The annual summer arts festival International Arts Carnival will be held from July to August and tickets will go on sale from tomorrow.

This year, overseas artists will come from the Netherlands, Korea, Norway and the US. Together with their Mainland and local counterparts, they will present a wide variety of performing arts programmes covering martial arts, acrobatics, dance, music, theatre, multimedia and more.

The opening programme will be the martial arts theatre performance Soul of Shaolin featuring elite performers of the Henan Provincial Shaolin Wushu Center from July 11 to 13.

To celebrate the upcoming 15th National Games, the carnival will present Sounds of Sports on August 2 and 3, in which local musicians and athletes will combine karate, rugby, wushu and table tennis with jazz drums, shakuhachi, erhu, cello and piano.

Films from around the world for families will also be screened under the Summer Family Cine Fest.

Tickets will be available at URBTIX.

The carnival also offers a wide range of parent-child workshops, an online programme, an outreach performance and an exhibition.

For enquiries, call 2370 1044.