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Experience the magic of Mid-Autumn Festival during a day of celebration at your Museum.
Also known as the Moon Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional Chinese celebration held on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month.
Rooted in legends like Chang’e, the moon goddess, the festival is a time for gratitude, reflection and togetherness across many East Asian cultures. Families gather to enjoy mooncakes and celebrate with lanterns.
You’ll be able to enjoy a host of activities and workshops, including those detailed below.
Drop-in lantern making workshop with Thomas Yuen
11am-4pm
Create your own lanterns for celebration. Materials provided. Just drop in.
Pre-booked tea ceremony with Feixia Yu
12-12.30pm, 2-2.30pm, 2.45-3.15pm
Enjoy a calm moment drinking Chinese tea. Booking is required.
Leaf whistle workshop with Larry Lai
3-4pm
Leaf whistling is a part of human heritage. You can play music using one of the most sustainable, low-carbon musical instruments you’ll ever find - leaves! Have a go at something most people will have never tried. Larry started this hobby in 2013 and is now a tutor in leaf-whistling. Booking is required.
Bring the Moon Home: a mid-autumn crafts and poetry gathering with Ariel Chan (Bilingual, in both Chinese and English)
2-3pm
畫個月亮帶回家：新詩創作工作坊🌕
以「家」為題，透過文字創作及和諧粉彩想像心目中的家，趁着中秋節重溫節日故事，吃一口月餅，畫個月亮帶回家。
以油粉彩繪製月亮、結合個人詩作製成掛飾，最後以品嚐月餅、互贈祝福收尾。
Using the theme of ‘home’, participants will imagine and express their ideal home through creative writing and pastel Nagomi art. In celebration of the Mid-autumn Festival, they will revisit the festival’s traditional stories, enjoy a bite of mooncake and paint a moon to take home.
Screening of Our Shared Moon - Hong Kong voices across mid-autumn (12 minutes)
This video by Thomas Yuen explores memory, migration and the meaning of reunion/togetherness through the lens of the Mid-autumn Festival.
Speaking with friends who have recently moved from Hong Kong to the UK, Yuen reflects on how traditions are carried, reshaped, or lost in diaspora. Alongside these voices, he weaves in his own story of family and the bond with his elder brother.
Through references to the legend of Chang’e (Soeng Ngo in Cantonese) and the poetry of Su Shi (Sou Sik in Cantonese), the work connects personal and collective longing across distance. It is less about a single festival than about how people carry ‘home’ within them and how the moon continues to remind us of belonging, even across oceans and silences.