Arts
Hong Kong has seen performances of traditional Cantonese “operas for deities” across the territory in celebration of Tin Hau Festival, marking the birthday of the “Empress of Heaven.” This year’s festival coincided with Labour Day on May 1. It is celebrated on the 23rd day of the third lunar month. On Lamma Island, performance group Golden Dragon and Phoenix presented a traditional Cantonese opera in Yung She Wan for five consecutive nights. Kicking off last Tuesday, the show featured Cantonese Opera titan Loong Koon-tin, who took part in 11 performances. It took place at a makeshift bamboo th...
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By Maggy DONALDSON, Andréa BAMBINO New York (AFP) - Avec le "Jardin du temps" comme inspiration, les célébrités ont déferlé lundi au gala du Metropolitan Museum, l'incontournable événement de New York à la croisée de la mode et de la philanthropie. Costume sombre aux coutures soulignées et large chapeau évoquant l'époque Tudor, le prince du reggaeton Bad Bunny a donné le ton, bouquet floral noir à la main, quand il a foulé les marches du musée adossé à Central Park. L'actrice Zendaya, habillée comme l'artiste portoricain par John Galliano (Maison Margelia), est apparue dans une robe coupée en ...
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Ebensee (Autriche) (AFP) - En Autriche, une exposition fait pénétrer l'art dans un camp de concentration pour "rapprocher le public de l'inexprimable" et entretenir le souvenir, une "démarche d'équilibriste" qui doit se faire selon le mémorial dans le respect des victimes du nazisme. Quand on entre dans le tunnel creusé sous la roche par les prisonniers principalement polonais, soviétiques et hongrois à Ebensee, on est saisi par la multitude de cordes rouges - 280 km au total - qui relient des immenses robes sur 120 mètres de longueur. Une installation de la Japonaise de renommée international...
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Hong Kong must improve communications to manage tourists’ expectations of fireworks displays, a tourism veteran has said after visitors from mainland China aired complaints about a scaled-down pyrotechnics display on Labour Day. It came as Hong Kong saw more than 181,000 arrivals from the mainland on the first day of the May 1 “golden week”. Timothy Chui, executive director of the Hong Kong Tourism Association, told RTHK that he was “pleasantly surprised” to know that some mainland tourists had come to Hong Kong specifically for the scaled-down fireworks display. However, some Chinese netizens...
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Pro-democracy Cantopop star Denise Ho has said she will perform an online gig this month having been unable to secure a live venue. “Apart from the fact that it’s so difficult for me to do a ‘normal’ show in this abnormal place (I should say it’s impossible, I can’t book a show, I can’t go out of town for a tour)… I think this situation of being stripped down is probably the best time for me to learn how to be a singer again,” Ho said in a Facebook post to fans on Monday. Police are currently in possession of the singer’s passport as she was arrested on charges of sedition in connection with t...
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The Kowloonbay International Trade & Exhibition Centre (KITEC) will close on June 30. It follows a HK$10 billion purchase by a consortium led by Billion Development and Project Management in 2021. E-max, a mall within KITEC, notified commercial tenants of the closure. Last March, the government approved the reconstruction of the site into three commercial building, with industrial exhibition space, as well as commercial and engineering facilities. Built in 1995 and originally owned by Hopewell Holdings, the 1.76 million square foot events and office space has hosted concerts, conferences, exhi...
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President Theatre in Hong Kong has announced it will shut down on Tuesday, after operating in the city for more than half a century. The announcement came less than a week after another local cinema went out of business. Newport Circuit announced on Facebook last Saturday that President Theatre, which opened in October 1966, will close on April 30. The theatre located in Causeway Bay described its demise as “closing down with honour,” and thanked the support of the public. ‘Collective memories’Fans of the theatre expressed regret over the closure, with some saying the tickets sold by President...
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While attention was focused on Singapore’s exclusive deal to host Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour concerts and Lionel Messi’s absence from a Hong Kong exhibition march, the city’s jazz fans were excited at a planned visit by three times Grammy Award winner Diana Krall. I share the disappointment over Messi and Swift even though it had nothing to do with me. Krall is another story: I texted my friends about the concerts. Her live appearance in Hong Kong is a mega event, as important as an LVMH fashion show in Tsim Sha Tsui or a Mirror concert. Then I was taken aback to learn that the concert will take...
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Part of HKFP’s four-part zine scene series. Artist Kaitlin Chan, who spent her childhood and formative years in Hong Kong, used to feel intimidated by the overwhelming visual stimuli in the city. She often found herself wanting to rush through the bustling streets, where everyone’s lives seemed to be happening all at once. However, after studying in the US for around four years, her time away sparked a “renewed curiosity” for her hometown. The same rhythm of life that once overwhelmed her became an inspiration, driving the cartoonist to create zines that celebrate the beauty of the most common...
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Paris (AFP) - Une réflexion est menée avec le ministère de la Culture pour améliorer les conditions d'exposition de la célèbre Joconde de Léonard de Vinci au musée du Louvre, et la présenter éventuellement dans une salle à part, a annoncé samedi sa présidente Laurence Des Cars. "En ce qui me concerne, c'est +oui+ et je pense que c'est +oui+ pour beaucoup de gens et nous y réfléchissons", a-t-elle répondu sur France Inter à la question de savoir si la Joconde, alias Mona Lisa, ne méritait pas "une salle à part". "C'est toujours frustrant quand on n'est pas tout à fait à la hauteur des condition...
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