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HKU weekly notice (from March 29 to April 4, 2014)

28 Mar 2014

 

Handover Ceremony of the Deacons permanent loan collection
The handover ceremony of Deacons permanent loan collection will be held on April 3 (Thursday).  The donation contains the bulk of the early surviving records of Deacons and its predecessors, including client files, deeds and papers, legal documents, accounting records, letter books, photographs, etc. The date range of the collection is from 1848 to 2007.

The highlight of the collection is mainly the relevance and value to academic researchers and historians in respect of the economic and business history of Hong Kong and also historians and writers researching a particular person such as Sir Paul Chater who founded Hong Kong Land and undertook the first major Land Reclamation project in Hong Kong.

There are several volumes of documents related to Chater business transactions which relate to his deceased estate. Copies of this material were sent to the Chater family's own historian, Liz Chater, who authorized the donation of the Chater related materials in the Deacons archive to HKU.  These will be very valuable additions to material the HKU Library already has on Sir Paul Chater, including his own personal library which is housed in a special room in the HKU Library.

Deacons senior partners Ms. Lilian Chiang and Mr. Joseph Kwan   (Partner &  Head of Litigation & Dispute Resolution) will attend and Ms. Chiang will give a short speech.

Media and press members are cordially invited to attend.

Ceremony Information:
Date: April3, 2014 (Thursday)
Time: 16:00
Venue: Special Collections 1/F, Main Library

Exhibition Information:

Date: April 4 – April 28, 2014
Opening Hours:  09:00 to 22:00 (Monday –Friday); 09:00-19:00 (Saturday); 10:00 – 19:00 (Sunday and Public Holidays)
Venue: Special Collections 1/F, Main Library, The University of Hong Kong
Free Admission

For media enquiries, please contact:  
Mr. Gary Chin, Tel: 2859 2211 / Ms. Marina Yeung, Tel: 2859 8903
For details of the exhibition, please contact: 2859 2207 (Special Collections, Main Library)

University Museum and Art Gallery exhibition: “Surviving Evil: The Pictorial Language of Sara Atzmon”
The Hong Kong Holocaust and Tolerance Centre, the University Museum and Art Gallery and Goethe-Institut Hong Kong are organising a major exhibition in Hong Kong of artworks by Sara Atzmon, a Shoah (Holocaust) survivor who was born in Hungary and now resides in Israel. Ms. Atzmon’s artworks, many of which are large-scale, highly impactful paintings, reflect the artist’s memories of her horrible experiences during the Shoah. In 1944, Ms. Atzmon was first deported to Auschwitz and from there she was sent to Bergen-Belsen under terrible circumstances.

As an adult, Ms. Atzmon became a talent painter dedicated to use her, often very dramatic and explicit, paintings, to bring awareness to the cruel times in our fairly recent past, and to educate a young generation to treasure and practice tolerance, and foster understanding and compassion between people of different religions and cultural backgrounds.

Exhibition period: February 26, 2014 (Wednesday) to May 4, 2014 (Sunday)
Opening Hours:  09:30 to 18:00 (Monday – Saturday); 13:00 – 18:00 (Sunday). Closed on University and Public Holidays
(For details, please visit http://www.hkumag.hku.hk/about_us.html)
Venue: 1/F, T.T. Tsui Building, University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong (For location, please visit: http://www.hkumag.hku.hk/location.html)
Tel: (852) 2241 5500 (General Enquiry)
Free Admission

For media enquiries, please contact:
Miss Elena Cheung (Communication Officer), Tel: (852) 2241 5512, Email: elenac@hku.hk       

For details of the exhibition, please contact:
University Museum and Art Gallery, the University of Hong Kong, Tel: 2241 5500, Email: museum@hku.hk.