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HKU weekly notice
17 Feb 2017
Book launch of Cantonese Operatic Singing Art of Leung Yi-chung and Leung So-kam
Since 2006, the Centre for Advancement of Chinese Language Education and Research (CACLER) of the Faculty of Education, the University of Hong Kong (HKU), has been working together with partnering schools, under the HKU Cantonese Opera Education and Research Project, to integrate Cantonese Opera into the secondary school curriculum and on related researches. In 2015, the Lord Wilson Heritage Trust funded the research team led by Dr Dorothy Ng Fung-ping to implement the Publication Project of Cantonese Operatic Singing Art of Leung Yi-chung and Leung So-kam. Mr Leung Yi-chung was a leading light in Cantonese song art, and his daughter, Ms Leung So-kam, is a master of Cantonese operatic singing art. This new publication records their artistic achievements and gives an account of the Cantonese operatic singing art of the latter.
We cordially invite the press to attend the book launch. The details are as follows:
Date: February 21, 2017 (Tuesday)
Time: 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Venue: Swire Lounge, Robert Black College, The University of Hong Kong (see map)
Speakers: Dr Dorothy Ng Fung-ping, Ms Leung Chi-kit and Dr Boaz Chow Sze-sum (Co-authors of Cantonese Operatic Singing Art of Leung Yi-chung and Leung So-kam)
Guest Speaker: Ms Leung So-kam (Cantonese operatic singing art master)
Guest Performer: Ms Tang Mi-ling (Cantonese opera virtuoso)
Language: Cantonese
For media enquiries, please contact Ms Emily Cheung, Senior Manager (Development and Communications), Faculty of Education, HKU (Tel: 3917 4270 / fax: 2517 0075 / email: emchy@hku.hk).
UMAG exhibitions
1. Art Totems Bridging East & West: Eddie Lui's Four Decades of Artistic Pursuit -- A retrospective display of juxtaposed media and iconographic themes
Period: Now till March 26, 2017 (Sunday)
Eddie Lui is—as a draftsman, painter and sculptor—one of the founders of contemporary art in Hong Kong. His work is beautifully executed and eccentric, and his employment of form and colour continues to engage throughout the years. Few subject matters are particular to any one culture; his pictorial language is marked by the international and diverse influences found in Hong Kong. Lui’s familiarity with various materials and use of their distinct characteristics is embraced by his overarching topics and forms of visual expression that are common to several of his techniques and recognisable as ‘art totems’. The size and volume of selected artworks shows the artist’s ease with two- and three-dimensional artworks and the dialogue that he routinely creates between them.
Venue: 1/F & 2/F, Fung Ping Shan Building, UMAG, 90 Bonham Road, Pokfulam
2. Rising Above: The Kinsey African American Art and History Collection on display for the first time outside of the United States
Period: Now till February 26, 2017 (Sunday)
The exhibition includes over 120 items that range from paintings and sculptures to rare first editions and manuscripts, letters and official records that testify to the courage and hope of African Americans rising above the challenges they faced – and still face – to make their voices heard. The Kinsey Collection has been seen by over six million people in 24 cities around the United States. It is the first privately owned collection to have been displayed at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History and is now on long-term display at Epcot, a theme park at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, that attracts millions of visitors every year.
Venue: 1/F, T.T. Tsui Building, UMAG, 90 Bonham Road, Pokfulam
Opening Hours:
09:30 – 18:00 (Monday to Saturday)
13:00 – 18:00 (Sunday)
Closed on University and Public Holidays
Tel/Email: (852) 2241 5500 (General Enquiry) / museum@hku.hk
Admission: Free
Website: www.umag.hku.hk/en/
Media enquiries:
UMAG Communication Officer Miss Elena Cheung, Tel: (852) 2241 5512, Email: elenac@hku.hk.