FAMILY value is highlighted in this year's Hongkong Arts Festival with the introduction of a new Family Ticket programme.
The festival has always provided for younger audiences, according to Mr Tseng Sun-man, the festival's general manager.
As an incentive, those who book family tickets for three or more shows on the Family Entertainment programme will be given a 10 per cent discount on the total cost.
There are four shows to choose from.
The most unusual is the 1,000-year-old art form of water puppetry, performed by the National Water Puppet Theatre of Vietnam.
This is a unique form of theatre, with a pond, river, or as in Hongkong, a swimming pool, constituting the stage.
This form of puppetry is performed by travelling troupes, of which the National Water Puppet Theatre is the best known.