Macao Government News for November 11: China and Portuguese-Speaking Countries Film Festival Opens November 13, Sun Yat-sen Photo Exhibition Opens November 12
The daily newsletter issued by the Government Information Bureau of the Macao Special Administrative Region on November 11 round up several government updates.
On the cultural front, the 8th China and the Portuguese-speaking Countries Film Festival will open with a screening at Anim'Arte NAM VAN on November 13, followed by screenings at Cinematheque・Passion from November 16 to December 7. Themed "Resonance of Light and Shadow," the festival presents nearly 30 works from China and Portuguese-speaking countries and regions in four sections covering Portuguese-language music films, literary adaptations, premieres of Chinese and Lusophone films, and Chinese-Portuguese short films. The opening film is the Brazilian documentary Milton Bituca Nascimento, and the programme also includes Senna, a Brazilian documentary on the three-time Formula 1 world champion. The festival is organised by the Cultural Affairs Bureau as part of the 8th Encounter in Macao: Arts and Cultural Festival between China and the Portuguese-speaking Countries.
Also part of the festival, the Stewart Sukuma Concert with the Macao Chinese Orchestra will be staged at the Macao Cultural Centre Grand Auditorium on November 14 at 8 p.m. Mozambican singer Stewart Sukuma and Zhang Lie, music director and principal conductor of the Macao Chinese Orchestra, met the press on November 11 to discuss the cross-disciplinary collaboration, in which Sukuma will bring the traditional Mozambican instruments timbila and mbira to the stage with the orchestra.
In academia, the University of Macau held a Nobel Laureate Lecture on November 11, at which Jean Tirole, recipient of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, spoke on "Private Money, Public Power: Finance and the New Geopolitics," examining how technology and finance are used as tools of transactional geopolitics and how cryptocurrencies, stablecoins and central bank digital currencies interact with dollar dominance. Rector Yonghua Song gave the welcome address; the lecture formed part of the university's 45th anniversary celebrations.
On livelihood matters, the Municipal Affairs Bureau has put 22 stalls in the apparel area of the Iao Hon Hawkers' Building and the hawker area of Bairro Iao Hon Market out to public tender, with applications open from November 11 until 1 p.m. on December 10. Fourteen stalls in the apparel area range from 7.50 to 8.23 square metres, and the eight market stalls are about 8 square metres each, for businesses in dried goods and food, cultural and creative products or household items. Three explanatory sessions will be held from November 17 to 19 at the Iao Hon Activity Centre.
On the trade front, the Commerce and Investment Promotion Institute of Macao organised a delegation of 19 Macao enterprises with more than 280 signature products to the third phase of the 140th Canton Fair in Guangzhou from October 31 to November 4, facilitating more than 600 business matching sessions. It was the 40th consecutive session at which the institute has organised Macao enterprises to take part.
In addition, the photo exhibition "From Macao to the World: In Commemoration of the 160th Anniversary of the Birth of Dr Sun Yat-sen," hosted by the Macao SAR Government, will open at the Dot Art Space of the Macao Cultural Centre on November 12 and run to November 27, bringing together more than a hundred historical artefacts and photographs. November 12 marks the 160th anniversary of Dr Sun Yat-sen's birth.
(Source: Government Information Bureau of the Macao Special Administrative Region)
Source: 澳门特别行政区政府新闻局
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Photo: 图：澳门恋爱・电影馆，本届中国与葡语国家电影节11月16日至12月7日的放映场馆，馆内楼梯栏杆以电影胶片为造型。照片：LN9267 摄，CC BY-SA 4.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: Cinematheque・Passion in Macao, the screening venue of this year's China and the Portuguese-speaking Countries Film Festival from November 16 to December 7, with film-strip railings. Photo by LN9267, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
