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HKU weekly notice (from Nov 10 to Nov 17, 2012)

09 Nov 2012

 

HKU Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions 2012
The University of Hong Kong (HKU) will hold an Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions 2012 from 10am to 6pm tomorrow (November 10, Saturday)

The Information Day aims to showcase HKU’s academic programmes and curriculum, activities and facilities to the public, particularly to the secondary school students, teachers and parents. New teaching and learning facilities of the Centennial Campus, teaching departments and halls of residence are open to the public for a better understanding of the campus life at HKU.

Media representatives are cordially invited to attend the opening ceremony, the details are as follows:

Opening Ceremony
Date: November 10, 2012 (Saturday)
Time: 10am
Venue: Courtyard outside Chi Wah Learning Commons, Centennial Campus, HKU

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: 1pm to 2pm
Venue: Grand Hall, Lee Shau Kee Lecture Centre, LG/F, Centennial Campus

For details, please visit the Information Day website at:  http://www.infoday.hku.hk/

No private vehicle will be allowed to drive in/out or park inside HKU campus during 8am to 7pm on the event day. Visitors are encouraged to use public transportation.

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

University Museum and Art Gallery Weekend Guided tours for exhibitions
Mountains Ablaze: "Foreign Devils" and Chinese Patriots (1839–1911)

Date: November 10, 2012 (Saturday)
Time:
3 p.m. (Cantonese) SOONG Shu-kong, Collector of exhibits
4:30 p.m. (English) SOONG Shu-kong, Collector of exhibits
Venue: 1st floor, Fung Ping Shan Building

For further information, please visit:http://www.hkumag.hku.hk/lectures_events1_01.html

For enquiries, please feel free to contact Joan Ho by email at museum@hku.hk or by phone at 22415500 or by fax at 25469659.

<24 Hours in a Tower>
Live jamming for 24 hours non-stop for the local community
Imagine creating and transmitting art non-stop for 24 hours from one of the highest points on the Centennial Campus! Peter Moser, a veteran musician from the UK, is staying on the rooftop of the Faculty of Arts, in the Run Run Shaw Tower on the Centennial Campus at the University of Hong Kong.  From 12 to 13 November, he will compose a song, in response to local current affairs, every hour, for 24 hours, and broadcast them live to the world.

Peter Moser is a talented musician devoted to the development of community arts. In 1988, Peter became the Fastest One Man Band In the World, creating a never-beaten record of running 100 metres in 19.75 seconds, playing 139 instruments, wearing five colours and playing four recognisable tunes. Peter is currently the Chief Executive of More Music, a community music and education charity based in Morecambe, England. In response to the Morecambe Bay Tragedy in 2004 in which 23 Chinese workers lost their lives, Peter started The Long Walk, a unique creative reaction to the catastrophe through an ambitious international project in music and culture involving hundreds of people of all ages from Northern England and China.

The public is most welcome to exchange ideas on music and Hong Kong with him so as to enrich his compositions. All the songs he writes will result from interacting with your tweets, messages and ideas about HKU and Hong Kong that he receives real-time. He will be joined by and musically jamming with alumni of the Music Department, music groups and HKU students.

Details:
Date: Nov 12, 2012 noon to Nov 13, 2012 noon
Venue: 11/F, Department of Music, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, The University of Hong Kong

Composition event and closing Party

Date: 10:45 to 12:30, Nov 13, 2012
Venue: Courtyard, Centennial Campus, The University of Hong Kong (outside Run Run Shaw Tower and Chi Wah Learning Commons)

We cordially invite you to attend the last hour of the composition event and the closing party. Interviews with Peter Moser immediately after the closing party can be arranged.

This series is co-organised by the General Education Unit and the Faculty of Arts, and supported by the Department of Music. This series is held as part of the Faculty of Arts' Centenary Celebrations, which will run from October 2012 to September 2013.

For program and media enquiries, please contact Miss Kitty Ho at 2241 5044 or syho2010@hku.hk

HKU Libraries' Reading Club
Theme Book:  The Story of Stuff / Annie Leonard
Speaker: Ms Gloria Chang Wan-ki, Greenpeace Campaign Manager
Moderator: Mr Cheung Pui Kwan, Paul, Academic Secretary 2011-12, Greenwoods, HKUSU

Date:  November 15, 2012 (Thursday)
Time:  7:15 - 9:00 pm
Venue:  1/F Special Collections, Main Library Building, HKU
Language:  Cantonese
Registration: http://lib.hku.hk/friends/reading_club/bt2012_06.html
 
About the Talk
The author Annie Leonard is truly obsessed with stuff – where did it come from? how did it get to us? and where does it go?  ...  All the questions have revealed that from the moment when "stuff" is produced, it is already closely connected with us and our environment.  Our purchase, use and disposal of the stuff are ruining our health and exploiting the resources of the earth.  After the second world war, people believed that GDP growth would bring us better life.  Humans are being enslaved by consumption.  More important is that our earth is being pushed to its limit.  The author believed that knowing the story of stuff is a starting point and an opportunity for change.

About the Speaker
Ms Chang joined Greenpeace in 2003 and had been leading the Climate Change campaign in Hong Kong which consisted of promoting energy solutions and energy efficiency to provide sustainable development for all.  Ms Chang graduated from the University of Hong Kong in 2000, with a Bachelor in Social Science, Major in Political Science and then went to United Kingdom to pursue her Master in Development Studies at London School of Economics and Political Science in 2002. She was the President of Hong Kong University Students’ Union (2000) and the host of a popular radio program on current affairs in 2003 – 2004. She is now a column writer for HK newspaper AM730.

Enquiry:  Ms Marina Yeung (reading_club@lib.hku.hk)

Media Contact:  Ms. Carmen Tsang, Tel: 2859 2211

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