Slideshow: Thai Family Day

Asia Society Hong Kong Center held its first Family Day on May 27, 2012. (Asia Society Hong Kong Center)

Live modeling of traditional Thai costumes. (Asia Society Hong Kong Center)

Shadow puppet performance. (Asia Society Hong Kong Center)

Thai musical instruments. (Asia Society Hong Kong Center)

Muay Thai (kickboxing) demonstration. (Asia Society Hong Kong Center)

Muay Thai demonstration. (Asia Society Hong Kong Center)

Thai food stalls. (Asia Society Hong Kong Center)

Arts and crafts corner. (Asia Society Hong Kong Center)

Traditional Thai dance performance. (Asia Society Hong Kong Center)

Children's exhibition tour. (Asia Society Hong Kong Center)

Story-telling. (Asia Society Hong Kong Center)

Hong Kong New Music Ensemble performance. (Asia Society Hong Kong Center)

Face painting. (Asia Society Hong Kong Center)

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Asia Society Hong Kong Center's first Family Day attracted over 400 adults and children on Sunday, May 27, 2012. The all-day event featured musical performance by Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, traditional Thai dance performance — Fawn Thai, and muay thai kick-boxing demonstration. Participants also had a chance to watch a Thai folk tale of the legend of Princess Manorah through shadow puppet performance. Other activities included face painting, modeling with traditional Thai costumes, and an arts and craft corner where kids learned to make traditional Thai handicrafts such as small fish from strips of paper using plain weave, and Hanging Tung (Thai hanging mobile using crepe paper).