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Recreation, Sport, Culture and the Arts

produced with San Francisco Opera. The festival's 180 performances and more than 400 outreach and educational events attracted over 190,000 people.

International Arts Carnival

The department's annual International Arts Carnival in July and August opened with Pizzazz! by the China National Acrobatic Troupe. Some 94,000 people attended the carnival's 306 events featuring music, interactive installations and various forms of theatre such as dance and shadow puppetry.

World Cultures Festival

The department's seventh edition of the World Cultures Festival was themed 'Vibrant Africa, showcasing the continent's music, dance and theatre productions performed by artists and arts groups including Youssou NDour and the Super Étoile de Dakar, Cape Town Opera and Angélique Kidjo. The festival's 109 events attracted more than 70,000 people.

Chinese Opera Festival

The department's eighth Chinese Opera Festival featured Cantonese opera, Peking opera and other regional genres. About 45,000 people attended the festival's 69 events.

Hong Kong Week 2017@Taipei

The sixth Hong Kong Week in Taipei, presented by the Hong Kong-Taiwan Cultural Cooperation Committee, ran from 24 November to 3 December with six performances, one exhibition and six extension activities, attracting an attendance of more than 31,000.

Museum Summit

The Museum Summit, the first of its kind organised in Hong Kong, was held in June at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. With 'Museums in a New Era' as the theme, the summit invited 20 professionals from museums across the globe as speakers to share their experiences, insights and visions. A total of 861 local and visiting participants were present.

Muse Fest HK

The third edition of Muse Fest HK ran from June to July with the theme 'Rippling. It brought together 14 museums, five cultural venues and four museum-related disciplines under the department to organise 91 programmes. Fourteen other museums from Hong Kong, Guangdong and Macao were invited along with three other local organisations to promote a museum culture. The museum festival attracted more than 490,000 people.

Museums

Hong Kong Museum of Art

The Hong Kong Museum of Art, its site in Tsim Sha Tsui now under renovation, staged the 'Art Upon an Island' exhibition at the Hong Kong City Hall from February to March and hosted 'Growing City Growing Home' in Salisbury Garden from December. To promote the museum's collections overseas, 'Living with Bamboo: Museum of Art is Here' was launched at the National Library of Singapore in October.

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