To subscribe feeds for LCSD eMagazine Highights, please click RSS. To know more about RSS feeds, please click here.	International Arts Carnival 2013   Internet Booking The most expecting International Arts Carnival runs from 5 July to 11 August, presenting a wide variety of inspirational and enjoyable stage programmes, as well as extension activities such as workshops, cultural tours, exhibitions and outreach programmes, will be performed by both renowned overseas and local arts groups, adding more fun to the summer! Ticketing Agent: URBTIX Date/Time: 5 Jul - 11 Aug 2013 Geneva Ballet to perform new interpretation of "Romeo and Juliet" in July ($160, $260, $360, $460)   Internet Booking Switzerland's highly acclaimed Geneva Ballet will visit Hong Kong in July for performances of a new representation of Shakespeare's eternally appealing tragedy "Romeo and Juliet". The production is choreographed by Joëlle Bouvier. For Bouvier, it is not the picturesque and historical aspects of Prokofiev's ballet that count, but the universality of the fable. This is why Bouvier avoids prescribing a precise era on stage, and uses extracts from Prokofiev's three orchestral suites with the choreography concentrated on the essential articulations of this timeless drama. Ticketing Agent: URBTIX Venue: Hong Kong Cultural Centre (Grand Theatre) Date/Time: 19 - 21 Jul 2013 (Fri to Sun) International Children's Film Carnival 2013 ($55)   Internet Booking A wide range of fun and interesting films for children, youth and families will be screened. They include the thrilling "My African Adventure" (2013), the breathtaking film "The Blue Tiger" (2011); "Tad, the Lost Explorer" (2012) about a hair-raising journey; the light-hearted "Lotte and the Moonstone Secret" (2011); the beautifully crafted production "A Letter to Momo" (2011); the heart-warming "Stanley Ka Dabba" (2011) and classic musicals from the 1960s, "The Sound of Music" (1965) and "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" (1968); "Special Screenings for Parents" featuring children¡¦s needs, "Fidgety Bram" (2012) and "Jumping Boy" (2012) and award-winning films, "Kauwboy" (2012) and "Cool Kids Don¡¦t Cry" (2012) in "Specials for Youth". Ticketing Agent: URBTIX Date/Time: 5 Jul - 11 Aug 2013 "Melencolia" by Peter Suart to explore historical, philosophic and religious issues through Albrecht Dˆ¢rer's masterpieces ($160, $200)   Internet Booking The play is based on three engravings by the acclaimed German artist Albrecht Dˆ¢rer, entitled "Melencolia I", "Knight, Death and the Devil" and "St. Jerome in His Study". The engravings act as a key to explore historical, philosophic and religious issues. Ticketing Agent: URBTIX Venue: Hong Kong Arts Centre (Shouson Theatre) Date/Time: 12 - 13 Jul 2013 (Fri to Sat) Critics' Choice 2013 ¡V Film Narrative in Perspective ($55, $80)   Internet Booking The Hong Kong Film Critics Society has selected six feature films which serve as the pioneers or style-setters in the history of cinematographic narration. The selected films consist of three different perspectives in film narrative. They include "Mystery and Truth" featuring director Michelangelo Antonioni¡¦s "L¡¦Avventura" and director Roman Polanski¡¦s "Chinatown"; "Memoirs and Portraits" featuring director Hou Hsiao-hsien¡¦s "Good Men, Good Women" and director Julien Duvivier¡¦s "Dance Programme"; and "New Waves: New Ways of Storytelling" featuring director Kuroki Kazuo¡¦s "Silence Has No Wings" and director Jacques Rivette¡¦s "Celine and Julie Go Boating". The screenings will be accompanied by post-screening seminars and workshops for audience to have a more comprehensive perspective in film narrative. Ticketing Agent: URBTIX Date/Time: 11 May - 20 Jul 2013 Uruguayan black light theatre company to perform KOHI in May ($120, $150, $160, $180)   Internet Booking Pampinak Theatre from Uruguay will stage two black light theatre performances, entitled KOHI, in May. Pampinak Theatre is a puppet theatre company using black light theatre as the main staging technique. The puppets used are made by members of the company through experimentation, with an emphasis on creating natural movements with mechanisms of their own design. In adopting a mixture of black light theatre and the Japanese bunraku for staging, the company tells stories that entertain and at the same time tug at the heart. Ticketing Agent: URBTIX Date/Time: 18 - 19 May 2013 (Sat to Sun) "The Cinematic Matrix of Golden Harvest" ($40)   Internet Booking Golden Harvest contributed as a pioneering film studio in Hong Kong for more than 30 years. It has produced films covering an assortment of genres and nurtured a number of internationally renowned superstars and directors. The studio was not merely a success story of entrepreneurship, but a modern legend. The films to showcase the studio¡¦s different glorious genres include "The Way of the Dragon" (1972), "The Young Master" (1980), "The Invincible Eight" (1971), "Beach of the War Gods" (1973), "I Am Sorry" (1989), "The Soong Sisters" (1997), "The Happenings" (1980), "On the Run" (1988), etc. To complement the screenings, the "Golden Harvest: A Landmark in Hong Kong Cinema" exhibition features sets of some classic scenes, together with photos and posters, to offer an overview of Golden Harvest¡¦s development. Admission of exhibition is free. Ticketing Agent: URBTIX Venue: Hong Kong Film Archive Date/Time: Screenings: From now onwards until 30 Jun 2013 (Sun) ; Exhibition: From now onwards until 14 Jul 2013 (Sun) LCSD implements further measures to improve the booking arrangements for recreation and sports facilities Four new measures will be introduced with effect from June 18 with a view to improving the booking and allocation of recreation and sports facilities further and curbing touting activities. These include the shortening of the advanced booking period of recreational and sports facilities by individual hirers from the current 30 days to 10 days; the implementation of a six-month trial scheme during which the ¡§stand-by¡¨ arrangement at football pitches will be cancelled; the reduction of the reallocation period offered to hirers who could not use the booked facilities due to inclement weather from 60 days to 15 days; and the cancellation of bookings of sports facilities by "minders of a disabled person" using concessionary rates. Date/Time: Start from 18 Jun 2013 (Tue)
Last revision date: 2013.05.19