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Recreation, Sport, Culture and the Arts

World Cultures Festival

The department's World Cultures Festival - A Decade of Exquisite Arts gathered together artistic gems from around the globe to celebrate its 10th anniversary. Artists included the Tango Buenos Aires, Shanghai Yue Opera House, Kodo, The Chieftains and Angélique Kidjo. The festival's 80 events attracted an audience of more than 108,000.

Chinese Opera Festival

The department's sixth Chinese Opera Festival featured Cantonese opera, Kunqu opera, Peking opera and other regional genres. About 46,000 people attended the festival's 70 events, including stage performances, forums, a backstage tour, talks on specific themes and art forms, Chinese opera film screenings and exhibitions.

Hong Kong Week 2015@Taipei

The fourth Hong Kong Week, presented by the Hong Kong-Taiwan Cultural Co-operation Committee in association with the Hong Kong Economic, Trade and Cultural Office in Taiwan, held from 10 September to 11 October three exhibitions, three performing arts programmes, a performing arts forum and 26 extension activities.

Muse Fest HK

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Running from 27 June to 12 July, Transcend Muse Fest HK 2015 was the department's first museum festival. The festival featured more than 70 programmes organised by the department's 14 museums, five cultural venues and four museum disciplines, attracting an attendance of more than 340,000.

Museums

Hong Kong Museum of Art

The museum attracted more than 185,000 visitors during the year. In November, it hosted the 'Wall-less Chit-ChaNt Exhibition' in the Art Square of Salisbury Garden. Exhibitions that were organised outside Hong Kong included 'In the Name of Art - Hong Kong Contemporary Art Exhibition' at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, and 'Maritime Porcelain Road: Relics from Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Museums, staged jointly with Guangdong Museum, Macao Museum and Zhejiang Provincial Museum.

To enhance the appreciation of art, the museum presented special lectures, art workshops, family programmes, gallery talks and audio guide services. It launched the Jockey Club 'Museum of Art on Wheels' Outreach Learning Programme in October.

The Flagstaff House Museum of Tea Ware, a branch of the Museum of Art, features a collection. of various kinds of tea ware and related vessels from the collection of the late Dr KS Lo and rare Chinese ceramics and seals donated by the K S Lo Foundation. Some 228,000 people visited in 2015. It also presented 'The Art and Culture of Yixing Zisha Stoneware' exhibition jointly with the Art Museum of The Chinese University of Hong Kong's (CUHK) Institute of Chinese Studies at the Art Museum.

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