The 16th issue of C2
Published by the Cultural Affairs Bureau and produced by 100 Plus Cultural Creative Development Ltd., the sixteenth issue of C2 magazine will be launched on Wednesday, 3 August. The cultural and creative industries park aims to aggregate the cultural and creative industries, inspiring the practitioners’ creativity. Recently, the demand for cultural and creative space has been increasing. There are different kinds of spaces and diverse operation styles, creating flexibility and unlimited potential. In the column “Feature”, C2 interviews several cultural and creative industries parks in Macao, including the operators and participants in the Macau Design Centre and in the 678 Cultural Creative Park. It discusses the challenges and opportunities the cultural and creative spaces are facing. Dirco Fong, Chief Executive of the Macau Design Centre which provides cultural and creative industries service platform and is subsidized by the Cultural Industries Fund, hopes the Government can make a balance between the usage of public funds and the actual operation of the cultural and creative industries. Andy Szeto, Chairman of the Cowin Group which has invested various cultural and creative projects in Macao, believes that providing varied cultural and creative industries space is the first step for developing the industry and that enriching the content of products and enlarging the markets is crucial. This edition also features an analysis of the case of D2 Place, a landmark of the Hong Kong cultural and creative industries as well as the functions and features of the cultural and creative parks in Macao. The column “Opinion” invites Joe Liu, director of MOME, a multimedia broadcasting platform in Macao, to give his insight on multimedia broadcast. MOME TV breaks through the traditional bus media. It uses creative TV programmes to spur O2O (Online to Offline) consuming behaviour. Organised by the Cultural Affairs Bureau, the first edition of the Subsidy Programme for the Production of Original Song Albums was successfully conducted, and subsidised albums have been released recently. “Extravaganza” invites two of the beneficiaries, Leong Chi Long and Chang Heng Ian, and Chan Peng Fai, Vice President of the Cultural Affairs Bureau, to discuss how the programme promotes the development of the music industry in Macao. The new column “Budding Talents” interviews Filipe Miguel das Dores, an emerging local watercolour painter as awarded in London. He explains how he combines the blueprint of architecture with watercolour painting. “Blogs” columnists, Joe Tang, Ho Ka Cheng, Yi-Hsin Lin, Yap Seow Choong, Ron Lam, Ashley Chong and Cheong Sio Pang give more perspectives on the development of the cultural and creative industries. C2 is a trilingual magazine (in Chinese, Portuguese and English). Readers are welcome to browse or download the magazine at www.c2magazine.mo. C2 is a bimonthly magazine issued on the first Wednesday every two months. The next issue will be launched on 5 October, 2016. The email subscription function is now available. Simply click the “subscribe” button on the right corner of our webpage and enter your email address to subscribe to the C2 magazine. For the latest updates, you may also visit the magazine’s page on Facebook at: www.facebook.com/c2magazine.macau, or on WeChat, by clicking “add friend” and inputting “c2magazine” in the ID column. For enquiries, please contact us through the email c2magazine.macau@gmail.com.