A string of activities will be held from this weekend to next month, including arts and cultural activities, performances, food markets, and cultural workshops, welcoming residents to participate.
Tap Siac Craft Market
The Autumn Tap Siac Craft Market will be held in Praça do Tap Seac from Thursday to Sunday for two consecutive weeks, with its opening ceremony held yesterday, marking the event’s 15th anniversary.
Organised by the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC), the market features 220 booths operated by cultural and creative practitioners from Macau, Hong Kong, Taiwan, the mainland, Malaysia and South Korea.
A number of music performances by local, mainland and Hong Kong singers, as well as creative workshops, with the aim of creating a cultural and creative event in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area (GBA).
Tap Siac is the Cultural Bureau’s alternative spelling to Tap Seac.
The market will be open from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Thursdays and Fridays and from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. For more information about the event, visit the “Tap Siac Craft Market” website (www.craftmarket.gov.mo), the “Macao Craft Market” page on Facebook (www.facebook.com/MacaoCraftMarket) or the IC website (www.icm.gov.mo). Telephone enquiries on 8399 6289 will be answered during office hours.
Food-fest
The 23rd Macau Food Festival will run for 17 days at the Nam Van Lake Nautical Centre, from today to December 3, Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) announced in a statement yesterday.
There will be over a hundred local restaurants’ booths and 25 international merchants at the event in order to form a uniquely flavoured “Southeast Asian Village”, the statement said, adding that for the first time, the event will introduce live streaming from KOLs, in order to highlight Macau as a “Creative City of Gastronomy”.
The food-fest, which is free admission, will be open from 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. from Mondays to Thursdays, and from 3 p.m. to midnight from Fridays to Sundays.
Intangible cultural heritage workshop
The Macao Museum will organise a series of workshops on Intangible Cultural Heritage with the theme of Chinese culture in December, in order to promote public awareness of intangible cultural heritage, according to a separate statement issued by IC yesterday.
The statement noted that the series of workshops comprises two workshops in micro engraving in porcelain on December 2, two parent-child workshops to make sticky rice balls for Winter Solstice on December 17, as well as two workshops to make Cantonese porcelain on December 30 and December 31 respectively.
According to the statement, micro engraving in porcelain is a specialist craft of engraving on porcelain, while Cantonese porcelain, also known as “Coloured Ceramic of Canton”, originated in the Qing Dynasty during the reign of the emperor Kangxi, both of which had been included in the list of intangible cultural heritage of Macau in 2020.
The events will be free of charge and in the Cantonese language. Members of the public are welcome to register in the “Macao One Account” mobile app at activity.mo.gov.mo/activity-h5/activity-list-web.
This poster downloaded from the website of Tap Siac Craft Market last night shows the ongoing event that will be held until Sunday and next Thursday to Sunday.
