The Hong Kong Public Libraries will launch the Summer Library Festival 2024 in July and August, comprising on-site and online activities such as workshops, storytelling theatres, reading clubs, subject talks and book displays.

With the theme “Walking into Architecture”, the festival aims to encourage members of the public of different ages to broaden their reading horizons and deepen their understanding of the country's architecture.

In addition to book displays related to architecture, a series of parent-child workshops on the architecture of the Mainland and Hong Kong will take place at public libraries in the 18 districts, where parents and children can discover the architecture of the Mainland and Hong Kong through creating mini fotomo models and mini neon signs together or through making creative handicrafts of buildings with Chinese characteristics.

Teenagers and adults can participate in workshops, including the Coffee Shanshui Art Workshop and the Paper Art Workshop, in which they will draw small landscape paintings with materials such as coffee and dry pastels, or make paper crafts showing the Mainland and Hong Kong's unique cityscapes.

Public libraries in various districts will organise storytelling theatres and parent-child musical sessions, where fascinating stories will be illustrated in different ways to cultivate children's interest in reading.

Children can also participate in online live workshops to learn about Western, watercolour and ink painting techniques under the theme of ancient Chinese architecture.

Public libraries in Kwun Tong, Sham Shui Po and Wong Tai Sin districts will organise activities, including balloon twisting and magic performance sessions; storytelling sessions guiding children to learn more about the history of Hong Kong's return to the motherland; handicraft workshops on the city's intangible cultural heritage; and parent-child workshops on the cultural meaning of the Olympic Games.

All activities are free of charge. Seat reservations or admission tickets are required for some programmes.