"Museum Summit 2025" Pre-summit Programme

 

 

 

The Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) of Hong Kong, Asia's World City, characterises its openness, inclusiveness, vitality and cultural diversity. Not only derived from Chinese traditions, the stories of many ICH items are an East-meets-West process. In line with the theme 'Going Beyond' of this year's Summit, the ICH Office highlighted the lion dance, paper crafting technique of lion head, Cantonese opera, nanyin (Southern tunes), and sek pun (basin meal), which are the distinctive ICH items in Hong Kong, at the pre-summit programme of the Museum Summit 2025 and invited relevant groups to participate in stage performances.

 

In the spectacular ICH performances and displays, professionals and leaders from renowned museums around the world were able to appreciate Hong Kong's ICH items from different disciplines, including performing arts, social practices and traditional craftsmanship, and to feel these items not only manifest the unique charm of Lingnan culture but also transmit the culture and customs of local rural communities. Together, they shape, as well as to experience the diverse cultural landscape of this Asia's World City, and to facilitate communication and integration beyond boundaries.

 

 

Performance

San Tin Man's Dragon and Lion Dance Association welcomed guests with lion dance in the outdoor space of the Ming Tak Tong, followed by a superb performance.

 

 

School of Chinese Opera, The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts performed the Cantonese opera Mu Guiying Gets a Husband (Highlights) and displayed masterful stagecraft.

 

 

Hong Kong nanyin (Southern Tunes) troupe "The Gong Strikes One" presented the nanyin piece Eight Immortals Bestowing Longevity with a rewritten portion featuring the ICH elements of 'sek pun', which lingered in the air.

 

 

 

Exhibition Display

Exhibition display was set up in the outdoor space of the Ming Tak Tong to showcase the paper crafting technique of lion head, where the lion heads crafted by Master Hui Ka-hung demonstrated the four traditional steps of paper crafting.