><b>Time:</b> Nov 16 – Nov 26, 2018 </h3><h3><b>Location: </b>All City Mall</h3><h3><b>Address:</b> 2nd Floor, Houhai Bin Road, Nanshan District, Shenzhen (Haiyue station)</h3><h3><b>Chinese Address:</b> 蛇口宝能太古城二层连廊</h3> <h3><b>A series of activities will come along——</b></h3><h3><br></h3><h3><b>On Nov 24:</b> Inaugural Event of the Chinese/French Artist Exchange Program and SciFi-Fantasy Forum</h3><h3>During this activity, we will invite famous science fiction writer Pierre Bordage and other French artists to communicate with Chinese science fiction writers and maestro in creative work.</h3><h3>We also invite you to join in the conversation, if you have any ideas, feel free to come to the forum and talk to the maestros.</h3><h3><br></h3><h3><br></h3><h3></h3><h3></h3><h3><b>On Nov 26-30: French Movie Nights</b></h3> <h1><b>Background:</b></h1><h1><b>Jules Verne and Utopiales</b><br></h1><h3>Jules Verne, a 19th century French author, is famed for such revolutionary science-fiction novels as 'Around the World in Eighty Days' and 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.'</h3><h3>In all, Verne authored more than 60 books (most notably the 54 novels comprising the Voyages Extraordinaires), as well as dozens of plays, short stories and librettos. His works of imagination, and the innovations and inventions contained within, have appeared in countless forms, from motion pictures to the stage, to television. </h3><h3><br></h3><h3></h3><h3>Verne's birthplace Nantes had a profound impact on his writing. </h3><h3>Creativity is the key word in Nantes. It is a source of amazement and emotions, and it brings people together. Nantes is a city of art and history that inspired the imaginary world of Jules Verne. <br></h3><h3><br></h3><h3>Building on the heritage left by Jules Verne and the surrealist past of the city, the Utopiales, International Festival of Science-Fiction, held since the year 2000, is now believed to be the largest sci-fi festival in Europe.</h3><h3> </h3> <h3>Many thanks for the support from various parties. </h3> <h3>A series of activities under this theme will come soon, please keep an eye for the Management and Service Center for Expats. </h3>