Public Programmes (July - September) |
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Unless otherwise stated, all public programmes are conducted in Cantonese and are free of charge. A separate admission ticket is required for admission to museum exhibitions. For enquiries, please call 2180 8260. |
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Go Culture Go Go!
Take a break and enjoy some leisurely lunchtime art, history and culture at the museum! This coming season, we will be screening two video programmes on themes related to the museum's current exhibitions.
Monday: Opera Booth
An introduction to traditional Cantonese opera through clips of five performances: Seven Petitions, Making a Scene at the Green Bamboo Temple, Luk Long Reprimands His Son, The Imperial Emperor of Heaven Holds Court and Ping Gui Leaves the Cave Dwelling.
Friday: Toys in Motion
Inspiring the imagination of generation after generation of children, funny clockwork and battery-operated toys just keep on going!
| Date | : | 12 July 2010 - 2 August 2010 (Every Monday)
27 August 2010 - 17 September 2010 (Every Friday) |
| Time | : | 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm |
| Venue | : | Outdoor Seating, Hong Kong Heritage Museum |
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| Enrolment | : | Pre-registration is not required, simply join the programme at the Outdoor Seating. |
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Flowing Clouds and Green Mountains: Ink Painting Demonstration
In association with the exhibition "Unrestrained Passions: The Art of Ng Yuet-lau"
Having enjoyed a 25-year tutelage under Professor Chao Shao-an, Ng Yuet-lau has inherited the best elements of the Lingnan school of painting. With a characteristic depth of expression and an emotive consciousness, her body of work synthesises the spirit of contemporary art and the essential nature of traditional landscape painting. Punctuated with anecdotes and personal memories of the master, this demonstration of landscape painting by the protégée provides a perfect footnote to the exhibition.
| Date | : | 18 August 2010 (Wednesday) |
| Time | : | 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm |
| Speaker | : | Ng Yuet-lau (Featured artist of "Unrestrained Passions: The Art of Ng Yuet-lau" and chairman of the Hong Kong Ling Nan Art Association) |
| Venue | : | Seminar Room, Hong Kong Heritage Museum |
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| Enrolment | : | A maximum of 50 participants on a first-come-first-served basis. To register, please call 2180 8260 or complete the application form for Education and Extension Programmes (apply online/download the form). |
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Talk: Capturing and Feeling Life through Social Documentary Photography
In association with the exhibition "City Flâneur: Social Documentary Photography"
Possessing the gifts of sensitivity and receptiveness, social documentary photographers use visual images to express commentary and critique on events and people around them. Referring to selected works on display in the exhibition "City Flâneur: Social Documentary Photography", our speaker gives an overview of the basic concepts and principles of social documentary photography, accompanied by demonstrations of hands-on, practical skills, to explore the meaning of photographic art.
| Date | : | 28 August 2010 (Saturday) |
| Time | : | 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm |
| Speaker | : | Lau Ching-ping (seasoned photographic artist) |
| Venue | : | Seminar Room & Education Studio, Hong Kong Heritage Museum |
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| Enrolment | : | A maximum of 50 participants on a first-come-first-served basis. To register, please call 2180 8260 or complete the application form for Education and Extension Programmes (apply online/download the form). |
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Experience Exchange: Capturing and Feeling Life through My Camera
In association with the exhibition "City Flâneur: Social Documentary Photography"
You are the director — and photographer — of your life! When you have a camera in hand, each unique moment of everyday life can speak to the photographer in you and become a scene in your personal film. Bring along a selection of your photographic work to this sharing session and enjoy the chance to share with the speaker and fellow enthusiasts the faces and places you have captured with your lens and learn to appraise photographic art with a more critical and appreciative eye.
| Date | : | 11 September 2010 (Saturday) |
| Time | : | 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm |
| Speaker | : | Lau Ching-ping (seasoned photographic artist) |
| Venue | : | Seminar Room & Education Studio, Hong Kong Heritage Museum |
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| Enrolment | : | A maximum of 25 participants on a first-come-first-served basis. To register, please call 2180 8260 or complete the application form for Education and Extension Programmes (apply online/download the form). Participants are recommended to also enrol in the related talk. |
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Public Programmes on Intangible Cultural Heritage
Talk: The Yu Lan Ghost Festival of the Hong Kong Chiu Chow Community
Application for Inscription on the 3rd National List of Intangible Cultural Heritage Series (III)
Observed on the 15th night of the seventh lunar month, the Ghost Festival, or Yu Lan, is a time when descendants pay homage to their deceased ancestors. From the first celebration held by the local Chiu Chow community in 1897, the festival has evolved into a variety of events and colourful traditions practised across the territory.
While the main activities involve offering sacrifices to ancestors and the forgotten ghosts who wander the world in this month, ritual performances of Cantonese opera are also staged as a form of worship. Representing a unique cultural identity and a treasure trove of traditions, the festival has served to bind Chiu Chow natives together for generations.
| Date | : | 7 August 2010 (Saturday) |
| Time | : | 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm |
| Speaker | : | Ma Kin-hang (PhD fellow, Division of Humanities, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) |
| Venue | : | Seminar Room, Hong Kong Heritage Museum |
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| Enrolment | : | A maximum of 80 participants on a first-come-first-served basis. To register, please call 2180 8260 or complete the application form for Education and Extension Programmes (apply online/download the form). |
Talk and Demonstration: Tai Hang Fire Dragon Dance
Application for Inscription on the 3rd National List of Intangible Cultural Heritage Series (IV)
Legend has it that to ward off a plague that broke out in Tai Hang in 1880, the villagers constructed a wicker-bone dragon that they then covered with straw and planted with joss sticks. Once the joss sticks had been lit, the glowing fire dragon was paraded through the village amid a sea of firecrackers, after which the plague happily ended. The tradition has been kept alive by the local community under the leadership of the Tai Hang Residents' Welfare Association, which has documented in detail the craft of constructing the fire dragon and the proceedings of the three-day parade. This talk on a part of Hong Kong's living heritage is accompanied by a demonstration by the masters themselves of how they construct the fire dragon.
| Date | : | 11 September 2010 (Saturday) |
| Time | : | 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm |
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dismissal places | : | Tai Hang Residents' Welfare Association (next to the Chinese Recreation Club) 12 Tung Lo Wan Road, Tai Hang, Hong Kong |
| Speaker | : | Prof Liu Tik-sang (Director, South China Research Center, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) |
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| Enrolment | : | A maximum of 25 participants on a first-come-first-served basis. To register, please call 2180 8260 or complete the application form for Education and Extension Programmes (apply online/download the form). |
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