Taiwan troupe to make HK debut

Precious works by legendary artist Picasso have arrived at the Heritage Museum in preparation for the exhibition on the artist which opens on May 19.

The Leisure & Cultural Services Department Music Office’s Youth Symphonic Band will perform band favourites at its annual concert on June 3, including a piece to celebrate the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in 1997.

Hong Kong's foremost classical guitarist Tina Karen Lo will team with Italian violin virtuoso Andrea Zanchetta to perform classics from the early Romantic period in June.

Choreographer Dam Van Huynh will stage his latest dance work Mooring in Hong Kong in June.

The annual International Arts Carnival will be held from July 6 to August 19, featuring more than 430 fun family events.

Lyuba, the preserved mammoth calf will be displayed at the Science Museum from May 14 to June 10.

Twenty-nine feature and short films will be shown in this year's International Children's Film Carnival from July 6 to August 19.

Suzhou Kunqu Opera Theatre from Jiangsu Province will perform under the consultancy of renowned author Pai Hsien-yung in June, as the opening programmes of the Chinese Opera Festival 2012.

The Anhui Huangmei Opera Theatre will perform two classics operas in June, as one of the celebration programmes of the 15th anniversary of the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

Thirty people - actors, directors and backstage staff - gathered in the Macau Cultural Centre, to rehearse their latest theatrical production, Fanshen, the true story of a revolution in a small Chinese village. Hong Kong’s award-winning director Fredric Mao selected each of them to participate as part of his theatre mentoring project. It is a fine example of the type of cultural co-operation the Hong Kong and Macau governments are seeking to achieve.

Music-theatre production Minamata: A Requiem by Kung Chi-shing and Kingsley Ng will be staged in June. It raises questions about the physical, moral and spiritual costs of environmental pollution.

Percussionist Steven Schick will perform the Paul Dresher Ensemble's latest music theatre work Schick Machine in July.

Hong Kong-based arts group We Draman will perform British playwright Steven Berkoff's "Messiah" in June.

Fifty-five original works by Picasso will be exhibited at the Heritage Museum from May 19 to July 22.

The Space Museum will screen its latest Omnimax show Tornado Alley from May 1 to October 31.

The Leisure & Cultural Services Department has launched the City Hall 50th Anniversary Photo Collection Campaign to celebrate the building's Golden Jubilee.