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Heritage Fiesta 2024 Celebrates Hong Kong's Cultural Legacy with Free Tours and Exhibitions

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Heritage Fiesta 2024 Celebrates Hong Kong's Cultural Legacy with Free Tours and Exhibitions
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Heritage Fiesta 2024 Celebrates Hong Kong's Cultural Legacy with Free Tours and Exhibitions

2024-09-17 18:12 Last Updated At:09-18 01:11

"Heritage Fiesta cum Roving Exhibition 2024" to launch in October

The Heritage Fiesta 2024, to be held by the Commissioner for Heritage's Office (CHO) of the Development Bureau from October to November, will feature 11 declared monuments and graded historic buildings, reflecting Hong Kong's prominent role as an East-meets-West cultural hub. A related roving exhibition will be held from October this year to January next year.

A spokesman for the CHO said today (September 17), "Of the declared monuments and graded historic buildings featured in the event, eight are first-time joiners. These historic buildings have rich and diverse cultural backgrounds or demonstrate a blend of Chinese and Western architectural styles. Among them, Bethanie Campus of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and Ohel Leah Synagogue have once received honours from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation. We hope to encourage members of the public to explore and appreciate the values and significance of Hong Kong's built heritages as well as their histories and cultures through this event."

The Heritage Fiesta will be held from October 1 to November 30 at the following 11 locations with free guided tours:

Dates and venues of the roving exhibition are as follows:

2024

October 1-13

Event Hall, UG/F, Citywalk 2, Tsuen Wan

October 15-21

Covered Piazza, Times Square, Causeway Bay

October 15-31

Shui Wo Street Public Library

Tiu Keng Leng Public Library

October 26 - November 26

Lobby, 1/F, Immigration Tower, Wan Chai

November 2-14

Lai Chi Kok Public Library

Tung Chung Public Library

November 16-30

Tuen Mun Public Library

Sheung Shui Public Library

December 2-15

Tai Po Public Library

North Kwai Chung Public Library

December 17-30

San Po Kong Public Library

Kowloon Public Library

2025

January 2-14

Chai Wan Public Library

Sha Tin Public Library

January 16-27

Cheung Chau Public Library

Ngau Chi Wan Public Library

On the first day of the event (October 1), free workshops and a free community music performance will be held at some of the participating historic buildings. To complement the event, public lectures featuring the participating historic buildings will be organised by the Antiquities and Monuments Office (AMO) at the Hong Kong Heritage Discovery Centre in Tsim Sha Tsui.

Booklets of the event will be available for free at the aforementioned exhibition venues as well as the following distribution outlets: the Hong Kong Heritage Museum, the Hong Kong Museum of Art, the Hong Kong Museum of the War of Resistance and Coastal Defence, the Hong Kong Museum of History, the Hong Kong Science Museum, the Hong Kong Space Museum, the Ping Shan Tang Clan Gallery cum Heritage Trail Visitors Centre, the Sam Tung Uk Museum, PMQ, the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals' temples, visitor centre of the Hong Kong Tourism Board in Tsim Sha Tsui, customer services centres at Hong Kong International Airport, and the venues of the 13 revitalisation projects under Batch I to V of the Revitalising Historic Buildings Through Partnership Scheme (www.heritage.gov.hk/en/revitalisation-scheme/index.html).

For details of the Fiesta and roving exhibition, as well as enrolment of the guided tours/related activities, please refer to the CHO's website and online event booklet (www.heritage.gov.hk/en/about-us/events-and-promotions) and the Instagram page "@HKHeritageLIVE" (www.instagram.com/hkheritagelive/). Details of the public lectures will be available on the website of AMO (www.amo.gov.hk/en/visitor-centre/education-programmes/education-activities/index.html). For enquiries, please call 2906 1559.

Labour Department highly concerned about fatal work accident that happened in Jardine's Lookout today

​The Labour Department (LD) is highly concerned about a fatal work accident that happened at a detached house in Jardine's Lookout this morning (January 20), in which a man fell from a wooden folding ladder while installing an air-conditioner. He was certified dead later in hospital. The LD is saddened by his death and expresses its deepest sympathy to his family.

The LD's spokesman said, "We commenced an immediate on-site investigation as soon as we were notified of the accident and have issued suspension notices to the contractors concerned, suspending the air-conditioning works at the detached house concerned. The contractors cannot resume the work process until the LD is satisfied that suitable measures to abate the relevant risks have been taken."

The spokesman added, "We will complete the investigation as soon as possible to identify the cause of the accident, ascertain the liability of the duty holders and recommend improvement measures. We will take actions pursuant to the law if there is any violation of the work safety legislation."

To protect workers' safety, the LD reminds contractors that ladders are usually used for ascending and descending only. Using ladders for work-above-ground is unsafe. Contractors shall provide and ensure that workers use appropriate working platforms or other safe means of support, including step platforms or hop-up platforms in conformity with international or national standards, instead of ladders.

The general duty provisions of the Occupational Safety and Health Ordinance require employers to provide safe working environments, plant and systems of work for their employees. Those who contravene the relevant provisions are liable to a maximum fine of $10 million and imprisonment for two years.

In regard to today's accident, the LD will issue a Work Safety Alert through its mobile application "OSH 2.0", website and email, giving a brief account of the accident concerned to duty holders, workers' unions, professional bodies of safety practitioners and others, and reminding the industry of the importance of following safety precautionary measures to prevent a recurrence of similar accidents.

The LD will also remind the employer concerned of the liability for employees' compensation under the Employees' Compensation Ordinance, assist family members of the deceased to claim employees' compensation and closely follow up on the case. For those with financial difficulties, the LD will assist them to apply for appropriate emergency funds. Subject to the needs and wishes of family members of the deceased, the LD will also liaise with the Social Welfare Department for financial or other assistance.

For the sake of securing the safety and health of employees at work, the LD appeals to employers to provide plant and systems of work that are safe and without risks to health. Employees should co-operate with their employers, adopt all safety measures and use personal protective equipment provided properly to avoid endangering their own work safety and that of other workers.

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