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Women’s Rugby Fixtures – 23 September, 2017
Sport For All Day 2017
The Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD) will hold a “Sport For All Day 2017” on 6 August 2017 to encourage people to maintain a healthy lifestyle through sports and activity participation and form the habit of exercising at least half an hour a day.
There will be a wide range of free programmes offered across the city from ‘run gait analysis’ to ‘towel exercises for fun’ see the full programme schedule here.
To get you in the mood and habit of exercising the LCSD have created a simple daily stretching programme – the pdf of which you can download here.
Various normally fee-charging LCSD facilities will be open for free on 6 August. The facilities include:
Indoor facilities: badminton courts, tennis courts, basketball courts, netball courts, volleyball courts, squash courts, table tennis tables, American pool tables, billiard tables, sport climbing walls, bowling greens, golf facilities, fitness rooms, activity rooms, dance rooms, cycling track.
Outdoor facilities: tennis courts, tennis practice courts, bowling greens, batting cages, sport climbing walls, archery ranges, a rope course and golf facilities (excluding camp facilities, sports grounds and artificial and natural turf pitches); Public swimming pools (excluding Wan Chai Swimming Pool); and Craft at water sports centres.
Bookings for land-based leisure facilities and craft at water sports centres on 6 August can be made at the Leisure Link booking counters at LCSD venues (except for self-service kiosks) from 9am on 30 July. Each person can only book one free session on a first-come, first-served basis irrespective of the type of facility.
No prior booking is required for public swimming pools where entrance is on a first-come, first-served basis.
Sport For All Day 2017
Date: 6 August, 2017
Venue: LCSD Sports Facilities
Tickets: Free
More info: Bookings from 30 July.
http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/en/sfad/2017/index.html
Leisure Facilities Free Use Day For HKSAR’s 20th Anniversary
In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD) will hold a Free Use Day on 1 July. The aim is to encourage people of all ages to do more physical exercise and develop a healthy lifestyle and bring exercise into daily life.
Various normally fee-charging LCSD facilities will be open for free on 1 July. The facilities include:
Indoor facilities: badminton courts, tennis courts, basketball courts, netball courts, volleyball courts, squash courts, table tennis tables, American pool tables, billiard tables, sport climbing walls, bowling greens, golf facilities, fitness rooms, activity rooms, dance rooms, cycling track.
Outdoor facilities: tennis courts, tennis practice courts, bowling greens, batting cages, sport climbing walls, archery ranges, a rope course and golf facilities (excluding camp facilities, sports grounds and artificial and natural turf pitches); Public swimming pools (excluding Wan Chai Swimming Pool); and craft at water sports centres.
Bookings for land-based leisure facilities and craft at water sports centres on 1 July can be made at the Leisure Link booking counters at LCSD venues (except for self-service kiosks) from 9am on 24 June. Each person can only book one free session on a first-come, first-served basis irrespective of the type of facility.
No prior booking is required for public swimming pools where entrance is on a first-come, first-served basis.
Leisure Facilities Free Use Day
Date: 1 July, 2017
Venue: LCSD Sports Facilities
Tickets: Free
More info: Bookings from 24 June. www.lcsd.gov.hk/en/freeuseday/index.html.
Picasso’s Femme Écrivant (Marie-Thérèse) in Hong Kong
https://bcmagazine.smugmug.com/Bcene-photos/2017/Picassos-Femme-Ecrivant-Marie-Therese-7-June-2017/i-SnWdCtL
Ahead of it’s auction later this month Picasso’s Femme Écrivant (Marie-Thérèse) is on display at Christie’s, 22/F Alexandra House until the 9 June, 2017.
Twenty-Five Minutes Older @ Art Basel
https://bcmagazine.smugmug.com/Bcene-photos/2008/Twenty-Five-Minutes-Older-Art-Basel-21-March-2017/i-f2fBdkS
One of Art Basel‘s off-site exhibits this year is Twenty-Five Minutes Older by local artist Kingsley Ng. Ng’s ‘Twenty-Five Minutes Older’ turns two of Hong Kong’s iconic trams into moving camera obscuras, creating an altered reality and allowing passengers to experience Hong Kong in a new way – in reverse.
Moving images of the city, created via a ‘pin-hole camera’ in the side of the blacked out tram, are accompanied by spoken extracts from Liu Yichang’s famous stream-of-consciousness novella Tête-bêche. The live images of passing street life displayed inside the tram blend and flow alongside Liu’s poetic incantations. The familiar re-experienced in a completely new way – it’s quite surreal as the upside down world floats in the darkness as Liu’s words flow from headphones that remove the everyday sounds.
https://bcmagazine.smugmug.com/Bcene-photos/2008/Twenty-Five-Minutes-Older-Art-Basel-21-March-2017/i-Bqhp7Fs
‘Twenty-Five Minutes Older’, was first presented in 2016 as part of ‘Human Vibrations: The 5th LargeScale Public Media Art Exhibition’ that celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Arts Development Council in Hong Kong, runs on the different parts of the tram tracks until the 28 March. Tickets are free, but must be booked in advance here.
https://youtu.be/4YltmPTlNB8
HKGCC Free Ride Day – 29 November, 2016
HKGCC Free Ride Day was launched in 2011 as part of events to celebrate the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce’s birthday, which was established on May 29, 1861.
Members of the public can ride on all Hong Kong trams and the Star Ferry for free on 29 November.
HKGCC Free Ride Day
When: 29 November, 2016
Where: HK Trams, Star Ferry
How much: Free
Belgium Week Brings Vibrant Culture to Hong Kong
An eclectic introduction to modern Belgium culture is perhaps the best description for Belgium Week which runs from the 12-19 November and showcases a diverse range of artists including Filip Jordens, Jacques Brel, Peter Lenaerts, DJ Maxime Firket, Yves Ullens de Schooten, Harold Ancart, Sophie Whettnall, Belgian comics and gastronomy.
The weeks events launch with DJ Maxime Firket at Kee Club on the 12 November. On Sunday one of the more interesting performances is Filip Jordens Homage a Brel where he performs a repetoire of the legendary singer-songwriter and actor Jacques Brel songs at Ping Pong Gintonería in Sai Ying Pun, tickets are $500.
https://youtu.be/E7zgNye6HTE
The most unusual event is sound artist Peter Lenaerts MicroSleepDub ‘residency’ at Wing in Chai Wan from the 17-27 November. MicroSleepDub is about micro sound, architecture and urbanism. It’s a durational performance built around a sound composition for dub plates where Lenaerts listens and looks for sounds that are too quiet, too vague, or too low to be heard normally. Using a microphone as a microscope, he zooms in and amplifies these neglected, underexposed and discarded sounds. MicroSleepDub is an all night performance, where listening and sleeping are both encouraged. Entry is free, but registration is required.
A series of art exhibitions at the Kee Club and Artone will showcase established and new artists from Belgium whose artworks reflect Belgium as a country; rich in culture and artistic expression. Exhibition curator Emilie Rolin Jacquemyns commented that “I wanted to showcase a wide spectrum of artists that could really give a deeper feeling of Belgium. Each time I look at their artwork, there is a part of our culture, history and way of life that I see. Light is at the core of all their work, everything is subtle, minimalist and perfect. To me, there is a calming sense that unite all these pieces, and a sense of brightness, an expression of colour, that brings Belgium closer to home for me here in Hong Kong.”Artists exhibiting at the KEE Club include:
Harold Ancart: born in Brussels but now lives and works in New York, he will be presenting an untitled piece. Using space and repetition for his architectural installations and works on paper, his work is often minimalist with recurring motifs of parrots, the jungle and palm trees.
Ann Veronica Janssens: an artist who uses distribution of light, colour, and reflective surfaces to reveal the instability of perception of time and space. She will showcase her art piece named Magic Mirror.
Sophie Whettnall: lives and works in Brussels and focuses on light but also has an eye for its absence, as well as landscape – a frequent theme in her work, uses raw and natural elements to reflect contradictory concepts and perceptions and will be exhibiting Border Lines #26.
Poetic Views
Date: 11am-11pm, 14-18 November, 2016
Venue: KEE Club
Tickets: Free
Photographer Yves Ullens de Schooten who will be showcasing The Theatre of Lights using abstract photography as his medium to express emotion and energy brought by light and colour at ArtOne.
Matières et contrast (Materials and Contrast)
Date: 10am-9pm, 12-19 November, 2016
Venue: Artone
Tickets: Free
In addition to the KEE and ArtOne exhibitions, Michel Mouffe has a solo show at the Axel Vervoordt Gallery and Andy Wauman, a solo show at Art Statements, Wong Chuk Hang. There is also an exhibition of photography, by Jean-Pierre Ruelle – Hong Kong and Islands at the Lightstage Gallery, Sheung Wan.
For a full program of events see www.belgiumhk.com
Belgium Week
Date: 12-19 November, 2016
Venue: Various
Tickets: See individual events
More info: www.BelgiumHK.com