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Exhibitions
A Summer Group Show
Works by Vincent Yu Wai-kin, Dustin Shum Wan-yat, Mak Fung,   Rachel Ip Hui-yin and other Hong Kong-based photographers. Today, noon-2pm, 3pm-7pm, The Upper Station, 22 Upper Station St, Sheung Wan. Inquiries: 3486 2474. Ends today  
Festival
Mid-autumn festival-themed exhibition of works by eight Artists Abroad members that draw inspiration from Asia's rich heritage and their own cultural backgrounds. Today, 10am-8pm, The Rotunda, Exchange Square,  8 Connaught Place, Central. Inquiries:  9150 0912. Ends today   
Outside In
Photographs by children and young people from disadvantaged backgrounds in Nepal. Opens today. Today-Sat, 11am-5pm, 10 Chancery Lane Art Projects and Annex, 6/F Chai Wan Industrial City Phase 1, 60 Wing Tai Rd, Chai Wan. Inquiries: 2526 8810. Ends Sat  
To Be Continued - Hong Kong
Works by Filipino conceptual artist Robert Chabet from the 1980s to the present. Daily, 10am-7pm, Osage Kwun Tong, 5/F Kian Dai Industrial Building, 73-75 Hung To Road, Kwun Tong. Inquiries: 2793 4817. Ends Sept 21   
8 On 8
Paintings by eight Chinese artists including Wang Lifeng, Feng Zhengquan and Song Guiyu. Mon-Sat, 10am-7pm, Galerie du Monde, 108 Ruttonjee Centre, 11 Duddell St, Central. Inquiries: 2525 0529. Ends  Sept 22     
Peonies, Playing Cards and Teapots
British-Japanese artist Mariko Jesse's monoprints, etchings and Japanese woodblock prints featuring teapots, playing cards, birds and flowers. Tue-Sat, 10am-6pm, Amelia Johnson Contemporary, G/F, 6-10 Shin Hing St, Central. Inquiries: 2548 2286. Ends Sept 24 
NY 10048: Photographs of the World Trade Centre in Early 1990s
Hongkonger Gretchen So Sau-yi's black-and-white photographs of New York's Twin Towers depict them as omnipresent witnesses of city life in the early 1990s. Today, noon-10pm, Fringe Club, 2 Lower Albert Rd, Central. Inquiries: 2521 7251. Ends today. Also: daily, 10am-noon, 3pm-5.30pm, Foreign Correspondents' Club, 2 Lower Albert Rd, Central. Inquiries: 2521 1511. Ends  Sept 29 
The Queen, the Chairman and I
London-based visual artist Kurt Tong  pays homage via new and 'found' photographs, and personal writing, to his identity and past Hong Kong life straddled between two diverse cultures; one which prompted him to sing God Save The Queen at school, the other steeped in the pensive relics of Mao Zedong and his revolution. Opening reception today, 7pm-9pm. Tue-Sat, 11am-7pm, Identity Art Gallery, 53 Tung St, Sheung Wan. Inquiries: 2540 5353. Ends Oct 15  
Ars Memorativa
Robert Polidori's moody large-scale colour photographs of interiors and people altered by the passage of time. Opening reception today, 7pm-9pm. Mon-Sat, 10am-7pm, Sun, 11am-7pm, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, 57-59 Hollywood Rd, Central. Inquiries: 2581 9678. Ends Oct 16  
Through the Eyes of Lim Khim Katy 
The Vietnamese artist's oil paintings present her views about life and things happening around her. Opening reception today, 5pm-9pm. Daily, 10.30am-6.30pm, Asia Fine Art Gallery, 99-101 Queen's Rd East, Wan Chai. Inquiries: 2522 0405. Ends Oct 16   
A Decade of Documents Collection Campaigns of the Hong Kong Central Library: Review and Prospect
Exhibition of manuscripts (including those by Eileen Chang), an anthology of Chinese calligraphic works from the Northern Song dynasty and other documents. Mon-Tue, Thu-Sun, 10am-7pm, Wed, 1pm-7pm,  HK Central Library, 66 Causeway Rd, Causeway Bay. Inquiries: 3150 1234. Ends Nov 30  
From Clay to Teapot: Tea Ware by Hong Kong Potters 1986-2010
Variously themed ceramic tea ware including works inspired by nature or the joys of everyday life. Mon, Wed-Sun, 10am-5pm, Museum of Tea Ware, 10 Cotton Tree Drive, Central, free. Inquiries: 2869 0690. Ends  Feb 13, 2012  
Performing Arts
A Concert by Quatuor Diotima
The string quartet plays works by Schubert, Debussy and Smetana. Sept 15, 8pm, Lee Hysan Concert Hall, Esther Lee Building, Chung Chi College, Chinese University of HK, Sha Tin, free. Inquiries: 3943 6716 
The Last Supper 
HK Repertory Theatre's production of Matthew Cheng's drama  centring on a meal shared by a mother and her suicidal son. In Cantonese. Until Sept 17, 8pm, also Sept 17, 3pm, HKRep Black Box, 8/F Sheung Wan Civic Centre, Sheung Wan Municipal Services Building, 345 Queen's Rd Central, Sheung Wan, HK$150 Urbtix. Inquiries: 3103 5900  
World Without Music
Loft Stage and We Draman's drama exploring the meaning of life. In Cantonese. Sept 15-18, 8.30pm, Sept 17-18, 2pm, also 5pm, HK Cultural Centre, 10 Salisbury Road, TST, HK$220, HK$280 Urbtix. Inquiries: 3746 5216
Punchline Comedy Club
US comedian Louis Ramey, Irish comic Andrew Stanley and British funnyman Rob Collins  perform stand-up comedy. In English. Sept 15-17, 9pm, Duetto, 2/F Sun Hung Kai Centre, 30 Harbour Rd, Wan Chai, HK$320 Cityline. Inquiries: 2598 1222
Band Composers Showcase
Composers Satoshi Yagisawa, Simon Yau Yuen-hing, Lo Hau-man, Wyman Wat, Law Kin-pong, Yip Ho Kwan and Eileen Mok conduct the HK Band Directors Association's Band Directors Wind Orchestra playing their compositions. Sept 16, 8pm, Tsuen Wan Town Hall, 72 Tai Ho Rd, Tsuen Wan, HK$80-HK$150 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2386 0662
Blending Worlds
 Primary Shapes (music producer Tang Chi-wai and sound designer-artist Yuen Cheuk-wa) and DJ Tommy present a multimedia performative-communication piece inspired by crop circles. Sept 16-17, 8pm, also Sept 17, 3pm, HK Academy for Performing Arts, 1 Gloucester Rd, Wan Chai, HK$180, HK$230 HK Ticketing. Inquiries: 2268 7323  
Richard III Kevin Spacey stars in and Sam Mendes directs the HK Arts Festival's presentation 
of The Bridge Project's staging of William Shakespeare's play depicting the Machiavellian rise to power and subsequent short reign of King Richard III of England. In English with Chinese surtitles. Sept 16-18, 8pm, also Sept 17-18, 3pm, HK Academy for Performing Arts, 1 Gloucester Rd, Wan Chai, HK$450-HK$1,280 HK Ticketing. Inquiries: 2824 2430
One Hundred Years of Solitude 10.0 - Cultural Revolution
Danny Yung directs Zuni Icosahedron and Drama Box's experimental theatre production that uses culture and revolution as a starting point to shed light on the big and small revolutions which have taken place in North Africa, the Middle East, China and Singapore recently. No dialogue; with Chinese and English text. Sept 16-17, 8.15pm, HK Cultural Centre, 10 Salisbury Rd, TST, HK$180 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2566 9696   
Taiwan Calling 2011
Music festival featuring performances by 18 bands from Taiwan including Tizzy Bac and Lie Gramaphone (on Sept 17), and Waa Wai and Penguin Bear (on Sept 18). Sept 17-18, 3pm-11pm, Kitec, 1 Trademart Drive, Kowloon Bay, HK$380 (one-day pass), HK$680 (two-day pass) HK Ticketing. Inquiries: info@blackmarketmusicproduction.com 
Joseph Koo's Classic Melodies 
Leung Kwok-shing directs and choreographs the HK Dance Company's production in which dances are set to music by Joseph Koo Ka-fai. Sept 17, 7.45pm, Sept 18, 3pm, Yuen Long Theatre, 9 Yuen Long Tai Yuk Rd, Yuen Long, HK$80-HK$200 Urbtix. Inquiries: 3103 1815
A Life
Jacob Yu directs Theatre Space's adaptation of Hugh Leonard's drama  about a day in the life of a self-important man who has driven away all his friends with his acerbic tongue. In Cantonese. Sept 17, 8pm, Sept 18, 3pm, Tuen Mun Town Hall, 3 Tuen Hi Rd, Tuen Mun, HK$140; and Sept 24, 8pm, Sept 25, 3pm, Tsuen Wan Town Hall, 72 Tai Ho Rd, Tsuen Wan, HK$160 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2540 1011
Drumroll, Please!
Ainars Rubikis conducts the HK Philharmonic Orchestra performing works by Honegger, Haydn and DvorAK. Sept 17, 8pm, HK Cultural Centre, 10 Salisbury Rd, TST, HK$100-HK$280 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2721 2030
Mendelssohn and Mendelssohn: Fanny and Felix
Chan Wing-wah and Gabriel Leung conduct the HK Oratorio Society, sopranos Rao Lan and Catherine Pun, contralto Ruth Lau, tenor Sam Kan, baritone Petrus Cheung HK Strings and S.K.H. Lam Woo Memorial Secondary School Choir performing Fanny Mendelssohn's Scenes from the Bible oratorio and selections from Felix Mendelssohn's Elijah. Sept 17, 8pm, Tsuen Wan Town Hall, 72 Tai Ho Rd, Tsuen Wan, HK$80-HK$120 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2268 7321
Beyond the Horizon 2
FM Theatre Power's musical theatre work inspired by Wong Ka-kui about a village school whose principal stands up against the injustice of being forced to close due to 'urban development' and the hegemony of property developers. In Cantonese. Sept 21, 8pm, Multimedia Theatre, HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity, 135 Junction Rd, Kowloon, HK$200. Inquiries: 3599 9755 
Mad
Drama Society, HK University Students' Union presents a play about mental patients as told in the form of doctor-patient conversations. In Cantonese. Sept 21-23, 8pm, HK Arts Centre, 2 Harbour Rd, Wan Chai, HK$100 Urbtix. Inquiries: 6123 9694
Good Music This Lunch
HK Sinfonietta clarinettist Johnny Fong Hiu-kai, cellist Eric Yip Chun-hei and pianist Jacqueline Li play Brahms' Clarinet Trio in A Minor, and clarinettist Chen Chiu-yuan, cellist Chang Pei-chieh and pianist So Wun-kan play Glinka's Trio Pathetique in D Minor. Sept 22, 12.45pm, HK City Hall, 5 Edinburgh Place, Central, free. Inquiries: 2836 3336
Piano Duo Recital
Pianists Poon Kiu-tung and Misha Kim play works by Schubert, Bizet and Poulenc. Sept 22, 8pm, Lee Hysan Concert Hall, Esther Lee Building, Chung Chi College, Chinese University of HK, Sha Tin, free. Inquiries:  3943 6716 
The Carmen Project
English Schools Foundation and Scottish Opera's collaborative project culminating in an opera based upon the music and story of Georges Bizet's Carmen, about a beautiful woman with a fiery temper, that moves the story from Spain to China. In English. Sept 23, 3.30pm, also 7.30pm, HK Academy for Performing Arts, 1 Gloucester Rd, Wan Chai, HK$150 HK Ticketing. Inquiries: 2762 2645
Coppelia
The HK Ballet performs a comedic ballet based on E.T.A. Hoffman's Der Sandmann  about an inventor who fools his neighbours with his creation of a beautiful mechanical doll; Ronald Hynd  choreographs. Sept 23-25, 8pm, also Sept 24-25, 3pm, Sha Tin Town Hall, 1 Yuen Wo Rd, Sha Tin, HK$120-HK$500 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2105 9724
Michael Collins Plays Copland  and Finzi
British clarinettist  Collins plays and conducts the HK Sinfonietta playing works by Ravel, Finzi, Elgar and Copland. Sept 23, 8pm, HK City Hall, 5 Edinburgh Place, Central, HK$120-HK$280 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2836 3336
Punch and Judy
The Nonsensemakers' adaptation of Bill Svanoe's  drama about two women - one just divorced from her rich husband, the other a writer who  is having an affair with a married man - getting together to write a novel. In Cantonese. Sept 23-24, 8pm, Sept 24-25, 3pm, HK City Hall, 5 Edinburgh Place, Central, HK$200, HK$260 Urbtix. Inquiries:  3746 5219
Sounds from a Musical Shangri-la
Yan Huichang conducts The Ethnic Song and Dance Troupe of Rongjiang and the HK Chinese Orchestra performing works including Zhao Yongshan's Rafting and Dong song and dance music works such as Song of the Cicada and Two Hearts in Love. Sept 23, 8pm, HK Cultural Centre, 10 Salisbury Rd, TST, HK$150-HK$380 Urbtix. Inquiries: 3185 1600
Talk to Him
City Contemporary Dance Company performs works about fading memories of Hong Kong choreographed by Chan Yi-jng, Lam Po, Luo Fan and Yang Hao. Sept 23-24, 8pm, also Sept 24-25, 3pm, HK Cultural Centre, 10 Salisbury Rd, TST, HK$160, HK$220 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2329 7803
The God of Love
Live Theatre's stage adaptation of Taiwanese writer  Giddens Ko Ching-teng's novel about a man who, after he gets killed in an accident, becomes a heavenly matchmaker whose first mission is to find the woman he loves a new boyfriend. In Cantonese. Sept 23-25, 8pm, also Sept 24-25, 3pm, Sheung Wan Civic Centre, Sheung Wan Municipal Services Building, 345 Queen's Rd Central, Sheung Wan, HK$150, HK$180 Urbtix. Inquiries:  2776 4433
Without Blood
Juan Carlos Zagal  directs and stars in Chilean arts group Compania Teatrocinema's multimedia production  that tells  a story of revenge centring on a woman whose father and brother were murdered one  evening when she was  a little girl. In Spanish with Chinese and English surtitles. Sept 23-24, 8pm, Sai Wan Ho Civic Centre, 111 Shau Kei Wan Rd, Sai Wan Ho, HK$180, HK$260 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2268 7323
Remembrance of Karaoke Past
Mathias Woo writes and directs Zuni Icosahedron and Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre's variety show about the joys and pains of love and life presented in the form of a talk show, featuring karaoke music. In Cantonese. Sept 23-24, 8.15pm, Sept 25, 5pm, HK Cultural Centre, 10 Salisbury Rd, TST, HK$120-HK$280 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2893 8704
Sandy Lam Concert MMXI
Canto-pop singer-actress Sandy Lam Yik-lin performs. Sept 23-25, 8.15pm, HK Coliseum, 9 Cheong Wan Rd, Hung Hom, HK$180-HK$580 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2323 2811
Kam Yuk Tong Cantonese Opera Troupe
Lau Wai-ming and Cheng Wing-mui star in the Cantonese opera troupe's productions of: The Legend of the White Snake, Sept 24, 7.30pm, Yuen Long Theatre, 9 Yuen Long Tai Yuk Rd, Yuen Long, HK$100-HK$240; and A Couple in Love Contending for Supremacy, Sept 27, 7.30pm, Ko Shan Theatre, 77 Ko Shan Rd, Hung Hom, HK$100-HK$260 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2268 7325
Julienne Taylor and The  Celtic Connection
The Scottish singer-songwriter and her band perform romantic folk and pop songs infused with Celtic sounds. Sept 24, 8pm, HK Academy for Performing Arts, 1 Gloucester Rd, Wan Chai, HK$180-HK$380 HK Ticketing. Inquiries: 2791 9103
The Butterfly Lovers
Yip Wing-sie conducts violinist Huang Mengla and the HK Sinfonietta playing works by Glinka, He Zhan-hao and Chen Gang, Kodaly and Sarasate. Sept 24, 8pm, HK City Hall, 5 Edinburgh Place, Central, HK$120-HK$480 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2836 3336
The Nightingale from the East - Wu Bixia and HKCO
Yan Huichang conducts vocalist Wu and the HK Chinese Orchestra performing works including Wang Liping's The Dream of the Red Mansions Suite (Excerpts) and Bai Chengren's Morning on Miao Mountains. Sept 24, 8pm, HK Cultural Centre, 10 Salisbury Rd, TST, HK$150-HK$380 Urbtix. Inquiries: 3185 1600
Tribute to Youth
Yip Wai-hong and Jimmy Chiang conduct soprano Anna Baxter, violinist Agnes Tse  and the Pan Asia Symphony Orchestra performing works by Tchaikovsky, Yip Wai-hong, Weber, Puccini and Johann Strauss II. Sept 24, 8pm, Tuen Mun Town Hall, 3 Tuen Hi Rd, Tuen Mun, HK$80-HK$140; and Sept 30, 8pm, Sha Tin Town Hall, 1 Yuen Wo Rd, Sha Tin, HK$110-HK$160 Urbtix. Inquiries:  2268 7321
HK International Jazz Festival Opening Concert
Hong Kong's Wilson Lam Trio, France's Trio d'en bas, Cuba's Estudiantina Ensemble, Malaysia's Aseana Percussion Unit and the mainland-British-Malaysian ensemble of Gao Hongzhang and  Acid Live perform. Sept 25, 2pm-7pm, Piazza A-C, HK Cultural Centre, 10 Salisbury Rd, TST, free. Inquiries: 2191 3297
A Tribute to Dizi Maestro Zhao Songting
Ho Man-chuen conducts, dizi-diyindi-paidi player Zhao, dizi-wanguandi-yanfeichi player Du Rusong, dizi-diyindi player Sun Yongzhi and the Windpipe Chinese Ensemble playing works such as Zhan Yongming's As Spring Fades and Zhou Yuguo and Sun Yongzhi's A Wife's Lament of Her Husband Far Away. Sept 25, 4pm, Tsuen Wan Town Hall, 72 Tai Ho Rd, Tsuen Wan, HK$80-HK$140 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2268 7321
The Third HK Deaf Festival
The HK Association of the Deaf present a variety show featuring theatre, dance and music performances. In Cantonese, English and Sign Language. Sept 25, 7.30pm, HK Arts Centre, 2 Harbour Rd, Wan Chai, HK$20 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2327 2497
J 14th Anniversary Summer Tour 2011 - The Fourteen Live in Hong Kong - The First Revolution
Japanese rock singer-songwriter-musician J (AKA Jun Onose) in concert. Sept 25, 8pm, Kitec, 1 Trademart Drive, Kowloon Bay, HK$450, HK$690 HK Ticketing. Inquiries: 8100 0138



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