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HKU weekly notice (from November 21 to 28, 2015)

20 Nov 2015

 

HKU Faculty of Dentistry to receive $1 million donation for scholarship
The Faculty of Dentistry at The University of Hong Kong will receive a cheque of HK$1 million by the Pun U District Association of Hong Kong at a presentation ceremony on November 23 (Monday).

The donation is offered by the Pun U District Association of Hong Kong for setting up a scholarship based on merit for students enrolled in the Master of Dental Surgery (Prosthodontics) to promote further studies and research in the area.

The Faculty Dean, Professor Thomas Flemmig and the Chairman of Pun U District Association of Hong Kong, Mr Sat Kai Chuen, will officiate at the ceremony.

Details of the event are as follows:
Date: 23 November 2015
Time: 5:30pm
Venue: Lounge, 7/F., Prince Philip Dental Hospital, 34 Hospital Road, Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong.

For media enquiries, please contact Christina Wong at tel: 28590494; email: cwong01@hku.hk

UMAG exhibitions
1. “Erich Lessing: The Pulse of Time—Capturing Social Change in Post-war Europe”
The University Museum and Art Gallery (UMAG) collaborates with the Austrian Consulate for Hong Kong and Macau as well as the Erich Lessing Archive to present the photography of celebrated Magnum photographer Erich Lessing. Lessing began working for the Associated Press in 1947, and joined Magnum Photos as one of its first members in 1951. He documented political events in post-war Europe, primarily in the former Communist countries.

An opening ceremony of the exhibition will be held at UMAG on November 26 (Thursday). 

The Pulse of Time includes nearly 100 documentary images from the pinnacle of Lessing’s career in the 1950s and 1960s, which illustrate the journalist’s ability to be working in the right place at the right time. Lessing reported on many of the most significant political event in post-war Europe and his, now historical, photographs record social and economic change in ever developing societies in both Eastern and Western Europe. Some of his works include Enthusiastic Austrians in the park at the Belvedere, which was photographed in 1955; Traffic check at the Brandenburg Gate, which was photograph in 1959 showed the division of Berlin, while a border guard at the center of the Brandenburg Gate controlled the city’s residents moving from one sector to another; and Vienna Opera Ball, was photographed in 1960. 

All exhibition-related activities will be held at 1/F, T.T.Tsui Building, UMAG, HKU, 90 Bonham Road, Pokfulam

Media preview and group interview session
Date: November 26, 2015 (Thursday)
Time: 17:15 – 17:45 (Media registration: Starts at 17:00)
Language: English
Media RSVP: museum@hku.hk / Tel: 2241 5512

Opening ceremony
Date: November 26, 2015 (Thursday)
Time: 18:00

Public guided tour
English Guided Tours:
December 17, 2015 & January 7, 2016 (Thursday) – 13:30 – 14:00
February 12, 2016 (Friday) – 13:00 – 13:30

Cantonese Guided Tours:
December 19, 2015 & January 9 & 23, 2016 (Saturday) – 16:30 – 17:00

Registration: Free. For online registration, please visit UMAG website.

2. “Mexican Big Bang” Famous abstract painter Roberto Turnbull to exhibit first time in East Asia
Period: September 9 (Wednesday) to November 29, 2015 (Sunday)

The University Museum and Art Gallery (UMAG), in collaboration with the Mexican painter Roberto Turnbull and with the support of the Consul General of Mexico in Hong Kong and Macao, presents the “Mexican Big Bang: Paintings by Roberto Turnbull” exhibition from September 9 to November 29, 2015. The exhibition is a selection of 26 remarkable artworks to introduce the work of the famous abstract painter for the first time in East Asia, displaying the painterly and architectural styles and themes that influenced his works.

Painter, sculptor and engraver Roberto Turnbull was born in Mexico in 1959, and his work has been internationally shown and collected since 1983. His paintings are often collages that contain sketches—figurative and abstract in style. Half factual document, half utopia, sometimes a dream or nightmare, many of Turnbull’s depictions are characterized by warm and bright colours and geometric forms that relate his two-dimensional work to three-dimensional sculpture and architecture.

UMAG Opening Hours:
09:30 – 18:00 (Monday to Saturday)
13:00 – 18:00 (Sunday)
Closed on University and Public Holidays
Venue: 1/F, T.T. Tsui Building, UMAG, 90 Bonham Road, Pokfulam
Tel/Email: (852) 2241 5500 (General Enquiry) / museum@hku.hk

Admission: Free
Website: www.hkumag.hku.hk
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Twitter: http://twitter.com/UMAG_HKU
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Media enquiries:
UMAG Communication Officer Miss Elena Cheung, Tel: (852) 2241 5512, Email: elenac@hku.hk.