When Walt Disney planned Fantasia 60 years ago he wanted it to be an ongoing celebration of musical pictures in cartoon form. Every year he imagined a new Fantasia, including some familiar segments and many new ones - rather like going to a concert in the cinema.
But Fantasia projects piled up, animators and directors were busy with new films that would make the company famous, and it is only now that Disney has produced Fantasia II - or rather, Fantasia 2000 - fit for the Omnimax screen, and using new computerised graphics and a star cast of musicians - including James Levine and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra - and presenters, including Steve Martin.
It manages to be wildly creative: for Saint-Saens' comic The Carnival Of The Animals the animators asked what would happen if you gave a yoyo to a flock of flamingos. Gershwin's Rhapsody In Blue is a celebration of New York and jazz and the power of the animator's pen: it starts with that sexy saxophone, and a single line of drawing, that becomes different characters - a building site worker, a fat lady with a dog, a desperate unemployed man - in a miniature 1930s comic soap opera.
One of the most beautiful works is a story played against a musical backdrop of Respighi's Pines Of Rome. Not a pine tree - and certainly not a Colosseum to be seen in this Disney fantasy however, which is about a little whale somersaulting in his iceberg-white world, and ultimately - in a magical moment that manages somehow not to get caught by the cuteness of the animation - learning to fly and soar like an angel. Fantasia - which includes one of the most famous segments from the first Fantasia, starring Mickey Mouse as The Sorcerer's Apprentice - continues at the Space Museum through March. Several performances a day: the 5.15pm one is in English. Tickets in advance from Urbtix 2734 9009.
Liquid refreshment Still on an aquatic and musical theme, Kwai Tsing Theatre will be hosting an extraordinary, creative poetry night on Sunday evening with Written On Water - a lively combination of poems and music about water.
Not just in the waves-on-beach or shipwreck stereotypes, but funny turn-your-preconceptions-around poems from West Africa about looking for water, a 20th-century poem by Rosemary Dobson about washing linen, and the Stevie Smith favourite Not Waving But Drowning.