Hong Kong leadership contenders take centre stage at Lunar New Year Fair
Games and quirky wares dominate Victoria Park event, alongside a miniature version of closed June 4 museum ‘to preserve the truth’
The small makeshift enclosure featuring colour-reversed photographic negatives of the event – that can be seen in regular colours through a smartphone camera – was one of many attractions with a political theme on display at the opening of the annual fair on Sunday.
“We are trying to preserve the historical truth,” said Albert Ho Chun-yan, chairman of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, which ran the June 4 museum.
He said the alliance was still raising funds to acquire new premises. They were forced to move out of the Tsim Sha Tsui tower block last year after a protracted legal battle with its owners’ corporation.
Political parties and young vendors touted quirky wares at the fair, many featuring tongue-in-cheek references to the year of the rooster or current affairs.
Watch: Bernice Chan reports on the Lunar New Year market