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A Tribute to Yasi: Poetic Journeys in Foreign Lands
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A Tribute to Yasi: Poetic Journeys in Foreign Lands
向也斯致意:詩遊異鄉
2017年3月,我們懷着「這座城市、人、物還是依舊嗎?」的疑問,帶着也斯的作品守望香港。踏入2018年,讓我們與喜愛周遊列國的也斯(1949 – 2013),一同蒐集異鄉的風和日麗和歷史碎屑。
旅程將以讀書會為起點,我們捧起也斯的散文、詩集和小說,重踏他的創作足跡。接下來是一場雲集不同界別講者的研討會,從香港到世界,透過也斯作品細看香港作為全球城市的模樣。如果你心中有一點感興,就把它化成相片或畫作,你的作品將有機會與也斯的詩作一併展出。
3月1日,請來港大黃克競平台,我們讀詩、印詩、聽音樂、講故事、吃點心、呷一口來自世界各地的熱茶──誰說香港不能是異鄉呢? 本活動由書送快樂、香港大學通識教育部、香港大學文學院,以及香港大學比較文學系合辦,並獲香港大學現代語言及文化學院香港研究課程、香港版畫工作室,以及留家廚房支持。
Themed, ‘Watching Over Hong Kong’, the last commemoration of Yasi (1949 – 2013) was held in March 2017. We paid tribute to Yasi with music, arts, seminar, and poetry, and tried to decode this city’s past, present and future through Yasi’s works. This year, we will embark on poetic journeys to foreign lands with the well-travelled Yasi.
Being our first stop, the Book Club will revisit Yasi’s essays, poems, and short stories published in 1970s. Titled, ‘Journey of Yasi: Between Hong Kong and Foreign Lands’, the seminar will take us from Hong Kong to the world and re-examine Yasi’s works from the perspective of Hong Kong as a global city. Another highlight event is an exhibition in response to Yasi’s poetry works. You are invited to translate your observations on the world within and around you into various mediums of visual artworks . Together with Yasi’s poems, selected artworks will be showcased at a two-week exhibition.
The tribute will culminate with the highlight event on 1/3 (Thu). Join us for a cosy afternoon that commemorates Yasi with poetry, music, storytelling, Chinese dim sum, and tea from around the world.
The event is co-organised by Read-Cycling, the General Education Unit, the Faculty of Arts, and the Department of Comparative Literature, and supported by Hong Kong Studies Programme of the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Hong Kong Open Print Shop, and Kin’s Kitchen.

Guests:
黑鬼 Hakgwai (Multi-instrumentalist)
La Sax (Saxophone Ensemble)
雄仔叔叔 Uncle Hung (Storyteller and Poet)
HKU students for Tea around the World, and Poetry Reading
More guests to be announced
Date: 1/3 (Thu)
Time: 12:00 – 17:00
Venue: Haking Wong Podium

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讀書會:也斯的創作初心與起點
Book Club: Embark on the Creative Journey of Yasi
《也斯卷》(也斯著)
《喝一口茶)》(也斯著)
《剪紙》(也斯著)
Host: 黃淑嫻博士 Dr. Mary Wong (Associate Professor, Chinese Department; Associate Director, Centre for Humanities Research, Lingnan University)
Dates: 25/1 (Thu), 1/2 (Thu) & 23/2 (Fri) 22/2 (Thu), 18:00 – 20:00
Time: 18:45 – 20:45
Venue: Gatherland2046
Language: Cantonese
Fee: $300 (Enrolled students will receive paperback copies of the books. A deposit of $100 will be refunded upon full attendance and participation in the poetry reading session during the commemoration event at 13:00 – 14:00 on 1/3 (Thu).)
Quota: 10
Enrolment at counters starts on 23/1 (Tue), and is on a first-come-first-admitted basis.

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研討會 Seminar
也斯漫遊:介乎本土與他鄉之間
Journey of Yasi: Between Hong Kong and Foreign Lands
Speakers:
朱耀偉教授 Prof. Stephen Chu (Programme Director & Professor, Hong Kong Studies, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Faculty of Arts, The University of Hong Kong)
香港大學現代語言及文化學院教授及香港研究課程總監,研究興趣包括香港文化、全球化及後殖民論述,著有專書二十餘種,近作有Lost in Transition: Hong Kong Culture in the Age of China(Albany: SUNY Press, 2013)、《香港研究作為方法》(編) (香港:中華書局,2016) 及Hong Kong Cantopop: A Concise History (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2017) 。






胡晴舫女士 Ms. Hu Ching-fang (Head of Kwang Hwa Information and Culture Centre)
出生於台北,台大外文系畢業,美國威斯康辛大學戲劇學碩士,曾獲台灣金鼎獎等,著有《旅人》、《機械時代》、《她》、《濫情者》等書,最新作品《無名者》。









羅貴祥教授 Prof. Lo Kwai-cheung (Professor, Director of Creative and Professional Writing Programme, Department of Humanities & Creative Writing, Hong Kong Baptist University)
現為浸會大學人文及創作系教授,創意及專業寫作課程主任,著有小說集《有時沒口哨》,詩集《記憶暫時收藏》,散文集《非虛構作業》,評論集《他地在地----訪尋文學的評論》,《香港 • 多一點顏色》,《大眾文化與香港之電器復仇記》,《德勒玆》,劇本創作《三級女子殺人事件》及翻譯劇《我們互不相認的一小時》。學術著作有Excess and Masculinity in Asian Cultural ProductionsChinese Face/Off: The Transnational Popular Culture of Hong Kong《再見亞洲:全球化時代的解構與重建》等。

 


Moderator:
蕭欣浩博士  Dr. Siu Yan-ho 
(Lecturer, Department of Chinese, Lingnan University)
嶺南大學中文系講師,作家,詩人,主要從事語言文字、飲食文學及文化研究。著力研究也斯的作品,曾發表以飲食、旅遊為題的論文。文學家紀錄片劉以鬯《1918》與也斯《東西》的副導演。








Date: 27/2 (Tue)
Time: 18:45 – 20:15
Venue: KB223
Language: Cantonese & Mandarin (simultaneous interpretation will be provided upon request)
Enrolment at counters starts on 23/1 (Tue), and is on a first-come-first-admitted basis.
Online registration is available from 24/1 (Wed) onwards:
For HKU students and staff - https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_regform.aspx?ueid=54235
For alumni and public - https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_regform.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=54236

展覽:詩遊異鄉
Exhibition: Poetic Journeys in Foreign Lands
The co-organisers are calling for visual arts works themed ‘Poetic Journeys in Foreign Lands’ to serve as part of the annual commemoration of Yasi. Participants are invited to observe the world within and around them, and unleash their creativity in translating their inspirations into various mediums of visual artworks such as photography, drawings and paintings. The selected artworks will be on display together with Yasi’s poems, at the exhibition.
For submission details, please visit https://www.cedars.hku.hk/ge/newsevents/detail?id=680.
Dates: 26/2 (Mon) – 9/3 (Fri)
Venue: Ground Floor Gallery, G/F Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

Schedule:
Date Time Venue
25 Jan 2018 18:45 - 20:45 Gatherland2046
01 Feb 2018 18:45 - 20:45 Gatherland2046
22 Feb 2018 18:00 - 20:00 Gatherland2046
27 Feb 2018 18:45 - 20:15 KB223
01 Mar 2018 12:00 - 17:00 Haking Wong Podium