Organised by the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) and co-organised by the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau, the Tap Siac Craft Market will be held from Friday, 27 May, for two consecutive weekends (Friday to Sunday) at Tap Siac Square. The Craft Market will also be held at the Nam Van Lake Square from 3 to 12 June. In addition, the “Opening Ceremony of the 2016 Tap Siac Craft Market cum 1st Award Ceremony and Concert of the Subsidy Programme for the Production of Original Song Albums” will be held on Saturday, 28 May, at 6:00pm, at Tap Siac Square. The Fair is open to the public in general.

The “Tap Siac Craft Market” held from 27 to 29 May and from 3 to 5 June (Friday to Sunday), from 5pm to 10 pm at Tap Siac Square, features 200 booths and presents concerts and handicraft workshops. In addition to local cultural and creative practitioners, IC will also invite participants from Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore and Korea. In order to capture the synergy of the “Nam Van Lakeside Plaza Improvement Project” and of the “2016 Macao International Dragon Boat Races”, this year’s Craft Market will be extended to the Nam Van Lake Square on 3 June from 3pm to 10pm and from 4 to 12 June from 11am to 10pm, featuring booths, workshops and music performances.

In addition, the eight beneficiaries of the 2014 Subsidy Programme for the Production of Original Song Albums will be honoured at the “1st Award Ceremony and Concert of the Subsidy Programme for the Production of Original Song Albums”. The beneficiaries of the subsidised albums, including Tuna Macaense, Queena Tam, Sean Pang, Bobby Lio (represented by Fall to Fly), Forget the G and Wong Eunice, will present live performance of songs selected from the subsidised albums. There will be a counter selling the albums on site. All residents and visitors are welcome to witness the brilliance of local music artists and producers and the development of original music.

Inaugurated in 2008, the “Tap Siac Craft Market” is Macao’s first large-scale integrated platform for the display and sale of cultural and creative products, also featuring original music performances. Every year the event attracts participants from Macao and abroad and has been well-received by both residents and tourists since its inception. For more information about the Craft Market such as registration for the handicraft workshops, please visit the Cultural Affairs Bureau website (www.icm.gov.mo), the Macao Cultural and Creative Industries Website (www.macaucci.com) or the “Tap Siac Craft Market” page on Facebook (www.facebook.com/TapSeac.Artfair).