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HKU weekly notice (from November 9 to November 15, 2013)

08 Nov 2013

 

HKU to hold Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions 2013
The University of Hong Kong (HKU) will hold an Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions on November 9. An opening ceremony officiated by HKU Vice-Chancellor Professor Lap-Chee Tsui will be held at 10am at Sun Yat Sen Place.

The Information Day aims to introduce HKU’s academic programmes and curriculum, campus facilities and student activities to members of the public, in particular secondary school students, teachers and parents. Information booths will be set up by the faculties and talks will be held on the wide variety of academic programmes offered. Teaching and learning facilities and halls of residents will be open to the public for a glimpse of HKU’s campus life.

Admission Talks

JUPAS Admission
Time: 11am to 12 noon
Venue: Grand Hall, Lee Shau Kee Lecture Centre, LG/F, Centennial Campus

Non-JUPAS Admission
Time: 2pm to 3pm
Venue: Grand Hall, Lee Shau Kee Lecture Centre, LG/F, Centennial Campus

For programme talks of the faculties, campus shuttle bus service and routes and other details, please visit the Information Day website at: http://www.infoday.hku.hk/

Attention:
Private vehicle are not allowed to enter or park on campus from 8am to 7pm. Visitors are advised to use public transport.

For media enquiries, please contact: Ms Trinni Choy (Assistant Director (Media), Communications and Public Affairs Office) tel: 2859 2606 email: pychoy@hku.hk; Ms Melanie Wan (Senior Manager (Media), Communications and Public Affairs Office) tel: 2859 2600 email: melwkwan@hku.hk; or Ms Rhea Leung (Manager (Media), Communications and Public Affairs Office) tel: 2857 8555 email: rhea.leung@hku.hk .

Forum on “What it takes to be different”
As a major highlight of the Equal Opportunities Festival 2013, a forum on “What it takes to be different” will be held on November 12. Invited guests will speak from their experience and their views on gender equality including homosexual, bisexual and transgender issues, and religious point of views on them.

Date: November 12, 2013 (Tuesday)
Time: 3pm to 4pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre 6, Meng Wah Complex HKU
Speakers: Dr. Eric Chong, Master of St. John’s College; The Hon Ms. Cyd Ho, Legislative Council member; Mr. Brian Leung, Chief Campaigner of Big Love Alliance, and Mr. Geoffrey Yeung, Vice-President of Queer Straight Alliance 
Moderator: Dr. Travis Kong, Department of Sociology
Language: Cantonese

For further information, please visit: http://www.eounit.hku.hk/eofestival2013/

For enquiries, please contact Sera Mok by email at eounit@hku.hk

From Photography to Music: a Creative Dialogue between David Clarke and Chan Hing-yan
This exhibition consists of a series of photographic images depicting flowers and fruit. Photographer David Clarke originally generated these pictures using Polaroid instant film, with the resultant images then being scanned at high resolution and printed at a larger scale as giclée (high quality ink-jet) prints on a suitable artist paper. No digital manipulation took place after scanning - the images that were printed were simply records of the impact on film chemicals of whatever light was allowed through the lens during exposure. These photographs are all receiving their first public showing now, at a point in time when the visual world of Polaroid instant film has disappeared definitively into the past.

The photos are being presented here as part of a creative dialogue with the composer Chan Hing-yan, who has produced a new musical composition entitled Adieu Sequence in response to this body of works. Since the works themselves were produced by a migration from one medium to another (Polaroid film to digital print) they were already open to the idea that creativity might come from the shift between mediums, and thus were ready for an engagement of this kind, but of course a shift from photography to musical sound is an altogether more radical jump, and exciting for that very reason. Drawing on Clarke's images as a point of departure, Chan endows his Adieu Sequence with delicate sonic fragments and bids a musical farewell to a vanishing medium.

Music live performances:
Date: November 12, 2013 (Tuesday)
Time: 6:30 pm
Venue: University Museum and Art Gallery (UMAG), HKU

Exhibition details:
Period: November 12 through December 1, 2013
Time: 9:30am to 6pm, Monday to Saturday; 1 pm to 6pm on Sunday
Venue: University Museum and Art Gallery (UMAG) of the University of Hong Kong

Admission: Free admission

Enquiry: (852) 2241 5500

Piano Recital by Rodolfo Matulich
Composer Rodolfo Matulich will be playing to us the first part of 4 pieces – Crystal's Dreams, Emotional Sadness, Improvisation and All' Infinito – from his new album, the last of which will be publicly performed for the very first time.  In 2012 the pianist released Crystal Dreams, his first CD of contemporary classic music he composed for solo piano which has been internationally acclaimed.

The recital will be followed by a wine reception with the Composer.

This event is co-organized by the Italian Cultural Institute, the Consulate General of Italy in Hong Kong and Macau, the University Museum and Art Gallery at HKU and The HKU Museum Society.

Date: November 15, 2013 (Friday)
Time: 7:30pm to 8:30pm
Venue: 1/F, Fung Ping Shan Building, UMAG, HKU

Free admission.  All are welcome

Enquiries: 2241-5500

Sandro Botticelli’s Venus – An Italian High Renaissance Masterpiece
The Consulate General of Italy in Hong Kong and Macau, the Italian Cultural Institute and the University Museum and Art Gallery (UMAG) of the University of Hong Kong are honoured to present to the public one of Italy’s “national treasures” - Venus (ca. 1482) by Florentine Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli (1445–1510) from October 18 to December 15, 2013 in the University Museum and Art Gallery (UMAG) of the University of Hong Kong.

Exhibition Details :
Period: October 18th through December 15th, 2013
Time: 9:30am to 6pm, Monday to Saturday; 1 pm to 6pm on Sunday
Venue: University Museum and Art Gallery (UMAG) of the University of Hong Kong
Enquiry: (852) 2241 5500

Admission: Free admission

For media enquiries, please contact  Miss Elena Cheung (HKU University Museum and Art Gallery) tel.: 2241 5512; email: museum@hku.hk or  Ms Rhea Leung (Manager (Media), Communications and Public Affairs Office) tel: 2857 8555 email: rhea.leung@hku.hk .