TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1980
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ASSOCIATION TO PROMOTE CULTURAL ACTIVITIES IN TUEN MUN
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MORE THAN 20 000 PEOPLE ARE EXPECTED TO PARTICIPATE IN A WIDE RANGE OF ACTIVITIES BEING ORGANISED BY TUEN MUN ARTS PROMOTION ASSOCIATION THIS FINANCIAL YEAR.
ACTIVITIES WILL INCLUDE CANTONESE OPERA TRAINING CLASSES, DANCE NIGHTS, DANCE COMPETITIONS, CHINESE MUSICAL INSTRUMENT TRAINING CLASSES, YOUTH CHOIR PERFORMANCES, CHINESE MUSIC NIGHTS, PENMANSHIP AND DRAWING COMPETITIONS AND TWO EXHIBITIONS.
CHAIRMAN OF THE ASSOCIATION, MR CHOW MAN-PING, SAID THE ASSOCIATION, WHICH IS NON-PROFIT-MAKING, WAS SET UP IN 1978 UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE TUEN MUN DISTRICT OFFICE.
+THE AIM IS TO PROMOTE ARTS AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE GROWING POPULATION OF THE NEW TOWN AND TO CULTIVATE A SENSE OF BELONGING, + MR CHOW SAID.
ACTIVITIES ORGANISED BY THE ASSOCIATION ARE MAINLY FINANCED BY TUEN MUN DISTRICT ADVISORY BOARD WHICH HAS ALLOCATED MORE THAN $182 000 TO IT FOR 1980/81.
THIS FIGURE ACCOUNTS FOR ABOUT A QUARTER OF THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF FUNDS ALLOCATED TO THE BOARD BY THE GOVERNMENT THIS FINANCIAL YEAR.
COMMITTEE MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATION COMPRISE SCHOOL PRINCIPALS AND TEACHERS, PLUS LEADERS OF LOCAL CIVIC ASSOCIATIONS. STAFF FROM TUEN MUN DISTRICT OFFICE ALSO HOLD HONORARY POSTS.
THE ASSOCIATION HAS ORGANISED MORE THAN 40 ACTIVITIES DURING THE PAST 18 MONTHS, MOST OF WHICH WERE HELD IN LOCAL SCHOOL HALLS. PARTICIPANTS WERE MAINLY STUDENTS AND WORKERS.
MR CHOW SAID ANYONE WHO WISHED TO PARTICIPATE IN ACTIVITIES COULD CONTACT THE TUEN MUN DISTRICT OFFICE OR TUEN MUN RURAL COMMITTEE.
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