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Decade through a Lens

It has been nine years since José Maças de Carvalho began taking photographs documenting the life of Chi Tat, a Chinese designer and musician living in Macau. He attended weddings, anniversaries, deaths and births in the course.[...]

Music
Angela Hewitt

24 Keys in 2 Hours

Pianist Angela Hewitt to dance through Bach’s seldom heard Well-Tempered Clavier at the MCC.

Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt has devoted more than a decade to recording all the major keyboard works by Johann Sebastian Bach. Among these are the two seminal collections of preludes and fugues known as Book I and Book II of the Well-Tempered Clavier (WTC) [...]

Arts

The Strength to Innovate

As Macau’s art scene grows, featuring more and more local activities, it is also naturally reaching out to other territories for support and places to expand. In fact, co-operative artistic events between the Mainland and our city have been increasingly frequent in recent years. [...]

Meditating Back and Forth

Heading towards the end of March, spring dropped onto the canvas a shade of water. The child of the artist cried, “Papa, what to do?”. He smiled, and took his brush. [...]

Eastern promises

From the traditional to the experimental, from the local to the exotic, the 19th Macau Arts Festival (MAF ) promises a remarkably balanced programme offering something for everyone. [...]

Books
book Marreiros

Honouring the Old, Erecting the New

Architect, urban planner, conservationist and renaissance man Carlos Marreiros was recently chosen by a team of Italian authors as the subject of a book, highlighting his life and work and his unique contribution to the city of Macau. Carlos Marreiros: An Architect between Two Cultures was released by the Italian publisher BE-MA, famous in Italy for technical and special interest publications in the fields of architecture [...]

Literature - Book store
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Midori by Moonlight

by Wendy Nelson Tokunaga

 

China’s Brave New World: And Other Tales for Global Times

by Jeffrey N. Wassterstrom

 

20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth

by Guo Xiaolu

 

Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party

by Ying Chang Compestine

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