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Exhibitions
Andy Warhol Prints
Limited-edition works by the American pop artist selected from the Saunderson Private Collection. Today-tomorrow, 10.30am-6.30pm, Schoeni Branch Gallery, 27 Hollywood Rd, Central. Inquiries: 2869 8802. Ends tomorrow
Blind Spot
Eddie Cheung, Venus Lo and Solomon Yu explore reality through drawings, paintings, sculptures and mixed-media works. Today-Fri, 10am-8pm, White Tube, 10/F HK Arts Centre, 2 Harbour Rd, Wan Chai. Inquiries: 9801 1289. Ends Fri
In the Name of Art
Monique Yim Wing-ka's multimedia works inspired by politics and culture. Today-Fri, 1pm-8pm, Shanghai Street Artspace, G/F, 404 Shanghai St, Yau Ma Tei. Inquiries: 2770 2157. Ends Fri
Cang Xin's Mythology
The Chinese artist presents videos, sculptures and photographic works inspired by shamanism and primitivism. Today-Fri, 11am-7pm, Sat, 11.30am-6pm, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, G/F, 10 Chancery Lane, Central. Inquiries: 2810 0065. Ends Sat
A Tranquil Journey, Odyssey
Kay Yuen's surrealistic photos taken by pinhole camera. Today-tomorrow, 1.30pm-11pm, Fri-Sat until 12.30am, Culture Club Gallery, 15 Elgin St, SoHo. Inquiries: 2127 7936. Ends Sat
Touch
French sculptor Patrick Becuwe's symbolic mixed-media works. Part of Le French May. Today-Sat, noon-10pm, Fringe Club, 2 Lower Albert Rd, Central. Inquiries: 6852 6119. Ends Sat
Digit@logue
Artists from Hong Kong, Taiwan and the mainland, including Danny Yung, Hung Keung and Kingsley Ng, present digital media works created over the past two decades. Daily, 10am-6pm (Sat until 8pm), closed Thu, HK Museum of Art, 10 Salisbury Rd, TST, HK$10, free on Wed. Inquiries: 2721 0116. Ends Jul 20
Performing Arts
Stephen Hough in Recital
Premiere Performances of HK's Great Performers Series with the British pianist playing works by Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Weber, Chopin, Chabrier, Debussy and Liszt. Today, 8pm, HK City Hall, 5 Edinburgh Place, Central, HK$180-HK$360 Urbtix. Inquiries: 3518 7290
We Will Rock You
Lunchbox Theatrical Productions presents this musical written by Queen and Ben Elton. In English with Chinese subtitles. Today-Jun 15: Tue-Fri, 8pm, Sat, 2pm, 8pm, Sun, 1pm, 7pm, HK Academy for Performing Arts, 1 Gloucester Rd, Wan Chai, HK$350-HK$895 HK Ticketing. Inquiries: 8203 0299
I Feel a Song Comin' on
Cecilian Singers' concert with a 'music' theme. Tomorrow, 8.30pm, St John's Cathedral, Garden Rd, Central; Jun 1, 7.15pm, St Stephen's College, 22 Tung Tau Wan Rd, Stanley, HK$120, HK$50 (concessions). Inquiries: 2570 3783
Jean-Frederic Neuburger
Yip Wing-sie conducts the French pianist and the HK Sinfonietta in Gounod's Faust: Ballet Music, Saint-Saens' Piano Concerto No 2 and Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade. Part of Le French May. Fri, 8pm, HK City Hall, 5 Edinburgh Place, Central, HK$120-HK$320 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2836 3336
The Orchestral Shakespeare
British actor Samuel West joins the HK Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus in musical adaptations of Shakespeare's plays - William Walton's Henry V and Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream suite. Edo de Waart conducts. Fri-Sat, 8pm, HK Cultural Centre, 10 Salisbury Rd, TST, HK$120-HK$380 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2721 2030
Sakura Sayer (rerun)
Osaka-based theatre group Gumbo returns with this black comedy combining music, dance, mime, clowning and Japanese swordplay. In English. Fri, 8pm, Sat, 3pm, 8pm, Fringe Club, 2 Lower Albert Rd, Central, HK$200, HK$160 (members and concessions). Inquiries: 2521 7251
Of Mountains and Seas
World premiere of Gao Xingjian's play based on Chinese mythologies. Directed by Hardy Tsoi Sik-cheong. In Cantonese. Part of Le French May and Gao Xingjian Arts Festival. Fri-Jun 1, 7.45pm, New Asia College Concourse, Chinese University of HK, Sha Tin, HK$280 HK Ticketing. Inquiries: 2609 7855 (carnivals at 7pm, free for ticket holders)
Yee Ha!
Tribute to the 21st Century Romantic Feminine
Hu Bingxu conducts gaohu soloist Qi Keng and the Guangdong National Orchestra in works by Chinese women composers. Sat, 8pm, HK City Hall, 5 Edinburgh Place, Central, HK$120-HK$200 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2722 1650
Pablo Casals - Chamber Music Festival of Prades
David Greilsammer
Extra-curricular
Christie's Spring Auctions
Classical Chinese paintings, ceramics and calligraphy, contemporary Asian art, jewels and watches are for sale. Today-tomorrow, various times, HK Convention and Exhibition Centre, 1 Expo Drive, Wan Chai, free. Inquiries: 2521 5396
Bonhams Hong Kong Spring Preview and Auctions
Preview: today-tomorrow, 10am-7pm, Fri until 5pm. Auctions: Chinese ceramics, works of art and paintings (tomorrow, 3pm), western and jadeite jewellery (Fri, 2pm), modern wristwatches (Fri, 5pm). Island Ballroom, Island Shangri-La Hotel, Pacific Place, Supreme Court Rd, Admiralty. Inquiries: 2918 4321
Homemakers' Workshops
Cosmetic Surgery in Post-Mao China
Wen Hua from the Chinese University of HK presents an anthropological talk on how cosmetic surgery reflects China's transition from communism to consumerism. In English. Tomorrow, 7pm, Lecture Hall, G/F HK Museum of History, 100 Chatham Rd South, TST, free. Inquiries: 9746 9537
1434: the Chinese Start the Renaissance
British writer and researcher Gavin Menzies discusses the historical significance of Chinese explorer Zheng He's 1434 visit to Italy. In English. Tomorrow, 7.30pm (reception, 6.30pm), 2/F Olympic House, So Kong Po, Causeway Bay, HK$150, HK$100 (Royal Geographical Society members). Inquiries: 2583 9700
Cinema
The Dreamers
Bernardo Bertolucci adapts Gilbert Adair's semi-autobiographical novel set in 1968 Paris, in which an American exchange student (Michael Pitt) hooks up with a French brother and sister (Eva Green and Louis Garrel). In French with English subtitles. Part of Le French May. Today, 9.40pm, Broadway Cinematheque, 3 Public Square St, Yau Ma Tei, HK$60. Inquiries: bc.cinema.com.hk
Les Hommes (Man on Land)
French director Ariane Michel's documentary follows a group of scientists to an Arctic island. In English and French. Fri, 7.30pm, Agnes b. Cinema, HK Art Centre, 2 Harbour Rd. Wan Chai, HK$50, HK$30 (concessions) Urbtix. Inquiries: 2805 6222