Art
breaks free from performance halls and invades all corners of the city, creating
unlimited possibilities. The 17th Macao City Fringe Festival, organized by the
Cultural Affairs Bureau, is themed “Treasures Hunting” and will be held from 12
to 21 January 2018, featuring a total of 23 wonderful programmes, as well as 10
outreach activities, such as workshops, talks and art critique, among others,
leading the public to uncover the city’s treasures and explore overlooked
values in the interaction between people.
The
10-day long Macao City Fringe Festival offers creativity and surprises:
Jin-Tang, departing from a name , the name of Taiwan creator Ma Wei Yuan’s
grandfather, lets the audience take a peek at the most intimate anatomy of an
individual’s life experience through body language and instant synthetic
images; the show Idiot - Syncrasy, presented by Igor and Moreno from the United
Kingdom, who believe they can change the world by presenting a performance,
uses rhythmic body movements and common elements of two ethnic dances to
express a yearning for the purest human nature; My Old Man is a Bus Driver,
presented by the Dream Theater Association, takes the audience on a two-hour
drive with a retired bus driver, wandering around areas of Macao that have
likely been forgotten.
The
Festival also features other excellent programmes, including The Auction of
Love Stories, a performance inviting the public to submit items and love
stories for auction, allowing the audience to give each one a value; Niyaro:
Yearning for Homeland, calls for the identity recognition buried deep within
each person through chanting, dancing and ritual ceremonies held at Hac Sa
Beach; You Can Sleep Here, converts streets into beds and invites the public to
gather in a mysterious place (known as abandoned public places), thereby
tearing down the barriers between private and public spaces; and in Bear with
Us, three giant bears stroll around the city and may suddenly appear next to
you, causing pleasant surprises.
In
addition to an array of creative performances, the Macao City Fringe Festival
also offers workshops, talks and art critique, among other outreach activities,
aimed to offer the public an even richer and varied arts experience. It also
sets up the “Fringe Intelligence Division” to train Fringe reporters who, under
the guidance of instructors from Macao, Hong Kong and Taiwan, will be able to
learn about the different methods of cultural and art production works and
explore the possibility to create local media dedicated to arts and culture.
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