French May Arts Festival 2025

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8 March 2025

In art, we live. The 2025 French May Arts Festival takes ‘Vive L’art’ as the theme to celebrate the long-lasting artistic wonders of French culture and heritage, as well as the ever-growing connection and exchange between Hong Kong and France. Succeeding our previous editions and tying in with our mission, the festival offers a myriad of cultural events for everyone, embarking on a sensory journey through sights and sounds.

At the heart of this year’s festival is the feature exhibition The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Picasso for Asia-A Conversation, co-presented by M+, in collabo- ration with Musée national Picasso-Paris (MnPP). An unprecedented cross-cultural and intergenerational dialogue between the European master Pablo Picasso and contemporary Asian artists, the exhibition features more than sixty works from MnPP, and 130 works by Asian and Asian-diasporic artists from the M+ Col- lections. Seeing Picasso’s legacy in a new light, the exhibition delves into the complex relationships between origin and reception, invention and adaptation, as well as East and West.

Jazzing it up with music and dance, the festival brings in an exciting line-up of collaborations, as celebrated French singer-composer Sarah Lancman teams up with local virtuoso Joyce Cheung for Jazz Female Duo – Paris Rendezvous, while singer-songwriter Joyce Jonathan meets local sensation Jay Fung for the Echoes of the Heart concert; not to mention French-Swiss jazz trumpeter Erik Truffaz’s Rollin’ & Clap! will keep the good vibes rolling.

Le Bal

A journey through time to the Belle Époque period, Le Bal, a street parade inspired by Renoir’s and Degas’ paintings, takes you to a whimsical world where people get together, dance, laugh and enjoy life. The party is on! Celebrate the end of the day and dance the night away, as magnificent horse-drawn carriage, dancers, stilt walkers and acrobats enter the parade in a swirl of lights.

  • 6:00 pm & 7:30 pm
  • 9 May 2025 11 May 2025
  • .13 May 2025 – 18 May 2025
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Erik Truffaz-Rollin’ & Clap!

One of the world’s leading jazz stars, trumpeter Erik Truffaz loves to travel the world
in search of new sounds. He possesses an incredible ability to blend genres and converse between eras.

  • 07 June 2025, 8 pm
  • Concert Hall, Hong Kong City Hall
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