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Local newspapersfading away WaynesvilleThe case of Last September, Waynesville became a statistic. With the shutdown of its newspaper, the Daily Guide, this town of 5,200 people in central Missouri joined more than 1,400 other cities and towns across the U.S. to lose a newspaper over the past 15 years X2 PÁTIO DA ILUSÃO illusion

DRIVE IN Jake Coyle AP Film Writer NEWS OF THE WORLD

ive minutes late, Darrell Todd Maurina sweeps into a mee- In ‘Triple Frontier,’ a special-ops heist goes awry ting room and plugs in his Flaptop computer. He places a Wi-Fi hotspot on the table and turns on a ob opportunities seldom Davis is a divorced, heavy- digital recorder. The earplug in his diverge as greatly as they drinking real estate broker

Jdo for the former special for- with little talent for it. Miller AP PHOTO left ear is attached to a police scan- ces operatives of J.C. Chan- is getting his face kicked in ner in his pants pocket. dor’s “Triple Frontier.” The- as a cage fighter. He wears a tie; Maurina insists upon re is selling condos or taking “I say we deserve better,” professionalism. contract work in an African Garcia tells Davis. “You’ve He is the press — in its entirety. warzone. There’s stocking been shot five times for your Maurina, who posts his work to Fa- shelves at Walmart or taking country and you can’t pay cebook, is the only person who has down a South African drug off your truck.” lord. And you thought your “Triple Frontier,” a Netflix come to the Pulaski County cour- LinkedIn profile had incon- release playing in theaters thouse to tell residents what their sistencies. for a week before streaming, commissioners are up to, the only Yet those are exactly the was first scripted by Mark one who will report on their delibe- kinds of choices facing a Boal with plans for Kathryn rations — specifically, their discus- quartet of ex-military vete- Bigelow to direct. Both re- sions about how to satisfy the Fede- rans who are rounded up, main executive producers Oscar Isaac (left) and Ben Affleck in a scene from the film ral Emergency Management Agency “Blues Brothers”-style, by and Boal is a co-writer alon- Santiago “Pope” Garcia (Os- gside Chandor. in South America (the tit- Almost as soon as the mis- Chandor, who has made mo- so it will pay to repair a road inunda- car Isaac), their former bro- That “Triple Frontier” origi- le refers to the junction of sion — more ragtag than ney an ever-present subtext ted during a 2013 flood. ther in arms who now works nated from the team behind Brazil, Argentina and Para- what they signed up for in crime dramas (“A Most Last September, Waynesville beca- for a mysterious company “The Hurt Locker” and “Zero guay) where they plot, with — gets started, regret be- Violent Year,” with Isaac me a statistic. With the shutdown contracted vaguely by “a fo- Dark Thirty” isn’t surprising. the help of an insider (Adria gins to creep in. Launched as an ambitious heating-oil of its newspaper, the Daily Guide, reign government.” It’s similarly attuned to the Arjona), to take down a lon- with a mix of altruistic and businessman) and survival this town of 5,200 people in central With the promise of that under-rewarded sacrifice of g-elusive drug lord named capitalistic intentions, the tales (“All Is Lost”). His old temptation — “one last elite American soldiers. But Lorea at his jungle hideaway expedition begins to mir- debut, “Margin Call,” was Missouri’s Ozark hills joined more job” — and the potential it’s also a larger leap into and make off with millions. ror other American inter- about a Wall Street invest- than 1,400 other cities and towns for a major payday, Garcia genre. Bountiful in dudes, But “Triple Frontier” is only national overreaches, and, ment bank in the tumult of across the U.S. to lose a newspaper gathers each old pal — Tom guns and action scenes, “Tri- part heist movie. Its second not unlike in Afghanistan a financial crisis. over the past 15 years, according to “Redfly” Davis (Ben- Af ple Frontier” is the kind of half, a militaristic riff on or Iraq, the former soldiers an Associated Press analysis of data fleck), William “Ironhead” proudly macho movie that’s “The Treasure of Sierra Ma- find themselves leaving sta- “Triple Frontier,” a Netflix compiled by the University of North Miller (Charlie Hunnam), perhaps too familiar to mo- dre,” tailspins into a existen- cks of cash to compensate release, is rated R by the Motion Carolina. Ben Miller (Garrett He- viegoers — though such a tial, survivalist thriller about for the deaths of villagers. Picture Association of America dlund) and Francisco “Ca- starry, big-budget thriller is greed and combat addiction. Things turn dark and in for “violence and language Blame revenue siphoned by online tfish” Morales (Pedro - Pas more novel for Netflix. For many of the guys, espe- a frantic escape over the throughout.” Running time: 125 competition, cost-cutting owner- cal) — with little trouble. “Triple Frontier” is both cially Affleck’s Redfly, being Andes, the value of money minutes. . ship, a death spiral in quality, sheer Once at the pinnacle of their more and less than what it drawn back into the field is plummets. disinterest among readers or reasons profession, they’re all strug- seems. The crew heads sou- like relapsing. Trigger fingers Allegories of capitalism Premiered yesterday on Netflix peculiar to given locales for that de- gling to adapt to civilian life. th to an unspecified country again get itchy, to tragic ends. have proven a passion for Macau velopment. While national outlets worry about a president who calls the press an enemy of the people, many Americans no longer have so- meone watching the city council for them, chronicling the soccer exploits BOOK IT tTUNES of their children or reporting on the kindly neighbor who died of cancer. Local journalism is dying in plain ‘Daisy Jones and Johnny Cash’s cabin is sight. the Six’ will draw you in setting for fine Todd rock outcropping painted by A a local tattoo artist to resemb- le a frog greets visitors who follow ike a poignant song Snider album the old Route 66 into Waynesville. with lyrics that speak

Lto your soul, “Daisy Jones AP PHOTO he microphone pops Along with its sister city St. Robert, & The Six” by Taylor Twhen Todd Snider the military towns are dominated by Jenkins Reid will transport delivers an especially AP PHOTO the nearby Fort Leonard Wood, whi- you to another place and emphatic lyric, and his ch has kept the county’s population time. chair creaks under the steadily around 50,000 for the past Set in the drugs and rock weight of his performan- decade. ‘n’ roll culture of 1970s, ce. The rustic charm of Five of Waynesville’s eight city cou- the story begins with an the setting — Johnny LA “it girl” named Daisy Cash’s recording stu- ncil members are former military, Jones whose big blue eyes dio in Hendersonville, and Mayor Luge Hardman says the and copper hair get her into Tennessee — is audible meetings run efficiently as a result. all the hot spots. She falls throughout an album “This is a small town where you can into music but with a gritty that ranks with Snider’s be from somewhere else and not feel voice like Janis Joplin and best work. like an outsider,” said Kevin Hill- a gift for songwriting, she On “Cash Cabin Ses- Todd Snider, “Cash Cabin Sessions, Vol. 3” actually belongs there. sions, Vol. 3,” Snider is (Aimless/Thirty Tigers) man, Pulaski County prosecuting Then there’s a band called clearly inspired by his attorney. The Six whose lead singer historic surroundings, and he came armed with marvelous material The Daily Guide, which traces to Billy Dunne is the defi- “Daisy Jones &; The Six” (Ballantine to enhance the intimate front-porch feel. (The album title is a bit con- 1962, was a family owned paper nition of a rock star: he’s Books) by Taylor Jenkins Reid fusing, because there was no Vol. 1 or 2, and the CD jacket sports a into the 1980s before it was sold to moody, arrogant and hand- photo of Snider holding a single finger aloft.) a series of corporate owners that some. The 34-minute set features mostly a one-man band, with occasional culminated with GateHouse Media Through a series of events, the two acts come together and form backing vocals from Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires. Snider accom- Daisy Jones & The Six. The group skyrockets with critical and panies himself with Cash’s Martin guitar, a 12-string guitar, mando- Inc., the nation’s largest newspa- popular acclaim, hit songs and a sold-out tour, until they suddenly, lin, harmonica and a four-string banjo that’s perfect on “The Blues on per company. Five of the 10 largest inexplicably break up. Banjo” even though he can barely play it. newspaper companies are owned by Now, all those involved, from the band members to their friends As usual, Snider’s best instrument is his sharp wit. He sings a song hedge funds or other investors with and loved ones, look back and share their version of events in the about a song, fondly remembers an Elvis roadie, reflects on the history several unrelated holdings, and Ga- first-person. It reads like you’re watching a documentary where no of TV and addresses our current follies, most pointedly on the closing teHouse is among them, said Pene- one holds back. “A Timeless Response to Current Events.” lope Muse Abernathy, a University Each character is compelling but Daisy Jones is the star. She’s a Snider makes it all as engaging as a visit from a funny friend, a vibe blazing talent who is unapologetic in her sexuality and lives life on not easily created. According to the excellent liner notes, Snider’s of North Carolina professor who her own terms (which is fitting in this #MeToo era.) breathtaking screed on “The Blues on Banjo” was captured on the studies news industry trends. Actress Reese Witherspoon has secured the rights to “Daisy Jones” first take, but other songs involved up to 40 takes. Polish is sometimes Critics have said GateHouse and and will develop the story into a limited series for Amazon Prime. needed to achieve raw beauty, as Johnny Cash well knew. some other newspaper companies Alicia Rancilio, AP Steven Wine, AP follow a strategy of aggressive cost- cutting without making significant 15.03.2019 fri

NEWS OF THE WORLD David Bauder & David A. Lieb, AP

memory, and all were drug-related. For painful, personal reasons, Pu- Decline in readers, ads leads laski County Sheriff Jimmy Bench wishes the Daily Guide was there to report on the December death of his 31-year-old son, Ryan, due to a hundreds of newspapers to fold heroin overdose. It would have been better than dealing with whispers and Twitter. “Social media is so cruel sometimes,”

AP PHOTO Bench said. Without a newspaper’s reporting, Police Chief Dan Cordova said many in the community are unaware of the extent of the problem. Useful in- formation, like a spate of robberies in one section of town, goes unre- ported. Social media is a resource, but Cordova is concerned about not reaching everyone. Local authorities still write news releases and, in the final days of the Daily Guide, the overworked staff often printed them verbatim — even giving front-page bylines to the marketing director for the Waynes- ville School District. “I thought it was great,” said Way- nesville School Superintendent investments in newsrooms. Ga- But people left and weren’t replaced. nd they could advertise much more The local state representative,- Ste Brian Henry, later adding: “Nobody’s teHouse rejects the notion that their Last spring, the Daily Guide was cheaply in free circulars dumped ve Lynch, would routinely cut out a really stepped in and filled exactly motivations are strictly financial, cut from five to three days a week. at local stores. He now works at a story about people recognized in the what we had with our newspaper.” pointing to measures taken in Way- In June, the last newsroom staffer, college in the nearby town of Rolla. paper, add a personal note, laminate Posting press releases to official -Fa nesville and elsewhere to keep news editor Natalie Sanders, quit — she His job at the Daily Guide was eli- it and send it to them — a savvy goo- cebook pages isn’t quite the same. flowing, said Bernie Szachara, the was burned out, she said. She made minated during the relentless down- dwill exercise. County coroner Nick Pappas said company’s president of U.S. newspa- a bet with the only other full-time turn. Historians worry about what is lost readers are more suspicious of news per operations. employee, ad sales person Tiffany “When I first got into the newspaper to future generations. Many of the releases than they would be of a All newspaper owners face a brutal Baker, over when the newspaper business, it was intriguing, rewar- displays in a small museum of local fully reported news story. reality that calls into question whe- would close. Sanders said three ding and I felt like I was doing so- history in St. Robert are stories re- “I’m not going to put out anything ther it’s an economically sustainable years; Baker said one. mething more than generating pro- trieved from newspapers. critical of myself out there,” said model anymore unless, like the Jeff The last edition was published three fits,” Goodridge said. “I felt like I was Residents talk with dismay about Hillman, the prosecuting attorney Bezos-owned Washington Post, the months later, on Sept. 7. doing something for the community. church picnics or school plays they who just started his third term in boss is the world’s richest man. “It felt like an old friend died,” San- As the years went by, it changed.” might have attended but only learn the elective office. “I mean, that’s the That’s especially true in smaller ders said. “I sat and I cried, I really GateHouse said the Daily Guide, like of through Facebook postings after truth. What politician is?” communities. did. Because being the editor of the many smaller newspapers across the the fact. “They’re getting eaten away at every Daily Guide was all I wanted for a country, was hurt by a dwindling “I miss the newspaper, the chance to his isn’t a hopeless story. Do- level,” said Ken Doctor, a news in- really long time.” advertising market among national sit down over a cup of and a Ttted across the country are dustry analyst at Harvard’s Nieman The death of the Daily Guide raises retailers. The paper supplemented bagel or a doughnut [...] and find out exceptions to the brutal new rule, Lab. questions not easily answered, the its income through outside printing what’s going on in the community,” newspapers that are surviving with Newspaper circulation in the U.S. same ones asked at newspapers big jobs, but those dried up, too, said said Bill Slabaugh, a retiree. Now he creative business plans. In North has declined every year for three and small across the country. Szachara, the GateHouse newspaper talks to friends and “candidly, for the Carolina’s Moore County, owners decades, while advertising revenue Did GateHouse stop investing be- operations president. most part, I’m ignorant.” support the 100-year-old Pilot with has nosedived since 2006, according cause people were less interested Given an unforgiving marketplace, Slabaugh acknowledges some -com revenue raised by side businesses to the Pew Research Center. Staffing in reading the paper? Berrier said there’s no guarantee additional in- plicity in the Daily Guide’s demise. — lifestyle magazines, electronic at newspapers large and small has about 3,600 copies of the Daily Gui- vestment in the paper would have He said he angrily stopped buying newsletters, telephone directories, followed that grim trendline: Pew de were printed in the mid-1990s. At paid off, he said. Szachara said the the paper when it wrote about a drag a video production company and a says the number of reporters, edi- the end, GateHouse was printing 675 decision was made to include some show at a local community center. bookstore. tors, photographers and other news- copies a day. news about Waynesville in a weekly Beyond the emotions are practical Philanthropy is supporting other room employees in the industry fell Or did people lose interest because advertising circular distributed concerns about the loss of an infor- efforts to fill gaps created by- jour by 45 percent nationwide between the lack of investment made it a less around Pulaski County. mation source. The bank routinely nalism’s business struggles. Report 2004 and 2017. satisfying read? “We were trying not to create a checked the Daily Guide’s obituaries for America, which sees itself as a In the mid-1990s, when former Dai- “As the paper declined and got ghost town,” he said. to protect against fraud; Pritchard Peace Corps for journalists, has sent ly Guide publisher Tim Berrier was smaller and smaller, I felt that the- said you’d be surprised by family young reporters into communities replaced, the newspaper had a news re wasn’t as much information that esidents of Waynesville are co- members who try to clean out the in Mississippi, Texas and elsewhe- editor, sports editor, photographer really made it worthwhile, so I did Rming to grips with what is mis- accounts of a recently-deceased re- re. It has relationships with news- and two reporters on staff. Along eventually stop” subscribing, said sing in their lives. lative. rooms across the country, including with traditional community news, Keith Carnahan, senior pastor at “Losing a newspaper,” said Keith Pri- At a time when journalists and po- The Associated Press. The American the Daily Guide covered the Army’s Maranatha Baptist Church in St. Ro- tchard, 63, chairman of the board at lice are often at odds, it’s somewhat Journalism Project is raising money decision to move its chemical warfa- bert. the Security Bank of Pulaski County startling to hear local law enforce- to fund local news, and recently an- re training facility to Fort Leonard Berrier blames GateHouse, who he and a lifelong resident, “is like losing ment unanimously express dismay nounced USD42 million in pledges. Wood in the 1990s, and a flood that said “set the Daily Guide up to fail.” the heartbeat of a town.” at the loss of a newspaper. What this effort means for Waynes- swept a mother and son to their dea- Others are less sure. Sanders, the Pritchard has scrapbooks of news Like many communities, Waynesvil- ville, and many small towns like it, ths in 2013. former editor, and Joel Goodridge, clippings about his three daughters; le is struggling with a drug problem. remains to be seen. As recently as 2010, the Daily Gui- another former publisher, blame Katie was a basketball player of The nearby interstate is an easy su- It briefly had an alternative after de had four full-time news people, both GateHouse and the community some renown at Drury University. pply line for opioids and meth, po- the Daily Guide folded. A local bu- along with a page designer and three for not supporting the paper. He wonders: How will young fami- lice say. The four murders in Way- sinessman, Louie Keen, bankrolled ad salespeople. Goodridge said some businesses fou- lies collect such memories? nesville last year were the most in a newspaper, the Uranus Examiner, that was delivered for free. The pa- per had some journalistic spunk, re- vealing that the Waynesville mayor AP PHOTO had blocked some residents from seeing her postings on the city’s Fa- cebook site. Mayor Hardman said it was inadvertent and quickly correc- ted. Maurina Nick Pappas Natalie Sanders Jimmy Bench The paper lasted five issues. X4 PÁTIO DO SAL salt

WORLD OF BACCHUS Jacky I.F. Cheong, MDT The Land of the Eagles II

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ACROSS BAGHDAD, A MOMENT OF RESPITE AND GUARDED HOPE aghdad’s main commer- making the Iraqi capital’s Street, the capital’s oldest amid reports of kidnappings Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in Bcial district has seen name synonymous with war, street and cultural center for ransom and general 1990 and the subsequent more bombings than its have ceased — at least for known for its crumbling, old lawlessness. Unemployment, military intervention by the residents can count. Death now. Thousands of concrete Iraqi houses, has also re- poverty and disenfranchised United States. visited almost daily during barriers that snaked through opened for cars and pedes- youth are widespread. The worst bloodletting came times of war — most horrifi- the city as protection from trians after a 15-year closure “There is a big gap between with the U.S.-led invasion of cally, a 2015 suicide bombing suicide car bombers have due to security risks. people’s aspirations and the Iraq in 2003, which triggered that ripped through two been towed away in trucks, A new Central Bank head- government ability to de- an al-Qaida driven insurgen- shopping malls, killing over easing traffic. quarters, a towering water- liver,” the Western diplomat cy and sectarian violence 300 people. Army spokesman Brig. Gen. front building on the banks said, speaking on condition that washed over the coun- But over the past year or Yahya Rasool said thousands of the Tigris designed by the of anonymity so he could try, killing tens of thousands so, the residents of Karrada of barriers have been towed late Iraq-born architect Zaha speak freely. of Iraqis. Bombings reached have felt more normal than away to a plot of land on the Hadid, is currently under Still, many hope that after up to 10 a day. they have in decades. Streets outskirts of the city, saying construction, expected to be years of bloodshed, Iraq is The violence culminated lined with food stalls are they may be used in the completed next year. starting to turn a corner. with the Islamic State group, crowded with shoppers, future around Baghdad to “Baghdad feels better than it In Karrada, the Hadi Center an al-Qaida offshoot, seizing coffee shops and restaurants protect against infiltration. has since 2003,” remarked a where a 2015 suicide bomb- Iraqi cities and declaring a are packed until late, and the Parts of the heavily fortified veteran Western diplomat in ing trapped people in a burn- self-styled Islamic caliph- grey cement blast walls that Green Zone on the west Baghdad. ing inferno for hours, killing ate over large parts of Iraq protected against bombings bank of the Tigris River Even so, the country faces around 300 people, is full of and Syria. That triggered a are being removed. have reopened to the public, massive challenges. shoppers and youngsters fill displacement crisis unprece- “I used to go to school and including public access to the The Islamic State group, the food court. The adjacent dented in Iraq’s history. Mil- come back home, nothing landmark “Victory Arch” — which is about to lose its last Laith Center had to be razed lions fled their homes in the more,” said Rusul Mohsen, a a 40-meter tall arch of two shred of territory in neigh- and rebuilt from scratch. It’s face of the militants’ rapid 33-year-old middle school swords held by bronze casts boring Syria, is creeping now almost completed. advance. Others fled as Iraqi teacher, seated recently at of former dictator Saddam back in Iraq, stepping up Assem Gharib, owner of a forces, backed by the U.S. and a store front sipping coffee. Hussein’s hands to com- insurgent-style attacks in pastries and ice cream shop, Iran, battled back, ultimately “If I went to a restaurant, I memorate the Iran-Iraq war. areas outside Baghdad and said for years he used to pay reclaiming the last town in would ask to sit in a corner On Monday, Prime Minister the country’s north. Tens of someone to supervise the late 2017. the farthest away from any Adel Abdul Mahdi eased thousands of people remain street outside his shop and Few dare to hope the cur- windows, fearing a car bomb restrictions on the Green displaced and much of the keep cars from parking in rent lull in fighting will last explosion might shatter the Zone further, announcing country is in ruins. The coun- front. and many worry fear the glass.” the highly secure area would try is plagued by corrup- “I used to be frightened growing power of the Shiite For the first time in 15 years stay open to the public for an tion, and in the oil-rich but whenever a car approached, militias, known collectively there is no major war or hour and a half longer in the parched south, violent riots imagining it to be a suicide as the Popular Mobilization insurgency in Iraq, and the day. have repeatedly broken out bomber or a car bomb. Now Forces. defeat of the Islamic State The U.S. established the against living conditions. it’s the opposite, we are hap- Bashar Ali, a 33-year-old group in late 2017 after a Green Zone in 2003 to Baghdad, an ancient metrop- py when a car parks in front shop owner on Karrada ruinous four-year war has secure its embassy and Iraqi olis of 8 million people that of the shop,” he said. street, said he fears the re- given the population a mo- government institutions. But was once the Arab world’s That kind of confidence turn of IS fighters from Syria ment of respite. Despite the the zone became a symbol of cultural center, is barely eluded most Iraqis for the and the lawlessness outside enormous challenges ahead, the country’s inequality, fu- functional, its infrastructure past 15 years. The country the city, including kidnap- there is a guarded sense of eling the perception among crumbling. Armed militias has been at war, one way pings and killings. hope across the capital. Iraqis that their government who fought IS alongside the or another, for more than a “Baghdad is like my home, Car bomb explosions that is out of touch. Iraqi armed forces roam the generation, starting with the I feel safe in my own home, became the norm after the On the other side of the river, streets in what many see as eight-year Iraq-Iran war that but when I go outside I don’t U.S.-led invasion in 2003, Baghdad’s famous Rasheed the country’s latest menace, ended in 1988, followed by feel this way,” he said. X6 PÁTIO DO SOL sun

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TODAY (MAR 15) MONDAY (MAR 18) Azzolini and Lu Jia Exhibition “Imaginary Chronicles” Artworks by Tong Chong and Noah Ng Fong Chao Italian bassoonist Sergio Azzolini is known for his ability and accomplishment in classical instrument Tong Chong – Blossom Series performance, especially of music from the baroque Strolling in the Garden, Listening to Music New works of the Blossom Series explore the period. He has won numerous international awards definition of beauty in people’s lives through daily for his interpretations of work by Antonio Vivaldi. The “Strolling in the Garden, Listening to Music” nuances of life. The rapid spread of information This month he is collaborating with conductor Lu series, held on weekends, takes the Macau Chinese nowadays bring constant impact on people, from Jia and the Macau Orchestra for a concert with Orchestra to several of the city’s most culturally- daily living habits to folk traditions, people have a a Southern European theme. The programme apposite sites, from the Macau Tea Culture House, new understanding of beauty. features Carl Philipp Stamitz’s bassoon concerto, located beside the Lou Lim Ioc Garden, and the as well as work by Vivaldi and Felix Mendelssohn’s nearby Chun Chao Tong Pavilion to the Jao Tsung-I Noah Ng Fong Chao – The Pleasure Symphony No. 4 “Italianˮ. The performance lasts for Academy. This month’s edition of the event series The artist created the artworks based on Ye Quan’s approximately one hour, with no interval. visits the Mandarin’s House. “Pilgrimage to Lingnan” – according to the artist, if what is written by Ye Quan described the superficial Time: 8pm Time: 3pm and 4:30pm cognition of the Chinese to the Western customs, Venue: St. Dominic’s Church Venue: Mandarin’s House then he would like to use this misunderstanding of Admission: Free admission; tickets are being be Admission: Free the West to create his artworks. distributed one hour before the performance at the Enquiries: (853) 8399 6699 concert venue; maximum of 2 tickets per person Organizer: Macau Chinese Orchestra Time: 2pm-7pm (closed on Sundays) Organizer: Macau Orchestra www.icm.gov.mo/ochm Until: April 18, 2019 Enquiries: (853) 2853 0782 Venue: Creative Macau - Center for Creative www.om-macau.org Industries Admission: Free Organizer: Creative Macau - Center for Creative Industries Enquiries: (853) 2875 3282 www.creativemacau.org.mo

TOMORROW (MAR 16) The TOPS Macau ABRSM High Scorers’ SUNDAY (MAR 17) Concert Member Joint Exhibition of 33rd Anniversary of CAC – Círculo dos Amigos This Macau Youth Symphony Orchestra Association da Cultura de Macau TUESDAY (MAR 19) celebration, the latest edition of an annual event, Exhibition of New Works in MAM showcases this year the successful candidates from To celebrate the 33rd Anniversary of CAC – Círculo Collection – Che Ho the 2018 local round of the prestigious ABRSM dos Amigos da Cultura de Macau, Albergue practical examinations, tests administered by the SCM is holding an exhibition with that very title. This exhibition features five pieces of calligraphy Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, Founding members of the association, including and four paintings donated in 2017 by local artist a body based in the United Kingdom. The concert Carlos Marreiros, Mio Pang Fei, Un Chi Iam, Victor Che Ho. It includes “Spring in the Misty Rain”, a brings together more than 30 of Macau’s most Marreiros, Guilherme Ung Vai Meng are taking part. painting displayed at the Art Exhibition of the 2010 talented musicians and the various instruments The event exhibits the works of other members Shanghai World Expo. Che Ho is known for using they play. It lasts for two and a half hours, with an including James Chu, Konstantin Bessmertny, Lam Western techniques in Chinese painting and for intermission of 15 minutes. Kin Ian, Joey Ho Chong I, Noah Ng Fong Chao, and applying ancient skills to today’s art practices, in Tong Chong. order to create his own style. Time: 7:30pm Venue: Small Auditorium, Macau Cultural Centre Time: 3pm-8pm (Mondays) Time: 10am-7pm (no admittance after 6:30pm; Admission: MOP120 12pm-8pm (Tuesdays to Sundays) closed on Mondays) Organizer: Macau Youth Symphony Orchestra Until: April 14, 2019 Until: April 14, 2019 Association Venue: Albergue SCM Venue: Macau Museum of Art Enquiries: (853) 6828 1963 Admission: Free Organizer: Macau Museum of Art www.abrsm.org/mo Enquiry: (853) 2852 2550 Admission: Free Ticketing Service: (853) 2855 5555 Organizer: Albergue SCM Enquiries: (853) 8791 9814 www.macauticket.com Email: [email protected] www.mam.gov.mo 15.03.2019 fri

WEDNESDAY (MAR 20) 3rd Macau Printmaking Triennial

The 3rd Macau Printmaking Triennial has set a new record after receiving 1,097 entries by 720 participants from 39 countries and regions. A panel composed of internationally renowned printmakers, specialists and academics from all over the world selected just the best, 175 winning and finalist works. These works - including “Habitable structure” by Polish artist Łukasz Koniuszy, awarded the Gold Prize - are scattered in four different venues across town. The Silver and Bronze Prizes went to Thai artists Warranutchai Kajaree and Rattana Sudjarit for the works “The remains of the painful thing 6” and “The way of harvester No. 2”.

Time: 10am-7pm (no admittance after 6:30pm, closed on Mondays) Macau Contemporary Art Center - Navy Yard No.1; Exhibitions Gallery and Nostalgic House of the Taipa Houses 10am to 9pm (Tap Seac Gallery) 9am to 9pm (Temporary Exhibition Gallery of the Municipal Affairs Bureau) Admission: Free Organizer: Cultural Affairs Bureau Enquiries: (853) 8988 4000 www.icm.gov.mo/printmaking

THURSDAY (MAR 21) Oneness: Calligraphy by Professor Jao Tsung-I

To commemorate the first anniversary of the death of renowned sinologist Jao Tsung-I, the Cultural Affairs Bureau is hosting “Oneness: Calligraphy by Professor Jao Tsung-I”. The exhibition showcases 15 sets of calligraphy work by Jao Tsung-I, and enables visitors to glimpse the complexity, beauty and spiritual quality of Chinese calligraphy.

Time: 10am-6pm (No admission after 5:30pm, closed on Mondays) Until: September 30, 2019 Venue: Jao Tsung-I Academy Admission: Free Enquiry: (853) 8598 6718 Organizer: Cultural Affairs Bureau 15.03.2019 fri

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