Jenny Ip Chao Mui, operations manager of Cinematheque•Passion, says that her new team consists of young people full of passion and aspirations, adding that the team wants to pay tribute to their love of cinematic art, therefore they entitled September’s reopening theme as “A Love Letter to the Cinema”.
Culture
The government has decided not to go ahead with the controversial project by its predecessor to redevelop the old courthouse in Nam Van into the city’s new central library.
The former operator of the government-owned Cinematheque•Passion, CUT, said in a statement on Wednesday that it will hold a film day on Sunday with live music, an exhibition and screenings of two short films – This is Not the End and À Bout de Cinémathèque (“At the End of Cinémathèque”).
The Archives of Macao (AM), which is run by the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC), is holding an exhibition entitled “Pirates in the Waters of Macao” to showcase the “phenomenon of piracy in the surrounding waters of Macao” and how it impacted the city.
The future Macao Central Library will no longer be built in the Old Court building, in Praia Grande.
The director of GCS, Chan Lou, the president of the Holy House of Mercy Antonio Freitas and legislator Vong Hin Fai have been appointed as new members of the non-executive board of directors of TDM.
Organised by the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) the Tap Siac Craft Market will be held from 20 to 22 November and from 27 to 29 November in the eponymous square, the Chinese name which is also spelt Tap Seac (“Stacked Rocks”) in Western languages.
A row of former textile factory buildings situated in an area planned for the city’s first-ever tyre park in Taipa need to be demolished as they are posing an environmental hygiene threat to the nearby residential neighbourhoods.
The Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) said in a statement on Wednesday that the Cinematheque•Passion located in Travessa da Paixão will reopen on 1 September.