The First Macao International Children's Art Festival Innovative City Festival Leading Children's Families to Embrace Art

　　 Shenzhen Hong Kong Online News The first Macao International Children's Art Festival, under the guidance of the Department of Social Culture of the Macao Special Administrative Region Government and hosted by the Cultural Bureau, will be held in Macao in July and August. The first event will have 9 major segments, bringing 45 projects and more than 1000 events, including international performing arts, Broadway musicals, art exhibitions, film exhibitions, large-scale outdoor installations, art camps, master classes Workshops, art carnivals, etc., with the Macao Cultural Center and its adjacent areas as the core, are held to carry out diversified activities, light up children's childhood with culture and art, encourage families and children to have close, multi perspective, and full sensory contact with art, and present a new theme performing arts festival.

The First Macao International Children's Art Festival Innovative City Festival Leading Children's Families to Embrace Art

The first Macau International Children's Art Festival was co organized by Sands China, MGM, Wynn Resort (Macau) Co., Ltd., supported by the Tourism Administration and the Municipal Council, and BOCM, Air Macau Co., Ltd. and Fisherman's Wharf International Investment Co., Ltd. of Macau served as special promotion partners.

International level performance is excellent, and the stage performance is too busy

The first Macau International Children's Art Festival has the mascot MICAF Mica, and the cute Mica will accompany families to spend a beautiful art summer in the Children's Art Festival. The Children's Art Festival selects a series of family entertainment programs from art groups around the world and Macao. The Broadway musical "Anne" will reproduce the classic for the audience, affectionately interpret the inspirational story of little Anne's brave struggle with destiny, and the catchy songs "Tomorrow", "It's the Hard Knock Life" and other touching stories, which cannot be missed; The closing performance of Luduan, the first musical children's play of the Palace Museum, will be a perfect integration of dramatic art, traditional culture and modern technological innovation, presenting a journey to immerse in the history of the Palace Museum's cultural relics; The Space Puppy Leca created by the Spanish troupe Xiriquiteula brings an adventure experience of visual aesthetic style in the form of shadow play, puppets, image splicing and other art forms; The Portuguese WETUMTUM Theater Company's "Knocking Brothers" uses percussion instruments assembled from daily necessities to piece together beautiful melodies and rhythms and perform acrobatic stunts.

Musical Annie

The nonverbal new play "Time Hero Ticks" by the Argentine Puppet Troupe revisits the subtle observation of human emotions through the delicate puppets made of daily objects and the projection of stop motion animation; The parent-child concert "Magic Anti Fight Symphony" was held by the famous Hong Kong children's TV presenter, brother Harry, together with the Macao Orchestra, to turn the theater into a happy garden for children with magic melodies; The young Cantonese opera "Baolian Lantern" was performed by a group of students from the Drama School of Macao Academy for Performing Arts, Cultural Bureau, to demonstrate a beautiful fairy tale.

The Moon in the Pot is led by the Spanish Little Dairy Troupe to participate in close proximity, integrating music, dance, drama and special effects, to enter the most affectionate corner of the moon and enjoy a happy parent-child time; The Sweet Dream in the Forest, co created by Australian producer Chen Shiqi, choreographer Xu Yingting living in Austria and local choreographer Wu Shuhua, leads the baby to explore every magical creature in the "forest" through body movements. These two performances are suitable for parents to take their babies with them for the first experience of drama.

Luduan, the first musical children's play in the Palace Museum

Pompidou Art Exhibition Presents Fantastic World First Art Experience Camp

The "Pompidou Fantastic World of Art" presented by the world-famous Pompidou Art Center in France has both exhibition and art education functions. It guides children to participate in it, explore and create, enjoy entertainment, open their understanding of modern art, and set up special workshops, Ticketing details of the exhibition and activities will be announced later.

The Children's Art Festival created the first two day and one night immersive creative experience camp, Mysterious Art Amusement Park - Children's Creative Life Camp and Magic Creative Gate - Parent Child Art Experience Camp, allowing the audience to camp in the Macao Cultural Center for the first time. Participants can participate in interactive workshops, experience the fun of the small theater of story interpretation, and feel the infinite fun of art. In addition, the festival will also hold more than 20 60 class art workshops covering music, drama, painting, dance, etc., suitable for friends of all ages.

Children's play Moon in the Pot

Film Exhibition and Children's Exploration of the Image World Feel the Warm Family Story on the Screen

The Macao International Children's Film Festival has four major units and selected more than 20 masterpieces, including "Silika", "Children Are Not Stupid", the classic "Four Hundred Hits", "Beehive Genie", Macao animated short films "Mei Po", "Lighthouse", "Tortoise Bus", and the outdoor release of "Naughty Nicholas: The Source of Happiness", bringing warm and touching family stories, Feel the ups and downs of youth's growth experience, understand the wisdom and power of predecessors with the audience, explore the future in the video world, and gain growth.

The International Children's Art Festival also invited Joshua Bell, a Grammy Award winning violinist, together with several musicians from the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, to hold a string music camp and master class in Australia in August. Participants had the opportunity to perform on the same stage with the master, and some of the outstanding performers would be personally guided by the master musicians, Details will be announced later.

Macao International Children's Film Exhibition

Children's Fun Bookstore on weekends in July August Art Carnival

Every weekend in July, the "• ART Space" on the first floor of the Cultural Center is equipped with a "Children's Fun Book House" (a limited store during the period), integrating the design elements of the playground, exhibiting more than 200 kinds of exquisite picture books, youth books, picture books, enlightenment books and other related cultural and creative products from more than 10 countries and regions, as well as card punching devices and parent-child reading areas, Let friends, big and small, enjoy reading together.

In August, the final presentation of the MICAF Children's Day art carnival will be held in the Cultural Center Plaza from August 23 to 25 for three nights in a row. Many artists will bring street performances such as street dance, clown performance, puppet demonstration, etc. Some participants in the workshop will also show their learning achievements, and there will be special booths for special layout, food, cultural and creative products, etc, At the same time, there are outdoor art furnishings, large water playing devices and outdoor parent-child film screening.

Art Experience Camp

Tickets for each performance will be publicly sold from 10:00 a.m. on June 9 (Sunday) through the Macau Ticket Network, telephone (2855 5555) and online booking www.macauticket.com (local and overseas); The Macau International Children's Film Festival will be launched from 10:00 a.m. on June 9 (Sunday) through Love · Film Store and online booking; Each workshop will also register online through the "Activity Registration" (activity. mo. gov.mo/activity-h5/activity list web) of One Account from 10:00 a.m. on June 9. The number of places is limited, and some activities need to pay for participation. For details of activities of Macao International Children's Art Festival, please visit www.icm.gov.mo/micaf micaf@icm.gov.mo 。 For program inquiry, please call 8399 6699 during office hours.

The First Macao International Children's Art Festival

The press conference of the first Macao International Children's Art Festival was held in the conference room of the Macao Cultural Center on June 7. Many media from the Greater Bay Area and many art troupe representatives participated in watching the live broadcast online. Liang Huimin, Director of the Bureau of Culture, Wen Qihua, Director of the Tourism Administration, Luo Haozhi, Adviser to the Office of the Secretary of the Department of Social Culture, Zhang Lishan and Zheng Jiming, Deputy Director of the Bureau of Culture, Wang Yingwei, Executive Vice Chairman of Sands China Co., Ltd., Liao Wenqi, Senior Vice President of MGM Brand Planning, Zou Wenyu, President of Marketing of Wynn Macau Co., Ltd., Bank of China (Macau) Chen Xiaoping, President of Macao Airlines Co., Ltd., Luo Zhihui, Deputy General Manager of Macao Airlines Co., Ltd., Li Zhukun, Chairman, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of Macao Lijun Creation Co., Ltd., as well as the participating art troupes and artists attended.