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19 March (Mon) 7:00pm – 9:30 pm Auditorium

Kunqu Opera: (with Chinese and English surtitles) 崑劇《牡丹亭》 ILP unit(s): 2.5 (Aesthetic Development)

Performing Troupe: Kunqu Opera Troupe Performers: Weng Jiahui & Yuan Jia

This performance by young professional actors from Shanghai Kunqu Opera Troupe aims to promote staple Kunqu repertoire to the campus and the community. To bring out the essence of (xiqu) to the audience, the troupe unfolds the texture of traditional Kunqu music accompaniment, which is distinctive from the prevalent aesthetics and practice of Kunqu music in .

Organizer: Chinese Music Archive, CUHK Co-organizer: Faculty of Arts, LU Supported by: Student Services Centre, LU Acknowledgements: Kwan Fong Cultural Research & Development Programme and Office of Service Learning, LU Sponsor: Lee Hysan Foundation

19 March (Mon)- 10:00 am - 7:00 pm Exhibition: Emotive Expressions///Interactive Installation (Mon to Fri) 2 April (Mon) Art Gallery

Datascape by Winnie Soon (Media Artist) The project explores the embodiment and the cognitive interpretation of social data. Datascape is created by the collaborative texts and emoticons from Twitter with audience participation. Found data are remixed and reconstructed, revealing the network culture in an interactive environment.

Mediated Facial by Zoie So (Department of Visual Studies, LU) This interactive piece is a "human face" in the form of a self-designed weaving system. The elastic system allows more than two-hundred "muscles" to join action to form rich facial expressions. This indirect manipulation of emotional expression is a metaphor of how techno-forms of all kinds pull the strings of our everyday communication and personal expression. Choreographers will interact with the woven system by pulling the ropes that may control the expression of the mediated face during the performance.

Co-organizer: Department of Visual Studies, LU

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20 March (Tue) 3:45pm – 5:45 pm New Directions for the Moving Image in India MB G19 ILP unit(s): 2 (Aesthetic Development)

The Indian cinema is much-regarded as the world's largest filmmaking country, but the truth perhaps is somewhat more modest. India makes an enormously large number of films at very, very low budgets, making it financially a fairly small industry, if we take overall turnover. But it is an immensely diverse industry, which was one of the first instances of modern cultural production percolating through almost all of Indian society in ways that may be unique in the 'underdeveloped' world. This situation is changing in two ways: first, the rise of a Bollywood culture industry, similar to say the Korean Wave or other blockbuster film cultures in East Asia, which makes films with world-class technology and, importantly, world-class budgets, and the low-end sector, which does not work in celluloid any more. And second, growing experimentation, within the low-end popular cultures but also in the areas of experimental video, and in documentary, enabled precisely by the cheapness of the technology and new avenues for dissemination.

Speaker: Ashish Rajadhyaksha (Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, India)

Film excerpts to be shown:

No Smoking by Anuraag Kashyap Siddheshwari by Mani kaul

Nainsukh by Amit Dutta Turning by Vivan Sundaram's experimental video

Jahaji Music by Surabhi Sharma

Co-organizers: Centre for Cinema Studies and Kwan Fong Cultural Research & Development Programme, LU

20 March (Tue) 5:30pm – 6:30 pm MB G22

Student Talent Showcase ILP unit(s): 1 (Aesthetic Development)

Student Talent Showcase is a platform to let Lingnan students unlock their great talent and potentials in front of hundred audiences. Our student performers will give you a big surprise on their music, dance and singing performances. Why not take this chance to join us?

Performers: Salsa dance by Nathan Subramaniam (Year 2 student of Social Sciences Programme) Violin and Piano performance by Benjamin Tsang (Year 3 student of Social Sciences Programme) and Winona Cheung (Year 3 student of Contemporary English Studies Programme) Flute performance by Jennifer Chan (Year 2 student of Business Administration Programme) Zhongyuen performance by Wang Yujing (Year 1 student of Social Sciences Programme) Co-organizer: Student Services Centre, LU

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21 March (Wed) 2:30pm – 4:00 pm Arts Forum: Why we need the Arts? (in ) Art Gallery 藝術論壇：我們為什麼需要藝術? ILP unit(s): 1.5 (Aesthetic Development)

Moderator: Zoie So (Department of Visual Studies, LU) Speakers: Eliza Li ( Performer) Lo Chun-yip (Independent Filmmaker) Winnie Soon (Media Artist)

21 March (Wed) (Pre-show discussion) 6:20 pm - 6:40 pm

(Performance) 6:45pm – 8:45pm Forget Herostratus! – A by Not So Loud Theatre Company TV Studio ILP unit(s): 2 (Aesthetic Development) (2/F, B.Y. Lam Building) Speakers of pre-show discussion: Tom Hope (Director and Actor of the drama) Michael Ingham (Department of English, Lingnan University) 356BC. Herostratus of Ephesus has just burned down its famed Temple of Artemis for which he must not only die but be erased from history - but how exactly? Grigory Gorin's perestroika fuelled satirical romp chimes with our own celebrity obsessed times - never to be forgotten!

Co-organizers: Not So Loud Theatre Company and Department of English, Lingnan University

22 March (Thu) 6:30pm – 8:00pm Art Gallery

Music Dialogue: Chow Yiu-fai X Ellen Loo (in Cantonese) 掀起音樂：周耀輝 X 盧凱彤 ILP unit(s): 1.5 (Aesthetic Development)

Moderator: Louis Ho (Department of Cultural Studies, LU) Guests: Chow Yiu-fai (Renowned lyrist & Assistant Professor of Humanities Programme, HKBU) Ellen Loo (Renowned local Singer-songwriter) Co-organizers: Humanities Programme, HKBU and Department of Cultural Studies, LU

26 March (Mon) 2:30pm – 3:30 pm Emotive Expressions///Performance Art Gallery ILP unit(s): 1 (Aesthetic Development)

Co-creators: Hugo Lee, Zoie So & Winnie Soon Choreographers: Alz Ng Music: Sam Au Yeung Lighting: James Wong & Frieda Luk The interactive performance explores the ideologies of emotive expressions within a physical, elastic and network system. Choreographers will work with the two kinetic and digital structures, where they synthesize into a mise-en-scene. This aims to enunciate a multimedia choreographic form arose from reflective practice, extracted data from Internet and dialogue from live audience. Co-organizers: Wanchai Theatre and Department of Visual Studies, LU

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26 March (Mon) 8:00pm – 9:30 pm MB G22

RTHK String Quartet Concert ILP unit(s): 1.5 (Aesthetic Development)

Performers: Ayako Ichimaru (violinist) Le Hoai-nam (violinist) Elvis Chan (violist) Laurent Perrin (cellist)

The evening concert will be a performance by the RTHK Quartet of Hong Kong composer Doming Lam's String Quartet No. 2 and other works from the classical string quartet repertoire. This is the RTHK Quartet's third annual visit to Lingnan.

Co-organizer: RTHK Radio 4

27 March (Tue) 2:30pm– 4:00 pm Artist-in-Residence Studio (NAB 323)

Artist-in-Residence Seminar: Linocuts, Creativity, and the Inner Landscape ILP unit(s): 1.5 (Aesthetic Development)

Speaker: Nicola Barsaleau (Artist-in-Residence at LU)

Art making can facilitate deep listening; as the artist creates, what is hidden or covered becomes uncovered. This seminar will discuss both the creative process and the art of printmaking. Relief printing and linocuts will be discussed in detail. The artist will also provide personal background to both her printmaking and painting interests.

Co-organizer: Department of Visual Studies, LU

27 March (Tue) 5:30pm – 7:00 pm MB G19

Appreciation of Chinese Music (in Cantonese) 中國音樂欣賞 ILP unit(s): 1.5 (Aesthetic Development)

Speakers: Woo Pak-tuen, Rupert (School of Music and School of Chinese Traditional Theatre, HKAPA) Yuen Hon-ming (Year 2 student of Chinese Department, LU)

This seminar consists of four parts: instrumental music, narration with music, Chinese opera and folk music. Instrumental music includes the appreciation of four different types of Chinese musical instruments. Narration with music includes the appreciation of southern music. Chinese opera includes the appreciation of Kunqu and Jingxi. Besides audio visual materials, a live demonstration will be incorporated in the seminar for audience appreciation of Chinese music.

Co-organizer: Department of Chinese, LU

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28 March (Wed) 5:30pm– 7:30 pm GE G02

Film Appreciation: My Way Cantonese with English subtitles 電影欣賞：《乾旦路》 ILP unit(s): 2 (Aesthetic Development)

Moderator: Li Siu-leung (Department of Cultural Studies, LU)

Speakers: Cheuk Cheung (Documentary Director) Wong Hau-wai (Young Cantonese Opera Artist)

When facing a path with no future or precedent success, will we ever choose to stay? In the tradition of Cantonese Opera, a representative male Dan (female role) never exists. However, the achievement of Ms. YAM Kim-fai's male impersonation has established the convention of female actress playing (male role) which then, becomes the mainstream of Cantonese Opera.

In Hong Kong, two young men: TAM Wing-lun, and WONG Hau-wai, both fascinated by the art of male Dan, have been striving to find an alternative way in the realm of Cantonese Opera. As time goes by, can their perseverance withstand the challenge of mainstream tradition? Would these two adventurers struggle less had there ever been a MEI Lan-fang (an iconic male Dan) in the history of Cantonese Opera?

Co-organizer: Kwan Fong Cultural Research & Development Programme, LU

29 March (Thu) 3:30pm- 5:00pm AM 320

Writer-in-Residence Workshop Creative Writing in English: Practice and Appreciation ILP unit(s): 1.5 (Aesthetic Development)

Speaker: Jennifer Wong (Writer-in-Residence at LU)

Love me, love me not This practice-based workshop aims to inspire participants to write and encourage them to experiment with their poetic voices. The poet will share with participants her self-journey as a writer - how to crystallise emotions, inner feelings and how one develops a lyrical, imaginative voice. Other than a taster of modern love poems, participants are encouraged to bring their own poems to the workshop for free feedback and to learn to write a sonnet. All poems produced in the workshop may also be considered for the Lingnan's creative journal this year.

Co-organizer: Department of English, LU

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2 April (Mon) 4:30 pm– 6:30 pm Celebrating Deaf Culture (Sign Language with English and Chinese subtitles) GE G01 聾人文化 ILP unit(s): 2 (Aesthetic Development)

Film Show:

Mi Ultimo Adios《永訣辭》 Deaf Kid Not Stupid 《聾孩不笨》 Mi Ú ltimo Adiós (in English “ My Last Deaf Kid Not Stupid follows the growth of a Deaf kid Farewell”) is the Signing version of the farewell called Fung. poem written by Filipino national hero Dr. Jose P.

Rizal before his sacrifice to the brutal colonial rule.

Deaf Beat 《小心騙子》 In the comedy crime-caper, Deaf Beat follows two Sipho detectives as they work to catch a prolific swindler Sipho is the mascot of XVI World Congress of the targeting the Deaf community. World Federation of the Deaf in Durban, South Africa. The animation Sipho is played in the opening and closing ceremonies of the Congress.

Beautiful Song Signing《美麗的手語歌》

Short discussion and deaf awareness exercises will be held after screening.

Guests: Representatives of Hong Kong Association of the Deaf Representative of the Centre for Community Cultural Development

Co-organizers: Hong Kong Association of the Deaf & Centre for Community Cultural Development

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