From exclusive dining options to Art Macao exhibitions, an interesting Mime Festival and more, there’s a bunch of new experiences to explore. Call up your friends and family and schedule some quality time together enjoying good food and fascinating events happening in Macau this weekend.
Chef Hélène Darroze & Château de Saint-Cernin Host Exclusive Wine Dinner at Chiado
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Award-winning Chef Hélène Darroze hosts an exclusive wine dinner in partnership with Château de Saint-Cernin wines at Chiado in August. Chef Hélène Darroze heads Michelin-starred restaurants in Paris and London, and she has also earned recognition as “World’s Best Female Chef” from The World’s 50 Best Restaurants. While in Macau, each one of her culinary masterpieces will be paired with extraordinary Château de Saint-Cernin wines from Périgord.
The exquisite dinner menu includes marinated carabineros with lime and sea herbs, clams, razor clams and dashi jelly, wild salmon from Scotland with Tasmanian pepper, crème fraîche, Oscietra caviar and dill, not to mention velouté of white coco beans from south-west of France with smoked eel, pickled girolles and shavings of duck foie gras from Les Landes. Next up is the barbecued Wagyu beef from Japan, “Coeur de boeuf” tomato, fresh almonds, black truffle from Australia with roasting jus, with the meal ending on a sweet note of raspberries, olive oil cream, sorrel sorbet.
When: 6:00pm, Sunday, August 11, 2019
Where: Chiado Restaurant, Shop 2206, Level 2, Sands Cotai Central, Cotai, Macau
How much: MOP $4,450 per person (plus 10% service charge)
Seats are limited, so for booking and more information, call +853 8113 8988, send an email to [email protected] or visit www.sandscotaicentral.com/chiado
Master Class with Philippe Gaulier
In addition to the mime performances and masterclasses, movie screenings will be held, allowing the audience to enter the world of the great masters. Internationally renowned clown master Philippe Gaulier from France is coming to Macau again to hold a five-day master class, exploring the artistic world of the “Neutral Mask” and of the Italian commedia dell’arte with participants. Gaulier’s Masterclass takes place from August 7 to 11, at Navy Yard 2.
Furthermore, there are also workshops for adults and children. Professional artists from various countries will share their tips on how to integrate magic in mime performances, and the secret about how to use body movement and rhythm to create different characters! Besides, there will be a mime movie screening at the Cinematheque．Passion. If you are feeling a little low, come to the Black Box Theatre, be thoroughly entertained and turn that frown upside down!
When: August 8–October 13, 2019
Where: Old Court Building, Mount Fortress and Cinematheque Passion
How much: Each activity has its own pricing
For more information, send a WhatsApp message to +33 763 718 168, send an email to [email protected] or check their website
BAR STORIES CHAPTER 41 – SIN + TAX BAR, SOUTH AFRICA
Bar Stories is back, with its 41st chapter! Taste an array of groundbreaking concoctions created by Julian Short, 2017 Diageo World Class Bartender of the Year in South Africa, the most prestigious mixologist competition in the world.
Short is the owner and general manager of Sin + Tax, a bar in Rosebank (Johannesburg).
When: 8:00pm, Thursday–Saturday, August 8–10, 2019
Where: Vida Rica Bar, Mandarin Oriental, Macau, 945 Avenida Dr. Sun Yat Sen, NAPE, Macau
For more information, call +853 8805 8928, send an email to [email protected] or check the event’s Facebook page
By Xiong Jianxin
“Visions of Chinese Tradition” and “Art in Motion”
Art Macao is still heating up the entire city! This August, Sociedade de Jogos de Macau, S.A. (SJM) has prepared a cross- cultural, multi-media art experience to the world of art enthusiasts. By blending the greatest cultural heritage of Macau with its oriental and western traditions, SJM is ready to exhibit a wide array of work from 20 plus artists with different mediums of “motion” videos and “still” paintings, truly representing an extensive world of small arts. Being the third exhibition of “ART • Appreciation • Legacy”, a 360° multidimensional art experience, SJM is dedicated to showcasing another extravagant art show across a range of its own outlets this entire August to celebrate Macau’s biggest art festival, “Art Macao: International Art Exhibition”.
This month’s inaugural exhibitions are displayed from August 1 to 30 at various venues of SJM including Grand Lisboa Hotel, Hotel Lisboa, Casino Oceanus at Jai Alai and Sofitel Macau At Ponte 16. “Visions of Chinese Tradition” and “Art in Motion” are here to represent the unique assimilation of Chinese and Portuguese as well as traditional and contemporary art. The curated exhibition “Art in Motion” reveals the curators’, Jorge Simões and Paulo Corte-Real, creativity and intellectual process and emerges to the current importance of the discipline of Contemporary Art. Another notable exhibition, the oriental China “Visions of Chinese Tradition” will showcase a series of delicate works by six modern lacquer masters who use crushed eggshells to create natural cracks in eight of the China-themed paintings. Chinese lacquer painting is derived from the longstanding lacquer art tradition, which is an important art form in Chinese art history. In terms of culture, lacquer culture has been inherited in different fields such as music, architecture, literature, painting, Buddhism, philosophy and diplomacy.
When: “Visions of Chinese Tradition” & “Art in Motion – Video art from Portugal” – August 1–30, 2019
Where: Visions of Chinese Tradition – Hotel Lobby, Grand Lisboa Hotel
Art in Motion – Video art from Portugal – Exterior Screen & Hotel Rooms of Grand Lisboa Hotel and Exterior Screens of Hotel Lisboa, Casino Oceanus at Jai Alai and Sofitel Macau At Ponte 16
How much: Free admission
For more information, check here
4TH MACAO INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
Cinematheque．Passion teams up with Comuna de Han-Ian to present the 4th Macao International Documentary Film Festival, from August 10 to 31. The highly anticipated festival opens with documentary gem “Let’s Get Lost” (newly restored version), revealing the turbulent life and spellbinding music of jazz trumpeter Chet Baker.
The Director-in-Focus session surely impresses with a gripping portfolio of Kazakh filmmaker Sergey Dvortsevoy, who will visit Macau and share his artistic methods and anecdotes. Aiming to create a dialogue with the city, the festival puts together new releases on this 20th anniversary of Macau’s handover under two themes–”The Collective” and “Memories”. The releases will also be Hong Kong and Macau premieres. Accompanying the exciting programme are talks and events too.
When: August 10–31, 2019
Where: Cinematheque Passion, 13 Travessa da Paixão, Macau
How much: MOP $60 per person
For more information, call +853 2852 2585 or check their website
LEGENDARY ALLEN HARRIS AT THE ROADHOUSE MACAU
Macau’s famous master guitar player, Allen Harris is going to front Doble Dorias, The Roadhouse Macau’s house band from 17 July to the end of September. Get ready for guitar solos that will blow your mind! Allen Harris first started performing in Macau in 1998 way before The Roadhouse Macau, or even Cotai Strip’s first casino was opened. Since that time, the renowned guitar player has been rocking the stages of basically all major entertainment venues such as MGM Macau, The Venetian Macao and Galaxy Macau!
After years of traveling and working all around Asia from Korea to Indonesia, he finally landed in our city to play at The Roadhouse Macau until the end of September. Inspiring, energetic and open-minded, Allen Harris promises that his performance at The Roadhouse Macau will make everyone stand up and dance. Jimmy Hendrix, Stevie Wonder, Prince, Santana and more are what Allen includes in his repertoire. Stop by and maybe catch Allen playing your favorite song!
When: 9:00pm–2:00am, Wednesdays–Sundays, July 17–September 30, 2019
Where: The Roadhouse Macau, E-G016-G019 Broadway Food Street, Broadway Macau, Avenida Marginal Flor De Lotus, Cotai
How much: Free admission
Goa Nights Goes Goan
Goa Nights is presenting a Goan food pop-up “Goa Nights Goes Goan” featuring guest chef Vasco Alvares. Vasco, a native from India’s sunny Goa who is no stranger to Macau with his expertise in Goanese food, making him part of Macau’s Lusofonia Festival in previous years.
This time, there are gravies–including lamb vindaloo, chicken xacuti, pork sorpotel, fish balchao and much more–and also tapas such as prawns masala fry, cafreal pork chops, pork roast, rava eggplant, vegetable stuffed papad, and serradura and bebinca for dessert.
Goa Nights is known for presenting food pop-ups which introduce dishes from different regions in India with latest offerings, such as the “Street Food Festival” featuring a number of India’s favorite street food dishes including the vada pav and the popular Bombay style sandwich to name a few; “Goa Nights goes Mexican” which celebrates Cinco de Mayo with its version of tacos and quesadillas.
Now Goa Nights is bringing Goa to Macau with a Goan food festival that starts from 6th to 11th of August. Specially designed by Chef Vasco, the handpicked menu will carry a unique blend of Portuguese cuisine and Indian spices which promises to deliver an appetite-whetting gastronomic journey for all diners like no other!
When: Tuesday–Friday, 6:00pm–11:30pm, August 6–9, 2019
Saturday and Sunday, 12:00pm–11:30pm, August 10 and 11, 2019
Where: Goa Nights, 118 Rua Correia da Silva, Taipa Village
How much: Each dish has its own pricing
For more information and bookings, call +853 2856 7819 or check the event’s Facebook page
