Fringe Festival to infuse art across local neighborhood

The 22nd Macao City Fringe Festival will take place from Jan. 17 to Jan 28, featuring 17 performances and a string of outreach activities.

Themed “artistic playground”, this edition will feature two Crème de la Fringe series: the “SilverARTS Festival” and the “Contemporary Circus Festival”, according to the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC).

Curated by Stella Ho, the “SilverARTS Festival” consists of three programmes: “One, Two…and a Half,” “FreeSteps – Swinging Years” and “Let the Flower in Your Heart Bloom”, as well as three outreach activities.

The “Contemporary Circus Festival” will present three programmes, “Game On”, “Track”, and “The Crow Clowns” and two outreach activities.

Curated by Leong Ka Wai,  the programmes aim to lead the audience to “find happiness in the carnival spirit through original performances, clowning, busking and a juggling competition.”

Meanwhile, the upcoming festival will continue to infuse art across different local neighborhoods. In “Court Theatre: Land Act”, the audience will be summoned to serve on a jury to give an objective and reasonable verdict at the Taipa Grande Viewing Platform.

In “Travelling at Your Doorstep”, using voice-over narration, the Ieng Chi Dance Association will guide the audience to stroll around Flora Park to embark on a mental “excursion” on this familiar, small piece of land following the dancers’ steps.

In “A City of Visible Music”, Vincent Cheang, Guo Xiaohan and Kang Meow will look into Macau’s cultural landscape and its communities and feel the city’s warmth and textures in a pop-up radio station and three live concerts in different places. staff reporter