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Today (Nov 27)  
Mini Rugby Festival
Gathering of 18 Hong Kong mini-rugby clubs for fun on and off the pitch, including bouncy castles, face painting and hair colouring. From 8.30am, Stanley Ho Sports Centre, 10 Sha Wan Drive, Pok Fu Lam, entry free. Inquiries: 9098 1829
Bubbloo Carnival
Performances by Czech bubble artist Matej Kodes  and local magician Louis Yan, interactive bubble arts and magic workshops and a fair featuring games and food booths. 9am-6.30pm; also tomorrow-Wednesday, 10am-6pm, Ngong Ping Village, Ngong Ping, Lantau, free. Inquiries: 3666 0606
Wednesday (Nov 30)  
Birdhouse Factory 
Cirque Mechanics' acrobatic and comedic production set in a factory where the workers are acrobats and machines are circus props. Today to Fri and Dec 6-9 at 7.45pm; Sat and Dec 10 at 3pm and 7.45pm; Sun and Dec 11 at 11am and 4pm, HK Academy for Performing Arts, 1 Gloucester Road, Wan Chai, HK$365-HK$395 HK Ticketing. Inquiries:  2547 7150
Friday (Dec 2)  
Christmas Magic
Peter Moore conducts (and presents in English) the HK Sinfonietta performing Leroy's Anderson's A Christmas Festival, Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker: 'Russian Dance' and others. Today 7.30pm; tomorrow 3pm, 7.30pm; Sun 3pm, HK City Hall, 5 Edinburgh Place, Central, HK$120-HK$250 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2836 3336
The Little Mermaid
Guangxi Zhuangzu Zizhiqu Puppet Troupe of China's puppet ballet-black light theatre play centring on a little mermaid who has fallen in love with a human prince, and is willing to exchange her beautiful voice for the sea-witch's magic potion that can turn her fish tail into human legs. Today, 8pm, Sheung Wan Civic Centre, 5/F Sheung Wan Municipal Services Building, 345 Queen's Rd Central, Sheung Wan, HK$140, HK$190; tomorrow, 8pm, Tai Po Civic Centre, 12 On Pong Rd, Tai Po, HK$120, HK$160; Sunday, 8pm, Ngau Chi Wan Civic Centre, HK$140, HK$190 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2268 7323
Saturday (Dec 3)  
Winter Garage Sale at HKUST 
More than 180 stalls of new and secondhand goods including toys, games, books,  jewellery and clothes. Proceeds go to charity. 9.30am-1.30pm, HK University of Science and Technology,  Clear Water Bay,  Kowloon, free entry. Inquiries:  9045 5942



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