Ladies' Market Events - August 2026
📅 Events in August 2026
August 2026 had no Hong Kong public holiday — the gazetted list carries none in that month — so what the month offered was events: two football nights at Kai Tak, the food fairs at the Convention Centre, and the museums' August openings and closing days. All of it has now passed; the dates, times and prices below are as their publishers had them.
Hong Kong Football Festival 2026 — Manchester City v FC Internazionale Milano
Saturday, August 1, 2026
The festival's first August fixture, the Asahi Super Dry Trophy: a 7:30pm kick-off at the 50,000-seat Kai Tak Stadium, with tickets from HK$399 to HK$2,999 plus a handling fee, sold through HK Ticketing. Manchester City had held their open training session at the same stadium the day before, on 31 July. The promoter was TEG Sport.
📍 Kai Tak Stadium, Kai Tak Sports Park, 38 Shing Kai Road, Kowloon
Football, Sports
🌐 More Information: Kai Tak Sports Park
Hong Kong Football Festival 2026 — Chelsea v Juventus
Wednesday, August 5, 2026
The second August match, the Herbalgy Trophy, kicked off at 7:30pm at the same stadium. Chelsea's open training session was the night before, on Tuesday 4 August, at HK$299 a seat. Both matches and both training sessions sat inside the festival's 31 July – 5 August 2026 window.
📍 Kai Tak Stadium, Kai Tak Sports Park, 38 Shing Kai Road, Kowloon
Football, Sports
🌐 More Information: Hong Kong Football Festival
International Arts Carnival 2026 — Panda-rama
Saturday, August 8 – Sunday, August 16, 2026
The Leisure and Cultural Services Department's summer family festival put Hong Kong Dance Company's Panda-rama in the Grand Theatre at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre, with 3pm and 7:45pm performances on 8 and 15 August and 3pm performances on 9 and 16 August. The carnival's other August shows were PLAY (8–9 August), The Little Musician (7–9 August, HK$340 and HK$280) and Fantastic Fairy Tales (14–16 August), with POP Theatre's The Pride, The Lie, The Hunger on 1–2 and 8–9 August. Its last dated stage performance was on 16 August; the organiser describes the whole carnival as "over 100 performances and activities in July and August".
📍 Grand Theatre, Hong Kong Cultural Centre, Tsim Sha Tsui
Family, Dance, Festival
🌐 More Information: LCSD International Arts Carnival 2026
HKTDC Food Expo 2026
Thursday, August 13 – Monday, August 17, 2026
The 36th Food Expo ran five days at the Convention Centre with the 12th Home Delights Expo and the 10th Beauty & Wellness Expo alongside it: more than 1,850 exhibitors from over 30 countries and regions. Public hours were 10am–10pm from 13 to 16 August and 10am–6pm on the closing day. A single ticket was HK$30, with HK$10 more for the Gourmet Zone on the same day; the combo ticket was HK$40, or HK$36 pre-sale from 30 July to 12 August, and the tourist ticket HK$20. HK$10 morning tickets ran before noon on 13, 14 and 17 August, HK$10 night tickets after 6pm from 13 to 16 August, and entry was free for children aged 3 and under and for visitors aged 65 and over.
📍 Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, 1 Harbour Road, Wan Chai
Food, Trade Fair
🌐 More Information: HKTDC Media Room
Food Expo PRO and Hong Kong International Tea Fair 2026
Thursday, August 13 – Saturday, August 15, 2026
Two trade-side fairs shared the same three days at the Convention Centre. Food Expo PRO admitted trade buyers only on 13 and 14 August, 10am–6pm, and opened to the public on Saturday 15 August, 10am–5pm. The International Tea Fair was open to trade visitors and the public on all three days, 10am–6pm on 13 and 14 August and 10am–5pm on 15 August. A single or combo Food Expo ticket bought for 15 August also admitted the holder to Food Expo PRO that day.
📍 Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, 1 Harbour Road, Wan Chai
Trade Fair, Food, Tea
🌐 More Information: HKTDC Media Room
Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet (M+)
Opened Saturday, August 15, 2026
Free entry, no ticket needed. Forty speakers stand in an oval in The Studio on level B2, one voice per speaker, recorded individually from the Salisbury Cathedral Choir; the 40-track recording runs 14 minutes on a loop. It is on loan from MoMA in New York and was the first project under the M+/MoMA memorandum signed in February 2025. The museum had published no closing date when this page was last checked, so the run is open-ended. M+ hours that August were 10am–6pm Tuesday to Thursday and Sunday, 10am–10pm Friday and 10am–8pm Saturday (a Saturday extension that ran to 29 August 2026), closed Monday.
📍 The Studio, B2, M+, 38 Museum Drive, West Kowloon
Art, Free Entry
🌐 More Information: M+
A Pharaoh's Rendezvous — Hong Kong Palace Museum
Wednesday, August 19, 2026
One night only: after-hours admission to the Ancient Egypt exhibition in Gallery 9 together with Galleries 7 and 8, 6:30pm to 10pm, with registration from 6pm on the LG/F. The evening carried docent talks on highlight objects, an English-language panel on Egyptian archaeology, culture and travel, live music from BEAT FRIDAY, Egyptian dance from Dance Nefertiti, a harp, Egypt-inspired scents, canapés and paid cocktails, photo moments and a pop-up store. Tickets were HK$450, HK$405 for HKPM Patrons and Friends and HK$360 each for two or more, including one plush-charm blind box. Over 18s only.
📍 Hong Kong Palace Museum, West Kowloon Cultural District, 8 Museum Drive
Museum, Evening Event
🌐 More Information: Hong Kong Palace Museum
Hong Kong Computer & Communications Festival 2026
Friday, August 21 – Monday, August 24, 2026
Four days of consumer electronics in Hall 1 at the Convention Centre, open 10am–9pm from 21 to 23 August and 10am–7pm on the closing Monday, with show-discount selling on computers, phones and accessories: the local back-to-school tech fair. The Chamber of Hong Kong Computer Industry organises it, and the Hong Kong Productivity Council co-organised an AI and Digital Transformation Zone in Hall 1C. Admission prices were not published on the Government's event calendar or in the co-organiser's release, so this page gives none.
📍 Hall 1, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, 1 Expo Drive, Wan Chai
Technology, Trade Show
🌐 More Information: HKSAR Government ICT Event Calendar
2026 TMElive International Music Awards (TIMA)
Saturday, August 22 – Sunday, August 23, 2026
A two-day awards show with live performances at Kai Tak Stadium, 5pm to 10:30pm on both days; the organiser counted 34 Chinese and international acts across the two nights. Tickets ran from HK$899 to HK$2,399 plus a handling fee, on public sale through HK Ticketing from 15 July 2026. Tencent Music Entertainment's TMElive produced it, with CTF Life as title sponsor.
📍 Kai Tak Stadium, Kai Tak Sports Park, Kowloon
Music, Awards
🌐 More Information: Kai Tak Sports Park
Ancient Egypt Unveiled: final day (Hong Kong Palace Museum)
Monday, August 31, 2026
The exhibition opened on 20 November 2025 and closed on this day, so August 2026 was its last month — and for it the museum opened every day, Tuesdays included, 10am–6pm from Monday to Thursday and 10am–8pm from Friday to Sunday. Special Exhibition tickets were HK$190 adult and HK$95 concession; full access HK$250 and HK$125; free for children aged 6 and under. The show brought 250 objects from seven Egyptian museums plus finds from Saqqara, and had passed 550,000 visitors by late July 2026. It was jointly organised by the Hong Kong Palace Museum and the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt, and hung in Gallery 9.
📍 Gallery 9, Hong Kong Palace Museum, West Kowloon Cultural District
Museum, Exhibition
🌐 More Information: Hong Kong Palace Museum
📅 Download the August 2026 calendar (.ics)
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