5月 May English VersionNO.107 2012 All Around the City We need your support in transforming Macau into a water conservation city! Several performances from the ‘23rd Macau Arts Festival’ will be staged in World Heritage sites throughout the city, and this month Mansion. Join in the spirit of the ‘Pahiyas Festival’ to get to know more about the culture of the Filipino community, and try to make the Catholic ‘Procession of Our Lady of Fátima’ embarks upon its annual pilgrimage, while ‘The Worship Ritual for the Buddha’s time for the ‘Nocturnal Drama at Taipa Houses’ and the ‘Pleasure Tour through Taipa’s Historic Quarter’. The Macau Tea Culture Skull Relic’ will be enacted for devotees in Macau. House is hosting a series of tea-related events revolving around the differentiation of the six major types of this popular beverage... and you can join the ‘Guided Tour of St. Lawrence’s Church’ to learn more about Macau’s churches as well. Visitors can enter the Guia Lighthouse on ‘Maritime Administration Day’, which is a special treat as it’s not normally open to the public. And ‘International Museum Day’ means that visors can enjoy the city’s many varied museums for free. Macau Science May also means the ‘Macau International Film and Video Festival 2012’, ‘The Rock Concert of Wubai & Bobby Chen’, ‘Mother’s Centre has just launched its New Dome Show - ‘The Celestial Railroad’ - an animated tour de force of the universe by Japanese Day Concert’, ‘Raymond Lam Live in Macau’ and Stone Commune’s 24-hour performance ‘My Date: 13 May 2013’. And take the digital fine arts pioneer Kagaya, and if you really want to get into the swing of things why not hunt down the Drunken Dragon Dance, opportunity to support local artists by visiting their super exhibitions in Ox Warehouse, Creative Macau and 10 Fantasia - A Creative Chinese Lion Dances, Chinese martial arts and Portuguese Folk Dances, all of which are performed around the city on weekends. Industries Incubator and why not watch an artist create his works on the spot in the Macau Art Window exhibition in the MAM gallery. Party revellers won’t want to miss ‘The Venetian Mardi Gras Carnival,’ while over at MGM Macau they’re blending high-tech Getting around Macau and the islands is easy: all you have to do is download the WH Macau App, using WiFi GO, MacauMap or with nature in ‘The Magic of Butterfly Reinventions’ - and there’s lots of interesting pieces to be picked up at the ‘Tap Seac Tourism Hotline, to get current tourism information on just about everything - Happy sightseeing! Art Fair’ and the ‘Sun Never Left - Public Art Performance’; or catch traditional handicrafts at the heritage-listed Lou Kau 1/5 - 2/6 23rd Macau Arts Festival 1 - 3/5 Worship Ritual for the Buddha’s Skull Relic Featuring 128 performances by 33 acts from Europe, the USA, Argentina and Mainland China, more than half of the events in this year’s Macau Following the passing of the Buddha some 2,500 Arts Festival feature the participation of Macau artists. An intriguing ‘pot pourri’ of local and international theatre, traditional and modern dance, years ago, his disciples retrieved 84,000 relics from Chinese and Western music, multimedia and visual arts, this year’s Festival - much of which is staged in UNESCO-listed World Heritage sites - the ashes of his cremation, including his skull, which features a significant number of performances directed at families and children as well as rich adult fare. was subsequently worshipped all around the world. In 2010, the Buddha’s Skull Relic was unveiled to the On the local front, the Macau General Association of Cantonese Opera and Music presents ‘Cantonese Opera in Concert’ (4/5, MCCGA), featuring public for the first time in more than 1,000 years, in Nanjing, and this month, selections from a classic repertoire performed by an all-star cast, while the Cantonese narrative singing tradition of ‘naamyam’ recalls bygone believers have the opportunity to participate in a three-day blessing of the splendour in the Mandarin’s House, coupled with the pure, unaccompanied voices of the Soda-City Experimental Workshop Arts Association. ‘Zheng’s relic in Macau. Walls Have Ears’ (26, 27/5, Mandarin’s House) features classical Chinese dance to the accompaniment of Chinese and Western instruments, while the Lei Vai Fan Studio presents ‘Ode to the World’ (11, 12/5, Dom Pedro V Theatre), a sensuous multimedia musical performance. Local environmental drama group Black Sand Theatre returns to the Festival with Time: First Session: 9:30am to 2:00pm (1-2/5) Second Session: 2:00pm to 8:00pm (1-2/5) ‘Tincaplins’ (19, 20/5, Dom Pedro V Theatre), a play combining physical theatre for children featuring acrobatics, stilts, puppets and multimedia. And Macanese patois drama group Third Session: 9:30am to 3:30pm (3/5) Dóci Papiaçám de Macau keeps alive an almost extinct language through the clever device of satirical commentary with the premiere of ‘Spooky Doo!’ (11, 12/5, MCCGA). Venue: Macau East Asian Games Dome, Ave. de Lutos, Cotai Admission: MOP10 (Per session) The varied MAF programme also showcases the 2012 Macau Annual Art Exhibition (19/5-5/8, Old Court Building) plus workshops and pre- and post-performance discussions in Tickets available at Kong Seng Ticketing Outlets support of the many events, and in accordance with long-standing MAF tradition, rehearsals for selected performances will also be open to the public. Enquiries: (853) 2855 5555 / 2840 0666 www.macauticket.com Organizers: The Buddhist Association of China, Buddhist Association of Enquiries: (853) 8399 6699 www.icm.gov.mo/fam Organizer: Cultural Affairs Bureau Macau, Macau and China Religious Culture Communication Association, Macau Religious and Cultural Exchange Association Free shuttle bus service: Location: Macau Square in Avenida do Dr Mário Soares, Pak Wai bus stop in Weekends in May - Stepping Out in Old Macau Avenida do Conselheiro Ferreira de Almeida, Estrada do Marginal do hipódromo, Main entrance of Olympic Sports Centre Stadium Frenetic drumming, the clash of tambourines, and the spectacle of Chinese martial arts - every weekend, the highly emotive national dance performances of two countries that have at Av. do Estadio, Taipa harmoniously co-existed for almost half a millennium to make Macau what it is today, in tandem with thrilling Kung Fu and Drunken Dragon demonstrations, are performed against the Outward journey: 8:30am to 8:00pm (1-2/5) 8:30am to 3:30pm (3/5) backdrops of the city’s iconic historic squares and monuments. Tourists and residents never fail to thrill to these wonderful free open-air performances, which last about 20 minutes. Return journey: 10:00am to 10:00pm (1-3/5) Great photo-taking opportunities, great memories! Lion Dance Performance (5, 12, 19, 26/5 Saturdays) Portuguese Folk Dance Performance (6, 13, 20, 27/5 Sundays) Venue & Time: Rua do Cunha, Taipa - 2:00pm Venue & Time: Ruins of St. Paul’s - 11:00am 13/5 Procession of Our Lady of Fátima Barra Square (A-Ma Temple) - 3:00pm Barra Square (A-Ma Temple) -12:00 noon Ruins of St. Paul’s - 4:00pm Rua do Cunha, Taipa - 1:00pm Over the centuries, Macau has absorbed a number of religious activities from the West, including the Drunken Dragon Performance (13, 27/5 Sundays) Tourism hotline: (853) 2833 3000 Venue & Time: Praça da Amizade (Friendship Square) - 3:00pm www.macautourism.gov.mo Procession of Our Lady of Fátima, highly regarded Organizer: Macau Government Tourist Office for the revelation of the Virgin Mary to peasant Chinese Martial Arts Performance (6, 20/5 Sundays) Venue & Time: Praça da Amizade (Friendship Square) - 3:00pm children in 1917 in Fátima, Portugal. The procession - which starts from the World Heritage-listed St. Dominic’s Church - features women dressed in white carrying the statue of the 12 - 20/5 Maritime Administration Day Virgin Mary, and progresses via Senado Squre, Travessa do Roquete, Praia The World Heritage-listed Guia Lighthouse opens its doors - and spiralling staircase! - to the public for ‘Maritime Administration Day’ (20/5). Visitors can clamber to the top of the Grande, Sai Van to Penha Chapel, where mass is held. The parade attracts lighthouse - the first such modern structure to be built on the China coast - for unsurpassed views, and visit the small, adjacent Church of Our Lady of Guia to admire its restored large numbers of respectful followers and visitors every year. frescoes and permeating sense of history. The Maritime Museum is also hosting free cruises to Ilha Verde (Green Island) and the Inner Harbour, plus an Open Day for the Maritime Time: 6:30pm Starting point: St. Dominic’s Church, St. Dominic’s Square Museum and various workshops. Admission: Free Enquiries: (853) 2837 3643 Organizer: Diocese de Macau Date & Time: Guia Lighthouse Open Day (12, 13, 19, 20/5) - 10:00am to 5:30pm Free Cruise (12, 13, 19, 20/5) - 10:00am to 5:00pm (One sailing per hour. For free tickets, please apply to Organizer.) Maritime Museum Open Day (18 - 20/5) - 10:00am to 6:00pm For details, please refer to Organizer. No Smoking Ordinance Now in Effect in Macau ‘Maritime Administration Day’ enquiries: (853) 2859 5481 www.marine.gov.mo Law no. 5/2011 Regime of Tobacco Prevention and Control entered into force Our Lady of Guia Chapel enquiries: (853) 8399 6699 www.macauheritage.net Free admission to all activities in Macau on 1st January 2012. To protect citizens and visitors from exposure to second-hand smoke, smoking is prohibited in most public indoor places such as hospitals, food and beverage establishments, hotels, ports and airports, passenger shelters, shops, museums, karaoke establishments and lifts.