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Exhibitions
Not Reconciled: Video Art from Thailand
Four video works by Thai artists Arin Rungjang, Chatchai Suban and Taiki Sakpisit that convey struggles to come to terms with personal, family and national histories. Today, 10am-7pm, Osage Kwun Tong, 5/F Kian Dai Industrial Building, 73-75 Hung To Rd, Kwun Tong. Inquiries: 2793 4817. Ends today
Nuova (Arte) Povera
Works by visual artists Krit Ngamsom, Hiroki Kentaro, Dusadee Huntrakul, Boonsri Tangtongsin, Prateep Suthathongthai, Pisitakun Kuantalaeng and Lek Kiatsirikajorn that reflect on themes including globalisation, 'cultural flattening' and the rise of the so-called new poor. Today, 10am-7pm, Osage Kwun Tong, 5/F Kian Dai Industrial Building, 73-75 Hung To Rd, Kwun Tong. Inquiries: 2793 4817. Ends today 
London 2012 - Olympic Posters Exhibition
Twelve prints by 12 British artists (including Michael Craig-Martin, Chris Ofili and Bridget Riley) commissioned to create iconic images to celebrate and commemorate the London 2012 Olympic Games. Today, 9am-10pm, Exhibition Gallery, L3, Core C, Cyberport 3, 100 Cyberport Rd, Cyberport. Inquiries: 2913 5100. Ends today 
Free Run
Works on industrial cardboard by Kaka Peco featuring her distinct style of drip figurative painting. Tue-Sun, 11am-7pm, Fabrik Contemporary Art, Gallery 12, Art One, M/F Convention Plaza, 1 Harbour Rd, Wan Chai. Inquiries: 2525 4911. Ends Apr 29 
Fading Glory
Pop up solo exhibition of ink-on-paper works by Hong Kong-based Canadian artist Peter Yuill about empires and the machines attributed to their rise. Opening reception today, 6pm-9pm. Mon-Fri, 11am-7pm, Sat-Sun, 11am-5pm, Cat Street Gallery, 222 Hollywood Rd, Sheung Wan. Inquiries: 2291 0006. Ends Apr 29 
The Burning Edge: Making Space, Activating Form
Group show of works by faculty members of the City University of HK's School of Creative Media including Oscar Au, Robert Ellis-Geiger, Fu Hongbo and Samson Young. Mon-Sat, noon-8pm, CMC Gallery, L3 Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, City University of HK, 18 Tat Hong Rd, Kowloon Tong. Inquiries: 3442 6553. Ends Apr 30 
Inside Out
Exhibition showcasing recent works by Coledefy & Associes Archtiectes Urbanistes. A Le French May programme. Opens today. Tue-Sun, noon-7pm, ILIVETOMORROW, 45 Tung St, Sheung Wan. Inquiries: 2517 8900. Ends May 3 
London Pictures
Twenty-two works from British collaborative duo Gilbert and George's 292-picture series surveying modern urban life in all its volatility, tragedy, absurdity and violence. Tue-Sat, 11am-7pm, White Cube HK, 50 Connaught Rd, Central. Inquiries: 2592 2000. Ends May 5 
Language-Colour
Huang Rui's experimental paintings explore the relationship between text and colour, language and visual experience. Opening reception today, 6pm-8pm. Mon-Sat, 10am-6pm, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, 10 Chancery Lane, SoHo. Inquiries: 2810 0065. Ends May 9 
On Being The Right Size
Paintings and installations by Lee Kyoung-mi that envision the world from the viewpoint of a cat. Opens today. Mon-Fri, 10am-7pm, Cais Gallery, 87 Hollywood Rd, Central. Inquiries: 2527 7798. Ends May 10 
Urban Stimulation
Carol Ho's paintings depicting the psyche of people residing in densely populated Hong Kong. Opening reception today, 6pm-9pm. Tue-Fri, 2pm-8pm, Sat, noon-6pm, Voxfire Gallery, 1/F, 52 Gage St, Sheung Wan. Inquiries: 2581 3385. Ends May 12 
Woo Lung-wong
Works by the late cartoonist-writer Louie Yu Tin (1926-2008), whose creations include a cartoon character whose name is a play on the Cantonese phrase for an 'addle-brained person'. Mon, Wed-Sat, 10am-6pm, Sun, 10am-7pm, closed Tue, HK Heritage Museum, 1 Man Lam Rd, Sha Tin, HK$10, free on Wed. Ends Jun 4 
The First Dragon of China
Exhibition about scientific and archaeological investigations into areas such as the origins of dragon artefacts and the symbolic involvement of mythological beasts in politics with the rise of early civilisation. Daily, 10am-5pm, Art Museum, Institute of Chinese Studies, Chinese University, of HK, Sha Tin, free. Inquiries: 3943 7416. Ends Jan 27, 2013 
Performing Arts
Pains of Youth
We Draman performs Austrian playwright Ferdinand Bruckner's 1920s drama about a week in the life of seven youths associated with the medical school at the University of Vienna. In Cantonese. Until Apr 21, 7.45pm, Sha Tin Town Hall, 1 Yuen Wo Rd, Sha Tin, HK$200 Urbtix. Inquiries: 9448 3574
Arr?ts de Jeu
Pierre Rigal and Aurelien Bory direct Compagnie Derniere Minute's dance theatre work based on athlete turned dancer Pierre Rigal's childhood memories of the 1982 World Cup semi-final football match between France and Germany. A Le French May programme. Apr 19, 8pm, Youth Square, 238 Chai Wan Rd, Chai Wan, HK$160-HK$280 Urbtix. Inquiries: frenchmay.com 
HK Police Band
The band performs works by composers including Shostakovich, Holst and Bernstein. Apr 19, 8pm, RTHK Studio One, 30 Broadcast Drive, Kowloon Tong, free with ticket. Inquiries: 2339 6425 
The Dining Room
American Community Theatre stages a comedy of manners, set in a dining room,  revolving around members of a vanishing species: the American upper-middle-class WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant). In English. Until Apr 21, 8pm, also Apr 21, 2pm, Fringe Club, 2 Lower Albert Rd, Central, HK$220 HK Ticketing. Inquiries: 2521 7251
The Truth About Lying
Wong Wing-sze and Lee Chun-chow direct and star in Wong's play about a new legal employee who gets too involved in all aspects of her bosses' lives. Also starring Alice Lau Nga-lai. A HK Arts Festival programme. In Cantonese with English surtitles. Apr 19-22, 8pm, also Apr 21-22, 3pm, HK Academy for the Performing Arts, 1 Gloucester Rd, Wan Chai, HK$140-HK$320 HK Ticketing and Urbtix. Inquiries: 2824 2430
Janice Yan I'm Back Live
Mando-pop singer Janice Yan Yige in concert. Apr 19, 8.15pm, Kitec, 1 Trademart Drive, Kowloon Bay, HK$280, HK$380 HK Ticketing. Inquiries: 3549 8998 
Hansel and Gretel
James Gitsham directs and stars in Gingerbread Theatre's family theatre reimagination of the fairy tale about a brother and sister pair who venture deep into a forest in search of food. In English. Apr 20-22, 4.30pm, also Apr 21-22, 11am, 2.30pm, HK Arts Centre, 2 Harbour Rd, Wan Chai, HK$250 Urbtix. Inquiries: 5192 6717 
Titus Andronicus (2012)
 Tang Shu-wing Theatre Studio's adaptation of William Shakespeare's tragic play about a Roman general engaged in a cycle of revenge with the Queen of the Goths. A HK Arts Festival programme. In Cantonese with English-scene synopsis. Apr 20-21, 7.45pm, also Apr 21, 2.45pm, HK Academy for the Performing Arts, 1 Gloucester Rd, Wan Chai, HK$180-HK$250 HK Ticketing and Urbtix. Inquiries: 2824 3555 
Aladdin and H?nsel & Gretel (Abridged version)
Austria's Marionettentheater Schloss Sch?nbrunn's puppet theatre productions of the One Thousand and One Nights story about a boy charged by a greedy magician to look for a magic lamp with a genie inside it and the Brothers Grimm's fairy tale about two children who come across a house made out of gingerbread with a witch living inside it. In English with Chinese surtitles. Apr 20-21, 8pm, also Apr 21, 3pm, HK City Hall, 5 Edinburgh Place, Central, HK$160, HK$200 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2268 7323 
Beethoven 9 - The Moment of Farewell
Edo de Waart conducts soprano Lisa Larsson, mezzo-soprano Susan Graham, tenor Henry Choo, baritone Mark Schnaible, the Shanghai Opera House Chorus and the HK Philharmonic Orchestra performing Berlioz's La Mort de Cleopatre and Beethoven's Symphony No 9. Apr 20-21, 8pm, HK Cultural Centre, 10 Salisbury Rd, TST, HK$180-HK$680 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2721 2030
Blind Chance 
City Contemporary Dance Company's production exploring the curious and mysterious interplay between choice, chance and fate as choreographed by Dominic Wong Dick-man; with music composed by Shum Lok-man. Apr 20-21, 8pm, also Apr 21-22, 3pm, HK Cultural Centre, 10 Salisbury Rd, TST, HK$160, HK$220 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2329 7803 
Fat Pig
Bravo Theatre's adaptation of Neil LaBute's comedy about a man who falls for a woman his workmates do not approve of. In Cantonese. Apr 20-22, 8pm, also Apr 22, 3pm, HK Arts Centre, 2 Harbour Rd, Wan Chai, HK$220, HK$280 Urbtix. Inquiries: 3172 1780
HK Saxophone Ensemble Debut Concert
The local group performs works including Nigel Wood's Schwarzer Tanzer and Astor Piazzolla's Adio Nonino. Apr 20, 8pm,Sha Tin Town Hall, 1 Yuen Wo Rd, Sha Tin, HK$100-HK$180 Urbtix. Inquiries: 6193 4170
Rockapella
The American a cappella pop rock group performs. Apr 20, 8pm, HK City Hall, 5 Edinburgh Place, Central, HK$150-HK$350 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2395 5753
Tat Ming Pair Live 2012
Canto-pop-alternative rock singer Anthony Wong Yiu-ming and guitarist-composer Tats Lau Yee-tat in concert. Apr 20-22, 8.15pm, HK Coliseum, 9 Cheong Wan Rd, Hung Hom, HK$180-HK$480 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2905 8134
Marina Horak Piano Recital
The Slovenian pianist plays works by Chopin, Debussy, Franck and Jurij Mihevc. Apr 21, 7.30pm, HK City Hall, 5 Edinburgh Place, Central, HK$200 Urbtix. Inquiries: 9464 1941
Concerts by HK Music Lover Chinese Orchestra
Wai Sing-fat conducts the orchestra performing works including Law Wai-lun's Seagulls Flying Above the Foaming Waves and Ma Shenglong and Gu Guanren's Song of Fishermen in the East Sea; Tang Wing-hong hosts and narrates (in Cantonese), and puppeteer-magician Santa Jim also features. Apr 21, 8pm, Tsuen Wan Town Hall, 72 Tai Ho Rd, Tsuen Wan; and Apr 28, 8pm, Tai Po Civic Centre, 12 On Pong Rd, Tai Po. Both concerts: HK$100 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2268 7321
Tchaikovsky Classics - Charles Castleman and HK Children's Symphony Orchestra
Yip Wai-hong, Gabriel Leung and Law Po-kwan conduct American violinist Castleman and the local orchestra performing Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Overture, Violin Concerto in D and Symphony No 4 in F Minor. Apr 21, 8pm, Sha Tin Town Hall, 1 Yuen Wo Rd, Sha Tin; and Apr 22, 3pm, HK City Hall, 5 Edinburgh Place, Central, HK$110-HK$160 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2268 7321
Concert by HK Zheng Orchestra
Chan Wing-wah conducts zheng soloists So Chun-bo and Wang Zhongshan, pianist Vivian Cheng Wai, cellist Chuen Kin, the HK Strings and HK Zheng Orchestra performing works such as Chow Shu-san's China Fantasia and Wang Zhongshan's An Elegy for a Lost City in the Desert. Apr 22, 8pm, Sha Tin Town Hall, 1 Yuen Wo Rd, Sha Tin, HK$110-HK$160 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2268 7321
Essence of Love
Musica Viva presents a concert with sopranos Amanda Li and Sandy Leung, mezzo-soprano Mandy Sze and Carol Lin, tenor David Quah, baritone Albert Lim and pianists Stella Chang, Kam Wing-chong and Felix Suen performing Renaissance and Elizabethan poetry set to music by Liszt, Britten, Ivor Gurney, Gerald Finzi, Roger Quilter and Vaughan Williams. Apr 22, 8pm, HK City Hall, 5 Edinburgh Place, Central, HK$80-HK$180 Urbtix. Inquiries: 6976 2877
Concert in Memory of Teresa Teng Li-chun
Veteran singers including Lai Wai-lan and Lee Ming-ying perform Mando-pop songs such as The Moon Represents My Heart by the late Taiwanese pop singer; proceeds go to New Life Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association. Apr 23, 7.45pm, HK City Hall, 5 Edinburgh Place, Central, HK$80-HK$480 Urbtix. Inquiries: 5166 8806
French Diva of Chanson
Jean Thorel conducts singer Mouron, pianist Terry Truck and the City Chamber Orchestra of HK performing 20 Parisian hit songs including La Vie En Rose and Je Ne Regrette Rien. A Le French May programme. Apr 23-24, 8pm, HK City Hall, 5 Edinburgh Place, Central, HK$300, HK$450 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2864 2156
Borodin Quartet
The quartet of violinists Sergey Lomovsky and Ruben Aharonian, violist Igor Naidin and cellist Vladimir Balshin, and guest pianist Ludmila Berlinskaya play works by Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich. Apr 25, 8pm, HK City Hall, 5 Edinburgh Place, Central, HK$150-HK$300 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2268 7321
Khloros Concert - Odile Perceau
Le Quatuor de Bordeaux performs French composer Perceau's  Garonne and Partitas Romanes; a screening of the film Quatuor & Partitas kicks off the concert. A Le French May programme. Apr 25-26, 8pm, HK Academy for Performing Arts, 1 Gloucester Rd, Wan Chai, free, by reservation only. Inquiries: frenchmay.com
Yellow Face
HK Players' perform David Henry Hwang's comedy that asks questions about ethnic identity, particularly Asian identity, in today's multicultural world. In English with Chinese surtitles. Apr 25-28, 8pm, also Apr 28, 2.30pm, HKRep Black Box, 8/F Sheung Wan Civic Centre, Sheung Wan Municipal Services Building, 345 Queen's Rd Central, Sheung Wan, HK$180 Urbtix. Inquiries: 9852 2668
Exotic and Vernacular Music of China - Popular Concert
Chew Hee Chiat conducts the HK Chinese Orchestra performing ethnic Uyghur, Yi, Mongolian, Yao and Tibetan music. Apr 26, 11am, also 2.30pm, Tuen Mun Town Hall, 3 Tuen Hi Rd, Tuen Mun, HK$30; and Yuen Long Theatre, 9 Yuen Long Tai Yuk Rd, Yuen Long, Apr 27, 2.30pm, HK$30, also Apr 27, 8pm, HK$100 Urbtix. Inquiries: 3185 1600 
William Shakespeare's The Tempest
Faust International Youth Theatre's Stage Group performs a tragicomedy about shipwrecks and sorcery, and loves lost and found. In English. Apr 26-28, 7.30pm, also Apr 28, 3pm, HK Arts Centre, 2 Harbour Rd, Wan Chai, HK$190 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2547 9114 
Twelve Angry Men
Theatre Space stages a drama about 12 jurors serving a homicide case who have to come up with a unanimous verdict in order to convict. In Cantonese. Apr 26-28, May 3-5, 8pm, also Apr 28-29, May 5-6, 3pm, HK Cultural Centre, 10 Salisbury Rd, TST, HK$200 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2540 1011
Red Cherries and A Broken Heart
HK Society for the Promotions of Cantonese Opera performs a Cantonese opera about a woman helped by a famous musician to realise her talents. In Cantonese. Apr 27, 7.30pm, Ko Shan Theatre, 77 Ko Shan Rd, Hung Hom, HK$90-HK$220 Urbtix. Inquiries: 9773 7324
Albert Au 35th Anniversary Concert
Veteran pop singer Albert Au Shui-keung performs. Apr 27-29, 8pm, Queen Elizabeth Stadium, 18 Oi Kwan Rd, Wan Chai, HK$180-HK$480 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2744 5191
Cabaret 2012
Whole Theatre presents a musical theatre show. In Cantonese. Apr 27-28, 30, May 3-5, 7-8, 10-12, 8pm, also Apr 28-29, May 1, 5-6, 12-13, 3pm, Ngau Chi Wan Civic Centre, 11 Clear Water Bay Rd, Kowloon, HK$180, HK$190 Urbtix. Inquiries: 8201 2989
Days Being a Fish 
Circling Theatre's drama about the struggles of people who suffer from depression. In Cantonese. Apr 27-28, 8pm, also Apr 28, 3pm, Kwai Tsing Theatre, 12 Hing Ning Rd, Kwai Chung, HK$160 Urbtix. Inquiries: 9324 4434
HK Handbell Festival 2012: Happy Bell-day
Gloves Handbell performs works including William Payn's Crossroad and Emily Li's Nocturnal Fantasy,  Apr 27, 8pm, Apr 28, 3pm, Tsuen Wan Town Hall, 72 Tai Ho Rd, Tsuen Wan, HK$120, HK$150 Urbtix. Inquiries: 9450 6442
Jean-Claude Pennetier Plays Mozart
Yip Wing-sie conducts pianist Jean-Claude Pennetier and the HK Sinfonietta playing works by Mozart and Brahms. A Le French May programme. Apr 27, 8pm, HK City Hall, 5 Edinburgh Place, Central, HK$140-HK$320 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2836 3336
The Singing Violin
Violinist Kolja Blacher conducts and performs J. S. Bach's Violin Concerto in D Minor and Violin Concerto No 2 in E with the HK Philharmonic Orchestra, and conducts the orchestra performing Mozart's Symphony No 35, Haffner and Shostakovich's Chamber Symphony. Apr 27-28, 8pm, HK Cultural Centre, 10 Salisbury Rd, TST, HK$100-HK$280 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2721 2030
Chamber Choir Showcase
John Winzenburg conducts soprano Yuki Ip and Cantoria HK performing works including Debussy's Salut Printemps and Mozart's Laudate Dominum. Apr 28, 8pm, HK City Hall, 5 Edinburgh Place, Central, free with ticket. Inquiries: mus@hkbu.edu.hk
Debussy and Friends
Pianist Francois Chaplin gives a recital of works by Debussy and other composers including Mozart, Chopin and Faure. A Le French May programme. Apr 28, 8pm, HK Academy for Performing Arts, 1 Gloucester Rd, Wan Chai, HK$180-HK$380 HK Ticketing. Inquiries: frenchmay.com
Si Gwong Gei 
Patrick Chiu directs HKFYG HK Melody Makers' performance of Natalie Yau's a cappella theatre show featuring a cappella versions of Canto-pop songs. Apr 28, 8pm, HK City Hall, 5 Edinburgh Place, Central, HK$150, HK$220 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2395 5753



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