BEIJING, July 22 (Xinhua) -- Four Chinese universities and four German counterparts are jointly holding an art festival in Beijing from Monday to Friday.

The Chinese universities are the School of Art of Peking University, the Central Academy of Drama, the China Conservatory of Music and the Beijing Dance Academy, while the German universities are Berlin University of the Arts, the State Ballet School of Berlin, the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin and Robert Schumann Hochschule Dusseldorf, according to a press release from the festival.

Artists from the universities will give art lectures and offer courses to international students aged from five to 22, while the teachers and students will present joint performances at the closing ceremony.

The festival is sponsored by Poly Art Education Investment Co., Ltd. to mark the 25th anniversary of the building of the sister city relationship between Beijing and Berlin.