MACAU: The 19th A-Ma Cultural and Tourism Festival will take place in China's Macau Special Administrative Region from Oct 12 to 15, organisers said Monday.
More than 1,000 guests from home and abroad, including representatives from China's Taiwan region, are expected to attend, said Chan Meng Kam, chairman of the organising committee.
Visitors will be presented with a myriad of activities, including a ceremony honouring Mazu, a Chinese sea goddess, a seminar on the contemporary significance of Mazu culture and an event promoting cultural and tourism cooperation between east China's Fujian Province and Macau, organisers added.
Arts troupes from Fujian will perform at the festival. The festival will also feature craft exhibitions and demonstrations of traditional skills, along with activities connecting producers with buyers.
To mark the 160th anniversary of Sun Yat-sen's birth, Taiwan guests will also visit the Guangdong-Macau In-Depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin and Sun's former residence in Zhongshan.
Mazu belief and customs were inscribed on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) list of intangible cultural heritage in 2009.
The Goddess A-Ma Foundation of Macau organises the festival, and the Macau Foundation sponsors it.- China Daily/ANN
