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MULTIMEDIA PERFORMANCE

Local band Sway Dog aim to redefine dance theatre and the art of fashion shows in their upcoming multimedia performance Re-Create Yourself.

The performance is part of the YMCArts in Education Project, a series of creative arts in education programmes for local youth organised by the YMCA.

The project aims to encourage young people to use arts including fashion, photography, writing and music to express their thoughts and feelings.

In this performance, Sway Dog will belt out original songs while combining elements of a fashion show with dance.

The performance will take place on Saturday at 5pm in the Fringe Gallery. Admission is free. For more information, call 2521 7251.

BOOK DONATION

To promote reading and encourage book sharing, Hong Kong Public Libraries has launched the Book Donation & Sale Campaign.

You can donate books on general subjects (excluding school textbooks, exercise books and magazines) at all public libraries, except mobile libraries. Deadline for book donation is February 23 for public libraries and February 27 for the Hong Kong Central Library.

The books will be on sale on February 26 and 27 at the Central Library, Boundary Street Sports Centre No 1 and Yuen Wo Road Sports Centre. Proceeds will be donated to the Community Chest. For more details, call 2921 0221.

Thursday, January 27

On this day

1945: Russian troops liberated the Nazi extermination camp at Auschwitz 60 years ago today

1731: Italian harpsichord maker Bartolomeo Cristofori, generally credited with the invention of the piano, died

1822: Greece proclaimed its independence from turkey

1948: The first magnetic tape recorder, in use in Britain since 1929, was introduced in the U.S.

1997: U.S. scientists created the first atom laser. The beam of atoms, instead of light, had been predicted by Albert Einstein 70 years earlier