Culture & Sports

Highlights from the Galaxy Entertainment Group 2023 11th Yao Foundation Charity Game

The Galaxy Entertainment Group 2023 11th Yao Foundation Charity Game was held at the Galaxy Arena recently. Following a kick-off by Francis Lui, Vice Chairman of Galaxy Entertainment Group and Yao Ming, Founder of the Yao Foundation, a friendly basketball showdown took place between members of the Chinese basketball star team, the international basketball star team, and the teenaged players of the 12th Yao Foundation Hope Primary School Basketball League (2022-2023) selected from rural communities. The game ended with a fantastic win by the International Basketball All-star team led by Giulio Griccioli.

Chinese basketball legends including Yi Jianlian, Zhu Fangyu, Sun Yue and Zhang Yunsong also attended as basketball dream ambassadors who joined young players for a shooting challenge.

As one of the co-organisers and the title sponsor, Galaxy Entertainment Group (“GEG”) has been promoting Macau’s development of sports through various measures for many years. GEG feels deeply honoured for the opportunity to bring this unique event to Macau for the first time, and to see it successfully held. In the future, GEG will continue to support "Sports +", and strengthen Macau’s positioning as a “World Center of Tourism and Leisure”.

GEG Invites Caritas Macau’s Service Users and their Families to the Galaxy Lantern Art Festival in Celebration of National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival

Galaxy Entertainment Group (“GEG”) invited users of Caritas Macau’s services and their families to the Galaxy Lantern Art Festival jointly launched by Galaxy Macau™ and the Macau Designers Association where they celebrated the festivities while enjoying a series of digital art and lighting experiences.

Accompanied by members of the GEG Volunteer Team, nearly 30 users of Caritas Macau’s Family and Child Youth Services walked through the walkway off Galaxy Hotel to appreciate and take photos of the award-winning lanterns designed by university students and designers from Macau and other parts of the Greater Bay Area. The participants also visited the Outdoor Lawn near Galaxy Macau’s Diamond Lobby where they observed the first 6-meter-diameter Supermoon in Macau.

Galaxy Arena Joins Forces With Warner Music China In New Strategic Partnership

Galaxy Arena, owned by Galaxy Entertainment Group (“GEG”), is pleased to announce a three-year strategic partnership with Warner Music China. Under the new strategic cooperation agreement, both parties will leverage their respective resource advantages, development experiences, and influence within the industry to organise a vast array of top-tier music performances and entertainment extravaganzas.

As part of the efforts to support Macau’s “Tourism + Entertainment” cross-sector integration and promote the development of the city’s cultural and entertainment industry. The goal is to attract music enthusiasts from around the world to choose Macau as a travel destination. According to the agreement, Warner Music China will bring in its artists’ concerts in Macau planning and producing cultural events such as music festivals, music lectures and forums, and arranging its artists to take part in commercial activities held in the city.

Galaxy Arena always prides itself on delivering a myriad of extraordinary performances to locals and tourists from around the globe, taking Macau’s cultural and entertainment industries to the next level while fostering the city’s transformation as a “World Center of Tourism and Leisure”. This collaboration with Warner Music aims to utilize the group’s esteemed artist line-up, its extensive content development team in China, and its abundant resources and experience in music content creation and large-scale music events. Not only does it fast-track more high-quality music and entertainment content to the region, but it also facilitates cultural exchange both domestically and internationally, creating new opportunities for enhancing both online and offline interactive experiences and industry development. Meanwhile, Warner Music’s artists can enjoy the luxury of Galaxy Arena, the newest and largest indoor arena with 16,000-seat and the most technologically advanced event and entertainment facility in Asia.

GEG Supports “Art Macao” and Unveils “BE@RBRICK MACAU - World’s First Immersive BE@RBRICK Art Exhibition” at Galaxy Macau to Enrich Local Arts and Cultural Offerings

Galaxy Entertainment Group (“GEG”) has been proactively supporting, participating in and organising various arts and cultural activities to enliven the arts and cultural atmosphere of the Macau community. GEG is honored to participate in the “Art Macao: Macao International Art Biennale 2023” hosted under the patronage of the Secretariat for Social Affairs and Culture of the Macau SAR Government, organised by the Cultural Affairs Bureau and co-organised by the Macao Government Tourism Office. As one of Art Macao’s special exhibitions, the “BE@RBRICK MACAU - World’s First Immersive BE@RBRICK Art Exhibition” organised by GEG and co-organised by Forward Fashion Group, is open to the public for free at Galaxy Macau™ Integrated Resort from July 29 to September 22.

As the most extensive BE@RBRICK themed exhibition ever seen in Macau, more than 10 international and local artists and designers were invited to bring these large-scale art installations to life in GEG’s property, and to create the world’s first BE@RBRICK exhibition that combines elements of technology and digital art and presents to visitors and the public a new immersive arts and cultural interactive experience. This Special Exhibition also includes a series of extended events, including the “Power of Art - Contemporary Art & Fashion: A Driving Force of the Cultural Industry Development” Art Forum and a number of art workshops that aim to facilitate arts and cultural exchange, and the development of the local arts and cultural sector.

Dr Lui Che-woo’s first visit to Dunhuang Mogao Caves | Support the conservation of national cultural heritage

Dr Lui Che-woo, the founder of the "LUI Che Woo Prize - Prize for World Civilisation", visited the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, Gansu Province, for the first time. Dr Lui described his visit as "an indescribably stirring experience", and said that the most impressive part of the trip was the viewing of the Thousand-Handed Guanyin painting in the Mogao Caves, where he was attracted to the fine detail of the paintings, which were "so well-detailed in the painting of each hair”. He praised the splendour of Chinese culture, which has lasted for more than a thousand years.

Fan Jinshi, Honorary Director of the Dunhuang Academy, who dedicated to the preservation of Dunhuang for 60 years has been awarded the Lui Che Woo Prize in recognition of her contribution to the cause in 2019. Fan has recently decided to set up a fund for the conservation and preservation of Dunhuang, with all $20 million she received from the Lui Che Woo Prize. Dr Lui praised Fan's selfless dedication and said that it was important to preserve Chinese culture, and hoped that more people like Fan and her team would work hard to pass on Chinese culture.