About ZILO 2022
Invisible Coastline
ZILO: Heritage Stroll Festival is co-organised by Macao Heritage Ambassadors Association (MHAA) and Ieng Chi Dance Association (ICDA) since 2012. The Festival began in 2012 and has currently come to its fifth edition as a breathing and moving arts festival which continues to sense, explore, and relive the beauty of the heritage sites as we stroll along the historic district of Macao together.
The theme of the current edition “Invisible Coastlines” unfolds, reflects on, and resolves to imagine our relationships with the sea around us. Starting from September 2020, the Festival has been collaborating with residents, artists, Macao Heritage Ambassadors and volunteers to explore the theme’s many facets. These collaborations will bring forth a wide range of Festival+ events together, including concerts, workshops, screenings, poetry readings, guided tours, talks and family handcraft sessions, prior to the Festival’s final presentations in mid-March 2022, which will be celebrated with site-specific dance performances, the release of the Old City Area Stroll tour map and exhibitions of community art creations.
We live in a peninsula city where the sea is inextricably interwoven with life itself. Through recollecting the stories drifting along the waves and shores of Macao, and retracing the past coastlines embedded in present urban structures, we will look at the old and the new, the individual and the collective, the lost and the found, the dazzling and the gloomy, and reconsider the culture and discourse of Macao and its waters with you.
ZILO
The word Zilo is of ancient Greek origin, meaning the “zeal” for working on and committing to something one does. It symbolizes the spirit and attitude of Heritage Stroll Festival and the tenacity of the project throughout the decade. Not only does the western pronunciation of Zilo resemble the Cantonese pronunciation of “poetry path” in the project title, the shapes of the alphabets also resemble the shapes and lengths of the patios, alleys, pathways and streets in the historic district of Macao.
We name the Festival Zilo to express the passion we have in realizing the vision of Heritage Stroll Festival, which is “to sense, explore, and relive the beauty of the heritage sites as we stroll along the historic district of Macao together.”
The logo of Heritage Stroll Festival conceptualizes a heritage walking tour under the moon with two interwoven circles. The two circles symbolize the cycles found in the waxing and waning of the moon, in the ups and downs of the city and all lives in symbiosis with us. The two circles are also overlapping and intersecting with one another, resembling the way arts and culture, the heritage sites and the spaces and lives around them connecting and interacting with one another.
Programme Planning
ZILO - Heritage Stroll Festival is co-organised by Macao Heritage Ambassadors Association (MHAA) and Ieng Chi Dance Association (ICDA) since 2012, and has currently come to its fifth edition.
The theme of the current edition “Invisible Coastlines” unfolds, reflects on, and resolves to imagine our relationships with the sea around us. Starting from Sep 2020 to Mar 2022, the Festival has been hosting a number of events through four core directions, i.e.,
#Memories : based on historical references, interviews and collecting stories,
#Research : based on learning, consulting experts, reading and observing,
#Imagination : based on artistic interpretation, associations, creativities and visceral explorations, and
#Festival+ : collaborations with local platforms and arts festivals with interconnecting visions.
The events under the directions Memories, Research, Imagination, and Festival+ prompts one another to unveil and embody the “Invisible Coastlines” together. The Festival focuses on co-creating these events with residents, artists, Macao Heritage Ambassadors and volunteers, which will culminate in the Festival’s final presentations in mid-March 2022, to be celebrated with site-specific dance performances, the release of the Old City Area Stroll tour maps and exhibitions of community art creations.
We live in a peninsula city where the sea is inextricably interwoven with life itself. Through recollecting the stories drifting along the waves and shores of Macao, and retracing the past coastlines embedded in present urban structures, we will look at the old and the new, the individual and the collective, the lost and the found, the dazzling and the gloomy, and reconsider the culture and discourse of Macao and its waters with you.
ZILO will not be achieved without the support from everyone who engaged in the Festival. Thank you very much for joining our journey and co-create it into a breathing and moving arts festival.
#Imagination
#Research
#Memories
#Festival+
2021-2022 Production Team
Creators：Chole Lao, Nero Lio
Producers：Sin Fong, Erik Kuong @Creative Links
Production：Josephine Pang，Kuang Zi Yang, Rita Chan, Sally Ng, Elva Chan, Karen Hoi, Yvonne Wong, Regan Lam
Graphic Design：Shadow Fong @View Design
Cultural Guides and Historic Research：Macao Heritage Ambassadors Association
Documentary Director：Micheal
Translation：Mary Wong
Artist Collaborators: Perry Fok, Chloe Lao, Calvin Lam, Kaze Patricio Chan, Yukie U Kei Lai, Karen Hoi, Simson Lam, Loklin.N, Niu Niu, Cindy Ng, Yan Feng, Jun Jiang, Jessie Ng, Chloe Wong, Annette Ng, Silvana Lee, NaNa Lam, Elva Chan, Iris Chan, Josephine Pang, Tanya Lio, Eva Cheong, and Castor Fong, etc
Organized by：Macao Heritage Ambassadors Association, Ieng Chi Dance Association, Macao Cultural Heritage Reinventing Studies Association
Co-organized by：Concept Pulse Studio、Point View Art Association, Out To Production Group
Partners：Inspiration 4Cs, Hina Creations, Creative Links, Macao Outersky Poet Association, Hand-painted Small Things, Sky Wing Media Production Company
Sponsor：ICM
Venue Support：Orient Foundation、IAM、Woofpetsion
Supported by ：Mojito Culture Limited, M Dimensions, Viva Music Stuo
Acknowledgements (in no particular order)：
Maritime Museum、Macau Fishermen's Mutual Help Association, Shipbuilding Craft Culture Association, CURB - Center for Architecture and Urbanism, Macao Shadow Play, Big Mouse Kids Drama Group, Macao Daily, Good Morning Macau, Pastelaria Chui Heong, A Porta da Arte, Omoon, Taipa Village Art Space, The Bright Dawn Studio, Rolling Puppet Alternative Theatre, TurboJET Travel Serv ices Limited “Macau Cruise”, Estoril Tours Travel Agency Limited, Mr. Roy Sit, Mr. Zheng Jian Yi, Mr. Vangaree Tam, Mr. Nuno Soares, Mr. Chikara Fujiwara, Ms. Minori Sumiyoshiyama, Mr. Simson Lam, Ioklin.N, Ms. Chloe Wong, Mr. Chan Meng Kam, Mr. Kelvin Leong, Ms. Lio Ka Kei, Ms. Mary Wong, Michelle Cheung, Participants in our activities and workshops, members and partners at ICDA, Macao Heritage Ambassadors, Volunteers from IFT, and all Festival Crew.
2021-2022 Collaborators
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