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Top ten Asian film directors to attend IFFA Macau in December

Top ten Asian film directors to attend IFFA Macau in December

Hong Kong film producers Johnnie To and Ann Hui have been nominated as ambassadors for the International Film Festival and Awards Macau (IFFA Macau) to be held in the territory for the first time from 8th to 13th December, 2016. Johnnie To has shot more than ten movies in Macau, including Exiled, Vengeance and All […]
Asian film awards to be held this Thursday night in Macau

Asian film awards to be held this Thursday night in Macau

The Asian Film Awards (AFA) Ceremony to be held this Thursday at the Venetian Macao. This year the Asian Film Awards Academy will partner with the acclaimed U.S. luxury jewelry brand, Hearts On Fire, to present the “Hearts On Fire-AFA Special Awards” to recognize the achievements of outstanding icons in the Asian film industry. Two […]
Festival aims to show Taiwan’s ‘most beautiful scenery’ in Macau

Festival aims to show Taiwan’s ‘most beautiful scenery’ in Macau

The 10-day ‘Taiwan Festival’ will present the island’s “most beautiful scenery” and “diverse life styles” through a series of exhibitions, concerts and film screenings next month, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Macau said the Director-General Lu Chang-shui. Lu made the remarks during a press conference about the event, at the Dr Sun Yat-sen Memorial […]
Shakespeare and Chinese opera dominate Macao Arts Festival

Shakespeare and Chinese opera dominate Macao Arts Festival

Performances of William Shakespeare’s work and Chinese opera occupy a large part of this year’s Macao Arts Festival (MAF) to mark the 400th anniversary of the deaths of the Bard of Avon and Ming Dynasty’s famed playwright Tang Xianzu. The festival, which takes place from April 30 to May 29, will open with a theatrical […]
Cultural Bureau of Macau to create a “better cultural scene” trough new projects

Cultural Bureau of Macau to create a “better cultural scene” trough new projects

The Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) is keen to revitalize the territory this year by organizing several initiatives. During IC’s Spring Luncheon, held on Monday at the Grand Lisboa Hotel, the bureau introduced projects that are divided into six different areas: “New Cultural Scene,” “Cultural Heritage,” “Cultural and Creative Industries,” “Cultural Events,” “Public Libraries,” and “Culture […]
Liaison officer urges Macau artists to have stronger ‘sense of responsibility’

Liaison officer urges Macau artists to have stronger ‘sense of responsibility’

Macau’s arts and culture circles should have “a stronger sense of responsibility from a historical perspective”, Xu Ting, who heads the Central People’s Government Liaison Office’s Department of Culture and Education, said on Sunday, urging them to offer vigorous support to the central government’s One Belt, One Road initiative. Xu made the remarks when addressing […]
New film festival starts this December

New film festival starts this December

The first International Film Festival of Macau (IFFM) will run from December 8 to 13 this year. Heading the event will be Marco Mueller, the former director of the Locarno, Venice and Rome festivals, as reported in U.S. magazine Variety and confirmed in a statement by the Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO). The bureau told […]
Macau A-Ma Temple blaze repair to take at least 1 year

Macau A-Ma Temple blaze repair to take at least 1 year

The Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) is drafting a restoration plan for the Cheng Kok Sim Lam Pavilion at the UNESCO World Heritage-listed A-Ma Temple, where a fire broke out on Wednesday morning, the bureau’s Cultural Heritage Department Chief Leong Wai Man said on Thursday, adding that it would take at least one year to repair […]
Macau Literary Festival: the most international edition of all

Macau Literary Festival: the most international edition of all

Authors from more than 10 different countries will gather at The Macau Literary Festival – The Script Road that will begin on the 5th of March 2016. This year, writers, artists and musicians will come from Macau, Hong Kong and the Portuguese speaking countries, Ireland, Australia, Spain, Wales, Sweden, Philippines and the United States. “We […]
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