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THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1979

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FIRST TSUEN WAN ARTS FESTIVAL A GREAT SUCCESS

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THE TSUEN WAN TOWN MANAGER, MR. JAMES HAYES DESCRIBED THE FIRST TSUEN WAN ARTS FESTIVAL AS A GREAT SUCCESS+ WHICH WOULD CERTAINLY CONTRIBUTE SUBSTANTIALLY TOWARDS THE STRENGTHENING OF THE ARTS OF HONG KONG.

SPEAKING AT THE DANCING PERFORMANCE ORGANISED BY THE DANCING PROMOTION UNIT OF THE TSUEN WAN RECREATION AND CULTURAL CO-ORDINATING ASSOCIATION AT THE CITY HALL THIS (THURSDAY) EVENING, MR. HAYES NOTED THAT MORE THAN 40,000 PEOPLE HAD ATTENDED A WIDE VARIETY OF CULTURAL PROGRAMMES DURING THE FESTIVAL JOINTLY PRESENTED BY THE ASSOCIATION AND THE URBAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE TSUEN WAN DISTRICT ADVISORY BOARD.

+ IT HAS LAID A FIRM FOUNDATION FOR A MAJOR ANNUAL EVENT AND IN ORGANISING A CONTINUOUS LOCAL PROGRAMME OF CULTURAL ACTIVITIES WHICH WILL CERTAINLY CONTRIBUTE SUBSTANTIALLY TOWARDS THE STRENGTHENING OF THE ARTS OF HONG KONG, HE SAID.

MR. HAYES SAID WORK ON THE TSUEN WAN TOWN HALL WAS PROGRESSING SATISFACTORILY.

IT IS ENVISAGED THAT THE OPENING OF THE TOWN HALL IN EARLY 1980 WOULD TIE IN WITH THE SECOND TSUEN WAN ARTS FESTIVAL.

+THE HALL WILL PROVIDE A MAGNIFICENT FACILITY BUT IT ALSO CONSTITUTES A CHALLENGING TASK FOR ALL OF US INVOLVED IN THE PROMOTION OF RECREATION AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES IN TSUEN WAN,+ HE SAID.

+IF WE ARE TO PROMOTE CULTURAL ACTIVITIES ON A MEANINGFUL SCALE FOR A TOWN WITH 600,000 PEOPLE, THEN MORE CENTRES AND TRAINING PROGRAMMES, AND MORE YEAR-ROUND ACTIVITIES OF TONIGHT'S NATURE, WILL BE REQUIRED IN ORDER TO SATISFY THE CULTURAL ASPIRATIONS OF OUR LARGE POPULATION.+

ON THE ASSOCIATION'S TRAINING CENTRE IN TSUEN WAN OPENED A FEW MONTHS AGO, MR. HAYES NOTED THAT IT HAD PROVIDED SOME OF THE NECESSARY BASIC FACILITIES FOR THE PROMOTION OF THE ARTS.

HE SAID THE OPENING OF THE TRAINING CENTRE, AND THE ESTABLISHMENT AND CONTINUED WORK OF THE DANCING PROMOTION UNIT AND THE OTHER THREE UNITS OF THE ASSOCIATION ARE MILESTONES ON THE WAY TO MAKING FULL USE OF THE TSUEN WAN TOWN HALL WHEN IT IS OPENED.

THE EVENING'S PROGRAMME LASTED ABOUT TWO HOURS. IT FEATURED MAINLY CHINESE FOLK DANCES BY THE TSUEN WAN DANCING GROUP FORMED BY RESIDENTS OF TSUEN WAN.

THE TSUEN WAN RECREATION AND CULTURAL CO-ORDINATING ACCOCIATION, SET UP SOME TWO YEARS AGO, AIMS TO PROMOTE HIS--QUALITY CULTURAL ACTIVITIES, INCLUDING DRAMAS, PAINTINGS, CALLIGRANTES AND MUSIC, FOR THE FA 1 TRRACIA CPULATION OF TSLĒ

MR. CHAN PO-FONG IS THE CHAIRMAN OF THE ASSOCIATION AND MR. JAMES HAYES IS ITS

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