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香港大學每週活動推介（2015年1月31日至2015年2月7日）

2015年01月30日

 

HKUL Book Talk - Old Hong Kong
Speaker:  Dr Peter Cunich
Moderator:  Prof John Carroll
Date:  5 February, 2015 (Thursday)
Time:  6:30pm – 8:00pm
Venue:  Special Collections, 1/F Main Library
Language:  English
Registration: http://lib.hku.hk/friends/reading_club/bt2015_01.html

About the Author
Dr Peter Cunich has been teaching history at the University of Hong Kong since 1993, but his first visit to the then British colony was during an airline stopover in 1986. Although his main field of research is late medieval and early modern English history, he has taken a keen interest in the history of Hong Kong and European missionary activity in China. He is currently Director of the HKU Centenary History Project, spending much of his spare time researching and writing the second volume of his definitive history of the University.

About the Book
Dr Peter Cunich’s latest book, Old Hong Kong, combines a stunning collection of photographic images of colonial Hong Kong from the FormAsia Collection with a descriptive text offering fresh insights into the early history of Hong Kong. Many of these images have never been published before, so they add significantly to our knowledge of Hong Kong's built environment and social milieu from the 1860s to the early 1940s, but they also create numerous problems of identification and interpretation. In this book talk, Dr Cunich will discuss the reasons for the recent surge of interest in historical photographs of Hong Kong and the ways in which these images can be used by historians and others to elucidate various elements of our local history.

Discovering Art – Fa Po Po's World
Fa Po Po made a living and raised four children by selling flowers. When she retired, she picked up the paintbrush and discovered her talent. She did not learn painting from a school or a teacher, but flowers stem naturally from her mind. Apart from painting flowers, which is her best known signature, she also combines what she sees in her daily life with her imagination and produced works consisting animals, human portraits and episodes of her past experiences. The fact that she paints on abandoned furniture and household objects such as wardrobe, mirror, and fans, etc. connects her works with the environmental protection agenda.

Art has brought big fortune to Fa Po Po—not in the sense of financial gain but in terms of friendship and social recognition. Her work first caught the attention of a prestigious Hong Kong artist and then widely reported by mass media through television programmes, magazines and newspapers, including the RTHK TV documentary Artspiration. Young people and students also love to visit her and listen to her stories. Her grand-daughter started a Facebook page “Fapopo 花婆婆” with now thousands of “likes” from all over the world. In late 2014, a major shopping mall in Tsuen Wan featured her solo exhibition.

Art comes from life, and art transforms life--this is what Fa Po Po illustrates. Please refer to the following details if you would like to see for yourself this hidden gem!

Exhibition:
Date: 20 January 2015 (Tuesday) – 14 February 2015 (Saturday)
Venue: MC³@702, The Jockey Club Tower, HKU Centennial Campus, HKU

Opening hours:
Mon - Fri: 10:30am - 6:00pm
Sat: 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
Closed on Sundays and Public Holidays

For further information on Fa Po Po: https://www.facebook.com/faapopo

For further information on MC³@702 Creative Space
Email電郵: socimccc@hku.hk
Facebook Page專頁：http://www.facebook.com/HkuMccc
Website網頁: http://www.sociodep.hku.hk/mccc.html

Should you have any enquiries, please feel free to contact Executive Assistant Connie Ko by email at connieko@hku.hk or by phone at 3917 2309.

港大美術博物館「因地制宜―兩岸四地藝術交流計劃2014」
「因地制宜 ─ 兩岸四地藝術交流計劃2014」於2014年11月15 日至2015年2月1日在香港大學舉行，在港大美術博物館展出兩岸四地藝術家的作品，今屆交流計劃主策展人馮博一，以及四地策展人包括吳秀華（香港）、吳方洲（澳門）、徐婉禎（台灣）及苟嫻煦（內地），邀請了十三位藝術家參展，十二組作品包括錄像、裝置藝術、繪畫及攝影等，作品種類繁多，盡顯四地藝家之人文薈萃。

展覽詳情:
展出日期: 2014年11月15日(星期六) 至2015年2月1日(星期日)
地點: 香港薄扶林香港大學美術博物館
開放時間:
星期一至星期六，上午9時30分至下午6時
星期日，下午1時至6時;
大學及公眾假期休息

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