CHAIRMAN’S NOTE
Dear Members,
Kung Hei Fat Choy! May the Year of the Pig bring you and your family an abundance of joy, harmony and prosperity! It is exciting to start the Chinese New Year with a colourful performance of Cantonese opera, listed by UNESCO as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Our programme will include a special backstage visit with Ms. Li Pui-yan before attending her performance of Lady Spring Fragrance at the newly opened Xiqu Centre in West Kowloon.
The arrival of spring means our city will be awash with glorious art, art and art! From among the many fairs and exhibitions, we have selected a few to visit. On the HK island, we start with a tour of the University Museum and Art Gallery’s exhibition Searching Through Teaching: Professor Jao Tsung-I’s 16 Years at The University of Hong Kong led by Dr. Peter Cheng and Dr. Thomas Tang. At the Central Harbourfront, we will attend a VIP Preview of Art Central 2019’s contemporary artworks led by fellow member and VIP Manager Joyce Ng. At Asia Society Hong Kong Centre, Choi Yan Chi will give a personal tour of her husband, the renowned HK artist Hon Chi Fun’s exhibition The Story of Light.
Across the harbour in Tsuen Wan, we visit The Mills where heritage is conserved while simultaneously presenting the new phase of Hong Kong and Asia’s textiles art and innovation. Along the harbourfront of TST, we visit Victoria Dockside to view K11 Art Foundation’s contemporary art exhibition Glow Like That.
On the outer reaches of Hong Kong, Dr. Wong Fook-yee and Mr. To Ka Yan will bring us on our annual boat trip where we will explore the art of Mother Nature on three sites along the Tolo Channel - Shum Chung, Lai Chi Chong and Tap Mun Island.
Lastly, we are delighted to present another tour for our members keen to explore the diverse cultures of the world. Professor Puay-peng Ho will guide us on a summer tour, Land of Diversity and Splendour: The Art and Architecture of Ukraine in June.
Happy Spring days ahead!
______Yvonne Choi Chairman
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Guided Visit and Performance Grand Theatre of Xiqu Centre followed by backstage visit to see Li Pui-yan (李沛妍) and performance of Cantonese Opera "Lady Spring Fragrance" 《春香傳》
Date: Friday, 1 March 2019 Time: 18:45 Guided Tour and backstage visit (in English) 19:30 Performance (in Cantonese with English subtitles) Place: Xiqu Centre, 88 Austin Road West, Tsim Sha Tsui Cost: $600 Member; $700 Non-member Limit: 12 Enquiries: Yvonne Choi at [email protected] or 9132-1669
We will start off the evening with a guided tour in English of the Grand Theatre of the newly opened Xiqu Centre located in the West Kowloon Cultural District. The building’s striking design, created by Revery Architecture (formerly Bing Thom Architects) and Ronald Lu & Partners, was inspired by traditional Chinese lanterns and blends traditional and contemporary elements to reflect the evolving nature of the art form. Stepping through the main entrance, shaped to resemble parted stage curtains, visitors are led directly into a lively atrium with a raised podium and space for presenting the rich and ancient culture of Chinese traditional theatre.
The Grand Theatre accommodates over 1,000 seats and a unique feature of the Grand Theatre is its location at the top of the building, which allows for a large open atrium below with space for exhibitions, stalls, and xiqu (戲曲) demonstrations and workshops. Following a tour of the Grand Theatre, we will visit backstage to see Li Pui-yan (李沛
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妍) dress and make-up for her female role in the new Cantonese Opera performance, Lady Spring Fragrance《春香傳》. The performance will be in Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles.
Adapted from a well-known Korean folk tale, this new opera is set in imperial China and recounts the forbidden love between a courtesan’s daughter, Cheng Chunxiang (Lady Spring Fragrance), and Li Wenyan the son of a magistrate. Despite challenges and hardships, Cheng remains committed to her lover. But will Li risk a promising career and fight for Cheng in the face of danger?
Performer
Born in New York from a family of Cantonese opera heritage and a graduate from Wellesley College, Li Pui-yan (李沛妍) has been taught by numerous famed Cantonese opera performers. Since her debut as principal actress in Floral Princess (Youth Edition) in 2007, she has performed for the Hong Kong Arts Festival, Chinese Opera Festival, Macau Arts Festival as well as the benefit inaugural performance at ASHK's Miller Theatre. Her repertoire ranges from classics to new productions such as Deling and the Empress Dowager Ci Xi and Arrant Revenge, an adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Recently, through working with artists from other disciplines, such as Ming Wong and Mariko Mori, she is inspired to further explore the cross-disciplinary potential of this traditional art form. Aside from performing, Li is devoted to the English translation of Cantonese opera librettos and has served on the Cantonese Opera Advisory Committee in Hong Kong for various terms.
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Joint UMAG Programme - Guided Viewing Searching Through Teaching: Professor Jao Tsung-I’s 16 Years at The University of Hong Kong With Dr. Thomas Tang and Dr. Peter Cheng
Date: Saturday, 9 March 2019 Time: 11:00 -12:30 Place: 1/F, TT Tsui Building, UMAG, HKU Cost: Free of charge (register online at https://goo.gl/MAU6rW) Limit: 20 Enquiries: Chung Yan Chan at [email protected] or 2241-5507
The HKU Museum Society and the University Museum and Art Gallery are pleased to arrange a guided viewing of Searching Through Teaching: Professor Jao Tsung-I’s 16 Years at The University of Hong Kong. The viewing will be led by Dr. Thomas Tang and Dr. Peter Cheng,
The works on exhibit, which date from Professor Jao’s 1952–1968 tenure at HKU, illustrate how this period of teaching, research and international exchange turned Professor Jao into an internationally acclaimed scholar. Dr. Tang and Dr. Cheng will walk us through the exhibition and introduce the life and work of Professor Jao and his achievements, scholarship and teaching at The University of Hong Kong.
Resource Persons
Dr. Peter Cheng is currently Senior Researcher and Deputy Director (Research) of Jao Tsung-I Petite Ecole, HKU. He has a wide range of research interests, including classic Chinese literature and the history of ancient China. He has published over 50 books and over 100 research articles, and has received 18 academic awards. Dr. Cheng is also a creative writer (penname Weiming) who has authored 11 collections of poetry and other literary genres.
Dr. Thomas Tang is Deputy Director (Art) of the Jao Tsung-I Petite Ecole, HKU, and is an experienced art collector and connoisseur. He was a senior executive in several television corporations in Hong Kong and Macau, and managed the production of numerous programmes, including a series on the National Palace Museum in Taipei and Palace Museum in Beijing. He has lectured in a number of tertiary institutions. He is the author and editor of hundreds of publications on various subjects including Chinese painting.
4 March – April 2019
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Boat Trip Tolo Channel: Shum Chung (深涌), Lai Chi Chong (荔枝莊) and Tap Mun Island (塔門) With Dr Wong Fook-yee (王福義) and Mr To Ka Yan (杜嘉恩)
Date: Saturday, 23 March 2019 Time: 09:00 – 16:00 Place: Chinese University MTR Station. Please arrive at 09:00. Walk to the Ma Liu Shui Pier for boat departure at 09:20. We expect to return to the same pier at around 16:00 Cost: $680 Member; $800 Non-member; $400 Student with valid ID. Cost includes a simple lunch Limit: 30 Note: 1. For insurance purposes, please enclose a photocopy of your HKID or other identity document when you send in the registration form and cheque payment. If you registered and paid online, please scan your identity document and email to [email protected]. 2. Please wear comfortable shoes as we will be at sea and exploring on land most of the day. Kindly bring sufficient water, sunscreen / sunblock, hat, sunglasses, etc. 3. If you worry about being seasick, please take suitable precautions. 4. Unforeseen circumstances, like weather, tides, sea currents, etc. may mean a change in itinerary. Final decision will be at the discretion of the boat captain and resource persons. 5. MTR from Central to Chinese University will take about 45 minutes. Walking to the pier is about 15 minutes. To arrive at the Chinese University MTR Station at 9am, you have to get on the MTR in Central at around 8:10am Enquiries: Sef Lam at [email protected] or 2525-5063
Our annual boat trip takes us to yet another fascinating area of Hong Kong. In this boat trip we will visit 3 sites in Tolo Channel namely: Sham Chung, Lai Chi Chong and Tap Mun Island.
Tap Mun coast
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Brief itinerary
1. Start from Ma Liu Shui Pier ( 馬料水); 2. From the boat, view the new town development of Ma On Shan and Plover Cove Reservoir. 3. Landing at Sham Chung Village (深涌), it is a beautiful Hakka village surrounded by mountains with streams in between. Part of the village has been acquired by a developer and the rest remains abandoned. There had been a church, village houses, school and agricultural land in this village. It is also surrounded by Country Parks as one of the excision areas. It has been rated as one of 12 important ecological sites since 2004. It is rich in habitats such as mangroves, Fung Shiu Woodland ( 風水林), abandoned agricultural land, mudflats (沿岸泥灘), streams and grassland. 4. Landing at Lai Chi Chong (荔枝莊). The coastline is part of the UNESCO Global Geopark. A belt of Early Cretaceous volcanoclastic sedimentary rock strata called Lai Chi Chong Formation can be found along the coast. Many micro geological features can be observed such as bedding, folding and faults and many other interesting features. 5. Lunch at Tap Mun (塔門). This is an island with residents to the eastern part of the Tolo Channel. We will enjoy a simple lunch and look at the Tap Mun's natural, social and cultural features. 6. Return to Ma Liu Shui around 16:00.
Resource Persons
Dr. Wong Fook-yee (王福義) is an avid hiker and nature lover. He was formerly the Assistant Director of Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department of Hong Kong (Country and Marine Park Branch), and is now Adjunct Professor of the Geography and Resource Management Department at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Mr. To Ka Yan (杜嘉恩) is a geographer and geomorphologist. He was formerly a teacher trainer specializing in geographical and environmental education, and served as Senior Lecturer in the Education University of Hong Kong.
Tap Mun grassland
Coastal geological features of Lai Chi Chong
6 March – April 2019
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Guided Viewing VIP Preview of Art Central 2019 With Joyce Ng
Date: Tuesday, 26 March 2019 Time: 14:45 Registration 15:00 – 16:00 Tour Place: Meet at Entrance of Art Central, Central Harbourfront. Please arrive on time as the tour will start promptly at 15:00. Cost: $200 Member; $250 Non-member Limit: 20 Enquiries: Michelle Ip at [email protected] or 9267 0632
The 2018 edition of Art Central had its highest ever attendance, welcoming 39,041 international collectors, curators and art enthusiasts. With over 100 leading international galleries, 75% of which hailed from the Asia Pacific, the Fair’s extensive gallery line-up included 30 new galleries making their Art Central debuts and showcased striking works from across the globe alongside a critically acclaimed programme, featuring performance, talks, large scale installations and new media.
Joyce Ng, VIP Manager for Art Central, will give us a personal introduction and overview to the highly anticipated fifth edition of this contemporary art fair ahead of its opening to the general public.
Art Central will showcase over 100 international galleries alongside a dynamic programme that includes ambitious installations, engaging panel discussions and experimental film
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Guided Visit Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile at The Mills
Date: Saturday, 6 April 2019 Time: 11:00 – 12:30 Place: The Mills, 45 Pak Tin Par Street, Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong Cost: $200 Member; $250 Non-member; Free for students with valid ID Limit: 20 Note: Optional lunch afterward on share-cost basis Enquiries: Linda Wang at [email protected] or 9026 2881
A member of the design team of The Mills will guide us through the Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile (CHAT), which is a part of the heritage conservation project of The Mills and is scheduled to open in mid-March 2019.
A destination consisting of a business incubator (Fabrica), experiential retail (Shopfront), and CHAT, a non-profit art centre, The Mills is a landmark revitalization of the defunct cotton spinning mills of Nan Fung Group in Tsuen Wan. Anchoring on the textile metaphor, CHAT weaves creative experiences for all.
Through CHAT’s own curated multi-faceted programmes that will include exhibitions and co-learning programmes, visitors can experience the spirit of the innovative legacy of Hong Kong textile industry and engage in new dialogues and inspirational journeys that exemplify the confluence of contemporary art, design, craft and textile culture.
CHAT’s collection encompasses two fundamental categories: objects that witness the heritage and legacy of the local textile industry from 1940s onwards, as well as contemporary artworks by outstanding artists mainly from Asia Pacific region.
CHAT’s inaugural exhibitions consist of (1) a permanent exhibition at The D. H. Chen Foundation Gallery which will present an interactive journey through Hong Kong’s textile industrial history, through various visual experience, hands-on experiential workshops and communication with CHAT team and (2) a contemporary art exhibition which will feature various artists from Asia Pacific region with site specific works.
8 March – April 2019
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Wavy Weaving Wall by Lin Dongpeng (Lam Tung Pang) x COLLECTIVE Commissioned by The Mills, Wavy Weaving Wall spans 4m x 23m and takes its inspiration from HK's textile industry history.
CHAT’s Vision
In the state of geo-political turmoil in Asia Pacific in the 1950s, the textile industry in Hong Kong sowed its seed and achieved the rapid development throughout the latter half of the twentieth century. Today, CHAT will represent a new place for new beginnings in the next phase of Hong Kong and Asia’s textile arts and innovation.
Paying homage to the progressive energy in Hong Kong’s textile industry in the past and taking advantage of multiple meanings associated with plain cotton yarn, CHAT will tell the stories of Hong Kong’s textile industrial history and beyond, challenge the conventional meanings of textile arts and present myriad interpretations of textile material and subject matters.
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Guided Visit Glow Like That - K11 Art Foundation’s Exhibition at Victoria Dockside
Date: Thursday, 11 April 2019 Time: 12:00 – 13:00 Place: K11 Atelier, 21st floor, Victoria Dockside Cost: $200 Member; $250 Non-member; Free for students with valid ID Limit: 15 Note: Optional lunch afterward on share-cost basis Enquiries: Vanessa Wong at [email protected] or 6051-0763 Glow Like That is one of K11 Art Foundation’s highlight contemporary art exhibitions in 2019. It will take place in Hong Kong’s New Art and Design district, Victoria Dockside, during Hong Kong Art Week 2019. As urbanites, we are so used to the presence of light – and especially artificial light – in the city that we become blind to it. Featuring an international group of artists who work in a wide range of mediums, including luminous and reflective materials, the exhibition reveals a diversity of forms of ‘glow’ that are often unnoticed in our lives and examines their socio-cultural implications in the contemporary world. This ‘glowy’ exhibition perfectly blends in with the exhibition venue – the 21/F of K11 Atelier – which boasts a huge expanse of floor-to-ceiling glass windows overlooking the city’s dazzling skyline and shimmering harbour.
Victoria Dockside is situated on Hong Kong’s iconic harbour-front. The site was formerly known as Holt’s Wharf. Founded in 1910, Holt’s Wharf served as a global freight and logistics hub that helped establish Hong Kong as a gateway to the Far East and played a major role in the city becoming the busiest port in the world. The location has a long history of transformation.
The first phase of Victoria Dockside --- K11 Atelier, the iconic mixed-use Grade A office opened in late November 2017, which has now transformed into the Glow Like That exhibition venue.
About K11 Art Foundation Founded in 2010 by Adrian Cheng, K11 Art Foundation (“KAF”) is a registered not-for-profit organization that promotes the long-term development of the contemporary art scene in Greater China by providing support to emerging Chinese artists and curators and taking them to the international stage.
KAF has created countless platforms for the production, presenting and interpretation of contemporary art in Greater China and beyond. It has been at the forefront to connect an international art community of diverse tastes, charging the contemporary art scene with vitality. KAF continues its mission of providing local communities, especially young and inquisitive members of our generation, easy access to appreciate art and thereby elevates our collective understanding of culture. Through our innovation educational programmes, art spaces, art database across Greater China and unique collection of contemporary art.
10 March – April 2019
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Guided Visit A Story of Light: Hon Chi-fun |光的故事：韓志勳 With Choi Yan Chi
Date: TBA Time: TBA Place: Asia Society Hong Kong Center, 9 Justice Drive, Admiralty HK Cost: $200 Member; $250 Non-member; Free for students with valid ID Limit: 15 Enquiries: Chung Yan Chan at [email protected] or 2241-5507
Asia Society Hong Kong is presenting A Story of Light, an exhibition of the ground-breaking Hong Kong artist Hon Chi-fun (b. 1922). As a postal inspector by trade, Hon is a self-taught artist who rose to prominence in the 1960s with his radical artistic experiments that combined international influences as a response to Hong Kong’s multi-cultural context. A Story of Light re-contextualizes the evolution of Hon Chi-fun’s practice by contrasting his continual fascination with light as both a material and subject with his deployment of various media and cultural influences. The exhibition presents over thirty artworks spanning four decades of his trailblazing practices in painting, printmaking, and photography.
Through considering the different ways Hon focuses on light in his work, one can discern his desire to resist being labelled or historicized. While Hon was undoubtedly informed by various dominant art movements, including Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and the New Ink Movement in Hong Kong, he created a visual language that uniquely expresses his multicultural influences and evolving viewpoints spanning multiple geographies and time periods. His diverse oeuvre, developed over years of experimentation and travel, addresses questions of cultural identity through a radical approach to materials and the use of new artistic techniques. For Hon, to be a Hong Kong artist is to remain porous and question boundaries between cultures, mediums, and within the self.
Renowned American light artist James Turrell will also be showing his work side by side Hon’s works, so as to enrich the topic of the exhibition. A Story of Light: Hon Chi-fun is co-curated by Katherine Don and Kaitlin Chan. We will be guided through the tour by Choi Yan Chi.
Resource Person Choi Yan Chi is a retired Associate Professor of the Academy of Visual Art, Baptist University. She is also the co-founder of 1a Space. She was the first Hong Kong woman artist to show her works at the First Asia Pacific Triennial in 1993 at Queensland Art Gallery Australia. In the same year, she was given a solo exhibition at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (House of World Art) in Berlin Germany.
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未命名-2 11 12/2/19 下午4:29 EXHIBITIONS at the UNIVERSITY MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY Searching Through Teaching: Professor Jao Tsung-I’s 16 Years at the University of Hong Kong 8 March 2019 – 19 May 2019
In collaboration with the Jao Tsung-I Petite Ecole of the University of Hong Kong (HKU), the University Museum and Art Gallery (UMAG) presents Searching Through Teaching: Professor Jao Tsung-I’s 16 Years at The University of Hong Kong. The works on exhibit, which date from Professor Jao’s 1952–1968 tenure at HKU, illustrate how this period of teaching, research and international exchange turned Professor Jao into an internationally acclaimed scholar.
The exhibition is divided into four main areas: teaching, research, social circle, and books and art works donated to HKU by Professor Jao. Exhibits include his writings, lecture notes, examination papers, letters, paintings, calligraphy and part of his original collection of antiquarian books and signed editions.
The works in the exhibition are on loan from the family of Professor Jao, UMAG and the Jao Tsung-I Petite Ecole. The wide assortment of items makes clear how Professor Jao’s 16 years of teaching, research and engagement with international academic exchange at HKU moved Hong Kong onto the world stage and had a tremendous and lasting impact on the international community of sinologists.
Professor Jao expressed enduring gratitude for HKU’s contributions to his achievements. He was particularly grateful to Professor F. S. Drake of the HKU Chinese Studies department, Professor Lo Hsiang-lin and Mr. Ho Kwong-chung for their patronage and support. HKU’s structure as a research institute is a key reason that Professor Jao could focus on multiple fields of learning during his 16 years on campus. As an international university, HKU also offered him an outstanding platform for cultural exchange. This platform, in addition to allowing Professor Jao to engage with Hong Kong and Taiwanese colleagues, facilitated his entry into western sinology circles, and his close contact with several world-renowned sinologists. This group of sinologists, with whom he frequently exchanged research and insight, included Paul Demiéville, David Hawkes, Joseph Needham and Kōjirō Yoshikawa. His association with HKU also allowed him to participate in a number of important international academic conferences. Ultimately, all of these factors contributed to Professor Jao becoming a leading authority of his generation.
12 March – April 2019
未命名-2 12 12/2/19 下午4:29 EXHIBITIONS at the UNIVERSITY MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY Picturing the Bauhaus 27 March – 19 July 2019
The University Museum and Art Gallery is delighted to collaborate with the Klassik Stiftung Weimar, the Goethe-Institut Hong Kong and the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, on the exhibition Picturing the Bauhaus. This collaboration will present the documentary photography of Erich Consemüller as an introduction to the famed German design and architecture school that is celebrating its 100 anniversary this year. Consemüller (1902–1957) recorded the artists, their workshops, designs and artefacts, as well as the students and their daily lives on campus from 1926 to 1927, when the Bauhaus school was in its prime and located in Dessau.
The exhibition will be shown in three locations in Hong Kong: at HKU, the Goethe-Institut and City U, and will be accompanied by an extensive outreach programme, lectures, guided tours and an international symposium organised with the university’s School of Architecture and the German Academic Exchange Service, as well as with academics throughout Hong Kong and Germany on 11 April.
This exhibition is supported by the HKUMS and the German Consulate General Hong Kong.
Erich Consemüller Frau im Klubsessel gelatine silver print Dessau 1927
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未命名-2 13 12/2/19 下午4:29 EXHIBITIONS at the UNIVERSITY MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY Art of the Iron Brush: Bamboo Carvings from the Ming and Qing Dynasties 10 April – 26 July 2019
Durable, flexible and abundant in nature, bamboo has been used as a material and a subject in Chinese art for millennia. At first woven into baskets, containers and other everyday objects during the Neolithic period, over successive centuries bamboo came to be used in increasingly sophisticated ways, at the same time attaining numerous symbolic meanings. Because it bends in a storm but does not break, it was particularly associated with the integrity and personal virtue of the scholarly elite, who embraced its symbolic value by planting bamboo in their courtyards, observing it in the wild, and by producing, acquiring and displaying delicate bamboo objects suitable for various scholarly pursuits, such as painting and calligraphy.
During the Ming dynasty (1368–1644), scholarly and imperial patronage transformed bamboo carving into a major art form. Scholar-carvers and workshops centred around Jiading (in present-day Shanghai) and Jinling (now Nanjing) produced large numbers of brush pots, wrist rests, miniature landscapes, figurines and other objects. Many bamboo carvers also worked in other materials soft enough to be manipulated with the ‘iron brush’—a term for knives and other carving tools used by literati to transfer their brushwork aesthetic to other media—including boxwood, rhinoceros’ horns and ivory, which shared a kind of loose identity under the heading of diaoke (‘carving’ in modern Chinese). Small in scale yet teeming with life, the works in this exhibition reflect both prodigious technical skill and great imaginary involvement, because of the unique shapes and contortions of the materials involved.
Pine-shaped cup Brush pot: Drunken Taibai Jiading, China, Ming or Qing China, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), dynasty, 17th century 19th century Bamboo root, height 10.5 cm Signed: Zhuting Bamboo root, height 14.5 cm
14 March – April 2019
未命名-2 14 12/2/19 下午4:29 THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG MUSEUM SOCIETY
The University of Hong Kong Museum Society was established in 1988 by Mrs. Margaret Wang, whose husband, Dr. Wang Gungwu, was Vice-Chancellor of The University of Hong Kong from 1986 to 1996. Since then, the Museum Society, a non-profit organization, besides supporting The University of Hong Kong Museum and Art Gallery (UMAG) has become a vital force in the promotion of art and culture in the Hong Kong community. The Museum Society is governed by an Executive Committee comprised of volunteer members. The Committee organizes a variety of activities and trips related to art and culture. Proceeds generated from the Society’s activities are donated to UMAG for acquisition of selected artworks, sponsorship of special exhibitions and notable programmes, as well as to The University of Hong Kong and the local community for the support of educational initiatives. Bearing a legacy of over sixty years, UMAG is one of Hong Kong’s oldest and most distinguished museums. Situated in the elegant and historic Fung Ping Shan Building and the adjoining T.T. Tsui Building, the Museum has over 2,000 pieces of Chinese antiquities in ceramics, bronzes, paintings, Chinese oil paintings, as well as carvings in jade, wood and stone. The Museum is open to the public free of charge from Monday to Saturday 09:30 to 18:00, and Sunday 13:00 to 18:00. It is closed on public holidays. Objectives • To support and assist the University Museum and Art Gallery • To promote the understanding and appreciation of art, particularly Chinese arts and antiquities • To raise funds for the purpose of enriching existing collections, sponsoring exhibitions and financing cultural activities and scholarship programs • To promote friendship among members Activities • Local – lectures and symposiums, museum and gallery tours, visits to artists’ studios and collectors’ homes, culinary evenings, heritage walks and weekend trips • Overseas – guided tours to places of historical and cultural significance, including museums, galleries, private collections and special events Benefits for Members • Museum Society newsletters and invitations to lectures and symposiums • Invitations to previews of UMAG exhibitions • 20% discount on UMAG publications and gift items • Exclusive Members Only events Membership • To become a member, please complete the Membership Form attached in the newsletter.
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未命名-2 15 12/2/19 下午4:29 THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG MUSEUM SOCIETY
Honorary Life President: Mrs. Margaret Wang Patron: Mrs. Jane Qian Zhang Executive Committee Title Name Phone E-mail Chairman Yvonne Choi 9132-1669 [email protected] Vice-Chairmen Linda Wang 9026-2881 [email protected] Anna Yeung 9122-0303 [email protected] Treasurer Audy Mak 2559-9500 [email protected] Secretary Winnie Tong 9471-2673 [email protected] Members Eliza Cheng 9079-6236 [email protected] Rose Ho Hofmann 9280-8307 [email protected] Michelle Ip 9267-0632 [email protected] Jennifer Kan 9109-5038 [email protected] Flora Kwok 2822-8114 [email protected] Karina Kwok 9469-6094 [email protected] Sef Lam 2525-5063 [email protected] Carolyn Lu 9092-1676 [email protected] Vanessa Wong 6051-0763 [email protected]
Museum Director Dr Florian Knothe Immediate Past Chairman Bonnie Kwan Huo Administration Chung Yan Chan 2241-5507 [email protected]
Advisory Honorary Auditor William Po Honorary Legal Advisor Angus Forsyth Honorary Company Secretary Esther Chan
Museum Office Staff Title Name Phone E-mail Director Dr Florian Knothe 2241-5501 [email protected] Curator Anita Wong 2241-5502 [email protected] Curator and Publisher Christopher Mattison 2219-4513 [email protected] Assistant Curator Ben Chiesa 2241-5508 [email protected] Senior Communications Elena Cheung 2241-5512 [email protected] Officer Programme Assistant Chelsea Choi 2241-5509 [email protected] Secretary May Chong 2241-5511 [email protected] Clerk Yan Cheung 2241-5500 [email protected]
16 March – April 2019
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