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Exhibitions
Game Addiction
Works by O'Poon, Xu Chong, Marzo To and Linda Liao  of cyber-game addicts. Today-Thu, 2.30pm-10pm, Fri-Sat, 2.30pm-11pm, Culture Club, 15 Elgin St, SoHo. Inquiries: 2127 7936. Ends Sat   
Please Remember Me
Shu Ikeda's works, created by combining photography and paper cutting, express the beauty of nature. Tue-Sat, 11am-7pm, Blindspot Gallery, 24-26A Aberdeen St, Central. Inquiries: 2517 6238. Ends Apr 20   
Shift
Magdalen Wong's sculptures, video works and photographs explore the complexity of the ordinary. Opening reception today, 7pm. Mon-Fri, 10am-8pm, Sat, 2pm-6pm, Goethe-Institut HK, 14/F HK Arts Centre, 2 Harbour Rd, Wan Chai. Inquiries: 2802 0088. Ends May 7 
Escape from Hong Kong - the Road to Waichow
Historical exhibition detailing the daring Christmas Day escape from Japanese-occupied Hong Kong by a one-legged Chinese admiral escorted by a group of British intelligence officers and sailors. Mon-Wed, Fri-Sun, 10am-5pm, closed Thu, Museum of Coastal Defence, 175 Tung Hei Rd, Shau Kei Wan, HK$10, free on Wed. Inquiries: 2569 1500. Ends Dec 31 
Performing Arts
Good Things Going 
HK Repertory Theatre stages a drama about how growing up can be viewed as a negative process. In Cantonese. Mar 29-Apr 3, 7.45pm, also Apr 2-3, 2.45pm, HKRep Black Box, 8/F Sheung Wan Civic Centre, Sheung Wan Municipal Services Building, 345 Queen's Rd Central, Sheung Wan, HK$150 Urtbix. Inquiries: 3103 5900   
Oresteia  
Performing Arts' production of Aeschylus' trilogy of Greek tragedies revolving around the themes of justice, revenge and power. In Cantonese. Until Apr 2, 7.45pm, also Apr 2, 2.45pm, Academy for Performing Arts, 1 Gloucester Rd, Wan Chai, HK$90 HK Ticketing. Inquiries: 2584 8500
Celtic Connections
Canice Gleeson conducts Uilleann pipes/low whistles player Davy Spillane, Irish folk singer Catherine O'Halloran, the Celtic Connections Choir and City Chamber Orchestra of HK performing Irish music such as Carrickfergus and  The Sky and The Dawn and The Sun; Irish dancers Janine Taggart and Jason Jude Donnelly, and the Echoes of Erin Dance Troupe also perform. Mar 29, 8pm, City Hall, 5 Edinburgh Place, Central, HK$120-HK$300 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2864 2156  
Lau Ying-hung 
The Canto-pop singer-actress in concert. Mar 29, 8pm, Cultural Centre, 10 Salisbury Rd, TST, HK$120-HK$350 Urbtix. Inquiries: 8111 8111
MGMT Live in HK 
The US psychedelic rock band performs. Mar 30, 8pm, Kitec, 1 Trademart Drive, Kowloon Bay, HK$580 HK Ticketing. Inquiries: 2733 0979  
Equus
Faust International Youth Theatre's production of Peter Shaffer's drama about a psychiatrist who tries to understand what motivated a disturbed man to blind six horses late one night. In English. Mar 31-Apr 2, 7.30pm, also Apr 2, 3pm, HK Arts Centre, 2 Harbour Rd, Wan Chai, HK$190 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2547 9114
Death and the Maiden 
HK Repertory Theatre puts on a drama  about a former political prisoner who was raped by her captors, while music by Schubert  was played in the background. In Cantonese with Chinese and English surtitles. Mar 31, Apr 1-2, 7.45pm, also Apr 3, 2.45pm, HK Arts Centre, 2 Harbour Rd, Wan Chai, HK$120-HK$240 Urbtix. Inquiries: 3103 5900
Adam Cheng and Liza Wang Concert 2011 
Canto-pop singer-actor Adam Cheng Siu-chow and singer-actress Liza Wang Ming-chun in concert. Mar 31, 8.15pm, Apr 1-2, 8.15pm, HK Coliseum, 9 Cheong Wan Rd, Hung Hom, HK$180-HK$480 Urbtix. Inquiries: 3154 9872 
Flowing Fancies - The Magic of Chinese Calligraphy as Interpreted by the Pipa
Yan Huichang conducts pipa player Wong Chi-ching and the HK Chinese Orchestra playing works including Liu Tianhua's Emptiness and Wang Huiran's Dance of the Yi's. Apr 1-2, 8pm, Kwai Tsing Theatre, 12 Hing Ning Rd, Kwai Chung, HK$120-HK$260 Urbtix. Inquiries: 3185 1600  
Repin plays Brahms 
Rossen Milanov conducts violinist Vadim Repin and the HK Philharmonic Orchestra performing Brahms' Violin Concerto, Zhou Tian's The Palace of Nine Perfections and Dvorak's Nature, Life and Love. Apr 1-2, 8pm, Cultural Centre, 10 Salisbury Rd, TST, HK$150-HK$450 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2721 2030
Synchronising Berlin-Hong Kong
The HK New Music Ensemble (performing in Hong Kong) and German-Icelandic group Ensemble Adapter (performing in Berlin)  link film and music via a  high-speed internet line. Apr 1-2, 8pm, also Apr 2-3, 2am, Osage Atelier, 4/F Union Hing Yip Factory Building, 20 Hing Yip St, Kwun Tong, HK$50, registration required. Inquiries: 6802 6458 
The Swingle Singers
The British a cappella vocal group performs.  Apr 1, 8pm, City Hall, 5 Edinburgh Place, Central, HK$150-HK$350 Urbtix. Inquiries: 3755 7070 
Cinema
HK International Film Festival
The HK International Film Festival Society presents 335 films from 56 territories, including the following eight films. Part I: until Apr 5; part II: Apr 8-May 1. City Hall, 5 Edinburgh Place, Central; Cultural Centre, 10 Salisbury Rd, TST; Film Archive, 50 Lei King Rd, Sai Wan Ho; HK Arts Centre, 2 Harbour Rd, Wan Chai; Science Museum, 2 Science Museum Rd, TST East; Space Museum, 10 Salisbury Rd, TST; The Grand Cinema, 2/F Elements, 1 Austin Rd West, Kowloon; UA Cityplaza, 5/F Cityplaza, 18 Taikoo Shing Rd, Taikoo Shing; UA iSquare, 7/F iSquare, 63 Nathan Rd, TST; UA Langham Place, 8/F-11/F Langham Place, 8 Argyle St, Mong Kok; and UA Times Square, G/F-2/F Times Square, 1 Matheson St, Causeway Bay. HK$30-HK$100 Urbtix. Inquiries: hkiff.org 
How I Ended This Summer
Drama in which a seasoned meteorologist and a recent college graduate based at a polar station have to battle for survival against other humans as well as the forbidding environment. In Russian with English subtitles. Mar 29, 2.30pm, UA iSquare, Apr 1, 9.30pm, The Grand Cinema.
Yulu
Programme of 12 short films about 12 outstanding Chinese people, all aged under 40. Jia Zhangke, Wei Tie, Chen Tao, Song Fang, Chen Ziheng, Wang Zizhao and Tan Chui Mui direct. In Putonghua with English subtitles. Mar 29, 5.30pm, Science Museum.
The Illusionist
Sylvain Chomet's animated film chronicling the bittersweet relationship between a down-on-his-luck conjurer and the naive young lass who believes in him. In English, French and Gaelic and English subtitles. Mar 29, 7.15pm, Mar 31, 9.50pm, Cultural Centre. 
One Nation, Two Cities
Cheung King-wai's documentary centring on a Fujianese woman who has been unsuccessfully fighting for her right of abode in Hong Kong for the last 30 years, despite the rest of her family having long been Hong Kong citizens. In Cantonese, Putonghua and Fujianese with English subtitles. Mar 29, 7.20pm, Science Museum.
Pina
Wim Wenders' 3-D dance documentary about the late German choreographer Pina Bausch and her work. Mainly in German and English with English subtitles. Mar 27, 4pm, Mar 29, 7.30pm, The Grand Cinema. 
If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle
Florin Serban's drama about a model inmate in a juvenile detention centre who embarks on a path of no return. In Romanian with English subtitles. Mar 29, 7.30pm, UA Times Square, Apr 4, 9.30pm, UA Langham Place. 
I Saw the Devil
Revenge horror about a secret agent (Lee Byung-hun) who blurs the line between good and evil in his pursuit of revenge after his pregnant wife becomes a serial killer's latest victim. Also starring Choi Min-sik. In Korean with Chinese and English subtitles. Mar 29, 9.15pm, Cultural Centre.
October 
Diego and Daniel Vega's dramatic tale of redemption centring on a middle-aged moneylender who finds a baby deposited in his apartment one day. In Spanish with English subtitles. Mar 29, 9.30pm, UA Langham Place.



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