What's New - Tai O Fishermen Culture Exhibition: Fishermen, Oar and Paddle Woodworkers, and the Palm Leaf Vaults 2024-05-9

The Sustainable Lantau Office has commissioned Tai O Cultural Association to organise the ‘Tai O Fishermen Culture Exhibition: Fishermen, Oar and Paddle Woodworkers, and the Palm Leaf Vaults’ at Tung Chung Community Liaison Centre Extension. The aim of the exhibition is to promote the conservation of the traditional fishing culture and explore possibilities for cultural inheritance.

Besides displaying a sampan (traditional wooden boat) from ‘The Joy of Navigating’, paddles and oar made of traditional materials and technique are exhibited for visitor’s appreciation at close range. The exhibition also displays fishing nets and palm leaf vaults made with traditional techniques to showcase Tai O traditional fishermen’s work tools and stilt houses making techniques. Three short documentaries about ‘fishing net’, ‘oar and paddle’, and ‘palm leaf vault’, narrated by Tai O fishermen and their next generation, are shown at the exhibition to enhance public understanding of Tai O fishermen culture.

In addition, a series of Tai O Traditional Fishing Net Weaving Workshops will be held. Both exhibition and workshops are free and the public is welcome to visit and participate.

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The workshops will be hosted by a Tai O fisherman, who will share the fun facts of the fishing nets such as the structure, the tools and techniques of making a net. Participants can experience traditional fishing net weaving. Upon completion of the workshops, each participant will receive a set of souvenirs, including a nylon bag made with traditional fishing net weaving technique.