Month: March 2015

KowloonFest @ Kings Park – 25 March, 2015 – Women

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5 women’s rugby teams competed at the 2015 KowloonFest. The Kowloon RFC, Shenzhen Dragons, Ho Bit Ruckers, Shanghai Jenny Crabs, Laos Lady Nagas all played each other in a mini-league to decide the Cup and Plate pairings.
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KowloonFest @ Kings Park – 25 March, 2015

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24 men’s and 5 women’s teams from across the globe competed in the 14th KowloonFest @ King’s Park.

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An Acoustic Evening with Jason Mraz and Raining Jane @ AsiaWorld Arena – 8pm, 27 March, 2015

An Acoustic Evening with Jason Mraz and Raining Jane @ AsiaWorld Arena - 8pm, 27 March, 2015

American singer-songwriter Jason Mraz has sold over 7 million albums worldwide since the release of his 2002 debut studio album Waiting for My Rocket to Come, which contained the hit single The Remedy (I Won’t Worry). Commercial success, three more studio albums Mr. A-Z, (2005), We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things (2008), Love Is a Four Letter Word, (2010), multiple hit singles and two Grammy Awards have followed. In 2014 Mraz released his first acoustic album (and fifth studio album) Yes. Recorded and written with Raining Jane – the pair are undertaking a global tour to support its release and arrive in Hong Kong on the 27 March.

An Acoustic Evening with Jason Mraz and Raining Jane – Live In Hong Kong
When: 8pm, 27 March, 2015
Where: AsiaWorld-Expo, Arena
How much: $888, $688, $488, $388 from HKTicketing
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Magnificent 7 @ The Sevens – David Campese

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Australia’s David Campese is the fifth member of ‘The Hong Kong Magnificent Seven’, as the HKRFU recognise the seven most formative players to have played in the past 40 Years of Sevens in Hong Kong.

Campo is truly one of a kind. The player who trademarked the goosestep was not as successful at sevens as he was at fifteen-a-side – 101 appearances for Australia and a then-record 64 international tries – but his contribution to the game of sevens and the Hong Kong Sevens was huge.

In 1983, Campese made the first of a dozen appearances in Hong Kong (1983-90, 93-94, 97-98). The Wallabies star lit up the tournament, helping Australia defend its title from the previous year in some of the wettest conditions ever recorded in Hong Kong in March. He would go on to capture two more Cups, in 1985 and 1988 – the last occasion Australia took the top silverware. Campo was as influential in his final match as he was in his first. He won the Leslie Williams Award for player of the tournament in 1988 and ten years later still had pace aplenty to run in tries for Australia.

Campese would bridge generations of powerful Wallaby sides in Hong Kong, from the Mark and Glen Ella, John Maxwell and Simon Poidevin sides of the 1980s to playing alongside Michael Lynagh, Jason Little, Tim Horan and George Gregan in the 1990s.

Campese said on several occasions that he had played his last match for Australia at Sevens but he was convinced to come out of semi-retirement to lead an inexperienced Wallabies team to the

Commonwealth Games in Malaysia in 1998. He proved an inspiration and the old head guided the young guns to a bronze medal, a fitting finale to a great sevens career spanning more than a decade.

Magnificent 7 @ The Sevens – David Campese

Sevens Carnival @ Lan Kwai Fong – 24 March, 2015

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Skalli – 24 March, 2015

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Magnificent 7 @ The Sevens – Eric Rush

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New Zealand sevens specialist Eric Rush is the fourth member of the Hong Kong Rugby Football Union all-time international team, ‘The Hong Kong Magnificent Seven’.

In a glittering sevens career, Rush, alongside Fiji’s Waisale Serevi, was the face of the Hong Kong Sevens throughout the 1990s, playing in Hong Kong on an amazing 16 occasions and claiming the Cup on nearly one-third of those outings. His five tournament wins in Hong Kong include a purple patch of three straight Hong Kong Sevens titles from 1994 to 1996 as well as victories in 1989 and 2000.

He won the Leslie Williams Award for the Best & Fairest Player of the Hong Kong Sevens in 1991.

Overshadowing his nine test caps for the All Blacks and participation in nearly 30 matches with New Zealand, Eric Rush’s reputation as a rugby great is built on his career as one of the world’s foremost practitioners of modern sevens. Rush played in nearly 60 international sevens tournaments, and helped New Zealand win gold at the Commonwealth Games in 1998 and 2002 and at the 2001 Rugby World Cup Sevens.

With pace to burn, superb conditioning and unique pitch vision arising from his fifteen-aside experience as both a flanker and a wing, Rush brought an exceptional level of leadership to the New Zealand Sevens teams as a captain, helping to maintain New Zealand’s commitment to excellence through several generations of players.

Rush also distinguished himself as a member of the New Zealand Maori sides, playing in the 1988 tour of France and Argentina and in a total of 14 matches to 1991. After his move to the wing in 1992, Rush represented the New Zealand Maori on another 14 occasions including a fixture against the British & Irish Lions in 1993.

A qualified lawyer, Rush’s natural wit, intelligence and bright personality has seen him in high demand as an after-dinner speaker and in rugby circles he is nearly as well regarded for his role officiating the Hong Kong Sevens Long Lunch as for his exploits on the pitch at the Hong Kong Stadium.

Rush’s sevens fame has seen him acclaimed as an international star and over many seasons Rush has been invited to play for the British Barbarians in high profile festival games in the United Kingdom.

Rush will go down as one of the seminal players in sevens rugby.

 

Magnificent 7 @ The Sevens – Eric Rush

Jo Farrell – Living History: Bound Feet Women of China

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Jo Farrell – Living History: Bound Feet Women of China book launch at the British Council – 23 March, 2015

You can find more about the book from Jo’s website www.livinghistory.photographer
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