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A ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME ENCOUNTER OF THE 2 SUPER STARS: JOEY YUNG (HONG KONG) & ES DEVLIN (LONDON)
22-08-19 What is an encounter? ‘In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit’. Es Devlin is a world renowned stage designer, well-known for creating large-scale performance…
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THE REMARKABLE ROLE OF GALLERY IN THE HONG KONG ART WORLD ―VISION OF FABIO ROSSI
16-08-19 Art galleries and auction houses are the 2 dominant players in the art world apart from art fairs. People look at them positively and negatively. Artist Robert Smithson said, “A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.” In…
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SENSE & SENSIBILITY: THE 2 NEW THEATRE BOXES OF ‘FREESPACE’ & ‘MGM THEATER’
05-08-19 Actress Stella Adler said once upon a time, “The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place where people come to see the truth about life and the social situation. The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time. The theatre was created to tell…
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FOREVER SAMMI, FOREVER VENUS
01-08-19 Sammi Cheng is a top pop singer in Hong Kong. In her forties and after 30 years in her singing career since the age of 16, she still retains the peak position as an idol and impacts millions of people in Hong Kong. She sings, leads the fashion trends, donates money, helps the young…
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HONG KONG LIFE AND ART CAN HAVE A ‘3RD DIMENSION’―YANG YUNTAO, OUR INFLUENTIAL DANCE DIRECTOR
28-07-19 Isaac Newton defined, “When one body exerts a force on a second body, the second body simultaneously exerts a force equal in magnitude and opposite in direction on the first body.” Can the 2 forces co-exist and form a new force which is more powerful and good? In life? In art? The Artistic Director…
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THE INVINCIBLE SPIRIT OF ‘KONGALS’―JOSIE HO’S 6 HARD TIMES IN HER LIFE
17-07-19 ‘Kongals’ (or Kong gals) refer to the modern Hong Kong women who are no longer men’s ‘half-time, downtime, spare time or sometimes’. Nowadays, women in Hong Kong are educated, independent, confident and free-spirited. Some ‘Kongals’ may turn annoying by acting like a queen or princess. They make life difficult for others by being demanding,…
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5 GREAT ASIAN FILMS ABOUT POVERTY & SOCIAL INJUSTICE―MUST-WATCH LIST
08-07-19 Grave poverty and social injustice are now a threat to human progress and stability everywhere in the world. Pope Francis said correctly, “Globalization has helped many people rise out of poverty, but it has also damned many others to starve. It is true that wealth is growing in absolute terms, but inequalities have also…
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FOR ME, LAW IS BREAD & ART IS JUICE. HOW ABOUT ANTHONY CHOW AND YOUNG LAWYERS?
26-06-19 Thank goodness. Almost 40 years ago, my family cornered me to becoming a lawyer. If I were a full-time artist in Hong Kong in the early 80s, I would starve and have one foot in the grave. Now, I am a part-time literary man. Art gives me only the spiritual juice of life and…
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HONG KONG FILM DECEPTION OF THE NOVELIST, AN ENTERTAINING THRILLER WHICH INTRODUCES US TO A PROSPECTIVE STAR JUSTIN CHEUNG
29-06-19 Thriller are my indulgent taste of film genre. Writer Josef Wimmer said it wittily about thrillers, “Being able to experience danger without actually being in danger. They may have complex story lines and can be challenging to follow. So, as a viewer, you are always guessing next.” A thriller film is often characterized by…
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The Story of Lyricist Chris Shum & His Ways to Put Story Into Music
31-05-19 Lyrics are magic, being the art of germinating emotions and imaginations. The following, from the song “Windmills of Your Mind”, are my best-loved lyrics, though not written by Chris Shum: Round Like a circle in a spiral Like a wheel within a wheel Never ending or beginning On an ever-spinning reel Like a snowball…