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The annual Lusofonia ("Portuguese-speaking") Festival will this year bring back the China Cultural Week it introduced in 2008, with the double event set to take place across Macau on October 22-29, according to held at the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM).
The festival will, as always, take place at the Carmo area adjacent to the Taipa Houses Museum.
The festival, which has grown into a "must-go" event for both locals and tourists, did not include its "China and Portuguese-speaking Countries Cultural Week" segment last year, but the organisers are bringing it back this year by "popular demand," IACM pointed out in a press conference Tuesday.
Co-hosted by the IACM and the Permanent Secretariat for the Forum for Economic and Trade Cooperation between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries, as well as the Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO), the festival includes music and dance performances, traditional delicacies and drinks, arts and handicrafts, cultural presentations, exhibitions and a raft of other cultural and culinary events.
It will also present 10 booths of Portuguese-speaking communities residing in Macau, such as Maca-nese (locals of mixed Portuguese and Asian extraction), Portuguese, Mozambicans, Angolans and Brazilians, as well as a booth presenting traditional folk art from Sichuan province.
In addition, music and dance performers from Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, Mozambique, Sao Tome and Principe and East Timor, as well as Sichuan province and the Indian state of Goa will take turns to entertain visitors around the Carmo area throughout the festival.
Goa is a former Portuguese colony on India's west coast.
The festival will also feature several workshops-cum-seminars on the study of Portuguese and Spanishh beasedCreolo languages in Asia, wich will be hoisted by the Macau University in Taipa island.
According to The Macau Post Daily Macau's Portuguese-Asian Creole, Patua, has been put by the UNESCO on its list of critically endangered languages. Locally, it is spoken by just several dozen people. Overseas, there are several hundred Patua speakers, namely in California.
The world's eight Portuguese-speaking countries have combined population of about 240 million. Portuguese is among the world's most widely spoken languages, alongside Chinese, Hindi/Urdu, English, Bahasa Indonesia, Spanish, Arabic and Bengali.
The term Lusophone is derived from the word Lusitania, the name of an ancient Roman province on the Iberan peninsula, corresponding to modern Portugal.
(MacauNews)
The annual Lusofonia ("Portuguese-speaking") Festival will this year bring back the China Cultural Week it introduced in 2008, with the double event set to take place across Macau on October 22-29, according to held at the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM).
The festival will, as always, take place at the Carmo area adjacent to the Taipa Houses Museum.
The festival, which has grown into a "must-go" event for both locals and tourists, did not include its "China and Portuguese-speaking Countries Cultural Week" segment last year, but the organisers are bringing it back this year by "popular demand," IACM pointed out in a press conference Tuesday.
Co-hosted by the IACM and the Permanent Secretariat for the Forum for Economic and Trade Cooperation between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries, as well as the Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO), the festival includes music and dance performances, traditional delicacies and drinks, arts and handicrafts, cultural presentations, exhibitions and a raft of other cultural and culinary events.
It will also present 10 booths of Portuguese-speaking communities residing in Macau, such as Maca-nese (locals of mixed Portuguese and Asian extraction), Portuguese, Mozambicans, Angolans and Brazilians, as well as a booth presenting traditional folk art from Sichuan province.
In addition, music and dance performers from Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, Mozambique, Sao Tome and Principe and East Timor, as well as Sichuan province and the Indian state of Goa will take turns to entertain visitors around the Carmo area throughout the festival.
Goa is a former Portuguese colony on India's west coast.
The festival will also feature several workshops-cum-seminars on the study of Portuguese and Spanishh beasedCreolo languages in Asia, wich will be hoisted by the Macau University in Taipa island.
According to The Macau Post Daily Macau's Portuguese-Asian Creole, Patua, has been put by the UNESCO on its list of critically endangered languages. Locally, it is spoken by just several dozen people. Overseas, there are several hundred Patua speakers, namely in California.
The world's eight Portuguese-speaking countries have combined population of about 240 million. Portuguese is among the world's most widely spoken languages, alongside Chinese, Hindi/Urdu, English, Bahasa Indonesia, Spanish, Arabic and Bengali.
The term Lusophone is derived from the word Lusitania, the name of an ancient Roman province on the Iberan peninsula, corresponding to modern Portugal.
(MacauNews)
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