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Art
A World in Black and White
Chen Fuli
HKU Museum and Art Gallery, Free, Tel: 2241 5512
Renowned photographer Chen's photographs taken from the '50s to the '70s in Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, China and Hong Kong expressing his views towards society during some of Asia's most turbulent years continue on display. The exhibition also features an emphasis on Chen's technique and the technology he used. Through November 27.

Belgian Design Contest Exhibition
Belgian Consulate
Central Plaza Lobby 1/F, 18 Harbour Road, Wanchai, Free, www.bestofbelgium.hk
An opportunity to highlight Belgian architecture and design creativity and the talent that makes it real.

Clifford Chance Visual Memoirs
HK Youth Arts Festival
Fringe Club Economist Gallery, 12pm-10pm, Free, Tel: 2877 2779
60 primary and secondary school students take the oral histories of the senior citizens the St James Settlement and Grace Nursing Home. They then used collage and mixed media materials to transform the seniors' pasts into original visual art pieces. To November 19.

Muse Gaze
1a Space Gallery, Free,
Tel: 2529 0087
Seven emerging female photographers present works with a vastly different perspective. Through December 4.

Parallelisms: Photo Exhibition
Belgian Consulate
Galerie des Arts et de la Culture, Free, www.bestofbelgium.hk
An intimate exploration into architectural and conceptual objects from both China-Hong Kong and Belgium putting them in parallel with sometimes unexpected relationships. Closed on Mondays. To November 30.

Photo Exhibition: It's in Hong Kong, it's Belgian, but did you know?
Belgian Consulate
Central Plaza Lobby 1/F, 18 Harbour Road, Wanchai, Free, www.bestofbelgium.hk
The aim is to unveil the presence of Belgium in Hong Kong through the blending of Belgian products with our daily lives. You’ll be taken through a journey of surprises and discovery. To November 25.

The HK Jockey Club Urban Jungle
HK Youth Arts Festival
Pao Galleries, Free, Tel: 2877 2779 Artwork by 6000 local students from primary, secondary and special needs schools, many of whom were propelled into the countryside to connect with nature and express their feelings about the environment in a creative way. Led by artist Katie Flowers, the project was aimed at inspiring the participants to create a diverse range of artworks, such as photography, sculpture, collage, painting and recycled paper making. Through November 30.

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Dance
Dance Forest
DancingAndy Creative Workshop Ltd
Fringe Club Studio Theatre, 8pm, $150, Tel: 31 288 288
Two dance artists, Andy and Taiju, are enough to set a forest in motion. They’re developing their potential and exploring the infinite possibilities in dancing.

Film
HK Jewish Film Festival:
Broken Wings
Cine-Art House, 7:30pm, $75,
Tel: 6771 8070
A contemporary drama about a 17-year-old girl who's forced to act as a surrogate mother to her younger siblings when their real mother must go back to work. Sincere, moving and humourous. Directed by Nir Bergman. In Hebrew with English subtitles.

HKLGFF: Saving Face
Palace IFC, 7:40pm, $130, $65, Tel: 2388 3188
The opening night film for this year's Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (HKLGFF) is Alice Wu's family comedy/drama that rolls a coming-out story, a meditation on being Asian-American and an emotional mother-daughter tale into one. Starring Joan Chen and Michelle Krusiec. In Mandarin and English with English subtitles.

miscellaneous
The Art of Commercials 2005
HK Arts Centre Agnès b. CINEMA!, 7:30pm, 9pm, $40,
Tel: 2734 9009
The HKAC continues its screenings of the best television spots from around the world. If you think this stuff is easy, think again; Cannes screens ads don’t forget. 15 – 30- second feature films from around the world and CLIO-, AJRC- and AICP-winners among others unfurl all month. For detailed programme information, call 2582 0200.

Music
Always Lam in Concert
george lam
HK Coliseum, 8:15pm, $400, $250, $100,
Tel: 2734 9009
Cantopop stalwart and bearer of The Moustache rolls out the hits for no apparent reason.

Cantonese Operatic Songs Concert
Rainbow Cantonese
Opera Association
HK Cultural Centre Concert Hall, 7:45pm, $150, $100,
Tel: 2734 9009

Latin America 2005 Festival:
Viva Latin America
Edge Bar, $180, Tel: 2850 4822
The closing party of the Latinamerica 2005 Festival.

Musco Annual Concert 2005
Musco
Sheung Wan Civic Centre Theatre, 8pm, $60, Tel: 2734 9009
On the programme of classical giants are Schumann, Dvorak, Chopin and Ravel.

Vocal Recital by Oscar Zhang
HK City Hall Concert Hall, 8pm, $380, $220, $160, $100,
Tel: 2734 9009
For complete programme details,
call 9042 4090.

Theatre
Dream of the West Chamber
Yam Kim Fai & Pak Suet Sin Charitable Foundation
HK Cultural Centre Grand Theatre, 7:30pm, $680, $480, $380, $280, $180, Tel: 2734 2009
For complete programme details, call 2268 7323.

New York Attitude
Mon cafe theatre production
Gecko, 8pm, $180 (adv), $200 (door), Tel: 2537 4680
Beyond Therapy, Lunchtime, Scruples, Hard Boiled and Downtown are intimately performed by local actors.

Quidam
Cirque Du Soleil
Waterfront Park, Cyberport, 8pm, $1400, $600, $500, $400,
Tel: 31 288 299
The world's favourite circus – and Quebec's only gift to the world (Celine Dion is not a gift by any standards) – rolls back into town with its show about taking a step out of reality into the wonderment and magic within fantasy… and with unknown strangers! Acrobats, clowns and jugglers galore, all wrapped up in an atmosphere of surreal beauty. Quite spectacular.

Rep 2 Festival: Program 2
HK Repertory Theatre
8/F, Sheung Wan Civic Centre, 7:45pm, $120,
Tel: 3103 5900 Boxer, When Broadway Meets Opera Mamia. In Cantonese.
Sound as Image, Sound as Shape, Sound Improvisation Theatre

Clash Theatre Group
Asia Meets Asia
HK Cultural Centre Studio Theatre, 8pm, $120, $60,
Tel: 2734 9009 The first HK Improvised Performance Festival, so who knows what you’ll get. Performed in Cantonese.

The Sound of Music
HKAPA Lyric Theatre, 8pm, $600, $400, $290, $190, Tel: 31 288 288 The hills are alive on the Hong Kong stage. The enduring classic about the Von Trapps and their comely governess Maria learning to love and sing while the war begins to rear its ugly head outside their Alpine door.
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Dance
FUNderful Dance
LCSD
HK Station, Central Station, 6pm, Free, Tel: 2372 9957
Community dance show.

Dance Forest
DancingAndy Creative Workshop Ltd
Fringe Club Studio Theatre, 8pm, $150, Tel: 31 288 288
(See November 17 for details)

Film
HK Film/Video Artists Series #4 – Makin Fung Bing Fai Programme 3
HK Arts Centre Agnès b. CINEMA!, 8pm, $70,
Tel: 2734 9009
Fung attempts to create a discourse on theatre – and make the audience part of the performance. This will be a musical poem that contemplates art and life. In Cantonese.

HKLGFF: Hustler White
Broadway Cinematheque, 9:30pm, $55, Tel: 2388 3188
The director in focus this year is the notorious and fabulous Bruce LaBruce. Here, ex-Madonna boy toy Tony Ward stars as an LA hustler who takes an infatuated writer (LaBruce) on a tour of LA's gay scene. Equally infuriating for holding up stereotypes of gay life and compelling for the critique it makes of it. In English.

HKLGFF: Queens
Palace IFC, 9:40pm, $65,
Tel: 2388 3188
Five gay sons, five domineering mothers, one wedding. As the mass nupitals for their boys' nears, five queens of a different sort deal with love, hate, tolerance, and their families – the people they can't ever get away from. A comedy starring the formidable Carmen Maura, Marisa Paredes and Veronica Forque among others. Directed by Manuel Gomez Pereira. In Spanish with Chinese and English subtitles.

HKLGFF: The Raspberry Reich
Broadway Cinematheque, 7:40pm, $55, Tel: 2388 3188
LaBruce's most recent film skewers all levels of social politics with typically trashy style, retro bad acting and a dash of porn. Very much LaBruce, hilarious and not to be missed. In English.

Music
Academy Oratorio: Elijah
HKAPA Concert Hall, 7pm, Free, Tel: 31 288 288

Always Lam in Concert
george lam
HK Coliseum, 8:15pm, $400, $250, $100, Tel: 2734 9009
(See November 17 for details)

An Evening with the Piano Laureate
HK Philharmonic Orchestra
HK Cultural Centre Concert Hall, 8pm, $250, $200, $150, $100,
Tel: 2734 9009
The 2005 HK International Piano Competition First Prize Winner, Ilya Rashkovskiy in concert.

Barbra and Frank, The Concert
That Never Happened
Sharon owens and
sebastian anzaldo
Piazza Dinner Theatre, 7:30pm, $580, Tel: 8206 9333
Straight from Vegas, Streisand and Sinatra “interpreters” put on the show that might have been – had Babs not retired and Blue Eyes hadn’t died. Price is for dinner and the show.

Black Seraphine
Fringe Club Fringe Gallery, 10:30pm, $80,
Fringe members free,
Tel: 2521 7251
Big, loud, hirsute '80s metal cover band. Go back in time with Ozzy, Van Halen, Iron Maiden, Motley Crue et al. Dear lord.

Chinese Instrumental Concert
Dunhuang Orchestra
Tsing Yi Estate, Phase I Podium
8pm, Tel: 2591 1340

Dream of the West Chamber
Yam Kim Fai & Pak Suet Sin Charitable Foundation
HK Cultural Centre Grand Theatre, 7:30pm, $680, $480, $380, $280, $180, Tel: 2734 2009
(See November 17 for details)

Friday Fest
DJ Ed, The Demos, inLove
Tong Chong Street, Taikoo Place, 6pm, Free, Tel: 2844 5095
The weekly outdoor music chill-outs in Taikoo Place continue.

Miscellaneous
Chinese Traditional Stage
Arts Show
Fantastic art
Chevalier Garden, Basketball Court, Sha Tin, Free, 8pm,
Tel: 2591 1340

Theatre
Asia Meets Asia Collaboration Project No. 4:
Unbearable Dreams III
Clash Theatre Group
HK Cultural Centre Studio Theatre, 8pm, $100, Tel: 2734 9009
What is a dream? This is not logical in time and space. You never know where it comes from.

Fame
HK Youth Arts Festival
HKAC Shouson Theatre 7:30pm, $120, $80, Tel: 2734 9009
The story of the hopes and dreams of aspiring stars in their quest for success in NY's legendary High School of Performing Arts. Eighty talented young singers, dancers and actors and a live rock band will be banging out the musical.

Festival of Experimenting Traditions 2005: Meeting of the Gods I
Zuni Icosahedron
HK City Hall Exhibition Hall, 8pm, $150, Tel: 2734 9009 Congregation of the Heroes.

Latin Passion Festival: Kiss of the Spider Woman
Spring-Time Creative Media & Perry Chiu Experimental Theatre
HK City Hall Theatre,
8pm, $180, $140, $100,
Tel: 2734 9009
Based on Manuel Puig’s 1976 novel, Kiss of the Spider Woman (William Hurt won an Oscar for his performance as Luis) has been adapted for the big screen, the stage and as a Broadway musical. In every form it’s been performed in, it’s been hugely successful. In Cantonese.

New York Attitude
Mon cafe theatre production
Gecko, 8pm,
$180 (adv), $200 (door),
Tel: 2537 4680
(See November 17 for details)

Quidam
Cirque Du Soleil
Waterfront Park, Cyberport, 8pm, $1400, $600, $500, $400,
Tel: 31 288 299
(See November 17 for details)

Rep 2 Festival: Program 2
HK Repertory Theatre
8/F, Sheung Wan Civic Centre, 7:45pm, $120,
Tel: 2734 9009
(See November 17 for details)

The Sound of Music
HKAPA Lyric Theatre, 8pm, $690, $490, $290, Tel: 31 288 288
(See November 17 for details)
Theatre 4 All

HK Youth Arts Festival
Fringe Club 02 Theatre,
7:30pm, $60, Tel: 31 288 288
This series will present a myriad of productions and explore many performance styles – from classical theatre and original play premieres, to modern adaptations of classics, Chinese Opera and movement pieces.
Saturday 19

Dance
FUNderful Dance
Shatin Park Theatre, 4pm, Free, Tel: 2372 9957
(See November 18 for details)

Dance Forest
DancingAndy Creative Workshop Ltd
Fringe Club Studio Theatre, 3pm, 8pm, $150, Tel: 31 288 288
(See November 17 for details)

Latin Passion Festival:
Tango: The Legend
Tango Por Dos
Kwai Tsing Theatre Auditorium, 3pm, 8pm, $300, $200, $120,
Tel: 2734 9009
Tango Por Dos whisks the audience through its exotic history.
Simmering, sexy captivating and mind-boggling in its complexity.

Film
HK Film/Video Artists Series #4 – Ernest Fung Programme 2
HK Arts Centre Agnès b. CINEMA!, 5:30pm, $40, Tel: 2734 9009
Fung creates film through his understanding of music. The shorts screened in this programme include Dangerous Girls, Ge Wei Tong, The Labyrinth of Mirror
and Flower.

HK Film/Video Artists Series #4 – Makin Fung Bing Fai Programme 3
HK Arts Centre Agnès b. CINEMA!, 8pm, $70, Tel: 2734 9009
(See November 19 for details)

HK Jewish Film Festival:
Live and Become
Cine-Art House, 7:30pm, $75,
Tel: 6771 8070
When a 9-year-old Christian boy is told by his mother to take up Israel's offer of accepting Falashas into the country to avoid famine, it is the catalyst that exposes him to the wonders and horrors of Western culture, love, Judaism, racism and war. Directed by Radu Mihaileanu. In Hebrew, Amharic, French and English with
English subtitles.

HKLGFF: No Skin Off My Ass
Broadway Cinematheque, 9:40pm, $55, Tel: 2388 3188
This is LaBruce's first feature, and it became quite a cult hit across the globe. LaBruce plays the bitch hairdresser who takes home a hot skinhead. Seminal queer filmmaking. In English.

HKLGFF: Odete
Broadway Cinematheque, 4pm, $55, Tel: 2388 3188
The latest by Joao Pedro Rodrigues is a sexually charged black comedy about a man mourning his dead lover through hedonism and the upstairs fruit-fly from hell neighbour who suffers from a hysterical pregnancy. In Portuguese with English subtitles.

HKLGFF: Skin Flick
Broadway Cinematheque, 6pm, $55, Tel: 2388 3188
A classic example of LaBruce-style agit-porn. A group of skinheads break into the home of an affluent mixed race gay couple and things go downhill from there. But of course, it's bizarrely hilarious. This is the right-wing attack that the left wing takes in The Raspberry Reich. In English.

HKLGFF: Super 8 1/2
Broadway Cinematheque, 7:20pm, $55, Tel: 2388 3188
A remotely autobiographical story about a washed up porn star (LaBruce) who gets a chance at a comeback courtesy of a lesbian filmmaker. Look for cameos by Richard Kern and Vaginal Creme Davis. In English.

HKLGFF: That Man: Peter Berlin
Broadway Cinematheque, 2:30pm, $55, Tel: 2388 3188
Peter Berlin – known for his jaunts up and down Castro St and his impressive unit – is the subject of this doc. He was the Great Garbo of porn, and he explains his choices on camera. Directed by Jim Tushinski. In English.

HKLGFF: Zona Rosa
Broadway Cinematheque, 1pm, $55, Tel: 2388 3188
The defunct El Antro in Mexico City gets one more moment in the spotlight in this doc about the famed club. Directed by Dan Castle. In Spanish with English subtitles

Yellow Willow in the Frost, Films of Anna May Wong:
Daughter of the Dragon
HK Film Archive, 2:30pm, $40,
Tel: 2734 9009
Wong is the beautiful Ling Moy, who discovers she is the daughter of the evil Fu Manchu. Will she work with her father or will she join the forces of good to thwart his heinous plans? Classic schmaltz with plenty of escapist Orientalism.

miscellaneous
Standard Chartered
Book Festival 2005
Victoria Park, 12pm-9pm, 12pm-10pm (Sat only), $10,
Tel: 2234 6424
Large-scale outdoor books exhibition, and concurrent stage events on reading and culture.
To November 27.

Music
Always Lam in Concert
george lam
HK Coliseum, 8:15pm, $400, $250, $100, Tel: 2734 9009
(See November 17 for details)

Barbra and Frank, The Concert
That Never Happened
Sharon owens and
sebastian anzaldo
Piazza Dinner Theatre, 7:30pm, $580, Tel: 8206 9333
(See November 18 for details)

Beyond Borders
Amjad Ali Khan
Jockey Club Auditorium, 7:30pm, $400, $200, $100,
Tel: 2734 9009
Instrumental concert by Amjad Ali Khan, one of the most revered and internationally renowned instrumentalists from India – and the 19-string sarod is his specialty. He will be performing with his talented sons, Amaan and Ayaan Ali Bangash.

Cantonese Operatic Songs Concert
Viva Chinese Opera Association
HK City Hall Concert Hall, 7:15pm, Free, Tel: 2734 9009
For complete programme details, call 2519 8190.

Dream of the West Chamber
Yam Kim Fai & Pak Suet Sin Charitable Foundation
HK Cultural Centre Grand Theatre, 7:30pm, $680, $480, $380, $280, $180, Tel: 2734 2009
(See November 17 for details)

Joint Concert By HK Youth Chinese plucked String Orchestra & HK Youth Strings
Tuen Mun Town Hall, Auditorium,
7:30pm, $20, Tel: 2399 2195

Latin Passion Festival
Rosa Passos
HK Cultural Centre Concert Hall, 8pm, $360, $280, $200, $120,
Tel: 2734 9009
Hailed as the world's most beautiful voice by Yo-Yo Ma, the heir to bossa nova master Joao Gilberto pays homage to Jobim and Gilberto.

Music 4 All - Band Buzz
HK Youth Arts Festival
Fringe Club 02 Theatre, 7:30pm, $60, Tel: 31 288 288
Band Buzz brings together 4 local new contemporary music groups: AIS Rock Band, Album, Glory & Friends, Shirley Lee.

Spektraz
Fringe Club Fringe Gallery, 10:30pm, $100, Fringe members free, Tel: 2521 7251
The impact of technology is allowed to be felt on jazz. Justin Siu, Chuen, Chin and Vic play electronic age jazz.

SuperDay
SuperDay
The Warehouse, 7:30pm, $40 (door), Tel: 2396 2608
Enjoy SuperDay's music for the evening as they celebrate the release of their debut album (November 4). Guest bands such as Hard Candy, Dzap Dau Dau, and 218 will also be performing.

Xiang Gang Electric
CD Release Party
Grappa’s Cellar, 10pm, $230 (adv), $260 door, Tel: 2868 3307
Celebrate the launch of the first home-grown electronic music compilation with The Demos, Alok, Tszpun, DJ Yin, Rexx and more. The record hits stores commerically this month. Here’s the chance to get a sneak peek.

Theatre
Asia Meets Asia Collaboration Project No. 4:
Unbearable Dreams III
Clash Theatre Group,
Asia Meets Asia
HK Cultural Centre Studio 0Theatre, 8pm, $120,
Tel: 2734 9009
(See November 18 for details)

Fame
HK Youth Arts Festival
HK Arts Centre Shouson Theatre, 7:30pm, $120, $80,
Tel: 2734 9009
(See November 18 for details)

Festival of Experimenting Traditions 2005: Meeting of the Gods I
Zuni Icosahedron
HK City Hall Exhibition Hall, 3pm, $150, Tel: 2734 9009
(See November 18 for details)

Festival of Experimenting Traditions 2005: Meeting of the Gods II
Zuni Icosahedron
HK City Hall Exhibition Hall, 8pm, $150, Tel: 2734 9009
Electric folk concert.

Latin Passion Festival:
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Spring-Time Creative Media & Perry Chiu
Experimental Theatre
HK City Hall Theatre, 3pm, 8pm, $180, $140, $100, Tel: 2734 9009 (See November 18 for details)

New York Attitude
Mon cafe theatre production
Gecko, 8pm, $180 (adv), $200 (door), Tel: 2537 4680
(See November 17 for details)

Quidam
Cirque Du Soleil
Waterfront Park, Cyberport, 4pm, 8pm, $1400, $600, $500, $400, Tel: 31 288 299
(See November 17 for details)

Rep 2 Festival: Program 2
HK Repertory Theatre
8/F, Sheung Wan Civic Centre, 2:45pm, 7:45pm, $120,
Tel: 3103 5900
(See November 17 for details)

The Sound of Music
HKAPA Lyric Theatre, 2:30pm, $600, $400, $290, $190, 8pm, $690, $490, $290,Tel: 31 288 288 (See November 17 for details)
Sunday 20

Art
Glass is Art L'Anverre Exhibition Belgium Consulate
The Lee Gardens, G/F Lobby, Free, www.bestofbelgium.hk
Glass art creations of L'Anverre, will be on show in Hong Kong as part of the spotlight on trendy Belgian designers. Sem Schanzer, the creator of dramatic art pieces, will present his latest collections to the Hong Kong public. Until November 30.

Dance
FUNderful Dance
2/F, Sheung Shui Mall, 4pm, Free, Tel: 2372 9957
(See November 18 for details)

Latin Passion Festival: Tango:
The Legend
Tango Por Dos
Kwai Tsing Theatre Auditorium, 3pm, 8pm, $300, $200, $120,
Tel: 2734 9009
(See November 19 for details)

Film
HK Jewish Film Festival: Live and Become
Cine-Art House, 8pm, $75,
Tel: 6771 8070 In Hebrew, Amharic, French and English with English subtitles.
(See November 19 for details)

HK Jewish Film Festival: Mendy
Cine-Art House, 5:40pm, $75,
Tel: 6771 8070
Ultra conservative Mendy leaves the Satmar order and tries to deal with secular life. Knowledgable and brutally honest. Directed by Adam Vardy. In Yiddish and English with English subtitles.

HK Jewish Film Festival: Professor Mamlock
Cine-Art House, 3:30pm, $75,
Tel: 6771 8070
The East German minor classic about a surgeon who refuses to believe that Nazism is on the rise – even when his daughter becomes the target of anti-Semitic threats and he’s removed from his job. Circumstances finally force an extreme reaction from him. From 1961. Directed by Konrad Wolf. In German with English subtitles.

HK Jewish Film Festival: The Great Communist Bank Robbery
Cine-Art House, 1pm, $75,
Tel: 6771 8070
A document of life behind the Iron Curtain. Six Romanian Jews are arrested for a bank robbery – something that didn't happen in the social utopia – found guilty and forced to recreate their crime. Absurd as it is compelling. In English and Romanian with
English subtitles.

HKLGFF: Beverly Kills
Palace IFC, 7:40pm, $65,
Tel: 2388 3188
If you like John Waters, you might like this. Inept drag queen Beverly is looking for vengeance from the community theatre that gave her the kiss-off. What happened: she was rejected for a role in an all-nude musical. In English.

HKLGFF: Cloud & Rain
Broadway Cinematheque, 5:50pm, $55, Tel: 2388 3188
Lesbian short films, including Her (Kai Ling Xue, Canada), Pussy (Thanyathorn Siwanukrok, Thailand), Tampon Manual (Saeron Seong, Korea), Silip (Malaya J. Mendoza, Malaysia), Puppet Soap Opera - Except Love (Naniwa Vinyl, Japan), and Between (Hunseung Lee, Korea).

HKLGFF: El Favor
Broadway Cinematheque, 2:30pm, $55, Tel: 2388 3188
This Almodovar type comedy is centred on lesbians Mora and Roberta, their desire for a baby, and Mora's brother. Directed by Pablo Sofovich. In Spanish with English subtitles.

HKLGFF: George Michael: A Different Story
Broadway Cinematheque, 7:45pm, $55, Tel: 2388 3188
Hear George Michael speak for the first time about the loss of his long-term partner to AIDS and the incident that forced him out of the closet. A revealing look at an enduring pop icon and enigma.
In English.

HKLGFF: Home Sweet Home
Broadway Cinematheque, 4:10pm, $55, Tel: 2388 3188
Shorts by lesbian filmmakers are shown in a series this year.
This collection features A Girl Named Kai (Kai Ling Xue, Canada), The Girls That Way (Shadow Zhang, Jude Tian, China), I'm
OK (Ko Yu-Young, Korea), and Duoduo and Jing's Happy Life (Zhang Qianqian, Gu Shengfu, Xi Quan, China).

HKLGFF: Hot Shorts on Asian Boys '05
Palace IFC, 4:10pm, $65,
Tel: 2388 3188
(See November 18 for details)

HKLGFF: Loggerheads
Palace IFC, 5:45pm, $65,
Tel: 2388 3188
Three diverse stories intertwine into a larger tale of redemption, love and forgiveness. Directed by Tim Kirkman. In English.

HKLGFF: The Raspberry Reich
Palace IFC, 9:30pm, $65,
Tel: 2388 3188
(See November 18 for details)

Scoutman
Broadway Cinematheque, 12pm, $35, Tel: 2388 3188
The movie looks straight into one of the most notorious corners of Japan's porn industries where girls sell their bodies and overworked salarymen get off. Directed by Masato Ishioka. In Japanese with English and Chinese Subtitles.

Yellow Willow in the Frost, Films of Anna May Wong: Shanghai Express
HK Film Archive, 5pm, $40,
Tel: 2734 9009
Part of a retrospective on the first Asian American film star, Shanghai Express has Wong giving co-star Marlene Dietrich a run for her money. A civil war makes things difficult for travellers on the Shanghai Express, among them a British doctor and his old flame.

The Color of Lies
Broadway Cinematheque, 9:40pm, $45, Tel: 2388 3188
A typical psychological thriller from a master of the genre Claude Chabrol brings together familiar themes of marriage, complacency, and a lurking menace French with English subtitles.

Music
An Evening with the Piano Laureate
HK Philharmonic Orchestra
HK Cultural Centre Concert Hall, 8pm, $250, $200, $150, $100,
Tel: 2734 9009
(See November 18 for details)

Dream of the West Chamber
Yam Kim Fai & Pak Suet Sin Charitable Foundation
HK Cultural Centre Grand Theatre, 7:30pm, $680, $480, $380, $280, $180, Tel: 2734 2009
(See November 17 for details)

Tres Missae
Hong Kong Voices
St. John's Cathedral Li Hall, 4pm, $50, info@hkvoices.org
Three masses spanning from the Renaissance to the 20th century will be presented.

miscellaneous
The Art of Commercials 2005
HK Arts Centre Agnès b. CINEMA!, 2:30pm, 4pm, $40,
Tel: 2734 9009
(See November 17 for details)

Barbra and Frank, The Concert
That Never Happened
Sharon owens and
sebastian anzaldo
Piazza Dinner Theatre, 7:30pm, $580, Tel: 8206 9333
(See November 18 for details)

Theatre
Festival of Experimenting Traditions 2005: Meeting of the Gods II
Zuni Icosahedron
HK City Hall Exhibition Hall, 8pm, $150, Tel: 2734 9009
(See November 19 for details)

Latin Passion Festival: Kiss of the Spider Woman
Spring-Time Creative Media & Perry Chiu
Experimental Theatre
HK City Hall Theatre, 3pm, 8pm, $180, $140, $100, Tel: 2734 9009 (See November 18 for details)

Quidam
Cirque Du Soleil
Waterfront Park, Cyberport, 1pm, 5pm, $1400, $600, $500, $400, Tel: 31 288 299
(See November 17 for details)

Rep 2 Festival: Program 2
HK Repertory Theatre
8/F, Sheung Wan Civic Centre, 2:45pm, 7:45pm, $120,
Tel: 2734 9009
(See November 17 for details)

Sound as Image, Sound as Shape, Sound Improvisation Theatre
Clash Theatre Group,
Asia Meets Asia
HK Cultural Centre Studio Theatre, 8pm, $120, $60, Tel: 2734 9009
(See November 17 for details)

The Sound of Music
HKAPA Lyric Theatre, 2:30pm, 8pm, $600, $400, $290, $190,
Tel: 31 288 288
(See November 17 for details)

Monday 21

art
Acrylic & Oil Pastelon Canvas Paintings Exhibition: Doing My Best
AYUMI ADACHI
Cultural Club Gallery, Free,
Tel: 2127 7936
In memory of her grandmother, Adachi tries to answer the last letter she received with the
works in this exhibition.

Dance
Chinese Folk Songs and Dance
nation music & dance group of Hong kong
Kwai Shing West Estate, Block 6 Podium, 8pm, Tel: 2591 1340

Film
HKLGFF: Good Boys
Broadway Cinematheque, 9:30pm, $55, Tel: 2388 3188
Meni and Tal attempt to keep the intense bond of love they share as they navigate Tel Aviv's streets and the deadening effects of the sex trade. Directed by Yair Hochner. In Hebrew with
English subtitles.

HKLGFF: Rainbow Society
Palace IFC, 9:40pm, $65,
Tel: 2388 3188
A programme highlighting diversity. Featuring Babae (Sigrid Andrea P. Bernardo, Philippines), The Helmet (One, Korea), and Prolesb (Joselita Mendoza, Philippines). Part of the lesbian shorts programme.

HKLGFF: That Man: Peter Berlin
Broadway Cinematheque, 7:40pm, $55, Tel: 2388 3188
(See November 19 for details)

HKLGFF: Under the Lion Rock
Palace IFC, 7:40pm, $65,
Tel: 2388 3188
Lesbian shorts from Hong Kong which include Oneself (Cam Cheng, Ng Wing Ki), Just Love (Fung King Long), Devil Like Me (Ktour), and Ground Walk (Gilitte Leung).

Music
Rolin In Love with Music for 68 Years
HK Singing & Music Association
HK City Hall Theatre, 7:30pm, $50, Tel: 2734 9009
For complete programme details, call 9314 0963.

Theatre
Festival of Experimenting Traditions 2005: Meeting of the Gods I
Zuni Icosahedron
HK City Hall Exhibition Hall, 8pm, $150, Tel: 2734 9009
(See November 18 for details)
Tuesday 22

Film
HKLGFF: Beverly Kills
Palace IFC, 9:40pm, $65,
Tel: 2388 3188
(See November 20 for details)

HKLGFF: Eating Out
Broadway Cinematheque, 7:40pm, $55, Tel: 2388 3188
A romantic comedy, of sorts, about a straight guy acting gay to get the girl and the girl trying to set him up with her gay roommate and his gay friend who's going to try and help him get the girl... Oy. Starring American Idol finalist Jim Verranos. Directed by Allan Brocka. In English with Chinese and English subtitles.

HKLGFF: El Favor
Palace IFC, 7:40pm, $65,
Tel: 2388 3188
(See November 20 for details)

HKLGFF: Space of Desire
Broadway Cinematheque, 9:25pm, $55, Tel: 2388 3188
Documentary about the LGBT rights movement in Hong Kong. The director will be in attendance for a Q&A at kubrick after the screening. Directed by David Chow. In Cantonese and English with English subtitles.

Music
Cantonese Operatic Songs Concert
Cultural Performing
Arts Academy
HK City Hall Concert Hall, 7:15pm, $500, $300, $200, $100,
Tel: 2734 9009
For complete programme details,
call 2894 8323.

Theatre
An Incident at Tongque Tower
Hon Fung Cantonese
Opera Institute
HK Cultural Centre Grand Theatre, 7:30pm, $320, $240, $180, $100, Tel: 2734 9009

Fame
HK Youth Arts Festival
HK Arts Centre Shouson Theatre, 7:30pm, $120, $80,
Tel: 2734 9009
(See November 18 for details)

Festival of Experimenting Traditions 2005: Meeting of the Gods I
Zuni Icosahedron
HK City Hall Exhibition Hall, 8pm, $150, Tel: 2734 9009
(See November 18 for details)

Wednesday 23

Film
HKLGFF: Hilde's Journey
Palace IFC, 7:40pm, $65,
Tel: 2388 3188
A compelling story about the struggle between an AIDS-symptomatic man trying to honour his friend's dying wish and the man's manipulative mother. Directed by Christof Vorster. In German with English subtitles.

HKLGFF: Home Sweet Home
Broadway Cinematheque, 7:40pm, $55, Tel: 2388 3188
(See November 20 for details)

HKLGFF: Super 8 1/2
Palace IFC, 9:40pm, $65,
Tel: 2388 3188
(See November 19 for details)

HKLGFF: Yummy Yummy
Broadway Cinematheque, 9:30pm, $55, Tel: 2388 3188
More lesbian shorts from around Asia, including I Hum, and She's Dashing When She Walks (iri, Japan), 3-Second Melancholy (iri, Japan), and No Time, No Place (Kazuyo Oishi, Japan).

Music
Shanghai String Quartet
SAR Philharmonic
Charitable Foundation
HK City Hall Concert Hall, 8pm, $250, $150, $80,
Tel: 2734 9009
For complete programme details, call 9333 8836.

Theatre
An Incident at Tongque Tower
Hon Fung Cantonese Opera Institute
HK Cultural Centre Grand Theatre, 7:30pm, $320, $240, $180, $100, Tel: 2734 9009
(See November 22 for details)

Quidam
Cirque Du Soleil
Waterfront Park, Cyberport, 8pm, $1400, $600, $500, $400,
Tel: 31 288 288
(See November 17 for details)
Thursday 24

Film
HK Jewish Film Festival: Go For Zucker! – An Unorthodox Comedy
Cine-Art House, 7:30pm, $75,
Tel: 6771 8070
In this comedy, two brothers with philosophical differences are forced to reconcile when one really needs to collect his inheritance. The retired sports hack Jaeckie and his ultra-Orthodox brother Samuel find themselves at the centre of a clash of civilisations. For those looking for an evening of big laughter and clever entertainment, this is it! Directed by Dani Levy. In German with English and Chinese subtitles.

HKLGFF: Cloud & Rain
Palace IFC, 9:40pm, $65,
Tel: 2388 3188
(See November 20 for details)

HKLGFF: No Skin Off My Ass
Broadway Cinematheque,
9:30pm, $55, Tel: 2388 3188
(See November 19 for details)

HKLGFF: Odete
Palace IFC, 7:40pm, $65,
Tel: 2388 3188
(See November 19 for details)

HKLGFF: Zona Rosa
Broadway Cinematheque,
7:40pm, $55,
Tel: 2388 3188
(See November 19 for details)

miscellaneous
The Art of Commercials 2005
HK Arts Centre
Agnès b. CINEMA!, 7:30pm, 9pm, $40,
Tel: 2734 9009
(See November 17 for details)

Music
BACH for More!
City chamber orchestra of hong kong
St. John's Cathedral, 8pm, $150,
Tel: 31 288 288
A programme of Bach in the gothic environs of St John’s. Nice.

Cantonese Opera and Operatic Songs Concert
Wing Ying Cantonese Opera
HK Cultural Centre Grand Theatre, 7:30pm, Free,
Tel: 2734 9009
For complete programme details, call 6346 8047.

Cantonese Operatic Songs Concert
Dragon's Music Association
HK City Hall Concert Hall, 7:30pm, Free, Tel: 2734 9009
For complete programme details, call 2897 9188.

Theatre
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Bareknuckle Shakespeare
Fringe Club Studio Theatre, 7:30pm, $75,
Tel: 31 288 288
Can Shakespeare be distilled into one hour and not lose any of its essence? Find out if Bard-illiterates can get into this comedy that has sex, violence, rivalry and meddling parents. Performed in English.
An Incident at Tongque Tower
Hon Fung Cantonese
Opera Institute
Shatin Town Hall Auditorium, 7:30pm, $320, $240, $180, $100, Tel: 2734 9009
(See November 22 for details)
Fame
HK Youth Arts Festival
HK Arts Centre Shouson Theatre, 7:30pm, $120, $80,
Tel: 2734 9009
(See November 18 for details)
Man of la Tiger
Theatre Ensemble Ltd
HKAPA Lyric Theatre, 7:30pm, $300, $260, $220, $180,
Tel: 31 288 288
Local cut-up Jim Chim and partner in crime playwright Paul Poon create some highly bizarre comedy that lampoons that oddest of behaviours: man’s. In Cantonese.
Rep 2 Festival: Program 3
HK Repertory Theatre
8/F, Sheung Wan Civic Centre, 7:45pm, $120, Tel: 3103 5900 Angel in the Box, Do You Still Remember…, The Cat & I. Performed in Cantonese.
Quidam
Cirque Du Soleil
Waterfront Park, Cyberport, 8pm, $1400, $600, $500, $400,
Tel: 31 288 288
(See November 17 for details)
Friday 25
Dance
Toppling the World
Ngau Chi Wan Civic Centre Theatre, 8pm, $110,
Tel: 2734 9009
A dance theatre repertoire that is visually stunning and mentally striking. Six exhibitionist dancers perform wildly emphasising their superb refined technique.
Film
HKLGFF: A Year Without Love
Palace IFC, 7:40pm, $65,
Tel: 2388 3188
In Buenos Aires, writer Pablo falls in with a secretive gang of men on his search for love through sex. Winner of the Teddy at Berlin for best queer film in 2005. Directed by Anahi Berneri. In Spanish with English subtitles.
HKLGFF:
George Michael: A Different Story
Broadway Cinematheque, 9:40pm, $55, Tel: 2388 3188
(See November 20 for details)
HKLGFF: Queens
Broadway Cinematheque, 7:40pm, $55, Tel: 2388 3188
(See November 18 for details)
HKLGFF: Skin Flick
Palace IFC, 9:40pm, $65,
Tel: 2388 3188
(See November 19 for details)
miscellaneous
Chinese Traditional Puppet Show
Hong Kong Puppet and Shadow art center
Luang Hang Estate, Open Space,
Sha Tin, Free, 8pm,
Tel: 2591 1340
The Art of Commercials 2005
HK Arts Centre Agnès b. CINEMA!, 7:30pm, 9pm, $40,
Tel: 2734 9009
(See November 17 for details)
The Sleeping Gypsy
Fantasy puppet Theatre
Sha Tin Town Hall,
Cultural Activities Hall, 7:30pm, $130, $90, Tel: 2734 9009
Performed in Cantonese
Music
Academy Visiting Artists Concert
HKAPA Recital Hall, 6:30pm, Free, Tel: 2584 8633
Black Seraphine
The Wanch, 10pm, Free,
Tel:2861 1621
Two words: hair band. If you don’t know what to expect now, you obviously weren’t around in the ‘80s. HK’s favourite cult band.
Friday Fest
DJ Wenn, Multiplayer, ST
Tong Chong Street, Taikoo Place, 6pm, Free, Tel: 2844 5095
(See November 18 for details)
HK Drum Festival:
Dragons in the Sky
HK Chinese Orchestra, Shaanxi Percussion Group
HK City Hall Concert Hall, 7:30pm, $200, $180, $130, $100,
Tel: 2734 9009
A concert featuring An Zhishun, a percussion virtuoso, composer, performer, and National Class One Instrumentalist in China. He’s joined by Li Biao, the standout solo percussionist on the recent international music scene.
Takezawa Meets Lazarev
Kyoko Takezawa and Alexander Lazarev
HK Cultural Centre Concert Hall, 8pm, $400, $300, $200, $100,
Tel: 2734 9009
Russian Easter Overture by Rimsky-Korsakov, Symphony No 2 by Borodin and more.
Theatre
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Bareknuckle Shakespeare
Fringe Club Studio Theatre, 7:30pm, $75, Tel: 31 288 288 (See November 24 for details)
American Shrimp
Pants Production
Sheung Wan Civic Centre Theatre, 8pm, $120, $90, $60,
Tel: 2734 9009
The American Shrimp Case was a trade dispute settled by the WTO in the late 1990s. A federal law was passed in which required all exporting nations to adopt a regulatory programme comparable to the US one that would not pose a threat to sea turtles. Many third world countries considered the law an act contrary to trade policy and protested to the WTO. This is the story of what happened.
An Incident at Tongque Tower
Hon Fung Cantonese
Opera Institute
Shatin Town Hall Auditorium, 7:30pm, $320, $240, $180, $100, Tel: 2734 9009
(See November 22 for details)
Festival of Experimenting Traditions 2005: Meeting of the Gods III
Zuni Icosahedron
HK Cultural Centre Studio Theatre, 8pm, $180, Tel: 2734 9009
Man of la Tiger
Theatre Ensemble Ltd
HKAPA Lyric Theatre, 7:30pm, $300, $260, $220, $180,
Tel: 31 288 288
(See November 24 for details)
Quidam
Cirque Du Soleil
Waterfront Park, Cyberport, 8pm, $1400, $600, $500, $400,
Tel: 31 288 288
(See November 17 for details)
Rep 2 Festival: Program 3
HK Repertory Theatre
8/F, Sheung Wan Civic Centre, 7:45pm, $120,
Tel: 3103 5900
(See November 24 for details)
The Only King Musical
Kowloon City Baptist Church
HK City Hall Theatre, 7:30pm, $200, $150, Tel: 2734 9009
For complete programme details, call 2713 8296.
Saturday 26
Dance
Toppling the World
Ngau Chi Wan Civic Centre Theatre, 8pm, $110,
Tel: 2734 9009
(See November 25 for details)
Film
34th French Cinepanorama:
Beauty and the Beast
HK Film Archive, 7:30pm, $50,
Tel: 2734 9009
Jean Renoir's 1946 classic is a sentimental love story juxtaposing beauty and ugliness, the conscious and the subconscious, wrapped in art direction as exquisite as the original story. In French with English subtitles.
HK Jewish Film Festival:
Walk on Water
Cine-Art House, 7:30pm, $75,
Tel: 6771 8070
Mossad assassin Eyal has his rigid views challenged by Axel, the grandson of an old Nazi officer he's been assigned to track down. After a tour through Israel, the two wind up in Germany at the old man's birthday party where secrets are dramatically revealed. Directed by Eytan Fox and winner of two awards from the Israeli Film Academy in 2004. In Hebrew and German with English subtitles.
HKLGFF: A Year Without Love
Broadway Cinematheque, 7:30pm, $55, Tel: 2388 3188
(See November 25 for details)
HKLGFF: Beverly Kills
Broadway Cinematheque, 2:30pm, $55, Tel: 2388 3188
(See November 20 for details)
HKLGFF: Good Boys
Broadway Cinematheque, 5:50pm, $55, Tel: 2388 3188
(See November 21 for details)
HKLGFF: Hilde's Journey
Palace IFC, 6:20pm, $65,
Tel: 2388 3188
(See November 23 for details)
HKLGFF: Hustler White
Palace IFC, 11:30pm, $65,
Tel: 2388 3188
(See November 18 for details)
HKLGFF: Loggerheads
Broadway Cinematheque, 9:40pm, $55, Tel: 2388 3188
(See November 20 for details)
HKLGFF: Odete
Palace IFC, 9:30pm, $65,
Tel: 2388 3188
(See November 19 for details)
HKLGFF: Ronda Nocturna
Palace IFC, 8pm, $65,
Tel: 2388 3188
Hustler Victor descends into a solitary yet lavish world after hooking up with a diplomat. It is here that he must confront his memories and his present at the same time. Directed by Edgardo Cozarinsky. In Spanish with
English subtitles.
HKLGFF: Under the Lion Rock
Broadway Cinematheque, 12:30pm, $55, Tel: 2388 3188 (See November 19 for details)
HKLGFF: Yummy Yummy
Broadway Cinematheque, 4pm, $55, Tel: 2388 3188
(See November 23 for details)
Yellow Willow in the Frost, Films of Anna May Wong: Song
HK Film Archive, 5pm, $40,
Tel: 2734 9009
Disenchanted by Hollywood, Wong headed to Europe where she met up with German director Eichberg and embarked on a series of film collaborations with him. Here she plays a dancer who gets involved in a dramatic love rectangle with a knife-thrower, his old flame and her manager. Very ripe. Directed by Richard Eichberg. Silent with English intertitles.
Yellow Willow in the Frost,
Films of Anna May Wong:
The Toll of the Sea / Picadilly
HK Film Archive, 9:30pm, $40,
Tel: 2734 9009
In Wong's starmaking vehicle, she stars as a Chinese maiden who bears the child of a shipwrecked American before being abandoned by him. Yes, it's based on Madame Butterfly. Directed by Chester Franklin. Picadilly is a hoary expressionist melodrama that is elevated by Wong’s second lead performance. Possibly her best film. Silent with English intertitles.
miscellaneous
Hong Kong Open Modelling Competition 2005
HONG KONG SOCIety
of scale modelling
Hong Kong Exhibition Hall,
Free, 10am-8pm,
Tel: 2187 3192
All amateurs begin somewhere. Next step: Tyra Banks. Woops. It’s not that kind of modelling. Cars, airplanes, boats... anything you could possibly make a tiny scale model of is here. If you build it, they will come and compete.
Music
Annual Performance 2005
Union philharmonic
orchestra, hkusu
Tsuen Wan Town Hall, Auditorium,
8pm, $120, $90, $60,
Tickets available at URBTIX outlets
Tel: 2414 0144
HK Drum Festival:
Dragons in the Sky
HK Chinese Orchestra, Shaanxi Percussion Group
HK City Hall Concert Hall, 7:30pm, $200, $180, $130, $100,
Tel: 2734 9009
(See November 25 for details)
Takezawa Meets Lazarev
Kyoko Takezawa and Alexander Lazarev
HK Cultural Centre Concert Hall, 8pm, $400, $300, $200, $100,
Tel: 2734 9009
(See November 25 for details)
The Art of Commercials 2005
HK Arts Centre Agnès b. CINEMA!, 5pm, 7:30pm, 9pm, $40,
Tel: 2734 9009
(See November 17 for details)
The Sleeping Gypsy
Fantasy puppet Theatre
Sha Tin Town Hall,
Cultural Activities Hall, 3pm, 7:30pm, $130, $90,
Tel: 2734 9009
In Cantonese
Theatre
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Bareknuckle Shakespeare
Fringe Club Studio Theatre, 7:30pm, $75,
Tel: 31 288 288
(See November 24 for details)
American Shrimp
Pants Production
Sheung Wan Civic Centre Theatre, 8pm, $120, $90, $60,
Tel: 2734 9009
(See November 25 for details)
An Incident at Tongque Tower
Hon Fung Cantonese
Opera Institute
Yuen Long Theatre Auditorium, 7:30pm, $300, $220, $100
Tel: 2734 9009
(See November 22 for details)
Fame
HK Youth Arts Festival
HK Arts Centre Shouson Theatre, 7:30pm, $120, $80,
Tel: 2734 9009
(See November 18 for details)
Festival of Experimenting Traditions 2005: Meeting of the Gods III
Zuni Icosahedron
HK Cultural Centre Studio Theatre, 8pm, $180, Tel: 2734 9009
(See November 25 for details)
Man of la Tiger
Theatre Ensemble Ltd
HKAPA Lyric Theatre, 2:30pm, 7:30pm, $300, $260, $220, $180,
Tel: 31 288 288
(See November 24 for details)
Quidam
Cirque Du Soleil
Waterfront Park, Cyberport, 4pm, 8pm, $1400, $600, $500, $400,
Tel: 31 288 288
(See November 17 for details)
Rep 2 Festival: Program 3
HK Repertory Theatre
8/F, Sheung Wan Civic Centre, 2:45pm, 7:45pm, $120,
Tel: 3103 5900
(See November 24 for details)
Sleeping Beauty
Chunky Onion Productions
Grappa's Cellar, 11:30am, 2:30pm, $150 (adv), $180 (door),
Tel: 31 288 288
Filled with danger, laughter and romance, Sleeping Beauty will bring the magic of Christmas (!) to life. In English.
The Only King Musical
Kowloon City Baptist Church
HK City Hall Theatre, 2:30pm, 7:30pm, $200, $150,
Tel: 2734 9009
(See November 25 for details)
Sunday 27
DanCE
FUNderful Dance
Tuen Mun Mall, 4pm, Free,
Tel: 2372 9957
(See November 18 for details)
The Dance Authentic 2005
Zephyr Dance Troupe
HK City Hall Theatre, 7:30pm, $120, $80, Tel: 2734 9009
For complete programme details, call 9881 1554.
Toppling the World
Ngau Chi Wan Civic Centre Theatre, 3pm, $110,
Tel: 2734 9009
(See November 25 for details)
Western Dance Parade
Hong kong city arts centre
Tai Po Waterfront Park, Amphitheatre, 3pm, Free

Film
HK Jewish Film Festival:
Europa Europa
Cine-Art House, 1pm, $75,
Tel: 6771 8070
Drama about a young Jewish man forced to keep his identity a secret just long enough to survive the Second World War. Directed by Agnieszka Holland. In German and Russian with English subtitles.
HK Jewish Film Festival: The Danish Solution; The Man Who Loved Haugesund
Cine-Art House, 5:40pm, $75,
Tel: 6771 8070
One doc deals with the Danish movement to stand up to Germany and protect their neighbours in the community from persecution, and the second focuses on the hunt for department store magnate Moritz Rabinowitz in Norway. Directed by Karen Cantor and Jon Haukeland & Tore Vollan. In Danish and English and Norwegian with English subtitles respectively.
HK Jewish Film Festival:
The Mascot
Cine-Art House, 3:30pm, $75,
Tel: 6771 8070
Ironic and unfathomable documentary about an orphaned Russian Jewish child who became the poster boy for Naziism in Europe. Now living in Australia, Alex Kurzem will be in attendance for a Q&A. In English and Russian with English subtitles.
HK Jewish Film Festival:
Turn Left at the End of the World
Cine-Art House, 8pm, $75,
Tel: 6771 8070
At the edge of the Negev, two Jewish families – one Indian and one Moroccan – wage a culture war even while their daughters become friends and begin to navigate the waters of the sexual revolution. Directed by Avi Nesher. In Hebrew, English and French with English subtitles.
HKLGFF: Eating Out
Palace IFC, 6:20pm, $65,
Tel: 2388 3188
(See November 22 for details)
HKLGFF: Rainbow Society
Broadway Cinematheque, 2:30pm, $55, Tel: 2388 3188
(See November 21 for details)
HKLGFF: Ronda Nocturna
Broadway Cinematheque, 9:45pm, $55, Tel: 2388 3188
(See November 26 for details)
HKLGFF: Space of Desire
Broadway Cinematheque, 4:45pm, $55, Tel: 2388 3188
(See November 22 for details)
HKLGFF:
That Man: Peter Berlin
Broadway Cinematheque, 8:15pm, $55, Tel: 2388 3188
(See November 19 for details)
HKLGFF: The Masseur
Palace IFC, 8pm, 9:40pm, $130, $65, Tel: 2388 3188
Filipino feature about Coco, a young masseur with all the young men he could want at his fingertips, dealing with death, longing and abandonment. Directed by Brillante Mendoza. In Spanish with English subtitles.
HKLGFF: Zona Rosa
Broadway Cinematheque, 6:50pm, $55, Tel: 2388 3188
(See November 19 for details)
Lust is the Worst Vice
HK Film Archive, 2:30pm, Free, Tel: 2739 2139
As part of Cantonese Opera Day, this 1963 classic based on the hugely popular opera by Sun Ma Si-tsang, who also starred and directed. An entertaining film that illustrates the link between HK cinema and opera. In Cantonese. Tickets are on a first come-first served basis.
Tokyo Story
BC SUNDAY
Broadway Cinematheque, 12pm, $35, Tel: 2388 3188
An elderly couple arrives in the metropolis to visit their children and grandchildren. Feeling guilty about troubling their hosts, and sad about being neglected by them, they become aware of both the virtues and vanities of their offspring. Directed by Ozu Yasujiro. In Japanese with English and Chinese subtitles.
Yellow Willow in the Frost, Films of Anna May Wong:
The Toll of the Sea / Picadilly
HK Film Archive, 5pm, $40,
Tel: 2734 9009
(See November 26 for details)
Music
Cantonese Opera Gala
Tsang ying chinese
opera association
Tai Po Civic Centre, Auditorium,
Free, 1:30pm Tel: 9494 0429.
Cantonese Operatic Songs Concert Super Sound Artist Guild
HK City Hall Concert Hall, 7:15pm, Free, Tel: 2734 9009
For complete programme details, call 9494 0429.
Xiang Gang Electric Farm
Victoria Park, 3-4pm, Free,
Tel: 2264 1020
Local wannabe electronica ranging from business men to students compete for prizes from Parson’s Music and a chance at a spot on the next Xiang Gang Electric CD compilation. And of course,
it’s great spectating.
miscellaneous
The Sleeping Gypsy
Fantasy puppet Theatre
Sha Tin Town Hall,
Cultural Activities Hall, 3pm,
$130, $90, Tel: 2734 9009
Hong Kong Open Modelling Competition 2005
HONG KONG SOCIety
of scale modelling
Hong Kong Exhibition Hall,
Free, 9am-7pm, Tel: 2187 3192
(See November 26 for details)
The Art of Commercials 2005 HK Arts Centre Agnès b. CINEMA!, 2:30pm, 4pm, $40,
Tel: 2734 9009
(See November 17 for details)
Theatre
American Shrimp
Pants Production
Sheung Wan Civic Centre Theatre, 3pm, $120, $90, $60,
Tel: 2734 9009
(See November 25 for details)
An Incident at Tongque Tower
Hon Fung Cantonese
Opera Institute
Yuen Long Theatre Auditorium, 7:30pm, $300, $220, $100
Tel: 2734 9009
(See November 22 for details)
Festival of Experimenting Traditions 2005: Meeting of the Gods III
Zuni Icosahedron
HK Cultural Centre Studio Theatre, 5pm, $180, Tel: 2734 9009
(See November 25 for details)
Man of la Tiger
Theatre Ensemble Ltd
HKAPA Lyric Theatre, 2:30pm, 7:30pm, $300, $260, $220, $180,
Tel: 31 288 288
(See November 24 for details)
Quidam
Cirque Du Soleil
Waterfront Park, Cyberport, 1pm, 5pm, $1400, $600, $500, $400,
Tel: 31 288 288
(See November 17 for details)
Rep 2 Festival: Program 3
HK Repertory Theatre
8/F, Sheung Wan Civic Centre, 7:45pm, $120, Tel: 3103 5900
(See November 24 for details)
Sleeping Beauty
Chunky Onion Productions
Grappa's Cellar, 11:30am, 2:30pm, $150 (adv), $180 (door),
Tel: 31 288 288
(See November 26 for details)
Monday 28
film
Agnès’ Choice: A Child is Waiting
HK Arts Centre Agnès b. CINEMA!, 7:30pm, $50, Tel: 2734 9009
John Cassavetes directed Hollywood heavyweights Burt Lancaster and Judy Garland as psychiatrists working with children. A realistic drama from one of the independent filmmaking scene’s best. In English.
Music
Cantonese Operatic Songs Concert
Wing Sound Chinese
Music Association
HK Cultural Centre Grand Theatre, 7:30pm, $280, $230, $180, $130, $80, Tel: 2734 9009
For complete programme details, call 6221 1967.
Meeting Wife in Western River
Nanning Cantonese Opera Troupe of Guangxi
Shatin Town Hall, 7:30pm, $240, $200, $160, $100,
Tel: 2734 9009
Cantonese opera with dance.
Theatre
Rep 2 Festival: Program 3
HK Repertory Theatre
8/F, Sheung Wan Civic Centre, 7:45pm, $120, Tel: 3103 5900 (See November 24 for details)
Shakespeare Express: Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Shakespeare 4 All
HK Arts Centre Shouson Theatre, 10:30am, 2pm, 4:30pm, $50,
Tel: 2734 9009
School performance and workshop. Advanced school booking only. Performed in English.
Tuesday 29
Music
Cantonese Operatic Songs Concert
Wing Sound Chinese
Music Association
HK Cultural Centre Grand Theatre, 7:30pm, $280, $230, $180, $130, $80, Tel: 2734 2009
(See November 28 for details)
Four Short Cantonese Operas
Nanning Cantonese Opera Troupe of Guangxi
Ko Shan Theatre, 7:30pm, $240, $200, $160, $100, Tel: 2734 9009 Traditional Cantonese opera
with martial arts.
Green Coffee 3rd Anniversary
Music Jam
Pong Nan, Ivana Wong,
Vicky Fung etc
Hard Rock Cafe, 9:30pm, $120, Tel: 2375 1323
Performance by many HK artists and musicians in celebration of Green Coffee’s third birthday.
More jam than live show.
miscellaneous
Lunar New Year
Fair Sites Open Auction
Tuen Mun District Office, Food and Environmental Hygiene Department
Tuen Mun Town Hall, Cultural Activities Hall, 9:30am, Free,
Tel: 2462 4810

The Art of Commercials 2005
HK Arts Centre Agnès b. CINEMA!, 7:30pm, 9pm, $40,
Tel: 2734 9009
(See November 17 for details)
Theatre
Man of la Tiger
Theatre Ensemble Ltd
HKAPA Lyric Theatre, 7:30pm, $300, $260, $220, $180,
Tel: 31 288 288
(See November 24 for details)
Quidam
Cirque Du Soleil
Waterfront Park, Cyberport, 8pm, $1400, $600, $500, $400,
Tel: 31 288 288
(See November 17 for details)
Wednesday 30
Film
The Color of Lies
Broadway Cinematheque, 9:40pm, $45, Tel: 2388 3188
(See November 20 for details)
Miscellaneous
Christmas Kick-off Lighting Ceremony - Viennese Waltz Under The Stars
PAcific place
Garden Court, LG Level,
Pacific Place, Free, 6pm
Pacific Place invites all shoppers
to experience a festive atmosphere in a world of Christmas decoration and entertainment. The prelude of this event will take place in the Garden Court, where professional dancers will stage a large scale performance in coordination with a well-known female artist. Shoppers are welcome to enter the rich culture and beauty of Vienna, the City of Music and Romance. For complete programme details, call 2844 8988.
Music
Cantonese Songs Concert
Luen Fung Cantonese
Opera Society
HK Cultural Centre Grand Theatre, 7:30pm, $160, $120, $80, $40, $20, Tel: 2734 9009
Theatre
Man of la Tiger
Theatre Ensemble Ltd
HKAPA Lyric Theatre, 7:30pm, $300, $260, $220, $180,
Tel: 31 288 288
(See November 24 for details)
Quidam
Cirque Du Soleil
Waterfront Park, Cyberport, 8pm, $1400, $600, $500, $400,
Tel: 31 288 288
(See November 17 for details)