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Recreation, Sport, Culture and the Arts

Chinese Opera Festival

The department's ninth Chinese Opera Festival featured Cantonese opera, Peking opera and other regional genres. About 28,000 people attended the 56 events.

Hong Kong Week 2018@Taipei

The seventh Hong Kong Week in Taipei, presented by the Hong Kong-Taiwan Cultural Cooperation Committee, ran from 30 November to 16 December with eight performances, one exhibition and 14 extension activities, attracting an attendance of more than 39,000.

Muse Fest HK

The fourth edition of Muse Fest HK ran from late June to early July with the theme, 'Museum is typing... It brought together 14 museums, five other cultural venues and four museum-related disciplines under the department to organise 104 programmes. Five museums from Japan and 13 other museums from Hong Kong, Guangdong and Macao were invited as museum partners along with two other local organisations to promote a museum culture. The museum festival attracted more than 330,000 people.

Museums

The LCSD manages 14 museums, two visual arts centres, a film archive and two heritage

centres.

Hong Kong Museum of Art

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The Hong Kong Museum of Art, its site in Tsim Sha Tsui now under renovation, hosted 'Growing City Growing Home' in Salisbury Garden from December 2017. Large-scale installations by local artists Kevin Fung and Stanley Siu were featured to stimulate reflection on the changing cityscape and living environment.

The third phase of the Jockey Club's 'Museum of Art on Wheels' outreach learning programme ended in September. A moving art museum designed for primary and secondary students, it tours various schools and the community, bringing art appreciation to every corner of the city during the museum's renovation. Since the 2015-16 school year, the mobile museum had visited 304 schools and served over 160,000 students and members of the public.

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To promote Hong Kong art, the Museum of Art jointly organised the exhibition, 'In Search of

The Art of Lui Shou-kwan, with the Chinese University of Hong Kong's (CUHK) Art Museum and the National Art Museum of China at the latter's venue in Beijing from March to April. An accompanying gallery talk, 'Lui Shou-kwan and Hong Kong Ink Art, introduced Lui Shou-kwan's artistic accomplishments and the development of the new ink art movement in Hong Kong to the Beijing audience.

The Flagstaff House Museum of Tea Ware, a branch of the Museum of Art, features tea ware and related implements from the collection of the late Dr K S Lo, as well as rare Chinese ceramics and seals donated by the K S Lo Foundation. Regular activities introduce the art of tea drinking. The museum organised the 'Tea Ware by Hong Kong Potters 2018' exhibition in December, at the same time displaying works from the 1986 to 2016 competitions at Hong Kong

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