The Macau Arts Festival celebrates its 25th anniversary this year with a month-long fiesta that will include thirty-one acts, sixteen venues, and more than 200 events. This year’s festival is themed around the idea of ‘Impulse’ – a metaphor for the surging power of the arts, and a demonstration of the strength of the Macau Arts Festival

The highly-anticipated event will kick-off at Tap Seac Square at 7:30pm on Friday, 2 May, with the Macau Arts Festival Silver Jubilee Opening Concert. The opening concert will feature specially invited local musicians. The Macau Arts Festival will feature an array of performances from international artists. Performers from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Portugal, the United Kingdom, France, the United States, Canada, Argentina, Japan, and Singapore, will put on an exciting

range of colourful shows, ranging from contemporary dance to items of Intangible Cultural Heritage such as Cantonese Opera and Macanese Theatre (Patuá theatre), multimedia performances to shadow puppetry, audiovisual architectural mapping to exhibitions of western media and photography. The lively, engaging performances will be held across the city’s purpose-built performing arts venues, as well as at many of Macau’s world heritage sites. On 23 and 24 May at 8pm, the Macao Cultural Centre Grand Auditorium will host Robert Lepage’s theatrical work The Andersen Project, regarded as a classic that merges real with virtual theatre, which has gained popularity over the years. Art exhibitions also feature in the festival’s line up. Not to be missed is the 2014 Macau Annual Visual Arts Exhibition(this year dedicated

to western media, aims at promoting local visual arts and encouraging home-grown talent to participate and exhibit their work) and ‘Collotype – Recurrence: Spatial Convergence of John Thomson and Wong Ho Sang at the Macau Museum. The festival will come to a scintillating close with ‘A Dream of Light’, a grand, original audiovisual mapping show, that will be staged amid the spectacular surrounds of the Ruins of St. Paul’s, every night from 8pm, between May 31 and June 8. For more information about the 25th Macau Arts Festival, please visit www.icm.gov.mo/fam/25/en. Tickets can be reserved online at www.macauticket.com, or by phone by calling +853-2855-5555 (Macau) or +852-2380-5083 (Hong Kong).

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