Annual festival features a series of arts programmes and educational initiatives, inspiring creativity and enhancing cultural richness and vitality.
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Themed “Vive L’art”, one of the key highlights of the Festival is its opening programme, The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Picasso for Asia — A Conversation exhibition. It marks the first major exhibition of Pablo Picasso’s work in Hong Kong in over a decade and serves as one of the celebratory activities for our 140th anniversary. Furthermore, the Jockey Club Community Outreach and Arts Education Programmes provide guided tours and in-depth talks, ensuring that more people can enjoy the festival.
We also support other programmes such as French Rendezvous@Tai Kwun. The world-renowned French troupe Remue Ménage presents a street parade entitled Le Bal at Tai Kwun’s Parade Ground, blending visual arts, circus, dance, and puppetry.
We are committed to building an inclusive, creative and vibrant Hong Kong, where everyone can enjoy the benefits offered by cultural experiences and an improved quality of life through arts.
The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Picasso for Asia — A Conversation
As the first major exhibition of Pablo Picasso’s work in Hong Kong in over a decade, The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Picasso for Asia — A Conversation exhibition is a major milestone, with masterpieces from the Musée national Picasso-Paris (MnPP) being shown alongside works from a museum collection in Asia for the first time, offering an unprecedented and unique perspective on the artist’s wide-reaching influence and what it means to be an artist in our time.
The exhibition presents a rich intercultural and intergenerational dialogue between over 60 masterpieces by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973) from MnPP, which holds the largest collection of works by Picasso in the world, and around 130 works by Asian and Asian-diasporic artists from the M+ Collections.
| Event information | Details |
|---|---|
| Date | 15 March – 13 July 2025 |
| Time | Tuesdays to Thursdays and Sundays: 10:00am – 6:00pm Fridays and Saturdays: 10:00am – 10:00pm Closed on Mondays |
| Venue | West Gallery, 2/F, M+ |
| Fee (HK$) | $240 (Standard), $120 (Concessions/M+ Patrons' Guests), $168 (M+ Members) |
| Website | https://www.mplus.org.hk/en/exhibitions/picasso-for-asia/ |
French Rendezvous@Tai Kwun: Le Bal
Le Bal is a street parade inspired by the paintings of Renoir and Degas, taking you to a whimsical world where people come together to dance, laugh, and enjoy life. As magnificent horse-drawn carriages, dancers, stilt walkers, and acrobats enter the parade in a swirl of lights, you are invited to join the party and journey back to the Belle Époque period, dancing all night!
Le Bal is produced by Remue Ménage, a world-renowned French company, which marries visual arts, circus, dance and puppetry art.
This programme is presented by the French May Arts Festival, partnered with Tai Kwun, and exclusively sponsored by us.
| Event information | Details |
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| Date | 9 – 18 May 2025 |
| Time | 9 – 11 May 2025 (Friday to Sunday): 6:00pm, 7:30pm 13 – 18 May 2025 (Tuesday to Sunday): 6:00pm, 7:30pm |
| Venue | Parade Ground, Tai Kwun |
| Fee | Free admission |
| Website | https://www.frenchmay.com/en-us/article/344 |
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